Biographies of five men who risked their lives on journeys that fire the imagination. Reads like fiction!
Leif Eriksson and the Vikings
Erik the Red and his son Leif brave raging seas in open boats.
Marco Polo
He left Venice on a long trip but never guessed it would last 24 years.
Vasco de Gama
His amazing feats of navigation impress seagoing men to this very day.
Magellan
The ship - alas! not the man - was the first to circumnavigate the globe, and what a story it makes!
Captain Cook
Not one, not two, but three voyages into the great unknown bring valuable new lands into England's domain.
2nd Grade Readability
Age Group: 9 -16+