voyages and travels

Describes Lady Borton's travels through Vietnam during the last eight years, with special emphasis on the lives of the women she has met.

The author relates her visit to Japan where she interviewed adults and children and recorded their feelings about life in a country experiencing drastic changes in lifestyle.

A biography of Captain James Cook, the eighteenth-century British sailor whose explorations included a three-year journey throughout the Pacific and a return voyage in search of the Southern Continent, and led to his violent death.

"Elisabeth Sifton books." Presents the author's portrait of the human facts of his Nicaraguan experience during three weeks of July, 1986.

An account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and Twain's experiences as a pilot.

Examines the journey of modern-day explorer Will Steger, who traveled with dogs to the North Pole in 1986 and the South Pole in 1989.

Account of the author's travels through West Africa, Egypt and Iran, Central Asia, India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia, areas of the world that are being torn apart by cultural rivalries and the re-emergence of ethnic divisiveness.

An account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and Twain's experiences as a pilot.

The story of Yossi's triumph over the most adverse and frightening circumstances when he ends up alone, except for lora snakes, fire ants, termites, jaguars, and other unwelcoming neighbors, in a jungle in Bolivia.

A graphic novel in which K. Thor Jensen recounts his cross-country journey to find himself, describing the unique people he met along the way and the surprising truths he learned about himself.