Fifth House is GOING WILD with a new children's nonfiction adventure series. The first of eight books features world-famous zoologist Brian Keating and his travels to experience unique ecosystems and observe animals from pole-to-pole and around the equator.
Amazing Animal Adventures Around the World is a nature book like no other, as children learn about wildlife, the environment, and conservation through first-person accounts from one of Canada's foremost animal
adventurers. In this book, lavishly illustrated by his own photographs, Keating describes ten of his most memorable wildlife-watching trips in his trademark
energetic and upbeat style.

• Miraculously escaping from a pride of charging lions in Africa on the scariest day of his life
  
• Strolling down a penguin superhighway in Antarctica
  
• Discovering (the hard way) the memorable defence mechanism of Norway's petrels - projectile vomiting
  
• Marvelling at Borneo's amazing proboscis monkeys with their huge light-bulb noses dangling between their eyes
  
• Looking into the eyes of Godzilla when getting up close-and-personal with marine iguanas in the Galapagos

Teacher's Guides are available at Fitzhenry.ca

This book is part of a book series called Amazing Animal Adventures .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Fifth House Publishers, Canada .

Brian Keating is a keen naturalist, avid outdoorsman, world traveller, intrepid adventurer, and extraordinary spokesperson for the world's wild places and the creatures that inhabit them. Keating's first job with the Calgary Zoo in 1981 was in their education program. Now he is Head of the zoo's Conservation Outreach Department, and responsible for national and international conservation projects, such as the Wechiau Hippo Sanctuary in Ghana, West Africa.