Alongside real-life explorer Levison Wood, travel around the world, meet some of history's most daring pioneers, and be inspired to go on your very own adventures!

Embark on 20 epic expeditions alongside Levison Wood, from the Silk Road and medieval pilgrimages to the Holy Land to Nellie Bly's trip around the world, and recent missions to the Moon and the Mariana Trench. Along the way, Levison Wood shares his own insights into adventuring, telling you what it's REALLY like to follow in the footsteps of Alexander the Great.

Beautifully illustrated with maps showing the routes and filled with detail bringing the cultures of each region to life, this is a lavish gift book to treasure from one of our greatest living explorers.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Hachette Children's Group .

Sam Brewster is an award-winning freelance illustrator, photographer, and filmmaker based in London. This is his third children's book. Levison Wood is an award-winning author, explorer and photographer who specialises in documenting people and cultures in remote regions and post-conflict zones. His work has taken him around the world leading expeditions on five continents and he is an elected fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club.

This book has the following chapters:

• 4: From Levison Wood .
• 6: Out of Africa
• 8: The Egyptians
• 10: The Hajj
• 12: Alexander the Great
• 16: The Silk Road
• 18: The Vikings
• 20: Marco Polo
• 22: How to be an Explorer
• 24: Ibn Battuta
• 28: Zheng He
• 30: Christopher Columbus
• 32: Magellan and Drake
• 34: Captain James Cook
• 38: Lewis and Clark
• 40: Charles Darwin
• 42: Trailblazers
• 44: Burton, Speke and Baker
• 46: The Heart of Africa
• 48: Nellie Bly
• 50: To the Poles
• 52: Women in the Middle East
• 54: Amelia Earhart
• 58: Mount Everest
• 60: Into Space
• 62: Mariana Trench
• 64: Index