travel

A collection of true travel stories and anedotes told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, and more.

British actor Stephen Fry describes his experiences visiting each state in the U.S. in an attempt to understand everyday life in America.

Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom.

Contains the 1855 text of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," including several of its illustrations, and presents twenty critical essays as examples of the controversy the novel has generated.

The author describes her experiences visiting Antarctica and shares information on how to get there, what to bring, what to wear, what to eat, how to build a snow shelter, how to avoid crevasses, how to study Antarctic seals, and other survival strategies.

Photographs and text highlight some of the more noteworthy tourist attractions in Canada.