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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.