travel

Explores the world of Lady, the last lioness of the Liuwa Plains in western Zambia. Discusses the changes made to the landscape by humans and the struggle to find balance in the altered environment. Includes a glossary and index.

Author David Mura discusses the experiences he had when he returned to Japan to try and rediscover his family's roots and his own identity.

"The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind"--.

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.

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.

"Readers decide if they would sail with Christopher Columbus, and then find out what really happened"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the life of Nellie Bly, a female journalist who, in 1889, travelled the world in less than eighty days.

"Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land... Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed-and what hasn't. Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places few travelers ever get to at all, Bryson rediscovers the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly singular country that he both celebrates and, when called for, twits."--Amazon.

Chronicles the events of Sir Ernest Shckleton's 1914 expedition aboard the "Endurance" in a race to be the first to cross Antarctica from coast to coast.

Journalist Jay Bahadur presents a narrative expos?e on Somali pirates, discussing the history of Somalia, and describing who the pirates are, where and how they live, their treatment of hostages, how they spend the ransom money they collect, and the response of the United Nations and other international bodies to the rise in piracy in the twenty-first century.