Amazing Treasures: 100+ Objects and Places That Will Boggle Your Mind
Amazing Treasures: 100+ Objects and Places That Will Boggle Your Mind
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Just the Series: Our Amazing World   

Series and Publisher: Our Amazing World   

Annotation: Giant gemstones, pirate gold, ancient tombs, meteorites from outer space, and more! Discover 100+ of the world's most extraordinary man-made and natural treasures, objects, and places
Genre: [World history]
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #218425
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2021
Edition Date: 2021 Release Date: 02/02/21
Pages: 58 pages
ISBN: 1-912920-50-6
ISBN 13: 978-1-912920-50-1
Dewey: 930.1
Dimensions: 29 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews

A trove of wonders natural and otherwise, from fabled caches to jaw-dropping sites and sights.Long defines treasure broadly enough to include not only assorted glittering gems and golden hoards, but the Great Barrier Reef, moon rocks, and the lost library of Alexandria. His descriptive notes, which run from terse paragraphs for Russia's Amber Room and China's old, huge Da Ming Hun Yi Tu map to two pages for the Maya ruins of Tikal, are loosely grouped under rubrics such as "Sunken Treasures" and "Fossils." They come with reasonably realistic painted pictures that likewise range in scale from images of a tiny copy of the Mona Lisa painted with an eyelash and a White mine owner holding a grapefruit-sized diamond to aerial views of Masada, Windsor Castle, and the Forbidden City. (There is also a world map on the center spread that serves as a supplemental index.) The pictures don't pop the way the color-saturated photos in Rose Davidson's Big Book of Bling (2019) and other like treasuries do, but what this lacks in visual dazzle it makes up for in scope-so that even dedicated armchair treasure seekers are likely to find new marvels to moon over.There's gold in them thar pages…not to mention rocks, ice, bling, and timeless yarns. (index, glossary, source list) (Nonfiction. 9-12)

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Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reading Level: 3.0
Interest Level: 2-5

Explore history, culture, geology, and the environment through treasures ancient and modern! Discover 100+ of the world's most extraordinary man-made and natural treasures, objects and places. Giant gemstones, precious artworks, architectural wonders, intriguing ruins, moon rocks, and more! Treasures both natural and man-made make an appearance in a tour which stretches across thousands of years and all around the globe. Discover sunken wrecks loaded with pirate gold, the abandoned tombs of the world's most powerful rulers, and even meteorites - treasures from outer space! A central foldout map reveals the locations of all the treasures featured in the book, while award-winning author David Long also addresses contemporary topics such as our threatened natural wonders and the ownership of cultural treasures. The perfect book for any curious explorer or treasure-hunter aged 7+ Includes an index and glossary. Other titles in the Our Amazing World series include: Amazing Islands Amazing Rivers Amazing Animals


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