Other books suggested as preparatory reading by tour organisers include Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, described as "a laugh out loud account of a man-powered voyage along the river Thames".
They are heading to Antarctica on a female-powered voyage: 87 women will take to the Southern Ocean this December for a trip they're calling "Homeward Bound". It's part climate change summit, part leadership seminar, a trip focused on bringing women in science together at the bottom of the earth.
Sengupta, S., Ibele, M. E. & Sen, A. Fantastic voyage: designing self-powered nanorobots.
In 1964 it joined the aircraft carrier Enterprise and a nuclear-powered frigate on a round-the-world voyage to demonstrate the capabilities of an all-nuclear-powered battle group.
The Suntory Mermaid II successfully completed late Friday night a 4,350 mile trip from Honolulu, Hawaii, to the Kii Channel off the east coast of Japan, marking the longest known voyage by a wave-powered boat.
Darjeelin, a French startup that launched in 2013 with what it calls a human-powered flight search engine, has been acquired by Voyage Privé Group-owned L'Officiel des Vacances, a site that offers travel deals from around the web.
This was the first time anything other than a canoe or other oar-powered vessel had sailed into Lake Huron, and La Salle's voyage was thus germinal in the development of commercial shipping on the Great Lakes.
His latest voyage is a world first for a solar-powered boat, but Mr D'Aboville is already familiar with breaking records.
The voyage marks the first solo transatlantic crossing in a solar-powered airplane, and is one of the most difficult legs in Solar Impulse 2's journey around the world.
Codfish" which was a monologue involving the final address by the captain to the crew of a nuclear-powered submarine after completing a two-year-long, around-the-world underwater voyage.
