'This is a great puzzle book, for budding explorers and young adventurers. There's no better way to test your exploration skills without leaving the house!' - Levison Wood Can you pin-point the last-known location of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance? Can you help Amelia Earhart circumnavigate the globe? Are you the next Neil Armstrong? In this unique puzzle book, the Royal Geographical Society brings over a century of maps and expertise to inspire your inner Livingstone and tantalise your budding Columbus. With hundreds of questions on 50 iconic explorers and a mix of mind-boggling maps, word games and trivia questions - it's time to dust off your compass, pack your snow shoes and test your geographical skills against the most legendary adventurers ever to traverse the globe.
eBook - ePub
The Royal Geographical Society Puzzle Book
Pit your wits against the world's greatest explorers
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The Royal Geographical Society Puzzle Book
Pit your wits against the world's greatest explorers
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction to Puzzles
- Marco Polo
- Zheng He
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Hernán Cortés
- Estevanico
- Francis Drake
- Abel Tasman
- René-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle
- William Dampier
- James Cook
- Carsten Niebuhr
- Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
- Ida Pfeiffer
- James Clark Ross
- David Livingstone
- Isabella Bird
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Gertrude Bell
- Mary Kingsley
- Francis Younghusband
- Nellie Bly
- Sven Hedin
- Katherine Routledge
- Matthew Henson
- Robert Falcon Scott
- Roald Amundsen
- Ernest Shackleton
- Howard Carter
- Harriet Chalmers Adams
- Amelia Earhart
- Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
- Neil Armstrong
- Yuri Gagarin
- Sylvia Earle
- Junko Tabei
- Ranulph Fiennes
- Ellen Macarthur
- Felicity Aston
- Levison Wood
- The RGS Family Quiz
- The RGS Collections Quiz 1
- The Collections Quiz 2
- The Collections Quiz 3
- Answers
- The Royal Geographical Society Family Quiz
- The RGS Collection Answers
- Acknowledgements
- Join The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
- Final Note