voyages around the world

An illustrated biography of sixteenth-century explorer Ferdinand Magellan, telling of his attempt to sail around the world through a series of questions and answers.

A travelogue written at the end of the nineteenth century by American author Mark Twain in which he describes his experiences sailing around the world via steamship on a lecture tour.

An account of the first American woman, and the youngest person ever, to sail around the world alone.

Little Mole sets out to learn how big the world is and explores it by land, sea, and air with the help of other animals.

This book tells about Portuguese captain Ferdinand Magellan's journey to find a new route to the east for Spain discussing his battles with the ocean, angry crews, and diseases.

Examines the life and explorations of Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sea captain whose search for a westward route to the Spice Islands led to the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the early sixteenth century..

Describes the journey of Charles Wilkes as he led a group of American seamen through the South Pacific and became the first to cite Antarctica as a separate continent.

A biography of Captain James Cook, the eighteenth-century British sailor whose explorations included a three-year journey throughout the Pacific and a return voyage in search of the Southern Continent, and led to his violent death.

Presents a biography of sixteen-century British navigator and privateer Sir Francis Drake, who was commissioned by Elizabeth I to help establish England as a maritime empire and gain victory over the Spanish Armada.