Raging Rivers and Odious Oceans

by Anita Ganeri

Geography with twice the gritty bits! Dive into the murky waters and. * Scream! as you peer over the edge of a roaring waterfall. * Defy death! by tucking into a poisonous pufferfish . and surviving. * Tremble! when you go white-water rafting through hair-raising rapids. Raging Rivers takes you on a turbulent river tour from ice cap to ocean. PLUS read the secret diary of a brave river explorer and get to know your watery wildlife with our spotter's guide. Odious Oceans leads you down to the seabed, where you can uncover the dreadful details of the Titanic's last day. Then discover if you're nautical enough to join the Navy. Geography has never been so horrible!

Paperback

Published January 1, 2005

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.