Books in Exploration Station series

Humans have made astonishing progress understanding space. The Space Exploration series takes readers on a journey through some of scientists most exciting discoveries and achievements. Learn how people continue to explore our solar system and beyond. Space Exploration is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.

While their parents attend a wedding in Australia, Henry, Bonnie and Max are sent to stay with their uncle who lives in an old train station with a mysterious past. People have vanished from there, never to be seen again. The strange stories make the children want to have a closer look, but while investigating, Bonnie is accidentally transported to another place, a world very unlike ours; The Land of Lost Things.It’s up to Henry and Max to find a way to follow her through and try to get them all home safely, and maybe solve the mystery of The Exploration Station at the same time.

One of a series which describes the cultural history of continents or regions through several centuries, this book decribes the periods of Latin America's great civilizations from the time of exploration by European adventurers and traders, and explains the significance of the colonization that followed. It describes the geography of Latin America, the mountains and tropical rainforests, the remains of the Inca, Aztec and Mayan peoples, the explorers from the 15th to the 20th centuries including the European scientists and artists of the 19th century in the land of El Dorado. Specially commissioned maps show the region before and after exploration.