"A Nigerian storyteller explores the continent of Africa country by country: its geography, peoples, animals, history, resources, and cultural diversity. The book is divided into five distinct sections--South, East, West, Central, and North--and each country is showcased on its own bright, energetic page brimming with friendly facts on science, industry, food, sports, music, wildlife, landscape features, even snippets of local languages"--

Take a tour of America's great outdoors and discover the beauty and diversity of its most iconic and majestic national parks. Explore Florida's river-laced Everglades, travel down the white water rapids of the Grand Canyon, trek across the deserts of Death Valley and scale the soaring summits of the Rocky Mountains with this book that brings you up close to nature's greatest adventures. Packed with maps and fascinating facts about the flora and fauna...

Describes monster legends from all over the world, showing on maps where these creatures are said to live.

Maps, photographs, illustrations, and text present information about the regions and states of the United States.

Examines the great wave of European exploration during the fifteenth century which resulted in more accurate maps.

A Brainwave and his globetrotting pals serve as traveling companions through time to experience history's journeys of discovery, meeting famous explorers and sharing their stories.

A collection of satellite images of Earth.

Over 80 maps, hundreds of color photographs, and thousands of statistics to enrich and expand a child's knowledge of geography. The culture and geography of each country are explored through essays and photographs.

Even though Mount Everest measures 29,028 feet high, it may be growing about two inches a year. A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. Mountains are created when the huge plates that make up the earth's outer shell very slowly pull and push against one another. Read and find out about all the different kinds of mountains. The earth's continents rest on plates that move slowly across our planet's...