travelers

Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers establish family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.

Provides information about voyages of exploration and discovery around the world since ancient times and includes biographical details about explorers as well as maps, illustrations, and photographs.

Jonathan Swift's satirical novel was first published in 1726, yet it is still valid today. Gulliver's Travels describes the four fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a kindly ship's surgeon. Swift portrays him as an observer, a reporter, and a victim of circumstance. His travels take him to Lilliput where he is a giant observing tiny people. In Brobdingnag, the tables are reversed and he is the tiny person in a land of giants where he is exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. The flying island of Laputa is the scene of his next voyage. The people plan and plot as their country lies in ruins. It is a world of illusion and distorted values. The fourth and final voyage takes him to the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses who rule the land. He also encounters Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who resemble humans.

Chronicles the life of James Homan, discussing how he overcame blindness, the slave trade in Africa, and captivity in Siberia to become one of the world's greatest explorers.

Includes thirty-two short stories by a variety of authors on the subject of travel, set in locations that include Palestine, the Riviera, Greece, China, and Australia.

An exploration of the golden age of Asia, looking at the Asia of the Middle Ages as a center of international, interethnic, and intercontinental commerce, culture, diplomacy, and learning, and sharing stories of travelers and explorers who contributed to the great Asian civilizations.