travel

In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the Holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navigate the increasingly bitter crossroads between memory and truth.

In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, Chinas has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone.--from publisher description.

This is a tale of three inexperienced hikers who embark on a 15-day vacation in a remote wilderness. At the height of an extreme drought, with packs almost too heavy to carry, and lacking in experience and conditioning, one of the group gets separated and lost.

An account of the support group that was dispatched to assist Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 crossing of the Antarctic describes how the Ross Sea ship was lost in a gale, stranding ten men without supplies or a hope of resuce.

Tells the story of the shipwreck of the Endurance in a sea of ice en route to Antarctica, and the amazing survival of all 28 members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Presents a portrait of Yemen, based upon the author's thirteen years exploring the landscape and people of the Arab country.

Doris "Granny D" Haddock provides an account of her 3,200 mile hike from Los Angeles to the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., a trek she undertook at the age of eighty-nine to draw attention to the need for national campaign finance reform; and shares stories from throughout her life as an activist.

The author describes his book tour through the United States, as he travels alone across the country driving a Prius he nicknamed "Mule.".