Cracking Coasts
For this book, I think it's extremely important and exciting for children at the age of 11 to 12 to read because this book contains a lot of surprisingly cool geographic features, and contains silly pictures. Also, the book told the reader a lot of historical events that happened to some famous explorers while they were discovering these "cracking coasts." There are some first hand diaries, and some narratives of the writer writing about scuba divers, who found tonnes of gold bars, worth a fortune.
I think that cracking coasts means that these coasts are not physically cracking. It's just one of the ways that I think the author is trying to tell that these coasts are extraordinarily amazing by using a word that might attract us according to my own opinion. My thoughts after reading this book are that before, I never knew that Australia had a long coastline, but now I know it. Before, I didn't know a lot of explorers in history that went exploring just for these coasts. Now I also know more explorers and what they are doing through the research. So through this book, I got more knowledge on the history of these coasts, what happened to them, who discovered them, and even why they would do research on that coast. So, overall, I like this book mainly because it expands my knowledge and makes me think out of the box sometimes. My question: What’s the point of finding treasure, except for money.
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