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Journalist exposes the underground market for selling and buying bones, organs, and people. Examines grave robbing, human-egg harvesting, kidnapping, blood…
stealing, and more. Discusses the prices people will pay and the lengths they will travel to get a bargain on a body part. 2011Voyagers of the Titanic: passengers, sailors, shipbuilders, aristocrats, and the worlds they came from
Par Richard Davenport-Hines, R. P. T. Davenport-Hines. 2012
Chronicles the 1912 maiden voyage and sinking of the passenger ship the Titanic, focusing on the experiences of all of…
the people on board, who ranged from plutocrats to immigrant strivers. Includes firsthand accounts of the event and discussions of the disaster's consequences. 2012Tropic of Capricorn: a remarkable journey to the forgotten corners of the world
Par Simon Reeve. 2009
Travel writer recounts his adventures with a BBC film crew as they followed an imaginary line--the Tropic of Capricorn--around the…
Southern Hemisphere. Describes learning about a forgotten genocide in Namibia, gem mining in Madagascar, bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, and deforestation in South America. 2009Backpack traveler recounts his off-the-beaten-track adventures in far-flung places around the globe, including almost crashing the set of a Leonardo…
DiCaprio movie in Thailand, joining a Tantric sex class in India, and following a celebration of the Virgin Mary in Central America. 2008Discusses the 1507 Waldseemüller map--the first to designate America--which is in the collections of and displayed by the Library of…
Congress. Traces the overlapping voyages, some geographical and some intellectual, that brought about the map's revolutionary depiction of the world. 2009Travels with Herodotus
Par Ryszard Kapuściński, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Klara Glowczewska. 2007
Polish journalist recounts his youthful travels with the Histories of Herodotus as his companion. Recalls reading this work by the…
sixth-century Greek to gain perspective during assignments in China, Iran, India, Ethiopia, and Senegal, among other places. 2007Every day in Tuscany: seasons of an Italian life
Par Frances Mayes. 2010
The author of Under the Tuscan Sun (DB 44847) and Bella Tuscany (DB 48030) continues her celebration of Italy, recounting…
the restoration she and her husband undertook on a thirteenth-century mountain cottage and describing her quest to learn more about Renaissance painter Luca Signorelli. Includes recipes. 2010Field guide to more than four hundred places across the United States related to the war between the states. Includes…
major battlefields listed by the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission with additional travel information. Suggests ten itineraries for short road trips and provides brief biographies of associated historical figures. 2009Searching for Steinbeck's sea of Cortez: a makeshift expediton along Baja's desert coast
Par Andromeda Romano-Lax. 2002
The author, her husband Brian, and their two children--five and almost two years old--set out with an inexperienced captain to…
retrace John Steinbeck's 1940 boat journey as recorded in The Log from the Sea of Cortez. Recounts their two-month trip of adventures and comments on the region's threatened ecology. 2002In 1919, a military convoy of 81 vehicles set out to travel the Lincoln Highway from Washington, D.C. to San…
Francisco. Essentially a PR ploy to dramatize the need for good roads, the "First Transcontinental Motor Train" averaged just five miles an hour on roads barely better than trails. The venture spurred massive road building and the creation of the Interstate Highway systemA walk around the horizon: discovering New Mexico's mountains of the four directions
Par Tom Harmer. 2013
North of Santa Fe, the New Mexico landscape is framed by four high mountains. Sacred to the Tewa Pueblo Indians,…
the four peaks are in different bureaucratic and cultural zones, resulting in each peak attracting visitors but few non-Indian travelers visiting more than one of the mountains. Harmer's chronicle of climbing all four mountains in one summer offers a unique view of a forest unlike any in the world. Outdoor enthusiasts and armchair travelers should enjoy Harmer's account of his back packing adventure, while discovering the realities of complicated cultural legacies, ecological challenges, and human foiblesHere is New York
Par E. B. White. 1999
In this short volume, author E B White strolls through and describes the city of New York he loves, creating…
what the New York Times has described as "one of the ten best books ever written about the grand metropolis."My old Kentucky road trip: historic destinations & natural wonders (History and Guide Ser.)
Par Cameron M Ludwick, Cameron Ludwick, Blair Thomas. 2015
Between Pike County in the East and Fulton County in the West, the Commonwealth has many unique and interesting places…
to visit. Whether an avid explorer or armchair traveler, there is something for everyone in Kentucky, from scenic, to historic, to just plain unusual. The authors describe 24 road trips, including what you'll need, how to get there, and what to do. 2015On the water: discovering America in a rowboat
Par Nathaniel Stone. 2003
Few people would consider the eastern United States to be an island, but in April 1999, Nat Stone launched a…
scull beneath the Brooklyn Bridge to see how far he could get rowing the eastern United States. After 10 months and some six-thousand miles, he arrived back at the Brooklyn Bridge and continued on to Maine. This book is a retracing of his voyage, a portrait of vibrant cultures and magical encountersNeither here nor there: travels in Europe
Par Bill Bryson. 2001
This is an affectionate and humorous account of a trip taken to retrace the steps of an earlier trip to…
Europe. In the early 1970's, Bill Bryson backpacked his way across Europe with a sidekick, named Stephen Katz, familiar to readers from "A Walk in the Woods"Shantyboat: a river way of life
Par Harlan Hubbard. 1977
In 1944, Harlan and Anna Hubbard built a houseboat on the bank of the Ohio River near Cincinnati. Two years…
later, they embarked on a journey down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. Harlan, an artist, describes this domestic life amid the elements, surviving by what the riverbank has to offer. Foreward by Wendell Berry; originally published in 1953Cilin II: a solo sailing odyssey
Par Edgar D. Whitcomb. 2011
"In 1986, seventy-one-year-old Edgar Whitcomb faced a crossroads in his life; he needed a new direction. That venture became an…
epic journey, as this retired Indiana governor embarked on what would be a solo, 30,000-mile, six-year sailing trip. With virtually no previous sailing experience, he and his thirty-foot sailboat, the CILIN II, traveled around the world. In this travel memoir, a chronicle filled with danger and adventure, Whitcomb narrates the details of his exploits on the seas and in ports from Greece, to the Canary Islands, Antigua, Panama, Australia, and many points in between. He describes what can happen to a sailboat in distress and the consequences when a boat runs aground or is snagged in a fishing net. A story of the joys and frustrations of sailing, Cilin II: A Solo Sailing Odyssey recounts one man's realization of a dream and demonstrates his courage, endurance, and the lessons learned from meeting new people, seeing new places, and experiencing new ideas. It's a story about a thirst for excitement and world exploration that both begins and ends in the hills of southern Indiana." UnratedSeaworthy: a swordboat captain returns to the sea
Par Linda Greenlaw. 2010
The author of the bestselling The Hungry Ocean and the only female swordboat skipper in America, Linda Greenlaw chronicles her…
return to the treacherous waters of Newfoundland's Grand Banks. Contains strong languageA pilgrimage to Senegal and the Gambia, West Africa
Par Jane Banks McIntosh. 1996
Upon her return from West Africa, McIntosh was inspired to write about her extraordinary experiences in order to be able…
to share them with all African Americans who might be so blessed as to be able to make a pilgrimage to their MotherlandPortage: a family, a canoe, and the search for the good life
Par Sue Leaf. 2015
When as a child she first saw a canoe gliding on Lake Alexander in central Minnesota, Sue Leaf was mesmerized.…
The enchantment stayed with her as we join Leaf and her family in canoeing the waterways of North America, always on the lookout for the good life amid the splendors and surprises of the natural world. Part travelogue, part natural and cultural history, Portage is the memoir of one family's thirty-five-year venture into the watery expanse of the world. Through it all, exploring the river means encountering life--good decisions and missed chances, risks and surprises, and the inevitable changes that occur as a family canoes through time and learns what it means to be human in this natural world. For high school and adult readers