Atlas of Record-Breaking Adventures - A collection of the BIGGEST, FASTEST, LONGEST, TOUGHEST, TALLEST and MOST DEADLY things from around the world

About the author

Once a children's book editor, Emily Hawkins is now a full-time author. Her work has been featured on the New York Times bestseller list (Oceanology, 2009) as well as winning the Children's Travel Book of the Year Award (Atlas of Animal Adventures, 2016). Along with her background in children's non-fiction Emily has a strong interest in myth, folklore and storytelling, and has written several titles in the Lost Atlases and Spin to Survive series (Wide Eyed Editions). In 2020 she wrote A Natural History of Fairies, which has been translated into twelve languages, selling more than 100,000 copies worldwide.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Hawkins
• Assisted by: Lucy Letherland (Illustration)
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Plc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2020
• EAN: 9780711255630
• ISBN: 978-0-7112-5563-0
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 275 mm x 373 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 1052 g
• Series: Atlas of
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Animals, plants, nature, the environment