A young adventurer with a history of seeking impossible challenges, Kira Salak became the first person in the world to kayak alone the six hundred miles on the Niger River to Timbuktu-"e;the golden city of the Middle Ages"e; and fabled "e;doorway to the end of the world.
"e;In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all over the world-Kashmir, Palestine, Delhi-trying to live with basic human dignity under circumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty.
While best remembered for her revolutionary work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), renowned feminist, author, and thinker Mary Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime was a remarkable travel narrative, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
In 1832, three years before Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America, the English novelist Frances Trollope released Domestic Manners of the Americans, an eye-opening record of her travels in the young republic.
A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "e;motor-car"e; to explore the cities and countryside of France.
A vivid, varied account of a globally-minded woman's intriguing adventures and evolving worldview, Santha Rama Rau's "e;informal"e; autobiography covers a life defined by almost perpetual motion-from her birth in India to an upbringing in England and South Africa, from her education at Wellesley College in the United States to far-flung travel to China, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, Afghanistan, Kenya, Spain, and beyond.
Four Corners is Kira Salak's riveting account of her epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea-often called the last frontier of adventure travel.
In the summer of 1979, Diane Meyer Lowman, a nineteen-year-old Middlebury College student, embarked on a ten-week working trip aboard a German container ship with a mostly male crew.
ER physician Elizabeth Hillman has been hurt by the men in her life far too oftenwhich is why she spends her free time safely alone, reading the memoir of Giacomo Casanova, history's most famous libertine.
Originally published over one hundred years ago, Roughing It tells the (almost) true story of Mark Twains rollicking adventures across the United States.
In 1832, Washington Irving, Americas first literary superstar, returned to the United States after seventeen years abroad and swiftly set out to explore Pawnee countrythe wild uncharted territory deep in the young nations interior.
Just two years after rowing solo across the North Atlantic at the age of twenty-five, Maud Fontenoy was ready for a new challengecrossing the Pacific Ocean.
Two comedy writers race each other around the world-no planes allowed-in this hilarious true travelogue that "e;reads like a 300-page Simpsons episode"e; (Wired).
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriends hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognize same-sex marriage.
In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent.
In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on Robert Falcon Scotts expedition to Antarctica.
Five years ago, India was an emerging world power being courted by the world's most powerful political and business leaders, an upbeat story of unparalleled economic growth.
In 1949, Mao Zedong announced the birth of the People's Republic of China, a proclamation to the world that, after centuries of war and social conflict, China had emerged as one nation.
The M*A*S*H actor, activist, and author of Just Call Me Mike embarks on a cross-country book tour visiting human rights and social justice organizations.
The M*A*S*H actor, activist, and author of Just Call Me Mike embarks on a cross-country book tour visiting human rights and social justice organizations.
In 1991, Lori Cidylo shocked her Ukrainian Polish-born parents when she told them she was leaving her reporter's job on an upstate New York newspaper to live and work in the rapidly dissolving Soviet Union.
The Camper Book will captivate all those who dream of waving good-bye to the rat race from the window of their own moveable home, be it a camper, RV, travel trailer, camper van, or tiny camper.
