"An oil-rich nation in North Africa, Libya has seen a great deal of turmoil in recent years, with civil war continuing to affect the country today. Readers will explore Libyas history and find out what events have led its current situation. They will also find out what it is like to live in Libya today, from which kinds of jobs are common to what people eat and where they live. Additionally, the book offers a close look at Libyas rugged landscapes,...

Introduces the Philippines, describing its geography and climate, industries, history, resources and wildlife, culture, politics, and sports.

Letters and journal entries from a visit to Antartica, the windiest, coldest, most forbidding region on earth.

A factual biography of the traveler Marco Polo within a fictional storyline involving local merchants in a busy street market.

A biography of the thirteenth-century Venetian explorer whose book about his travels across Asia and work for Kubla Khan helped to launch the Age of Exploration.

"What would it be like to live in El Salvador? How is El Salvador's culture unique? Explore the sights, traditions, and daily lives of El Salvadorians!"--

A biography of Christopher Columbus with special emphasis on some of the difficulties that Columbus faced on his voyage to the New World and what he found at the journey's end.

Discusses the life of the Venetian explorer and the book based on his thirteenth-century travels along the Silk Road to the court of Kublai Khan in China.

In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home, high in the Himalayan mountains.

Retraces the Lewis and Clark journey and blends their observations of previously unknown animals with modern information about those same animals.