travel

In the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee, portrayed the lives of three sharecropper families in the South during the Depression, documenting the tyranny of the tenant farming system that enslaved some nine million tenants in 1936. Fifty years later, Maharidge and Williamson have revisited, photographed, and interviewed the surviving members and descendants of the families shown in that book.

A scientist credited with discovering more species than Darwin recounts the first major trips of his career, several expeditions to often remote Pacific islands where he found amazing animals, harsh weather, strange local taboos, and dense jungle.

The author explores the history of the Balkan Peninsula on his travels through the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece.

The companion book to a prime-time PBS series airing in fall 2008. Mario Batali and Mark Bittman are single-minded, food-obsessed friends who are constantly on the lookout for the food, wine, and cooking that is unique to Spain--and in this TV series they find it. Actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Claudia Bassols are eager to enjoy all the pleasures the country has to offer. The four of them on the road together make for a fun showcase of the pleasures of Spain, including road trip adventures, and the country's art, history, culture, and music, as it's never been seen before--all in the course of an anything-goes road trip.--From publisher description.

A memoir in which the author describes the places he went, food he ate, and people he met while traveling with his wife and dog aboard an English narrowboat on a nine-month voyage down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

Jennifer Steil details her experiences as an American journalist living in Yemen, after she accepted a short-term opportunity to teach ethical journalism to the staff of the "Yemen Observer.".

The account of a father and son's voyage from New London, Connecticut, around Cape Horn, and back in a 25 foot boat.

Presents the memoirs of novelist, war correspondent, travel writer, and author Martha Gellhorn, as she recalls her life and adventures including her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and coverage of three major wars.

American environmentalist writer Edward Abbey presents essays about his travels to Australia's outback, a Mexican desert island, and several places in the American West, as well as personal memoirs and commentaries on American lifestyles.