The Explorer

From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.

As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small.

Except, it seems, someone has been there before them.

Winner of Costa Book Award Children's Book 2017

'Cracking. A kind of cross between Indiana Jones and the film Up. One of the most captivating books of the year.' -- The Spectator 'As extravagantly beautiful as the rainforest it so lovingly describes, I cannot imagine the child who wouldn't be delighted by it.' -- The Independent 'Rundell is now unarguably in the FIRST RANK.' -- Phillip Pullman

Katherine Rundell is the author of Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner), and The Wolf Wilder.

She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She begins each day with a cartwheel and believes that reading is almost exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless. In her spare time, she enjoys walking on tightropes and trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges. Peter Noble grew up in South Africa and studied drama and music at the University of Cape Town. He worked extensively as an actor, touring South Africa with a small repertory theatre company, as well as working on radio, TV and film. He later moved to London and graduated from LAMDA, then from the Royal Academy of Music as a singer. An Earphones Award-winning narrator, Peter Noble has recorded more than 250 audiobooks and audio dramas. Audible is a seller and producer of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming on the Internet.

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