Between 334 and 324 B.C. the Macedonian army, led by Alexander the Great, marched relentlessly across Asia. An event of bravery and cruelty, endurance and greed, Alexander's expedition was a turning point in human history. His conquest opened up contacts between Europe and Asia, unleashing astonishing historical energies that continue to affect ...
In 1963 Colin Fletcher became the first man to walk the length of Grand canyon, below the Rim. It began with a dream, when he and a friend detoured from a cross-country trip to take a hurried look at the great natural wonder. Standing on the Rim, surrounded by the profound and almost mystical silence, Fletcher knew that something had happened to ...
From America's favorite traveler, "Along the Edge of America" recounts the sights, sounds, and people of America's Gulf Coast. The author explores the Florida Everglades, genteel southern homesteads, Cajun marshlands, and the Texas coastal cattle country. It's a riveting adventure by the author of "A Walk Across America". Photos.
The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting"--the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey ...
He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal ...
Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perrys essays draw on his rural roots and footloose lifestyle in a perspective that merges the local with the global.
In this memoir, a young Canadian woman decides to take her first trip outside of North America before she is to be married. After accepting a teaching post in Bhutan, a tiny kingdom in the Himalayas bordering China and India, she eventually breaks off her engagement and falls in love with another man.
This unique travelogue offers the breathtaking account of the authors' three-month motorcycle journey across two continents, that took them from the northernmost tip of Scotland, across Europe, and down through Africa ending in Cape Town.
From the #1 travel magazine in the country comes a collection of travel tales from some of todays finest writers: Russell Banks writes on the Everglades, Francine Prose explores the secrets of Prague, Robert Hughes conducts a tour of Italy, and more.
While the U.S. capital may not have the glamorous image of cities such as Paris, London, or Rome, Buckley insists that there is, nonetheless, much that lies beneath the surface. The author takes the reader on walks through Arlington Cemetery, The Mall, and the old social haunts of Georgetown, reflecting on the local history and notoriety that make ...
In this combination travelogue and natural history, a research scientist chronicles his trip to New Guinea where, searching for new species, he gets to know the land and the people.
Winner of the Lowell Thomas Best Travel Book Award, this updated, newly designed collection of Thailand travel stories makes you fall in love with this fabulous country. Thailand can satisfy just about any traveller's hunger for the exotic, the beautiful, the thrillingly different. It's a country with a deep respect for family and monarchy and a ...
Eleanor Perenyi's quirky, entertaining, and learned essays are opinionated in the best way. Perenyi, who has been gardening for many years at her small plot in Stonington, Connecticut (and before that at a palatial estate in Hungary), knows what she's talking about. As she tackles (with gusto) a variety of garden topics--including beans, ...
"A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." --"Chicago Tribune" "A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track." --"The Telegraph" (Sydney) Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs ...
"Roots of the Western Tradition" is a brief chronological survey that covers the Ancient world in three parts: Prehistoric Europe and Ancient Near East; Ancient Greece; and Ancient Rome. Succinct enough to be used with supplements, the coverage is carefully balanced between narrative and interpretation, highlighting historians' varying viewpoints ...
This account of his travels to four countries of the Islamic world, by a writer who was born in Trinidad and lives in England, is definitely an outsider's view, and aroused immediate controversy upon its publication.
This memoir of a month spent in Venice explores the city's wondrous architecture, culture, and society, while describing the trials of everyday living.
A trip on the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China, that is more than a travel narrative; Simon Winchester's long fascination not only with China's landscape but with its people comes through clearly.
After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific. With no maps, compass, or navigational instruments, and rations for only three days, they used every survival technique they could as they battled 20-foot waves, marauding sharks, thirst, starvation, and ...
The editors of the award-winning "Outside" magazine have selected over 30 essays that together compose some of the finest nonfiction gathered anywhere. Authors include Sebastian Junger, Jon Krakauer, E. Annie Proulx, Jane Smiley, and Tim Cahill.
The British author of this memoir was drunk when he bet a friend 100 pounds that he could hitchhike around Ireland in a month--taking along a refrigerator. But he kept his bargain, and in the process met an intriguing cast of Irish people. He also became a minor celebrity when he was made the subject of a daily radio feature. His book humorously ...
Novelist Tony Cohan and his wife fell for the laid-back pace of life in San Miguel de Allende in Central Mexico. Impulsively, they sold their California house and moved south. This is the chronicle of their move, and of how they managed--gradually, and not without trauma--to become integrated into the life of a Mexican town.
In 1965, 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham began a solo around-the-world voyage from San Pedro, California, in his 24-foot sloop, Dove. Five years and 33,000 miles later, he had accomplished what few would dare attempt, returning to port with a wife and daughter and enough extraordinary experiences to fill this bestselling book. Originally published in ...
In this memoir, a married couple relates their experience of leaving their food company in Vermont to open a restaurant on Anguilla, an island of the British West Indies. Their story reveals the obstacles they faced, such as locating popular American ingredients and dealing with a large population of goats that crowded the streets. At times they ...
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