Summary: This book "explores" why people have always wanted to search out new places - what inspires people to explore new ideas? Their discoveries continue to revolutionize the way we...
Summary: Adventure! These eight astonishing women travelers have reached distant parts of the globe during the last two hundred years. They include explorers and artists, pilots and yachtswomen. Follow their...
Summary: Puzzles! Strange tapping sounds, mysterious messages, signs and signals! How can you unlock the secret and decipher the message? You need skill, patience, and, sometimes, a stroke of luck,...
Summary: Orphaned at a young age, Jane Eyre knows nothing but coldness and cruelty in her life with her aunt and cousins. Sent to school, Jane grows to be a...
Summary: Orphan Heathcliff loves wealthy but unruly Catherine with all of his heart. Catherine marries her genteel neighbor, and Heathcliff disappears. When he comes back, he wins the estate of...
Summary: When Jim finds a treasure map after the terrible death of an ex-pirate, he, the doctor, and a well-to-do squire mount up a plan to take a ship to...
Summary: Following a terrible storm, Crusoe finds himself stranded alone on a desert island off the coast of South America, all of his companions from his ship dead. Over the...
Summary: "Three hundred," said the big man. It was as if he were bargaining... but no, he couldn't be. You don't buy children. However, that is exactly what he was...
Summary: Mani has never seen a white man before. For him, white is the color death. His grandfather then explains that these men are explorers, traveling across Australia. This story...
