voyages around the world

An easy-to-read graphic novel that reveals why Nellie Bly's daring trip around the world is among the greatest moments in history.

In this nearly wordless picture book, a piece of ice breaks off with penguin on it, and he is set adrift for a voyage around the world.

"Trace the grooved paths on each page as you follow Fox on a journey around the world"--OCLC.

Join Atlas Obscura on an illustrated expedition to 100 places around the globe. Hopscotch from country to country in a chain of connecting attractions: Explore Mexico's glittering cave of crystals, then visit the world's largest cave in Vietnam. Or peer over a 355-foot waterfall in Zambia, then learn how Antarctica's Blood Falls got its mysterious color. As you climb mountains, zip-line over forests, and dive into oceans, use this book as your passport to a world of hidden possibilities.

Eccentric Englishman Phileas Fogg accepts a bet made at his London club to complete a journey around the world in only eighty days.

"A biography of the extraordinary life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history-as a pirate raiding Spanish galleons, as the first explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe, and as a naval hero who defeated the Spanish Armada and reshaped the global order"--Adapted from publisher description.

Henry the Duck embarks on a round-the-world tour, visiting relatives everywhere to find out why he has one speckled feather in his tail.

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 celebration of global cultures, this book illustrates the similarities and differences in the ways people around the world celebrate Christmas. Travel to a new set of countries with every turn of the page. See the variety of celebrations by lifting the many flaps and lift the numbered flaps for the fun of an Advent calendar"--OCLC.

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.