travel

Follows the excitement as Christopher Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, shows Europe its first look at the New World.

Offers insight into the camping trip that President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir took to the redwoods of Yosemite in 1903, during which the two men had experiences and conversations that eventually contributed to the establishment of national parks in the United States.

Author Claire Nivola shares details of her experiences spending summers in Orani, the village in which her father grew up, where she was able to enjoy simple pleasures of daily life and connect with her extended family.

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.

What begins as a dream adventure, quickly turns into a nightmare as four travelers who met in Bolivia set off to explore the heart of the Amazon rain forest. After weeks of lost wandering, the four backpackers split up into pairs. In the end only one makes it out alive.

Cheryl Strayed chronicles her 1100-mile solo journey along the Pacific Crest Trail, during which she endured intense heat, record snowfalls, and all manner of dangerous wildlife. Strayed discusses how the journey transformed her and allowed her to overcome hardship plaguing her life.

A collection of thirty-one anecdotes in which author Naomi Shihab Nye describes her travels and the conversations she has had while riding in cars.

An introduction to the life of sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who found a passage for ships to sail west from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

An introduction to the life of fifteenth-century Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who strengthened his nation's power by expanding trade routes to India.

Historian Scott Nelson introduces children to the life of the real John Henry, drawing on songs, poems, and stories to describe the man behind the legendary African-American hero.