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Subject:        [carto-soc] Mission:Explore map missions
Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:43:19 +0100
From:   Daniel Raven-Ellison <[log in to unmask]>
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I am very please to announce that */Mission:Explore /is available in
Waterstone's up and down Britain. We've made this map
(http://bit.ly/sheepmap) to show where you can pick one up from.*
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*/Mission:Explore/ includes lots of missions that get (young) people
making maps. It is perfect for both your 10-year-old and your
undergraduate students.*
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*"Should be compulsory reading for all university geography students"
Professor Danny Dorling

"very witty, well-written and full of original ideas to get children
over 10 yrs of age out exploring" Juliet Robertson, Creative STAR*
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"Mission:Explore is a brilliant way to stimulate children's and young
people's interest in their social and physical environment, their
curiosity and their sense of the absurd. This is geography, and
fieldwork, at its most creative, and has the potential to inspire a new
generation of thoughtful, ethical and courageous geographers." Susan
Buckingham, Professor of Geography*
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“it is very important for children to experience adventurous play and
risk so they can learn to manage risk and keep themselves safe.
Mission:Explore helps to do this in a fun and exciting way.” The Child
Safety Education Coalition*
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*Press Release on Mission:Explore*
*IT’S TIME TO EXPLORE! 102 missions that challenge kids to (re)discover
our world. Kids of any age can become guerrilla explorers and extreme
missioners with missions that defy gravity, see the invisible and test
mental agility.*

Mission:Explore is an interactive book created by the wonderful
Geography Collective in an ongoing project to further inspire enthusiasm
and an inquisitiveness in young people about the people and places
around them. Completing each mission will help kids develop new skills,
resourcefulness and discover how their natural curiosity and initiative
can lead to exciting and edifying experiences. It is geography, but not
as you know it.

Mission:Explore encourages young people to get actively involved with
their communities. Rather than receive royalties, The Geography
Collective will donate copies of Mission:
Explore to children who cannot afford their own throughout the country.

Watch the book launch: http://bit.ly/dyhPIO

Please go out and buy a copy for someone.. maybe even yourself.

Very best,

Daniel

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www.missionexplore.co.uk <http://www.missionexplore.co.uk>
"Mission:Explore is a brilliant way to stimulate children's and young
people's interest in their social and physical environment, their
curiosity and their sense of the absurd. This is geography, and
fieldwork, at its most creative, and has the potential to inspire a new
generation of thoughtful, ethical and courageous geographers." Susan
Buckingham, Professor of Geography

“it is very important for children to experience adventurous play and
risk so they can learn to manage risk and keep themselves safe.
Mission:Explore helps to do this in a fun and exciting way.” The Child
Safety Education Coalition

"Should be compulsory reading for all university geography students"
Professor Danny Dorling

www.journeyjournal.co.uk <http://www.journeyjournal.co.uk>
"We think this is a fabulous initiative to get young people interested
in the people, culture and traditions of the countries they visit." The
Travel Foundation

http://twitter.com/geocollective
www.geographycollective.co.uk <http://www.geographycollective.co.uk>
Call me on +44 (0)7920 116 748