voyages around the world

Fellow actors and motorcycle enthusiasts Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman provide an account of their 15,000 mile journey from the northernmost tip of Scotland to the southernmost tip of South Africa, discussing the places they visited, the people they met, and the challenges they faced along the way.

Drawing on journals and letters of Darwin and the captain of the Beagle, the author recreates the five-year-long voyage around the world during which Darwin studied firsthand many plants and animals, finding evidence to support the theory of evolution.

Peter Palafox and his lifelong friend, Sean, sign on as midshipmen, hoping to find their fortune across the ocean and see more of the world.

Three children take a trip around the world to give their parents a rest from taking care of them.

It's Friendship Day, but Swiper has taken all the friendship bracelets and they won't glow unless everyone around the world has one.

Presents an adaptation of the book that tells about Phileas Fogg's incredible journey around the world in eighty days.

A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.

When Dave embarks on a business trip to Europe, Simon, Theodore and Alvin are left at home in the care of the accident-prone Miss Miller. But soon Alvin and the boys become jet-setters of their own as they participate in an around-the-world hot-air balloon race! Their main competition will be the Chipettes, but their real opponents turn out to be Klaus and Claudia, two international crooks who are using the race as a front for their worldwide diamond smuggling operation.

Twelve-year-old Adam Story is challenged by the deposed ruler of Babababad and his mongoose companion to become the first youngster to travel around the world in forty days without an adult.

In nineteenth-century England, young Charles Darwin rejects the more traditional careers of physician and clergyman, choosing instead to embark on a dangerous five-year journey by ship to explore the natural world.