travel

Reconstructs the life of Constance of Hauteville--wife of twelfth-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI of Germany and mother of Emperor Frederick II--chronicling, among other topics, her return to Sicily at the age of forty to rule her homeland.

Pilot Peter DeLeo describes his ordeal after his plane crashed in the Sierra Nevadas in late November 1994 and he embarked on a two-week hike through the mountains, with multiple injuries, to find help for his two passengers.

A brief biography on the life and career of Italian explorer Marco Polo.

Ed Stafford-adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River-likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford decides to maroon himself on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. His mission: to survive for sixty days equipped with nothing-no food, water, or even clothing-except the video cameras he would use to document his time. Detailing Stafford's jaw-dropping sojourn on the island of Olourua, Naked and Marooned is a tale of unparalleled adventure and of one man's will to push himself to the outer limits-and survive.

Doug Mack travels to locations described in the 1963 edition of "Europe on Five Dollars a Day," contrasting tourism of then and now.

Recounts the author's time traveling for three years to play unorganized soccer in countries all over the world.

Explorer and conservationist Paul Rosolie recounts his adventures exploring the Mother of God, or, the Madre de Dios, the region of Peru where the Amazon River begins flowing into the lowland Amazon rainforest.

Dunne describes three journeys to Jerusalem: the first, a pilgrimage of the mind; the second, a pilgrimage of the heart; and the third, a pilgrimage of the soul. Writing in an almost musical voice, he comes back over and over to themes developed in earlier chapters to orchestrate a most insightful story that ends with a discovery of the home of "the human spirit in a life larger than life." As with most of his books, the central issues are front and center: "Where do you come from?" and "Where are you going?" And he asks this of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in this city that is so sacred to these religions.

From conventions to topless bars to a UFO belt in the Texas panhandle, the author paints an audacious and frightening vision of a nation that has forgotten its dreams.

Presents a traveler's-eye view of the legacy of Abraham Lincoln throughout the U.S., visiting memorabilia collectors, attending a leadership conference teaching Lincoln's "management style," journeying on a three-state driving tour, and exploring other ways in which the president is remembered.