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Exploration for the masses. Mission:Explore coming soon

IT’S TIME TO EXPLORE! 102 missions that challenge you to (re)discover our world. Become a guerilla explorer and extreme missioner with missions that defy gravity, see the invisible and test your mental agility. CLICK HERE to see a sample and order pre-publication copies at a special discount – JUST £6.00 including P&P (normal price [...]

Tobias | March 26th, 2010 | Continued

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The Letter From Death

In The Letter from Death, Lillian Moats constructs an astonishing appraisal of humanity through the eyes of Death itself. As an insightful, philosophical and surprisingly witty narrator, Death takes a tour through the follies of human past, present and future to approach seemingly complex matters with a simple clarity. At once unsettling and comforting, tragic and comic, provocative and wise, The Letter from Death is an insightful examination of humanity that will give thoughtful readers quite a lot to think about.

Helen | February 16th, 2010 | Continued

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Cold Hands, Warm Heart

A grandmother of two, Tess Burrows came to climbing late in life when she found her true calling in campaigning for the Tibetan cause. In her latest book, Cold Hands, Warm Heart, Tess races to the South Pole to promote Earth Peace. She not only learns to push the limits of the human body, but [...]

Dan | February 16th, 2010 | Continued

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The Emperor’s River

In his second book, Liam D’Arcy-Brown sets out to be the first Westerner in modern times to travel the length of China’s great wonder, the Grand Canal. Attempting to remember the China that fascinated him as a child, Liam is faced with a modern, more open China now. He talks his way onto the enormous barges that carry bulk building materials for China’s rapid modernisation, follows the world’s longest man-made canal and accounts for a list of characters and historical but forgotten sites from China’s ancient past.

Helen | February 16th, 2010 | Continued

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Journey Journal

Going somewhere new is a massive opportunity to discover and make sense of cultures, environments, issues and alternative ideas. Journey Journal, by The Geography Collective, is a special passport-sized book that encourages young people to (re)think the places they visit. It is made for for holidays, school trips and transition between Primary and Secondary School.

Helen | October 21st, 2009 | Continued

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Mission:Explore featured in The Guardian G2

Mission Explore was featured in The Guardian G2 kids section yesterday, 5 August under the headline How to be an Explorer. And they are asking any of you kids out there to send photos in from your adventures to g2kids@guardian.co.uk – so get out there and show them what guerilla geography is all about.

“it may just be the most revolutionary geography-related book ever published” Geographical Magazine August 2010

We certainly believed in the groundbreaking and ‘revolutionary’ Mission:Explore book which Can of Worms published this April 1st. But it wonderful to receive such an endorsement for the great work of The Geography Collective and Tom Morgan-Jones’s humourous illustrations. And if you haven’t got a copy yet, you can order by clicking here: Mission:Explore or through your local bookstore on online retailer.

Tom Morgan-Jones

We have sung the praise of The Geography Collective repeatedly on this site for their wonderful inventiveness for coming up with the concept and in writing Mission:Explore. But, we have not said enough about the amazing talent of Tom Morgan-Jones who has brought to life the quirkiness of the Mission Explore concept. So today, we would ask that you make your mission to explore the wonderful illustrations of Tom Morgan-Jones on his website: http://www.inkymess.com/

Geography Collective launches Risk Aversion tracking blog

The wonderfully inventive and incorrigibly curious crew at The Geography Collective have launched a new blog to track stories in the media about risk aversion. Our recently published book: Mission:Explore, written by The Geography Collective and illustrated by Tom Morgan-Jones is the purest antidote known to man*(kind) and beast for the cotton wool culture that our children are being enveloped in.

Do please go and take a look at their blog: http://thegeographycollective.wordpress.com/ as well as the book, and please tell your friends.

* for man please also read woman, boy, girl, child, etc. etc

Mission:Explore officially launched

One reads a lot about book launches. At Can of Worms we are hoping that the official book launch of Mission:Explore will catapult it into best sellerdom. Following is a brief look at last weekend’s book launch: mebooklaunch