travel

A biography of United States President Barack Obama and his parents, discussing his early childhood, relationship with his family, and his travels to Africa to meet the Kenyan members of his family.

The author uncovers the hidden history of Niagara Falls, describing how, over the years, water has been diverted, landscape altered, and the riverbed reshaped.

Presents an autobiographical account, through drawings, photos, and journal entries, of the author's trip with her mother to Paris, where she visited the Eiffel Tower, Oscar Wilde's grave, and a variety of caf?s while drinking delicious French milk.

Journalist Carl Hoffman recounts his journey around the world traveling on the most dangerous and perilous means of transport, including accident-prone airlines, crowded ferries, slow buses, and deadly trains, and shares what he learned about how the rest of the world travels.

Annie Griffiths Belt, one of the National Geographic Society's first female photographers, presents approximately one hundred photos from her travels and describes the experience of working throughout the world with her two young children in tow.

National Public Radio correspondent Eric Weiner, a "self-described mope," recounts his travels to ten countries, including India, Bhutan, and Iceland, in search of happiness, describing what he actually found there.

John Pollack presents an account of his experiences building a boat out of 165,321 wine corks, and sailing it down the Douro River in Portugal.

Chronicles the experiences of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Alice Steinback, as she made the decision to quit her job as a reporter after twenty years and embarked upon a new career to combine her three greatest passions of learning, traveling, and writing.

Artist Wolf Kahn recounts many of his journeys throughout the United States, with paintings and pastels he made along the way helping to illustrate his stories.

Tom Hart Dyke chronicles the experiences he had while traveling through the dangerous Darien Gap in the Pan-American Highway, where he was kidnapped and held at gunpoint while on a journey to find a rare species of orchid.