Describes several legends that have intrigued people for centuries including the lost city of Atlantis, the stories of King Arthur, and the search for the city of El Dorado.
Twelve-year-old Zanna and her friend Deeba discover an entrance to a strange world where they encounter killer giraffes, animated umbrellas, ghost children, and flying double-decker buses.
An alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced dictionary of mythical, legendary, and famous literary places briefly describing the origin, location, and major characteristics of each place.
Provides background information about lost cities and civilizations, presents the stories of Atlantis, El Dorado, and Camelot in graphic novel form, and includes a brief debate on whether such cities exist.
Dirk Pitt races to save the future of the world when he is assigned by the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency to find the link between the 1858 discovery of an aged wreck full of crates of antiquities, and two modern-day incidents that claimed the lives of a team of anthropologists and almost sank a NUMA vessel.
Twelve-year-old Basil meets an eccentric professor with a flying boat and sets off on a journey into the clouds, where they find a floating city filled with otherworldly inventions and ideas.