voyages around the world

Indigo, a young child of the Sand Lizard people, a tribe that has been driven from its home, is reduced to scavenging from the town dump in an effort to stay alive before being rescued by Hattie, a Victorian woman who, with good intentions, sets out to transform Indigo into a proper American girl.

Traces the voyage of a Chinese fleet which, in 1421, circumnavigated the globe, discovered America, and transplanted to America, Australia, New Zealand, and South America.

16 year old Robin Lee graham sets sail on a 5-year round-the-world voyage in a 24-foot sloop.

A brief biography of sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, that chronicles the life and adventures of the first man to sail around the world.

Presents selections from the journals of Captain James Cook in which he provides a personal account of his three exploratory voyages to New Zealand, Australia, and islands of the Pacific in 1768, 1772, and 1776. Includes maps, a glossary, and indexes of people and places.

Presents a large-print edition of the story in which eccentric Englishman Phileas Fogg accepts a bet made at his London club to complete a journey around the world in only eighty days.

Examines the accomplishments of eighteenth-century English captain James Cook, known for his voyages into unknown seas claiming land for his country, opening trade routes, and solving the mystery of scurvy.