Rainforest Explorers (Amazing Journeys)

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On January 25 th, 1980, the American journalist, Nellie Bly, stepped off a train in New York and walked into the halls of our greatest pioneers.

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The British mariner George Bass is remembered for discovering the strait between Australia and Tasmania, but he is even more famous for vanishing during an 1803 voyage to South America. Photographer, author, and filmmaker known for documenting the tribal cultures of Africa, most notably in partnership with Australian photographer Angela Fisher. Some rainforests are threatened by massive hydroelectric power projects, where dams flood acres of land. She was also the 16 th woman in history to earn her wings with a pilot’s license and later went on to make history again as the first pilot to cross both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Below a rolling green carpet of rainforest, its limestone is riddled with some of the planet’s most extensive cave systems.She gave her life to protecting this species (literally) and helped to cement their reputation as social and largely gentle animals, worthy of human protection. Now imagine them down there, Frank and Cookie, mud smeared and grinning, on the verge of joining two cave systems into a single, immense whole.

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But following a final letter in which Fawcett announced he was venturing into unmapped territory, the group vanished without a trace. Other caves, at lower elevations, were like giant storm drains—massive holes in the bedrock that channeled rainfall into subterranean rivers. He accomplished finding a sea route to Asia which Europeans had been attempting to do for decades prior. Pursuing a life “almost explosive in its excitement,” journalist Martha Gellhorn took in the “view from the ground” in 53 countries—Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, China by sampan and horse, and the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky: Consisting of His Military Operations in Poland, His Exile into Kamchatka, His Escape and Voyage from that Peninsula through the Northern Pacific Ocean, Touching at Japan and Formosa, to Canton in China, with an Account of the French Settlement He Was Appointed to Form upon the Island of Madagascar".

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Limestone pinnacles pierce dense vegetation near the center of Malaysia’s Gunung Mulu National Park.Pop on your explorer hats and venture deep into the vibrant rainforests teeming with life and colour with our rainforest activity booklets.

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Disguising herself as a man, visiting harems and embracing Middle Eastern culture and leading archaeological digs, Hester Stanhope was a British socialite and adventurer, born into a highly respected British political family, who cut her own path in life. She became the first black female pilot in the world and the first with Native-American ancestry to hold a pilot license. Instead of being killed by deforestation and local poaching and the general weight of our ignorant, all-encompassing mechanical progress. Plants here, such as palms and philodendrons, are much shorter and have larger leaves than plants that dominate the canopy.Perhaps the most famous example of a modern lost explorer is Peng Jiamu, a Chinese biologist who vanished during a desert expedition in 1980. Twinkl Parents is here to help parents everywhere understand how they can support their children's education, wellbeing and development.