travel

Biologist Peter Campbell, attempting to revitalize his life and marriage, decides to bring his wife and young daughter along when he goes to conduct research in the remote village of Albini in Papua New Guinea, but when the child becomes immersed in the culture of the natives, the ties that bind the family begin to come undone.

A young Japanese seaman, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the way of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia.

Taylor Greer hits the road wanting only to get as far away from Kentucky as possible, ending up in Arizona with a 3-year-old Cherokee girl she has inherited from a woman in a bar.

Five Japanese tourists travel to the Ganges River in India to find peace and answers to their personal problems.

Sophie Caco, a child who was born of rape, leaves Haiti at the age of twelve to join her mother in New York City, where they both battle with the results of sexual abuse.

A dying monkey strikes a bargain with Death to grant him more time if he spends two hours a day telling stories which must hold the listeners' interest.

Text is based directly on the author's manuscript restoring the "raftsmen's passage" episode and all of the first edition illustrations.