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Great Explorers: Marco Polo - Ibn Battuta - Vasco Da Gama - Christopher Columbus - Ferdinand Magellan - Captain Cook - Lewis and Clark (Naxos Junior Classics)

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This 2 disc audiobook set covers over 2 and a half hours of stories featuring some of the world's greatest explorers. As a homeschooling Mom, this set has been a valuable resource. Our children have been able to learn without having to read in a book, they can listen anywhere (car, outside, their rooms, etc) and it helps make the lives of these great explorers seem real and personal and not just something they read about in History & Geography. I highly recommend this set to anyone who has children or families who homeschool.

In Great Explorers, author and biographer David Angus presents the thrilling stories of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Bartholomeu Diaz, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Captain Cook, Lewis and Clark, Stanley and Livingstone, and The Apollo Moon Mission. Very highly recommended for personal, school, and library audiobook collections, this Naxos Audiobook 2-CD compact edition is expertly narrated by Frances Jeater, Sam Dastor, and Kerry Shale, and has a running time of 2 hours, 36 minutes.

I wonder whom the author had in mind writing this book - it is too boring for children, to superficial for adults. I listened to it (i always do before letting my child to listen) and put it at the bottom of the drawer - no use for it.