Eddie is a hotheaded young man struggling with the monotonous and meaningless drudgery of work in the corporate world. So, finally, he decides to do something about it, Eddie quits his job and moves to Rio de Janeiro. The wonders of this beautiful country enrich his life, as does a lovely young woman whom he happens to meet under the most amazing of circumstances. Their romance flourishes and, before he knows it, Eddie has a new bride and a young...

Encourages readers to learn about world history from the Stone Age to the pirates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by searching for anachronisms in each historical scene.

Purports to be the journal of Zoticus de Lesseps, written on an ill-fated 1863 voyage accompanying Captain Nemo to explore the mysteries of the deep sea.