europe

In this feel-good coming-of-age memoir, the best-selling author and Caldecott Medalist shares his life-changing middle school trip to Europe during which he experiences a series of firsts, including first love.

"Through the author's travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word "hotel," and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate, inhabited place-the "vastest real estate we know," with a "stunningly short" lease"--.

Doug Mack travels to locations described in the 1963 edition of "Europe on Five Dollars a Day," contrasting tourism of then and now.

Twain returns to Europe, joined by characters based on his friends, on an eccentric journey through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.

A compilation of travel writings by president and statesman Thomas Jefferson that describes his journeys throughout the eastern United States and Europe, drawing on journals, personal correspondence, and other writings.

The author presents a humorous account of his travels in Europe.