Desperate deserts - Anita Ganeri

Geography with the gritty bits left in!Does geography grind you down? fed up with miserable maps, rottenrock piles and despicable data? Wave goodbye to boring geographylessons as you step onto the scorching sands of Desperate Deserts...Shudder! as you're forced to drink camel pee to stay alive.Gasp! as a single sand dune on the move buries whole villages.Scream! when you come face to face with a deadly rattlesnake.Marvel! at the brave desert explorer who trekked to Timbuktu.And if that's not desperate enough for you...find out about the desertwhere it snows, how to make a tasty pudding from camel milkand why cactus juice could be a deadly drink. Have you got whatit takes to survive? It's earth-shatteringly exciting!Geography has never been so horrible!