category: voyages around the world

The Washing Machine Man's Travels: A Round-the-world Adventure Travelogue

... washing machines once again . The subject of my journey rarely comes up but when it does people say , " Wow , that sounds great ! I've always wanted to travel . Wish I could do that . " So I tell them , " The world is out there . All ...

Our Journey Around the World: An Illustrated Record of a Year's Travel of Forty Thousand Miles Through India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, Spain, Etc

... day . Eighty - five degrees in the morning , and eighty - seven degrees at noon , and eighty - five degrees again at sunset , and eighty - four degrees at midnight , when continued day after day , are calculated to reduce the pity one ...

Around the World with a Business Man

... Golden Temple — 27 . Priests - 22 . Sarnath - 21 . Benedictines - II , 143 ... Silence - 90 . Bones - III , 149 ; IV , 154 , 155 . Bonheur , Rosa - III ... Robert - II , 72 ; III , 115 . Bruce , Robert — II , 316 ; III , 15 , 16 . Bruges ...

The Life of Ferdinand Magellan, and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe: 1480-1521

... flag - ship . Vol . i . p . 235 . 2 The former was discovered on the outward voyage , the latter on their return home in 1502 . 3 This work of Duarte Barbosa was first published , in an abbreviated form , by Ramusio in his Navigationi ...

A Girdle Round the Earth: Home Letters from Foreign Lands

... story , so that what you term the first story is no story at all , and hence the Vienna house really has five stories . As most of these are liberally spaced between joints , they seem quite high enough ; and with the immense amount of ...

Teresina peregrina; or, Fifty thousand miles of travel round the world

... back page of this Catalogue . BROWNE'S ( Professor ) HISTORY OF ROMAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE . By R. W. BROWNE , M.A. , Ph . D. , Prebendary of St. Paul's , and Professor of Classical Literature in King's College , London . 8vo . 12 ...

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...

... INDEX . 281 . 685 497 . Boroa Indians , light - coloured , origin , 402 ... hunting , Indian attack in 1783 , 313 , 314 . ― American schooner , hired to ... board Adeona , cannibalism , hostilities , 189 -'Niqueaccas , ' quickness ...

Theory of the Winds: Read Before the American Scientific Association at Providence, August 20th, 1855. Accompanied by a Map of the World, Showing the Extent and Direction of the Winds. To which is Added, Sailing Directions for a Voyage Around the World, by the Same Author

... Dolphin Shoal was 13 feet 6 inches . It may be passed on either side ; if to the east- ward , the reef ought to be ... shoals lying to the north of One Tree Hill , on which there is not over 31 fathoms water : the depth in the bay varies ...

Around the World in 80 Days

This book is the story of, and the story behind, the making of the series - a no-holds-barred account of a journey that turned into a Great Twentieth Century Adventure.

All the Voyages Round the World: From the First by Magellan, in 1520, to that of Freycinet, in 1820

... mistaked After the corpse is washed , it is laid upon a platform , both being covered over with a piece of entire new stuff , and the next day the family of the deceased gives a grand feast , inviting their best friends and relations ...

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