description and travel

Retraces Marco Polo's expedition through China in the thirteenth century and explores the effect it had on European expansion.

Bettina Selby rode her bicycle through Western Europe to Turkey and then into biblical lands.

Visits the little-known regions of Soviet Siberia.

Describes ordinary people in Russia caught up in the changing political and cultural environment there.

Describes the field trip of eleven Cub Scouts from Alaska to Provideniya, a small town in the Soviet Far East.

The author draws upon original sources to explore the travels and adventures of Marco Polo, and examines the controversies that surround his legendary journeys to the Far East.

Documents the expedition of three British women to unexplored areas on the border of Nepal in Tibet in 1955.

An exploration of Angkor, a temple city in Cambodia, presenting its spiritual representations and its highly relevant evocation of the history of empires.