travel

Provides Arctic explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen's account of his experiences in 1910 searching for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, telling of the many difficulties he and Iver Iversen, a mechanic who joined him in Iceland, encountered, including frostbite, storms, starvation, and others.

Explains the history of Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.

Looks at the sixty year history of international soccer, and shares stories from soccer legend Pel?, and his insights on the game and how it can encourage change on a global level.

Historical photographs and text help chronicle the 1903 cross-country drive of Vermont doctor Horatio Nelson Jackson and his friend Sewall Crocker--the first automobile trip ever made across the U.S.--in a vehicle without a roof, windshield, or speeds higher than thirty miles an hour, without the aid of paved roads or streetlights.

The author retraces the legendary 1953 journey around North America of naturalists Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, and describes how the continent's natural landscape has changed over the past fifty years.

Bryson, an Iowan transplanted to England, returns to search for the perfect American small town.

Chronicles the life and career of Marco Polo, who had traveled to China and became an ambassador and governor.

What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy?.

Kenan Trebin?evi?, a survivor of the Bosnian War, returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family and recounts how he survived the ethnic cleansing campaign that swept the former Yugoslavia in 1992.