journeys

A biography of the two people who flew the airplane Voyager around the world.

Describes the achievements and the life of thirteenth-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo, whose book about his travels across Asia and work for Kublai Khan helped to launch the Age of Exploration.

Text and illustrations survey Vasco da Gama's journey to find a sea route from Spain to India in the fifteenth century, describing Magellan's life before the voyage, his ships and crew, his arrival in India and his journey home, and his brutality upon his second voyage to India on orders from the King of Portugal. Also provides a glossary, lists of important dates and people, and selected further resources.

Author Bill Bryson provides an account of his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend, telling of how they survived a blizzard, got lost, and had encounters with eccentric characters, and rude yuppies along the way.

Novelist Nicholas Sparks provides an account of his adventures traveling around the world with his brother Micah on the trip of a lifetime, and shares the personal story of their childhood and the family tragedies they have endured, and how those experiences have made them closer.

An African-American journalist spends three years traveling across Africa witnessing dictatorships, mass starvation, and political corruption and questions his own heritage and identity.

Matt Dickinson discusses the experiences he had as he climbed Mount Everest and survived one of the worst storms to ever hit the mountain.

Pictures and text chronicle the voyages of Captain Cook in the Pacific and the Antarctic fringe.

In watercolor sketches accompanied by text, the author records his impressions of the Grand Canyon.

A caring scientist and four mountain-climbing explorers risked their lives to keep the Chang Tang chiru, a small, endangered, antelope-like animal, safe from poachers.