travel

Author recounts his travels and studies with some of the most powerful Amazonian shamans in his search for new medicinal plants.

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows 3,000 miles, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. In this surprising book, radio journalist Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border with Kazakhstan. Gifford reveals the rich mosaic of modern Chinese life in all its contradictions, as he poses the crucial questions that all of us are asking about China: Will it really be the next global superpower? Is it as solid and as powerful as it looks from the outside? And who are the ordinary Chinese people, to whom the 21st century is supposed to belong? --From publisher description.

Twain returns to Europe, joined by characters based on his friends, on an eccentric journey through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.

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

Presents selections from the journals of Captain James Cook in which he provides a personal account of his three exploratory voyages to New Zealand, Australia, and islands of the Pacific in 1768, 1772, and 1776. Includes maps, a glossary, and indexes of people and places.

An account of the author's 10,000-mile journey across China.

A young girl visits the Galapagos Islands where her father escaped to from Nazi Germany.

Presents a collection of essays by writer Hunter S. Thompson that outlines the misdeeds and corruption he believes is in the White House, as well as lampooning events and social phenomena in society.

The author describes her journey to Central America where she sought to learn about the ancient Mayan prediction that 2012 will mark the end of the world as we know it.

Mark Stephen Meadows details his time motorcycling in Sri Lanka and through interviews with terrorists, generals, and heroin dealers, explores the civil wars that tear at the country, while also sharing some of the customs of the area, such as elephant trapping and rope weaving.