voyages around the world

Provides an account of the life and accomplishments of Ferdinand Magellan, whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe. Includes a consideration of his legacy and his fateful final voyage.

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

A brief biography of late fifteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who became the first European to lead an expedition across the Pacific Ocean in his attempt to circumnavigate the globe.

A bumbling detective pursues a mysterious Englishman who took a bet to tour the world in eighty days, told in graphic novel format.

The first woman to sail alone around the world describes her experiences during that journey on which she broke Sir Francis Chichester's record for speed.

German midshipman Erich Killinger was captured by Russia at the start of World War I. Killinger escaped the Russian POW train in Siberia, fled to China, and passed through a series of German consulates and safe houses to Shanghai. Given fake identity papers, Killinger traveled in style by ship and rail from Shanghai to Skien, Norway, via the United States. He arrived back in Germany on March 6, 1916--eleven months after being captured.

In this graphic retelling of the classic novel, Phileas Fogg bets his friends in London that in the year 1872 he can travel around the world in eighty days--and he and his personal attendant, Passepartout, find danger and romance on the journey.

Eccentric Englishman Phileas Fogg embarks on an exciting adventure after accepting a bet at his London club that he can complete a journey around the world in only eighty days.

"The Berenstain Bears travel around the world, from Africa to the Great Wall of China, using their Anywhere-Anyplace Machine"--OCLC.

Presents a children's adaptation of Laurence Bergreen's "Over the Edge of the World" which Chronicles Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century.