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Zheng He

China's greatest explorer, mariner, and navigator
2017
Chronicles the life a maritime career of Zheng He, who, with his fleet of ships from China, was able to voyage as far west as the Middle East and Africa during the fifteenth century.

Ibn Battuta

the medieval world's greatest traveler throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe
2017
Chronicles the life and career of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century Moroccan adventurer and religious scholar who traveled extensively along the Silk Road.

The voyages of Christopher Columbus

2011
Four times Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Along the way, he lived through storms and shipwrecks. He visited many islands and met native peoples. He started colonies for Spain. Once he was sent home in chains. Columbus always believed he had reached the East, or Asia. One of the most famous explorers of all times never knew where he had been!.

The Long goodbye

Khe Sanh revisited
2016
In the closing hours of the defense of Khe Sanh Combat Base, the longest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War, Tom Mahoney inexplicably walked away from his platoon, unarmed, and was shot to death by enemy soldiers hiding nearby. His fellow Marines made several desperate attempts to recover their well-liked comrade, but were finally forced to leave him behind--though never forgotten. Author Michael Archer (a high school friend who joined the Marines together with Tom) chronicles his exhaustive search for answers to his friend's mysterious stroll into oblivion. This quest eventually leads to an improbable series of connections: from Tom's childhood friends, to fellow Marines, past the frustration of numerous ineffective, often inept, attempts by the U.S. government to locate his remains and eventually back to that infamous battleground and the last remaining eyewitness to Tom Mahoney's death--one of those who killed him.

Bad news

last journalists in a dictatorship
2016
The story of Anjan Sundaram's time running a journalist's training program out of Kigali, the capital city of one of Africa's most densely populated countries, Rwanda. President Kagame's regime, which seized power after the genocide that ravaged its population in 1994, is often held up as a beacon for progress and modernity in Central Africa and is the recipient of billions of dollars each year in aid from Western governments and international organizations. Lurking underneath this shining vision of a modern, orderly state, however, is the powerful climate of fear springing from the government's brutal treatment of any voice of dissent.

South

the illustrated story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton announced a new adventure---an ambitious overland trek from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans via the South Pole. The trip became an incredible account of decisive leadership in the face of unbelievable adversity. Shackleton's original words are illustrated with a wide selection of photographs taken by Frank Hurley, who acceompanied Shackleton, and paintings by another expedition member, George Marston.

Tent life in Siberia

an incredible account of adventure, travel, and survival
In the 1860's the Russian-American Telegraph Co. set out to connect the United States and Europe using lines running through the Bering Strait and Siberia. The expedition failed. But it marked one of the first explorations of the vast Siberian wilderness.

Wild by nature

from Siberia to Australia, three years alone in the wilderness on foot
National Geographic Explorer Sarah Marquis hiked a ten-thousand-mile solo journey across the remote Gobi desert from Siberia to Thailand, and then was transported by boat to complete the hike at her favorite tree in Australia. She managed to survive the Mafia, drug dealers, thieves on horseback, subzero and scorching temperatures, life-threatening wildlife, dengue fever, tropic ringworm, dehydration and a life-threatening abscess.

The voyage of Mae Jemison

1999
Describes astronaut Mae Jemison's voyage to space, including training, taking off, landing, and eating and walking in a spaceship.

River town

two years on the Yangtze
2002
Peace Corps volunteer Peter Hessler recounts the experiences he had while spending two years in the Chinese city of Fuling.

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