description and travel

Join nine-year-old Miguel on his adventure across the United States. Explores New York State, including New York City, Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, Niagara Falls, the Catskill Mountains, and the Erie Canal.

Takes viewers on a trip to Spain with highlights of old and new sights and sounds from a fiesta in Seville to the sounds of traffic on a busy street in Madrid. Visits both cities and small towns to capture the beauty and passion of everyday life in this country.

Provides an exploration of Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica, discussing their climates, wildlife, natural landmarks, industries, sports and more, using maps.

Profusely illustrated text describes one hundred of the mountains, canyons, lakes, rivers, caves, and prairies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Describes the some of the cities, states, and regions of the U.S.A. from the viewpoint of a girl named Izzy and her friend who travel across the country.

Covering 20,000 miles of U.S. roads, Dale Peterson drove with his kids, Britt and Bayne, from Start, Louisiana, to Deadhorse, Alaska, in search of small-town America in the "garage sale of the open highway." Along the way they explored open spaces, wild places, and country back roads and met people who weren't afraid to talk to one another. Collected here are the landscapes, landmarks, faces, thoughts, and conversations of a sentimental, idiosyncratic, and often hilarious American odyssey. Storyville, USA is a long winding trip into the back roads of the country and a longer one into the hinterland of our own hearts.

Anna sends postcards to her family and friends and describes the places she visits while on vacation in New York City. Presented in English and Spanish.

Provides Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck's report on the realities of life for ordinary Russian people in the wake of World War II, based on his forty-day tour of the country in 1947 with photographer Robert Capa.

James Carroll, a former Catholic priest, chronicles the history of Jerusalem from antiquity to the early twenty-first century, describing the conflicts between Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and discussing the Israeli-Palestinian wars.