Ten true stories of daring and danger from New Zealand adventurers. Race to the South Pole with Sir Edmund Hillary, defend yourself against polar bears near the Magnetic North Pole with Helen Thayer, find the source of the Nile River with Cam McLeay and Garth MacIntyre, circumnavigate the world with 15-year-old Laura Dekker in a yacht, trek through the forbidden zone in the Libyan Desert with Lisa Tamati and many more exciting adventures. Some known, some forgotten, and some just discovered.

Author Biography

Maria Gill considers
herself an adventurer having travelled Europe, India and China by herself
before she was 23 years old. In her teens, she lived three years in a caravan
with her family travelling around Australia. For the last twenty years, she has
visited schools throughout New Zealand sharing her 60 books with children. This
is her seventh book with Marco Ivancic. The first ‘New Zealand Sports Hall of
Fame’ shortlisted for two national awards. The second ‘Anzac Heroes’ won the
NZCYA Supreme Book of the Year prize, and subsequent books received Storylines
Notable Book awards. In 2020, Storylines awarded Maria the Margaret Mahy Medal
for services to children’s literature. In the same year, she completed a
Masters in Creative Writing (Honours). She also has a teaching degree and
journalism diploma and uses those skills to write captivating nonfiction
stories and teach writing workshops to children.

Marco Ivancic is a freelance
artist from Wellington, New Zealand with a Bachelor of Design and Illustration
degree (Honours). For the past nine years, he has illustrated seven books
dealing in New Zealand history with writer Maria Gill. This includes the award
winning ‘ANZAC Heroes’, which won the 2016 Margaret Mahy Book of the Year prize
at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults. He has also
been nominated for and received awards for his illustration work. Marco has
worked on book covers, album covers and video games. He experiences his
adventures through designing marketing material for FarmIQ, his fulltime job
for the last ten years.

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