James Kincaid, a fictional ship's assistant to Charles Darwin, maintains a diary which tells of the journey of one of the world's most groundbreaking scientific studies aboard the HMS Beagle.

Follows the adventures of the thirteenth-century Venetian merchant who wrote a famous account of his travels in Asia and his life at the court of Kublai Khan.

Briefly introduces activities popular in the past, such as quilting and candlemaking, in a text that incorporates phonics instruction and rebuses.

Describes eighty different modes of transportation, from horse-drawn chariots and steam locomotives to tandem bicycles, double-decker buses, snowmobiles, and space shuttles.

An anecdotal account of some of the adventurous activities of Molly Brown, with an emphasis on her survival of the sinking of the Titanic.

"The true story of a garbage barge that didn't have a place to dock-- and was one of the events that led to the recycling movement."--Provided by publisher. Stinky. Smelly. And no one wanted it. One sunny afternoon in 1987, a garbage barge named the Mobro 4000 left a New York port to find a place to dump its icky contents. But from North Carolina to Alabama to Mississippi to Louisiana, the barge was turned away. And day to day it only got smellier....

Chronicles the travels of Marco Polo and the exotic animals that he saw along the way.