description and travel

Author Bruce Feiler retraces Moses' steps in an attempt to reconnect himself to the Bible.

Tells the story of Isabel Grameson, an upper-class Peruvian woman who in 1741 married Jean Godin, a member of a team of French mapmakers exploring South America, focusing on her three-thousand-mile trek down the length of the Amazon to reach her husband after they were separated on opposite sides of the continent--victims of international politics.

A memoir that chronicles the author's journey back to his ancestral home in Ghana in search of his roots.

The author presents fourteen essays, describing and reflecting upon the landscape, plants, animals, and people of the deserts and foothills between California's Death Valley and High Sierra.

The author relates his adventures attempting to retrace the route taken by Che Guevara in 1952 on a eight-month motorcycle tour of the back roads of South America, discussing his encounters with the people and places visited by the legendary revolutionary.

An African-American journalist spends three years traveling across Africa witnessing dictatorships, mass starvation, and political corruption and questions his own heritage and identity.

Matt Dickinson discusses the experiences he had as he climbed Mount Everest and survived one of the worst storms to ever hit the mountain.

Chronicles the life of Kenny Salwey, a modern-day American hermit who has spent most of his life studying the ecosystem of the Mississippi river bottoms.