Simon is packed and heading off to a region of the Amazon Basin in northern Bolivia. Despite its size, it’s a fragile biome, of mixed forest and river habitats. Simon plans to document his journey down the River Enatahua, but things go wrong right from the start: a rucksack is missing, along with his canoe […]
Travel/Exploration
Expedition Diaries
Coming out on Nov 9th 2017
ISBN: 9781445156149
Himalayas Bottom to Top: Band 18/Pearl (Collins Big Cat)
ISBN: 978-0-00-820900-1
Take a look at the Himalayan mountain range – from the jungle valleys at the bottom right up to the icy peaks at the very top. Find out about the climate, the vegetation and the wildlife and how people live their lives at each level. • Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial […]
ISBN: 978-1408194614
This is the the most thrilling, adventure book, ever! Written by a real-life adventurer, Simon Chapman, be prepared to live your dream and imagine you discovered the dinosaurs. It’s your chance to battle blizzards with swarms of vipers in the Gobi Desert with Roy Chapman Andrews, join the race across the the Wild West […]
Upper Peru 1567: Two rival Spanish expeditions set off into the Amazon in search of gold. Both groups made it to the foot of the Andes and there they fought-for only one venture could have the King’s ‘right to conquer’. Simon Chapman set off to trace the conquistadors’ journeys through the forests of Northern Bolivia. […]
A grainy Illustrated London News photograph from 1929 shows a giant monkey known as the ‘Mono Rey’, inhabiting the jungles of northern Bolivia. The last westerner to attempt a sighting disappeared. Accompanied by an Englishman whose hobby is fighting mock mediaeval battles and an Australian who smoked the pages of his South American Handbook, Simon […]