travel

Traces the history of basketball and explores how the sport has captured the interest of people worldwide; the writer discusses his adventures as a sports journalist covering basketball throughout the world.

Examines the CIA's installation of a nuclear-powered spy device, which was never removed, atop Nanda Devi to track Chinese troops; the threat the instrument poses; and the author's climbing experiences in the region.

Historical photographs and text help chronicle the first automobile trip across the United States, by Horatio Nelson Jackson in 1903.

The author presents a collection of eleven stories told to his daughter about life and living in Kenya, Africa and recalls the landscape, animals, and people of the region.

Draws from diaries and journals to tell the story of the 1869 expedition led by Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell to explore the Grand Canyon.

Chronicles the events surrounding the mutiny aboard His Majesty's armed transport Bounty on April 28, 1789, using details from the wills, diaries, and correspondence of figures not directly connected to the events to uncover the true story behind the mutiny.

The author provides an account of his adventures tracing the voyages of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook in an attempt to discover whether Cook had a lasting influence on the places he "discovered, " and hoping to learn what drove Cook to make such dangerous journeys.

The author tells the story of his journey to the land above the Arctic Circle where he hoped to spend a winter with the Inuit, but instead found himself alone on his boat, trapped in the ice one hundred miles from the nearest settlement, and beset by blizzards and polar bears.

Stephen Venables chronicles his struggle to survive after he fell more than 300 feet on a remote Himalayan mountain, breaking both of his legs and leaving him semi-conscious.

Shares the story of Annie Londonderry, a young mother in 1894 who scorned Victorian notions of female propriety to accept a challenge to ride around the world on a bicycle.