travel

A collection of single panel comics that the author/illustrator used to record his daily impressions of places he visited while on a year-long journey around the world following his college graduation. Annotated by the author.

The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.

Recounts the events surrounding the 1853 attempt by America's East Asia Squadron to reopen Japan after its two-and-a-half centuries of isolation, focusing on Commodore Matthew Perry's role in the campaign.

A collection of first-person accounts in which twenty-six Bosnian women share how they are trying to rebuild their society following years of devastating warfare.

Provides an account of ill-fated English explorer Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 expedition that left a six-member scientific team stranded on the South Pole, adapted from the unpublished diaries of the men involved.

Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channel's "Digging for the Truth" offers a behind-the-scenes look at his adventures at some of the world's most remote and challenging archeological sites.

Helen Thayer recounts her story of living a year among the wolves in the Yukon and the Arctic with her husband, Bill, and their part-wolf dog, Charlie, and tells of her experiences as they learned to understand the social structure and leadership roles of the wolves.

Ruth Padel, the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin, recounts her efforts to save the world's tigers from extinction, describing her journeys into the wild searching for wild tigers in their true habitat.

Presents a critical narrative concerning American-born author and literary critic Henry James, his experiences in Paris in 1875, and his association with a select circle of writers.

The author chronicles his journey to Saint Helena, the island upon which Napoleon was imprisoned in the years between his defeat at Waterloo in 1815 until his death in 1821; and shares his thoughts upon the issues of captivity and the passage of time.