Nile: Passage to Egypt Nile: Passage to Egypt Nile: Passage to Egypt is a 1995 educational video game by the Discovery Channel. The game was part of a "co-promotional strategy" which involved a CD-ROM and television program of the same name being released concurrently. The game's released was tentatively scheduled for release in Spring of 1995. Players undertake an interactive journey down the Nile River through modern and ancient Egypt on an Egyptian sailing boat called a felucca. Players explore local culture and interact with customers via virtual tours. The player navigates through a series of 360 degree screens, or can also choose new
The Volunteer (canal boat) what travel was like in the year 1848. Once the boat reaches the Little Vermilion River aqueduct, the mules are detached and the boat reverses using its twin 4-horsepower electric motors. The Volunteer (canal boat) The Volunteer is a 76-foot replica of a 19th-century canal boat which is owned and operated by the Canal Corridor Association. "The Volunteer" operates on a restored section of the Illinois and Michigan Canal at LaSalle, Illinois, US. The boat was built in Albany, New York, by Scarano Boat Builders at a cost of $993,840. "The Volunteer" was designed to resemble an original canal boat;