Seymour Simon's Extreme Earth Records

✍ Scribed by Seymour Simon

Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Imagine exploring the most extreme parts of our amazing planet—trekking though the driest desert, climbing the snowiest mountaintops, and diving to the deepest regions of the ocean floor. Seymour Simon, the dean of children's science nonfiction, investigates Earth's biggest, smallest, deepest, and coldest environments, animals, plants, and most severe weather. These mind-bending facts and photographs invite readers on an exciting, and sometimes unbelievable, scientific expedition of Earth's most amazing records!

✦ Subjects

Juvenile Nonfiction; Science; JNF051000

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