Profiles the quarterback who sent the Indianapolis Colts to the Super Bowl in 2007, and describes the eventful game between the Colts and the Chicago Bears.

Text and illustrations look at the life of thirteenth-century Venetian merchant and explorer Marco Polo.

Examines the development and launch of the first satellites into outer space by the Soviet Union and the United States.

Presents a comprehensive study of sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his quest to find the Spice Islands of the Far East and to circumnavigate the globe.

"Like many artists before her, Zora Neale Hurston received virtually no recognition for her work until after her death. Hurston began her career as an anthropologist, observing and documenting the tension of race relations in the American South. She strove to expose the horrific practice of "paramour rights," wherein white men sexually exploited black women in their employment. But this work and her later fiction (including the now famous Their Eyes...

Presents a brief biography of Sir Francis Drake, the British explorer who traveled around the globe from 1577 to 1580, and includes information on his career as the greatest seaman of the Elizabethan Age.