voyages around the world

Describes the ships of the 14th-century and recounts the voyage of Magellan, explaining life aboard the ships and the instruments of navigation.

Seventeen-year-old Harry Fogg undertakes a race against time to win a wager with a member of his famous father's club, putting to good use the recklessness and fascination with all things mechanical that have caused him trouble in Victorian England.

Describes the journey of two skippers, Rich Wilson and his partner, Bill Biewenga, who set sail from San Francisco, navigated around Cape Horn, and arrived in Boston in time to beat the previous speed record, set in 1853.

A biography of Ferdinand Magellan, who sailed from Portugal in 1519 to find a route to the Far East. Magellan died during the voyage and only one ship returned to Portugal, but he had proved that it was possible to sail around the world.

Presents Charles Darwin's classic in which he argues that species change over time, evolving or dying out entirely, through the process of natural selection; and his journals from his five-year voyage around the world on the "H.M.S. Beagle, " in which he recorded his observations on geology and natural history.

Details the life and expeditions of Captain James Cook, discussing his childhood, family, exploratory voyages, search for the Northwest Passage, and death.

Presents a biography of Sir Francis Drake, the first English explorer to circumnavigate the globe, covering his battles against the Spanish Armada, exploration of America's west coast, and other achievements and adventures.

Details the life and expeditions of Ferdinand Magellan, describing his childhood, ocean voyages fraught with mutiny, tribal wars, and disease; and his leadership on the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe; and includes a chronology, a time line, and glossary.

Charles Darwin chronicles the five years he spent early in his career aboard the survey ship HMS "Beagle, " exploring the Southern Hemisphere, including Brazilian rain forests, the Andes, and the Gal?pagos Islands.

Englishman Phileas Fogg races around the world on a daring wager in the seemingly impossible time of eighty days.