travel

An illustrated travelogue of Paris as seen by Burton Holmes, a man who traveled the world between 1898 and the 1950s, and returned to America where he reported on his journeys through a series of lectures.

The author describes his journey through places mentioned in the Old Testament.

An account of Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the world in the early 1500s.

Presents the true story of John Muir's voyage to Alaska based upon his own writings and journals and tells of how he set off to explore a glacier one day with Stickeen, the dog of his friend.

Recounts the race between newspaper reporters Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, to travel around the world in eighty days or less on their own in 1889.

Tells the story of Helga Estby, a Norwegian immigrant to the U.S. who, in 1896, set off on foot from Spokane, Washington, with her teenage daughter Clara, in answer to a wager from a mysterious sponsor who offered ten thousand dollars to a woman who could walk across America.

A musician and naturalist describes how the noise of humans is drowning out the sounds of nature and paints a picture of the relationship and connection between natural sounds and music that is becoming increasingly difficult to hear.

American explorer and adventure-seeker John Goddard describes twenty-four of his most treacherous experiences from boyhood to adulthood in such far-flung lands as Egypt, Kenya, the Galapagos Islands, and the U.S.