Explorers of the Coldest Places on Earth

by Nel Yomtov

Overview

For many decades, courageous men and women have ventured to our planet's foreboding icy regions. These brave explorers risk life and limb in the name of science or for the thrill of adventure. Who are these thrill seekers and why do they do it? Turn the pages to find out!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781977147301
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	08/01/2020
Series:	Extreme Explorers
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Nel Yomtov is an award-winning author of children's nonfiction books and graphic novels. He specializes in writing about history, current events, biography, architecture, and military history. He has written numerous graphic novels for Capstone, including the recent School Strike for Climate, Journeying to New Worlds: A Max Axiom Super Scientist Adventure, and Cher Ami: Heroic Carrier Pigeon of World War I. In 2020 he self-published Baseball 100, an illustrated book featuring the 100 greatest players in baseball history. Nel lives in the New York City area.

Interviews

Science curriculum covered in exciting, highly readable short narratives; Provides real world connections to modern-day exploration and discoveries

Editorial Reviews

Daredevil explorers do more than travel to difficult-to-reach places, as the Extreme Explorers series reveals. They push themselves to their limits, often endeavoring to be the first human to accomplish a certain feat. Each volume of this series is dedicated to one extreme category—coldest, deepest, highest, and remotest—and highlights individuals who have set records within it. Each person or pair gets their own chapter, airily designed with around four short paragraphs of text, aweinspiring photos with captions, and fact boxes. Coldest Places braves the subzero temperatures of the Arctic and Antarctic alongside adventurers like Felicity Aston and woolly mammoth “hunter” Bernard Buigues. Unsurprisingly, Deepest Places visits the Mariana Trench with Sylvia Earle and James Cameron, as well as Krubera Cave with Gennady Viktorovich Samokhin. Mount Everest looms over Highest Places, but K2 climbers and those completing the Seven Summits climbing challenge also appear. Remotest Places is the most varied title, which features Charles Blackmore’s trip across the Taklamakan Desert and Takeshi Inomata’s excavations in Guatemala’s dense jungles. On the whole, the series features successful explorers, though there are two accounts that end in death. Each book touches on different motivations driving extreme explorers, such as the thrill or scientific research, and notes how people can keep pushing boundaries as gear and technology improve. An engaging entry into geology or geography units.

Booklist - Julia Smith

11/01/2020

Gr 3–5—This series introduces young readers to 25 explorers whose expeditions pushed the limits of technology and human endurance. Dry prose relays the facts and risks of the missions. Explorers of the Deepest Places on Earth and Explorers of the Remotest Places on Earth have many possible curriculum tie-ins, as the deep-sea, volcano, and cave explorers who made scientific discoveries are noted in the text. Mount Everest narratives historically minimized the roles of Sherpas, but Explorers of the Highest Places on Earth highlights Tenzing Norgay and Kami Rita. Some of the environmental impacts of climbing are explained in Junko Tabei's chapter. A glossary, a "Read More" section, websites, and an index are included. VERDICT A supplemental purchase for large collections.

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