How To Be An Explorer

Name: How To Be An Explorer
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SKU: 9781787081178
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By T Cox

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How To Be An Explorer by T Cox is an adventurous children's book that guides young readers through the basics of exploration and discovery. It encourages curiosity and imagination, offering practical tips and activities to inspire kids to embark on their own adventures. The book is filled with illustrations and engaging content that makes exploration accessible and fun for children.
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You might enjoy this delightful children's book if you have a young adventurer eager to learn about exploring the world around them. It's filled with exciting ideas and fun activities that can inspire curiosity and excitement in little ones wanting to discover new things.

A practical guide to outdoor skills and crafts, designed to coax kids away from their screens and discover how to become intrepid explorers.

Description

How To Be An Explorer by T Cox is a practical guide to outdoor skills and crafts, designed to coax kids away from their screens and discover how to become intrepid explorers. Mountaineers, seafarers, astronauts, cyclists, hikers, divers, gliders, aviators, and even the most famous and daring explorers of all time began with small-scale adventures that gave them the courage and ideas to pursue their greatest achievements.

This book aims to give young people the know-how and confidence to get out and about with practical tasks and activities, mini-adventures, rustic crafts, and by telling some truly inspiring tales of real-life explorers. Throughout, Tiger shares snippets and anecdotes from his own daring expeditions.

Including step-by-step activities like how to light a fire, cooking on a fire, foraging, building shelters, filtering water, tying knots, and reading the clouds, children can learn basic bushcraft and survival techniques to practise over and over again. The unique craft activities—making wild maps, a racing raft, and a kite—will spark creativity and encourage imaginative play.

Not just a valuable resource for learning practical skills, this is also a book to inspire dreams and show that they can come true with the right mindset, perseverance, and resilience. Highly illustrated spreads dotted through the book introduce a selection of real-life historical adventurers, such as Amelia Earhart and Matthew Henson, and describe how they came to accomplish such jaw-dropping feats.

Ages: 5 to 11

Author: Tiger has a natural affinity for outdoor skills and wants to inspire and educate others, of all ages, to spend more time enjoying these pursuits—whether that be through adventure sports, outdoor cooking, or getting out and exploring their local landscapes. He caught the bug for exploring from his 'crazy' parents and four older sisters, who showed him what was possible and lovingly encouraged his earliest forays in the stunning South Downs National Park in Sussex, UK. Tiger is an accomplished public speaker, having given talks on exploration and nature to audiences of over 250 people, including his old school and local chambers of commerce. This is his first book for GMC Publications.

200 colour photographs, 30 colour illustrations

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

How To Be An Explorer by T Cox receives praise for its engaging approach to encouraging children to venture outdoors. It combines practical skills, such as building shelters and filtering water, with historical profiles of diverse explorers. Reviewers appreciate its colourful illustrations and accessible instructions, making it an inspiring resource for young adventurers and a perfect gift for families interested in exploring nature.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781787081178

Publisher: Button Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 October 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Button Books

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 220.0mm

Height: 266.0mm

Weight: 752g

Pages: 128

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Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational T Cox

About the Author

Tiger Cox is a passionate outdoor enthusiast. He is the youngest member of the Fly Sussex paragliding team, based in Sussex, UK. Taught by his father, Tiger has passed on his skills to countless beginner fliers - even teaching his imprinted (trained to accept humans as their 'parent') Lanner falcon, Safire, who often accompanies him up to great heights on paragliding flights. Tiger has a natural affinity for outdoors skills and wants to inspire and educate others, of all ages, to spend more time enjoying these pursuits - whether that be through adventure sports, outdoor cooking or getting out and exploring their local landscapes. He caught the bug for exploring from his 'crazy' parents and four older sisters, who showed him what was possible and lovingly encouraged his earliest forays in the stunning South Downs National Park in Sussex, UK. No stranger to wild adventures and expeditions, Tiger has taken on many epic challenges. At age 13, he completed a sailing voyage from Sussex in the UK to the Caribbean on a wooden boat that his parents built. The final stage of the journey saw them sail across the Atlantic Ocean in under three weeks without sighting land or other ships. At age 18, he cycled 600 miles across France, wild camping all the way in a bivvy bag - despite having smashed his front teeth in his first training ride (by hitting a lamp post) but began the journey a week later anyway. He also competed in the 2015 world fireball (a racing sailing dinghy) championships in Wales. Tiger is an accomplished public speaker, having given talks on exploration and nature to audiences of over 250 people, including his old school and local chambers of commerce. This is his first book for GMC Publications.