Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventures

Nellie Huang

Sep 2020 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by William Roberts

About this audiobook

Meet famous explorers and adventurers in this exciting non-fiction audiobook for children. Venture into steaming jungles in search of lost temples, fight off frostbite in the Arctic, and blast off into space!

Great explorers have one thing in common - a desire to leap into the unknown, no matter how dangerous that might be. From Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the world 500 years ago to Barbara Hillary's treks to the North and South poles while in her seventies, Explorers documents the trials and hardships of the men and women who rewrote our understanding of the world, and showed us what humans are capable of.

Explorers looks at the towering achievements of more than 50 explorers in great detail, with incredible cross-sections revealing the amazing detail inside Spanish galleons, lost cities, and spaceships. The explorers come from all walks of life and parts of the world.

Packed with jaw-dropping facts and written in language that will get the heart racing, Explorers is the perfect audiobook for any budding young adventurer.

Nellie Huang is an adventure travel blogger, journalist, author and new mum who wants to visit every country in the world (she's currently been to 120). In her quest for adventure, she has climbed an active volcano in Guatemala, reconstructed a school in rural Tanzania, followed the trails of sea lions on the Galápagos Islands, and gone scuba diving off the coast of Borneo.

© 2019 Nellie Huang © 2020 DK Audio

About the author

Nellie Huang is an adventure travel blogger (https://www.wildjunket.com/), journalist, author, and new mother on a quest to visit every country in the world (she's currently been to 120). As well as her successful blog, Nellie's work has featured in National Geographic and CNN Go. In her quest for adventure, she has climbed an active volcano in Guatemala, reconstructed a school in rural Tanzania, followed the trails of sea lions on the Galápagos Islands, and gone scuba diving off the coast of Borneo. She has over 80,000 followers on Twitter and over 17,000 followers on Instagram. She also runs small-group adventure trips to remote, unconventional destinations that people venture to, such as Iraq, Kurdistan, and Tajikistan.

Jessamy Hawke is an illustrator working in ink, gouache, watercolor, and linocut-printmaking, having graduated with an MA in Illustration from Kingston University in 2016. Jessamy's project "A Midnight Clear," based on William Wharton's wartime novel, was shortlisted for the 2016 V&A Student Illustrator of the Year Award and was displayed in the V&A Museum in London, and she was Runner-Up in the Little White Lies Creative Brief competition in March 2017. Jessamy's work has been exhibited in solo shows in London and Oxford. She is also the author of the art blog aestronauts.com. Her work can be found at jessamyhawke.co.uk or on Instagram under the handle @jessamydrewthat.