travel

Journalist William Finnegan shares stories about his life as a surfer, a sport which has been an obsession of his since childhood and has taken him around the world.

Relates the story of Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl's efforts to prove that Polynesians were of Incan descent by building and successfully sailing from Peru to French Polynesia a raft he made by using materials and processes available to the ancient Incas.

Graham Greene recounts his journey from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa, describing the people and wildlife he encountered along the way and his impressions of the wild African region.

Memoir of Miles Morland, covering his early life growing up in India, Tehran, Baghdad, and having adventures around the world. When he grew up he tried to make money at a telephone job on Wall Street, but after years of frustration he bought a motorbike, quit his job, and set out to continue his adventures.

A granddaughter travels to Turkey and Syria in order to find out the story of her grandfather's escape from genocide in Armenia during World War I.

"A memoir by a young woman who travels to France to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious and irrevocable estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of humorous anecdotes from Iranian American Firoozeh Dumas. Comments on themes of family, community, and tradition as she tries to reconcile her Iranian customs and Western ideals.