travelers

A biography that follows explorer Marco Polo and his family on a 25 year journey through the trade routes now known as Spice Road. Also highlights the importance of the Polos' role as cultural emissaries during a time of limited global exchange.

Chronicles the life and career of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century Moroccan adventurer and religious scholar who traveled extensively along the Silk Road.

"What would you take? Imagine you were leaving for a new country and could bring along only what would fit in a small suitcase. Which things would you choose to say to the world, "Hi there, this is me!""--.

"Tom lives in the country where he and his parents do plenty of work, from hoeing vegetables to spinning wool to making nails. "What's it like in the town?" Tom asks. "It's the same everywhere," his mother and father tell him, "just work and more work." Determined to find out for himself, Tom sets off with a bit of bread and cheese in a bundle. His curiosity takes him from the town to the city to the sea, and each place he goes, he discovers all kinds of work and all kinds of wonders"--Dust jacket.

A lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate--bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical--is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German (as Donal discovers him to be), and Donal can't seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate decides to pack him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But to Donal's surprise, he's not traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition, the pair light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way.

Kate Bogart, a travel columnist for a New York newspaper, keeps to a busy schedule, reporting back to family and friends on her adventures around the globe, and trying to decide which lucky man will get to share her life.

Captain Lemuel Gulliver travels to a variety of strange lands, such as Lilliput, meeting strange new people and learning about the dangers of modern society and the fallacies of the English Enlightenment.

Presents a translation of thirteenth-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo's account of his travels throughout China, India, Persia, and other places.