Authors:Richard Hakluyt, Jack Beeching,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: english, discoveries, voyages, library, nat, traffiques, principal, navigations, amp
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1972-07-30
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0140430733
ISBN-13: 9780140430738

Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England’s first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English. One of the epics of this great period of expansion, "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation" describes, in the words of the explorers themselves, an astonishing era in which the English grew rapidly aware of the sheer size and strangeness of their world. Mingling accounts of the journeys of renowned adventurers such as Drake

Author: HSP
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Keywords: voyages, distant
Published: 2002-01
List price: $80.60
ISBN-10: 0153224797
ISBN-13: 9780153224799

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Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: sailor, sinbad, voyages, seven
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1420931954
ISBN-13: 9781420931952

The following text has been drawn from Sir Richard Burton’s exhaustive translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night", more commonly known as "The Arabian Nights". The story of "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor" tells the tale of Sinbad who ventures out to sea, at first to acquire wealth, but afterwards in search of adventure. During these voyages he encounters many obstacles including giant animals, monsters, and savage cannibals, yet always seems to escape with an even greater fortune than when he started out. A classic tale of fantasy, "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad

Author: Bruce Goldberg
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Keywords: voyages, astral
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1999-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1567183085
ISBN-13: 9781567183085

Imagine, for a second, traveling at the speed of light to a place where all past, present, and future events occur simultaneously. You can be anywhere at any time and be free of the laws of space and time. That might sound impossible, but it’s not. It happens whenever you project your soul onto the astral plane. If you have not yet been able to astral project, or if you would like to improve your skills, you must get Astral Voyages by Dr. Bruce Goldberg. This book answers all of your questions about astral projection and gives over sixty-five exercises that are sure to help you expe

Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: dolittle, voyages
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2007-05-05
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 1434615413
ISBN-13: 9781434615411

My name was Tommy Stubbins son of Jacob Stubbins the cobbler of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh; and I was nine and a half years old. At that time Puddleby was only quite a small town. A river ran through the middle of it; and over this river there was a very old stone bridge called Kingsbridge which led you from the market-place on one side to the churchyard on the other. (Excerpt)

Author: Sue Reid
Publisher: Picture Window Books
Keywords: myths, ancient, odysseus, voyages
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-09-15
List price: $23.93
ISBN-10: 1404809058
ISBN-13: 9781404809055

Young readers will love these timeless tales of heroism, gods and monsters. After the Trojan War, Odysseus wants to sail straight home to Ithaca and his wife, Penelope. But the gods are angry with our hero. His fleet will be driven off course, his ships smashed by storms and his men gobbled down by a giant Cyclops. Will he make it home? The humorous cartoon-style illustrations and the narrative approach encourage readers to engage with the characters. ’Ask the storyteller’ boxes give peripheral details about the narrative and the characters involved. The book features an introducti

Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher: Yearling
Keywords: dolittle, doctor, voyages
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1988-06-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440400023
ISBN-13: 9780440400028

Narrated by nine-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, this book chronicles the delightful voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his faithful friends Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey as they survive a perilous shipwreck on Floating Island and other surprises.