imaginary voyages

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imaginary voyages

The time machine

1988
Relates the adventures of a scientist who invents a machine that transports him into the future.

Mysterious journey

Amelia Earhart's last flight
1997
While visiting the Amelia Earhart exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum, Lucy travels back in time and becomes the famous pilot in the cockpit of her last flight.

In the garden of Iden

1998
Mendoza, a young woman who has been made an immortal cyborg by the 24th-century Company, returns to sixteenth-century England in an attempt to keep a holly plant that could cure cancer from becoming extinct, but her mission is threatened when she falls in love with a mortal man.

The volcano disaster

1998
When an "Instant Commuter" transports him to Mount Saint Helens during its eruption, twelve-year-old Warren cannot get himself back to his own home in his own time.

Switching well

1994
Two twelve-year-old girls in San Antonio, Texas, Ada in 1891 and Amber in 1991, switch places through a magic well and try desperately to return to their own times.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels

2008
A graphic novel adaptation of Jonathan Swift's satire in which the voyages of an Englishman carry him to a land of people six inches high and a community of giants.

The Transall saga

1998
While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.

The time shifter

1997
Brandon does not know what to do when he meets a man who claims to have traveled back in time to find Brandon and help him change the future.

Gulliver's travels

and "A modest proposal"
2005
Presents the complete text to Jonathan Swift's classic novel "Gulliver's Travels" along with "A Modest Proposal, " a political satire, and contains a chronology of Swift's life and works, timeline of significant events, explanatory and textual notes, and critical essays.

Gulliver's travels

2003
Presents Jonathan Swift's satire in which a shipwrecked Englishman encounters bizarre populations in unheard-of lands, including an enlightened race of horses that makes him see his fellow humans in a different light; and includes explanatory notes and a note on the text, which is based on the 1726 edition.

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