Emily Hawkins
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English
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This enchantingly illustrated natural history of fairies, compiled in the 1920s by the botanist Professor Elsie Arbour for her niece, is now unveiled for readers of today.
Featuring a gold foil—embossed cloth cover, a ribbon marker and sprayed gold edges, this gorgeous volume is filled with colourful sketches and precise notes detailing the secret life of fairies and their important role in the natural world.
Inside, you will discover the wide...
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Atlas of Record-Breaking Adventures brings together some of the world's most spectacular sights and extraordinary events in a stunningly illustrated addition to the critically acclaimed Atlas of Adventures series.
Journey from one extreme to the other as you turn the page to discover what record-breaker is next. This is a high-octane tour around the world, stopping off at every continent to marvel at natural and human phenomena.
From the highest...
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You are about to embark on a dangerous adventure. With this game in a book, use the pop-out Survival Spinner to learn your fate as you face peril after peril in a wild, rugged landscape.
You become lost in the mountains after an emergency landing. Among the snowy peaks, you are at risk from dangers including falling victim to hypothermia, being buried by an avalanche, or stumbling into a deep crevasse. In your backpack, you have a sleeping bag,...
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On this quest around the world, you will discover lost kingdoms, phantom islands, and even legendary continents once sought by explorers but now believed to be mythical.
For centuries, people have dreamed of finding the lost worlds of Atlantis, El Dorado, and the Seven Cities of Gold. As well as shedding light on these famously elusive places, this atlas contains maps and captivating illustrations to illuminate lesser-known destinations, from...
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Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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From the team behind the best-selling Atlas of Adventures comes this prehistoric journey of discovery. You'll get to embark on over thirty dinosaur adventures that will take you all around the world! Travel back in time to lock horns with a triceratops, stalk prey with a T-Rex, and learn to fly with a baby Pteranodon. With hundreds of things to spot and facts to learn, this is the biggest Atlas adventure yet!
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Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Set your spirit of adventure free with this journey to the world's great oceans, discovering the diversity of life that exists in the deep blue sea. Whether you're travelling long haul with leatherback turtles across the Pacific, snoozing with sea otters or ice bathing with a walrus, this book celebrates the very prescient topic of the world's oceans with Lucy Letherland's animal characters."--Amazon.com
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Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Journey from one extreme to the other as you turn the page to discover what record-breaker is next. This is a high-octane tour around the world, stopping off at every continent to marvel at natural and human phenomena."--Provided by publisher.
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The Experiment
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Presents an adaptation of Tim Marshall's "Prisoners of geography" which uses maps of twelve world regions to explain the geopolitical strategies and histories of each region, showing how the physical characteristics of these regions affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders."--
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"In 1872 a ship named the HMS Challenger set sail on a grand scientific tour of the world's oceans. On board was a young marine biologist, Darcy Delamare, who kept record of the expedition, and the extraordinary sea creatures she witnessed: creatures that, until then, nobody had believed really existed. Her notebook survived-you hold a copy of it in your hands right now. And the creatures? You must have guessed it by now...the creatures were mermaids....
11) Frozen mountain
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Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"This adventure-filled game book features multiple options so you can choose which path to take, with a pop-out fortune spinner to determine if your choice was the lucky one--or not! Throughout, you will learn about real-life survival techniques, from building a snow cave to avoiding avalanches and confronting bears. Have you got what it takes to survive?"--Back cover.
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Tales of magical creatures have been told across the world for generations... but are these stories merely flights of fancy, or is there any truth to the legends of unicorns and dragons, centaurs and griffins? Presented as the notebook of a 1920s zoologist, this lavish volume sets out to answer this question, revealing the hidden world of the magical beasts that live among us. Within these pages you will meet bizarre and beautiful creatures from around...
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Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of Quarto inc
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Head off on a journey of discovery with this follow-up to the best-selling Atlas of Adventures. This book collects together nature's most unmissable events from between the two poles, including epic migrations, extraordinary behaviors, and Herculean habits. Find hundreds of things to spot and learn new facts about every animal. --Publisher