travel

Presents an account of the life of Charles Francis Hall, a Cincinnati businessman who was driven by a sense of personal destiny and religious and patriotic mission to make three trips into the far North in an attempt to locate and rescue survivors of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition to the Arctic fifteen years earlier.

A report of the author's observations in the Keewatin Lands northwest of the Hudson Bay, on the caribou and wolf populations living there.

Collects travel stories about the author's experience as a field naturalist in various countries while learning about turtles, tigers, ants, piranhas, and other dangerous animals.

The author describes his expedition to the North Pole where he followed oceanographers as they examined the mysteries of climate modeling and global warming.

Joel Hafvenstein recounts the year he spent running an American-funded aid program in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, where he found himself trying to help the region's opium farmers make a legal living while helping them forget the former Taliban government, describing how he became caught up in a deadly drug war, dodging bandits in police uniforms and coping with the struggles Afghans live with every day of their lives.

The author, along with other members of his family, extensively research their family's heritage revealing their relationship to the most successful slave-trade family in American history.

Elizabeth Gilbert recounts the experiences she had on her year-long journey around the world, and shares how her trip helped her deal with her divorce and the depression that threatened to end her career and her happiness.

The author chronicles her love of extreme sports and describes climbing dangerous rock formations, bungy jumping, and sailing in different places around the world.

Gretel Ehrlich recounts her adventures traveling in some of the world's coldest locations in an attempt to understand the complex, primal nature of cold.

Christopher de Bellaigue chronicles the experiences of the men and women involved in Iran's Islamic Revolution, and examines how the revolution has impacted the country as a whole.