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One more mission

return to Vietnam
1993
The story of Oliver North, once a young lieutenant in the United States Army in Vietnam, who returns to the country 25 years later to try and make sense of a war that divided the nation and alienated the veteran.

Season of blood

a Rwandan journey
1996
Story of the author's journey into Rwanda in 1994 as part of a BBC team recording a documentary on the country's genocidal war, recalling the horrors of the conflict that resulted in the murder of up to one million Tutsis by the Hutus in only one hundred days.

No mercy

a journey to the heart of the Congo
1997
The author tells the story of his experiences in the People's Republic of the Congo, where he went, accompanied by friend and animal behaviorist Lary Shaffer, to search for a dinosaur rumored to be living in a remote lake.

Ferdinand Magellan

2001
Tells the story of fifteenth-century explorer Ferdinand Magellan who became famous for being the first to imagine sailing west from Spain around the globe to reach the East Indies, and whose ship succeeded in completing the journey, even though he died in the Philippines.

Ellie's long walk

the true story of two friends on the Appalachian Trail
2012
Tells the story of the author and her dog Ellie as they hiked from Maine to Georgia on the Appalachian Trail from August 24, 2008 to March 10, 2009.

Ferdinand Magellan

2004
Presents a brief biography of sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, and describes some of the lands, people, plants, and animals he discovered during his voyage around the globe.

In search of hope

the global diaries of Mariane Pearl
2008

The ride of our lives

roadside lessons of an American family
2006
Mike Leonard shares the life lessons he learned from his parents during their roadtrip across the United States in a rented RV.

Braving home

dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and other extreme locales
2003
Presents a look at the lives and homes of five people who live in some of the most dangerous places in the world.

Foreign babes in Beijing

Behind the scenes of a new China
2005
Twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin moves to Beijing to work for an American PR firm, and while she is there, she is swept into the glamorous world of Chinese television.

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