travel

The author provides an account of his experiences as a trainhopper, discussing the realities of the hobo culture and lifestyle, and examining the reasons why people get caught up in this underground world.

Poet W.S. Merwin chronicles his life in Europe in the years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952.

As he travels across the United States, journalist Richard Hoffer gains a greater understanding of the social, economic, and political aspects of gambling in America.

The author recounts a four-month cross-country trip to meet children and adults who have triumphed over learning disabilities and have gone on to lead successful lives.

Comedian Dave Gorman describes his obsession with the Internet word game Googlewhacking in which players are challenged to find two words to put into the Google search engine that will bring a single, solitary result, and discusses the people he met while traveling the world in pursuit of his goal.

Presents an historical narrative on the British Antarctic expedition in 1908 of Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the "Nimrod," who became the first to reach the South Pole and chronicles their achievements as they traveled across hundreds of miles of frozen wilderness.

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 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.