travel

Presents selections from Thoreau's journals that describe the details and daily changes in the environment of his native Concord over a period of almost forty-five years.

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto was collecting, what felt like to her, rehearsed interviews from atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima until the September 11th attacks, which made the interviewees open up more, but also made the author reflect on her own life.

The story of William Gawronski from New York who stowed away on a 1928 expedition to Antarctica and became an international celebrity.

Captain William Bligh, captain of The Bounty, offers his own version of the mutiny which occured aboard the ship in 1787.

Recounts the travels that the author took with her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan, in which she describes the people and scenery of the Middle East, and gives a description of the dig site.

"It's 1835. Cabin boy Simon Covington is on the voyage of a lifetime to the Galapagos Islands with the world-famous scientist, Charles Darwin. But when Simon falls overboard during a huge storm, he washes up on an unexplored island. Stranded there, he makes a discovery that could change the world. Now it's not just his own survival at stake--the future of an undiscovered species is in his hands. But perhaps there's one person who could help... Based on the real events of Charles Darwin's legendary voyage, this is a novel that melds science with wonder"--From the publisher's web site.

The author shares his journey of recovery from a fire accident to his 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica.

Documents the two months Canadian animator Guy Delisle spent overseeing cartoon production in North Korea, where he records everything form the statues and portraits of dictators Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il to the ordinary citizens of the country.

"A globe-trotting romp through the world of ultra-competitive chess, in which the author submits himself to humiliating defeats and the tutelage of ornery mentors in his search for glory--a celebration of the purity, violence, and beauty of the game"--.

The author shares his journey of recovery from a fire accident to his 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica.