Books in Collins Fact Books series

A fascinating introduction to the history of exploration for children aged eight and over, featuring over 50 contemporary maps, prints, paintings and photographs, along with colourful illustrated maps indicating the explorers' routes. With exciting features on the world's most famous explorers, from early travellers such as Alexander the Great and Eric the Red, through the great explorers of the Renaissance -- Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and Hernando Cortes -- to more modern times and the voyages of Stanley and Livingstone, Amundsen and Scott and Neil Armstrong.

An exciting introduction to astronomy for readers aged eight and over, with clear explanations of artonomical terms and eight star maps detailing what to look for in the night sky at different times of the year. The first part of the book explores the various features that exist in space, from stars, nebulae, quasars and galaxies -- of which there are a staggering 15,000 million in the universe -- to our own solar system, including comets and asteroids. Following this are the star maps, showing the night sky looking north and south during the four seasons. The book concludes with a comprehensive glossary of terms and an index.