description and travel

Retraces Charles Darwin's expeditions to the Galapagos Islands, offering insights into Darwin's theory of evolution, and includes full-color and black-and-white photographs and line drawings.

Describes the history of mountaineering in the Himalayan Mountains, and details the mountaineering expeditions led by Martin Conway, Fanny Bullock Workman, George Mallory, Charlie Houston, Ang Tharkay, and others.

A collection of essays in which Bill Roorback explores his own link with nature and his home in Farmington, Maine.

The author recalls her fourteen-month experience as an emergency medical responder in Baghdad with the Italian Red Cross, and writes of the death and destruction as well as the efforts of many who attempt to bring peace to a war-torn country.

Thomas Lynch shares the lessons he learned about family, history, and the world while traveling back to his ancestors' home in Ireland.

The author recalls his experience as a shepherd's apprentice in the Austrian Alps in order to learn about anti-Semites in Austria and to understand how shepherd Hans Breuer, who once fought Nazis in Vienna, became a wandering shepherd.

Presents a reprint of the author's 1939 essay originally published in 1968 in "Esquire" magazine that chronicles his poetic observations of his time spent in Brooklyn,New York.

The author describes his travels along the prime meridian in England, discussing scientific landmarks nearby and exploring the meridian's connections to the growth of humankind's knowledge about the cosmos.

Relates the author's experiences hitchhiking throughout the United States and Mexico in the early 1970s in search of a variety of North American birds.

Presents a photographic overview of the island nation of Cuba, describing its people, culture, and history in a collection of full-color photos.