The diaries of the famous explorers are juxtaposed with the adventures of two modern children whose experiences on the way to the beach are strangely similar.
In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.
Reprints the 1902 novel about Marlow, a seaman who undertakes a journey into the African jungle to find tormented white trader Kurtz; features excerpts from the diary kept by the author during his travels in the Belgian Congo in 1890; and includes a selection of critical commentary.
The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describing both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Includes review questions.
