By Uri Shulevitz

A boy sets out on the high seas, hides from a pirate, finds a treasure map, is frightened by a strange man, and then overcomes his fear so he can sail again. This excellent adventure about the power of the imagination will be enjoyed by readers and sailors...but maybe not by pirates.

By Uri Shulevitz

In the year 1159, more than one hundred years before Marco Polo, Benjamin left his native town of Tudela in northern Spain on a fourteen-year journey through most of the then-known world. He was the greatest medieval Jewish traveler.

Working from the original Hebrew, as well as from other sources on the period, Uri Shulevitz has adapted Benjamin's story for young readers. Shulevitz tells not only of the marvelous places Benjamin visited - Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Persia, and Egypt - but also of the wonderful stories he heard.