Each book in this engaging middle-grade nonfiction series challenges readers to an expedition and is crammed with practical survival advice, real-life explorers' stories, fascinating natural history facts, and humorous illustrations.
Simon has been entertaining adults and children with stories of his real-life adventures since 2001. He has recently returned from trekking around high snow peaks in Sichuan, China- where he was searching for the locations that inspired the novel, ‘Lost Horizon’ with its fabled hidden valley of ‘Shangri La’.