travel

Details the events surrounding Ernest Shackleton's expedition across Antarctica and describes the dangers they faced along the way.

Retraces Charles Darwin's expeditions to the Galapagos Islands, offering insights into Darwin's theory of evolution, and includes full-color and black-and-white photographs and line drawings.

The author recalls her fourteen-month experience as an emergency medical responder in Baghdad with the Italian Red Cross, and writes of the death and destruction as well as the efforts of many who attempt to bring peace to a war-torn country.

Thomas Lynch shares the lessons he learned about family, history, and the world while traveling back to his ancestors' home in Ireland.

The author recalls his experience as a shepherd's apprentice in the Austrian Alps in order to learn about anti-Semites in Austria and to understand how shepherd Hans Breuer, who once fought Nazis in Vienna, became a wandering shepherd.

Presents a reprint of the author's 1939 essay originally published in 1968 in "Esquire" magazine that chronicles his poetic observations of his time spent in Brooklyn,New York.

The author describes his travels along the prime meridian in England, discussing scientific landmarks nearby and exploring the meridian's connections to the growth of humankind's knowledge about the cosmos.

Relates the author's experiences hitchhiking throughout the United States and Mexico in the early 1970s in search of a variety of North American birds.

Peter Mathiessen chronicles two voyages to the polar ice cap, discussing how the ice cap holds almost ninety percent of the world's fresh water and describing the wildlife and fish which live off the ice cap.

Chronicles the experiences Charles Darwin had during the years he spent sailing around the world on the HMS Beagle, focusing on how his travels helped him develop his scientific theories.