Author: Jules Verne Published: 1972 book: 119 pages ISBN:1603035214 ISBN:9781603035217 Publisher: Plain Label Books Subject: Travel |
Chapter I IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. ...
Author: Jules Verne Published: 2008-08-18 book: 228 pages ISBN:0554360748 ISBN:9780554360744 Publisher: BiblioLife Subject: Fiction |
In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.
Author: Joshua Slocum Published: 1905 book: 294 pages ISBN:0554360748 ISBN:9780554360744 Publisher: null Subject: Sports & Recreation |
SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD CHAPTER IA blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities — Youthful fondness for the sea — Master of the ship Northern Light ...
Author: Charles Darwin Published: 1909 book: 524 pages ISBN:0554360748 ISBN:9780554360744 Publisher: null Subject: Beagle Expedition |
This is Charles Darwin's chronicle of his five-year journey, beginning in 1831, around the world as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle.
Author: Karen Hesse Published: 2000-11-01 book: 319 pages ISBN:0689839871 ISBN:9780689839870 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Subject: Juvenile Fiction |
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 ...
Author: Laurence Bergreen Published: 2004-10-21 book: 512 pages ISBN:006093638X ISBN:9780060936389 Publisher: Harper Perennial Subject: Biography & Autobiography |
A voyage into history, a tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages, a chronicle of a desperate grab for commercial and political power, and more, this ...
Author: Douglas Evans Published: 2004-10-15 book: 231 pages ISBN:1932425136 ISBN:9781932425130 Publisher: Front Street Inc Subject: Juvenile Fiction |
Twelve-year-old Adam Story is challenged by the deposed ruler of Babababad and his mongoose companion to become the first youngster to travel around the world ...
Author: Mark Twain Published: 1903 book: 712 pages ISBN:1932425136 ISBN:9781932425130 Publisher: null Subject: Voyages around the world |
CHAPTER I. A mm may have no bad habits and have worse. — Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. THE starting point of this lecturing-trip around the world was ...
Author: Tony Horwitz Published: 2003-07-15 book: 496 pages ISBN:0312422601 ISBN:9780312422608 Publisher: Picador USA Subject: Biography & Autobiography |
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic documents the three high-adventure voyages of Captain James Cook, who between 1768 and 1779 ...
Author: Amasa Stone Mather Published: 1910 book: book ISBN:0312422601 ISBN:9780312422608 Publisher: null Subject: Voyages and travels |
FOREWORD In June, 1907, four young men who had just graduated from Yale University, started together on a trip around the world. One of them was my son, ...
Author: Gavin Menzies Published: 2003 book: 552 pages ISBN:0060537639 ISBN:9780060537630 Publisher: William Morrow & Co Subject: History |
Argues that the Chinese discovered America and established colonies there before Columbus and that European explorers such as Magellan and Cook "discovered" new ...
Author: Patrick O'Brian Published: 1996-10-17 book: 285 pages ISBN:0393315371 ISBN:9780393315370 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Subject: Fiction |
In the mid-eighteenth century, Peter Palafox, the son of a poor Irish parson, signs on a ship as a midshipman, just in time for Commodore Anson's epic ...
Author: Gavin Menzies Published: 2004 book: 649 pages ISBN:006054094X ISBN:9780060540944 Publisher: Harper Perennial Subject: History |
Based on 15 years of in-depth research, "1421" traces the voyages of an extraordinary fleet of Chinese ships who actually charted America 70 years before ...
Author: Tristan Jones Published: 1996-01-01 book: 410 pages ISBN:0924486902 ISBN:9780924486906 Publisher: Sheridan House Inc Subject: Travel |
Tristan Jonesr sailed a small craft on the lowest body of water in the world, the Dead Sea in Israel-and the highest, Lake Titicaca in the Andes.
Author: John Pinkerton Published: 1813 book: book ISBN:0924486902 ISBN:9780924486906 Publisher: null Subject: Travel |
CAPTAIN BETAGH'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE • COUNTRY OF PERU, AND ITS INHABITANTS, DURING HIS CAPTIVITY ». ' IT was in the beginning of the ever-memorable year, ...
Author: Bernard Moitessier Published: 1995-01-01 book: 252 pages ISBN:0924486848 ISBN:9780924486845 Publisher: Sheridan House Inc Subject: Biography & Autobiography |
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the ...
Author: John Baldwin Published: 2008-05-06 book: 354 pages ISBN:0307236560 ISBN:9780307236562 Publisher: Three Rivers Pr Subject: History |
Describes the Civil War role of the Confederate warship Shenandoah, a state-of-the-art raiding vessel assigned to sink ships from the U.S. merchant fleet, which ...
Author: Ewan McGregor Published: 2005-11 book: 320 pages ISBN:0743499344 ISBN:9780743499347 Publisher: Atria Subject: Biography & Autobiography |
The popular actors recount their three-month, 20,000-mile motorbike journey from London to New York through three continents and some of the harshest terrain on ...
Author: Jean-François de La Harpe Published: 1855 book: book ISBN:0743499344 ISBN:9780743499347 Publisher: null Subject: Travel |
rWA i/VX W» VAA/ IAAiVW - V» -* "V> •% < -*.-> i\-v VV* -W» XX -» » % VOYAGES AUTOUR DU MONDE ET Dans le grand océan. ...
Author: Carolyn Meyer Published: 2009 book: 321 pages ISBN:0152061940 ISBN:9780152061944 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Subject: Juvenile Fiction |
In nineteenth-century England, young Charles Darwin rejects the more traditional careers of physician and clergyman, choosing instead to embark on a dangerous ...