Bøger af Jan Leyssens

A non-fiction book about Astrobiologist Carl Sagan and his search for extraterrestrial life.

The fifth book in a series about scientific wonder. Dreaming, daring, thinking, and doing. For researchers ages 6 years and up.Early twentieth century. Roald Amundsen plans to travel to the northernmost point of the globe. But after experiencing difficulties with ships and airplanes in polar regions, he needs a new method of travel. For many years, people had flown in airships. Could an airship take him to the North Pole? Would it work in such brutal cold? Eventually, Roald became the first person ever to reach both poles, but it took the work of many people-and some animals!-to make his journey possible . . .

A book about dreaming, daring, thinking, and doing.

The fourth book in the 'Marvelous But True' series about the discovery of the dinosaurs

The second book in the Marvelous But True series about oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp!

Allerede i år 1596 opdagede videnskabsmanden Abraham Ortels, at der var noget underligt ved jordens kontinenter: De passede sammen som brikker i et puslespil. Men han kunne ikke regne ud, hvad det skyldtes. Der skulle gå over 350 år, før en geolog ved navn Marie Tharp løste mysteriet. Hun opdagede, at der var en kløft på havets bund, midt i Atlanterhavet. Kunne det være, at kontinenterne … bevægede sig? Og bliver Marie Tharp i stand til at bevise den oldgamle teori?Marie og kortet over havets bund er en spændende billedbog baseret på en sand historie. I samme serie findes På mission til havets bund af de samme forfattere. Serien handler om videnskabens vidundere.Til nysgerrige børn på 5 år og op.