<p>A fact-filled book featuring ingenious full-color, three-dimensional illustrations delves into the interesting world of mummies, furnishing detailed information on the techniques used in mummification, the tombs in which mummies were buried, and the vast treasures found in the tombs.</p>

Egyptian Mummies: A Pop-Up Book

Children's Books

Polk, Milbry

History

Dutton Juvenile

Women of Discovery: A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World

Across the centuries and from many lands, women have set forth on journeys of exploration. Visionaries, adventurers, artists, and scientists, these women challenged the limitations, both physical and social, of their times and, in the face of formidable challenges, expanded the world's body of knowledge. Yet despite their extraordinary achievements, they have remained unknown and unsung for too long.No longer. The stories of more than eighty extraordinary explorers and adventurers are vividly recounted and stunningly illustrated in Women of Discovery. Here for the first time are gathered the tales of early voyagers, such as the valiant tenth-century Viking adventurer Unn the Deep Minded and seventeenth-century Spanish conquistadora Catalina de Erauso. Intrepid explorers like Mary Kingsley in Africa, Alexandra David-Neel in Tibet, and Freya Stark in the Middle East traveled fearlessly into the blank spaces on the map. Artist explorers, including the great botanical painter Anna Maria Sibylla Merian in Surinam, writer Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti, and photographer Ruth Robertson in South America, captured in their art the beauty and mystery of exotic lands. Many brave women have ventured into extreme environments to bring back knowledge, whether they were aviators like Amelia Earhart, mountaineers like Annie Smith Peck, or Arctic explorers like Irina and Valentina Kuznetsova. And the annals of science would be far poorer without the work of such women as primatologists Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, ethnobotanist Nicole Maxwell, and ichthyologist Eugenie Clark.This is truly a gathering of heroines, full of tales of courage, talent, intelligence, and sheer determination. With a foreword by renowned journalist Christiane Amanpour, Women of Discovery is a remarkable book, an achievement in its own right, and certain to thrill anyone captivated by the world-changing drama of exploration.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Clarkson/Potter

Few things are more intriguing to children than mummies, and any reader interested in ancient Egypt will find this pop-up book completely engrossing. From the mysteries of the pyramids to the rites of a god's temple, this book explores one of the most fascinating periods of history. Full color.

Egyptian Mummies: A Pop-up Book

Ancient Civilizations

Diane Pub Co.

Tiegreen, Mary

Travel

Scriptum Editions

Frauen erkunden die Welt: Entdecken. Forschen. Berichten

Piper Verlag GmbH

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