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The Explorer
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Artikel-Nr:
9781408882191
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.01.2018
Seiten:
400
Autor:
Katherine Rundell
Gewicht:
331 g
Format:
197x128x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer and The Good Thieves. She has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, amongst many others. She was a 2021 World Book Day author and has also published two picture books for children and three non-fiction books for adults, including Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize, and The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure, shortlisted for the 2022 Waterstones Book of the Year. Her books have sold millions of copies worldwide.Katherine spent her childhood in Africa and Europe before taking her degree at the University of Oxford and becoming a Fellow of All Souls College. As well as writing, she studies Renaissance literature and occasionally goes climbing on the rooftops late at night.
Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ..._______________Winner of the Children's Book PrizeWinner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2017Winner of the London Book Fair Children's Travel Book of the Year_______________'I loved The Explorer' - Jacqueline Wilson'Rundell is now unarguably in the FIRST RANK' - Philip Pullman'Read everything she writes' - Daily Mail_______________From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small.Except, it seems, someone has been there before them .
A thrilling story of adventure, friendship and survival in the Amazon, The Explorer is an unmissable, Costa Award-winning modern classic from the bestselling Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell will be one of the World Book Day authors for 2021. Skysteppers is a standalone story, set a handful of years before Rooftoppers, and explores the adventures of the second principal character, Matteo