Lyons Regional Library

In 1832, Washington Irving, America’s first literary superstar, returned to the United States after seventeen years abroad and swiftly set out to explore Pawnee country—the wild uncharted territory deep in the young nation’s interior. It was a part of the country few white men had set foot in and even fewer had written about it—and certainly none as famous as Irving. Owing to a chance encounter on a steamboat with the newly appointed Indian...

Benjamin blows up a balloon and begins a travel adventure that causes him a certain amount of worry.

A wordless story in which a bumblebee and a bird embark on a travel adventure.

"Summer's Portal is the first of a five-part time-travel adventure beginning in the Paris of 1920. In our present, Chloe Alexandra Steffington's enviable existence comes to an end with the disappearance of her archeologist parents. Increasingly suspicious that all is not as it seems, she discovers an old document leading her to reluctantly believe her parents are time-travelers. The sudden appearance of Dr. David Stewart leads to a grand adventure...

After getting a devastating cancer diagnosis, Alex Martinez embarks on an eye-opening travel adventure with unexpected companion David, who thinks he's finally found a woman after his own heart.

An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, the Horse Boy follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in an attempt to find healing for him. When two-year-old Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson, a writer and former horse trainer, and his wife Kristin Neff, a psychology professor, sought the best possible medical care, but traditional therapies had little effect. Then they discovered...

Jason Silva traces the innovations that made the world modern. ORIGINS celebrates the story of how man became modern, in a time-travel adventure delving deep into history to find the pivotal 'origin' moments that fueled our evolutionary ascension. World-class future thinker Jason Silva guides us through the exploration of these key developments, such as fire, medicine, war, money and communication, that fundamentally and irrevocably shaped our modern...

Far more complete than competing narratives of Antarctic exploration, this travel adventure documents dozens of voyages, from the earliest days of long-distance sea travel through the rapacious exploitation of seal and whale in the 19th century to the 20th-century expeditions racing to the South Pole. 25 photos. Surveys four centuries and 40 expeditions to Antarctica, recounting the catastrophes and wonders encountered by explorers from Magellan in...

A glitchy time machine strands a bumbling janitor and a brilliant scientist in the distant past, and they must find their way home before they're attacked by angry cavemen or eaten alive by a saber-toothed tiger.