Canoe Challenge
Paddling Across America
Will be published approx. on 5. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-78563-482-6 (ISBN)
Description
Tom and his sister Lucy are no strangers to adventure. But now they are ready for their biggest challenge yet - teaming up for a joint expedition.
Inspired by great explorers, they set out to retrace an epic journey across America by canoe. Two hundred years ago, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark travelled into the wilderness; now it's Tom and Lucy's turn to paddle along mighty rivers, battle wild rapids and camp beneath endless starry skies.
Along the way they discover what has changed - technology, the size of towns and cities, the people who live in them - and what has stayed the same: the physical hardship, the camaraderie and the pure thrill of adventure.
Travel with them as they journey into history, test themselves against the wild and prove that exploration is never out of date.
Inspired by great explorers, they set out to retrace an epic journey across America by canoe. Two hundred years ago, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark travelled into the wilderness; now it's Tom and Lucy's turn to paddle along mighty rivers, battle wild rapids and camp beneath endless starry skies.
Along the way they discover what has changed - technology, the size of towns and cities, the people who live in them - and what has stayed the same: the physical hardship, the camaraderie and the pure thrill of adventure.
Travel with them as they journey into history, test themselves against the wild and prove that exploration is never out of date.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Eye Books
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 6 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78563-482-6 (9781785634826)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Alastair Humphreys is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. He has cycled around the world, rowed the Atlantic Ocean and walked a lap of the M25 - one of his pioneering microadventures.
He is the author of 14 books, including Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford's Children's Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Non-Fiction.
He has written eight books for Eye including the bestselling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, a series of novels for 9-12-year-olds based on the real-life adventures he recounted in Moods of Future Joys, Thunder and Sunshine and Ten Lessons from the Road. His more recent The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a similarly novelised version of his transatlantic crossing. It was shortlisted for the Stanford's Children's Travel Book of the Year.
He is a qualified teacher.
He is the author of 14 books, including Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford's Children's Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Non-Fiction.
He has written eight books for Eye including the bestselling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, a series of novels for 9-12-year-olds based on the real-life adventures he recounted in Moods of Future Joys, Thunder and Sunshine and Ten Lessons from the Road. His more recent The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a similarly novelised version of his transatlantic crossing. It was shortlisted for the Stanford's Children's Travel Book of the Year.
He is a qualified teacher.