travel

Chronicles the authors' experiences in two of the Vietnam War's bloodiest battles and offers portraits of both American veterans and former Vietnamese enemies. Includes sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs.

Provides accounts of journeys undertaken by three men along the Silk Road, including seventh-century Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang, Mongolian warrior Genghis Khan, and thirteenth-century merchant Marco Polo.

A pictorial account of the traveler and pilgrim Ibn Battuta in the fourteenth century, following him from Morocco to Jerusalem to Mecca and to the edges of the known world.

A memoir in which author Gary Paulsen discusses his lifelong love for the sea and shares his adventures exploring the oceans.

An illustrated children's version of the journal of a young Dutch trader, Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, who journeyed into the land of the Iroquois Indians, a Mohawk tribe that controlled the trade routes in the area, in 1634, seeking to bolster the Dutch trade in what is now New York State.

In 1990 four cyclists, two from the United States and two from the Soviet Union, team up to pedal across the wilds of Siberia reaching the eastern port of Vladivostok before the Russian winter sets in.

A collection of articles written over the course of the author's junior year of high school as an exchange student in France, describing her experiences in a foreign culture and providing a look at the country through the eyes of a young American.

Describes the life and voyages of seventeenth-century English explorer Henry Hudson, discussing his discoveries in North America.

Presents a comic book version of the story of thirteenth-century explorer Marco Polo's journey to China, describing some of the things he saw while in the service of Kublai Khan.

Presents a short children's history of explorer, Christopher Columbus and describes his life, voyages, and encounters with the native peoples of Hispaniola and other areas of the new world.