Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guidepublisher* How to be a World Explorer will teach you all you need toknow about venturing through all the landscapes on Earth. How doyou cope with extreme cold? How do you find water in the wild? Howdo you escape from quicksand? How do you navigate by the stars? Howdo you build an igloo? How do you fight a bear? It's all here! Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet hasbecome the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooksto every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winningwebsite, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, children'sbooks, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's missionis to enable curious travellers to experience the world and totruly get to the heart of the places where they travel. TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner inFavorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no o
Revised edition! A dictionary written especially for studentsgrades 9 and up, ages 14 and older. More than 100,000 entries.Nearly 1,000 illustrations, many brand new. Abundant word historyparagraphs, synonym paragraphs, and example sentences. Updated toreflect groundbreaking Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,Eleventh Edition.
The world's most curious monkey investigates new words in thislively picture dictionary for young children. Curious George'sDictionary is an engaging picture dictionary specially designed forchildren from preschool through first grade. Both entertaining andeducationally sound, it features charming illustrations andreflects recent research in early childhood literacy, setting itapart from other picture dictionaries. The main part of thedictionary is an A-Z section containing approximately six hundredwords, six words to a page. Each word is illustrated with afull-color drawing, most of which have been created for this bookby the popular illustrator Mary O'Keefe Young. More than half theillustrations include a sample sentence that puts the word in afamiliar context. A four-page illustrated story at the front of thebook shows George learning how to look up words in his dictionary,drawing children in while introducing them to dictionary skills. Atthe end of the book, seven one- to two-page illustrations presentgr
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guidepublisher* This is not a guidebook. And it is definitely'not-for-parents'. It is the real, inside story about one of the world's mostexciting countries - Australia . In this book you'll hearfascinating tales about toothy sharks, giant rocks and snappycrocs, bushranger baddies and explorers galore. Check out coolstories about a famous coat-hanger, underground hotels, asuper-fast horse and a very rough race. You'll find flying doctorsand flying fruit flies, flesh-eating spiders and thievingconvicts. Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, KlayLamprell About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet hasbecome the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooksto every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winningwebsite, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, children'sbooks, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's missionis to enable curious travellers to experience the world and totruly get to the hea