abstract:Knowledge Adventure, Inc. is an American maker of educational software including the Adiboo and JumpStart series of grade-based and subject-based titles, such as My First Encyclopedia.
Many travellers ventured on to the Silk Roads drawn by the attractions of trade, adventure and also knowledge and, in the nineteenth century, by new archaeological discoveries.
But it would be wrong to say that we didn't have some of the excitement of a boy's adventure story - sharpened by the knowledge that the writer and traveller Tim Butcher had failed to find the waterfall when he walked in Greene's footsteps.