Travelers & Explorers

Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very definition of "humanity." Now, in a poignant an...

this Lyrical, Evocative, Thought-provoking Journal Of A Man's Quest For Truth—and For Himself—was An Instant Classic, Now Available Unabridged On Cd villag...

Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,00...

A beautifully illustrated 30th anniversary celebration of Rick Hansen's Man in Motion Tour, which broke barriers for people with disabilities and inspired ...

Product Description The world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of...

Just in time for Father's Day, Georgette Jones the only child of country music's "First Couple" George Jones and Tammy Wynette pens a memoir about life with...

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Sta...

Markham is often described as "the first person" to fly the Atlantic east to west in a solo non-stop flight, though most now dispute this claim. When Markha...

The Autobiography Of A Young Black Man Raised In Harlem. A Realistic Description Of Life In The Ghetto. Claude Brown ; With A New Introduction By Nathan Mcc...

The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beas...

Want to be known as the Detroit Red Wings' second "Mr. Hockey"?Then prove yourself in the next Wings trivia challenge by blowing away the competition!The en...

My Own Words Is A Selection Of Writings And Speeches By Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Wide-ranging Topics, Including Gender Equality, The Wor...

Academy Award-winning Actress, Producer, And Entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon Invites You Into Her World, Where She Infuses The Southern Style, Parties, And T...

Calling All Texas Rangers Fans! The Ultimate Texas Rangers Trivia Book Is A Staple For Anyone Who Loves Baseball, Sports Trivia, And The Lone Stars. You Wil...

Here, For The First Time In A Single Volume, Is The Full And Detailed Saga Of The Nineteenth-century Quest For Two Of The World's Great Geographical Prizes....

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative...

"Without doubt JBS, as many know him, is one of the world's most eminent explorers"- Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt. OBE\For over 60 years John Blashford-Snell has...

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Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors from the 1500s to the present - their moral dilemmas, their per...

In Her Early Thirties, [the Author] Had Everything A Modern American Woman Was Supposed To Want - Husband, Country Home, Successful Career - But Instead Of ...

A wondrous story of adventure and friendship featuring a group of women who ride Icelandic horses."Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild hors...

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer—and one o...

The fast-paced and "engrossing account" (The New York Times Book Review) of "one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history" (The Christian Sci...

you're Belted Into A Middle Seat With Burly Businessmen On Either Side. It's 92 Degrees In The Cabin And Someone Forgot To Use Deodorant. A Baby Screams. ...

africa Was An Obsession For Hemingway Throughout His Life. Long Before He Wrote The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber, Green Hills Of Africa, Or His Pos...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

Jamaica Kincaid's Among Flowers: A Walk In The Himalaya Is The Classic Travel Memoir About A Master Novelist's Journey To The Himalaya In Search Of Seeds......

This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick And New York Times Bestseller Is “a Captivating Story Of Love Lost And Found” (kirkus Reviews) Set In The Lush Sic...

T.e. Lawrence ; With An Introduction By Angus Calder.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesPolitics & Government

An Exhilarating, Anti-colonial Reclamation Of Nature Writing And Memoir, Rooted In The Forests And Flatlands Of Taiwan From The Winner Of The Rbc Taylor Pri...

national Bestseller a Bank Of Clouds Was Assembling On The Not-so-distant Horizon, But Journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, Standing On The Summit Of Mt. ...

The truth is that John Rae solved the two great mysteries ofnineteenth-century Arctic exploration: during a single expedition in 1854, hediscovered both th...

in April 1992 A Young Man From A Well-to-do Family Hitchhiked To Alaska And Walked Alone Into The Wilderness North Of Mt. Mckinley. His Name Was Christophe...

In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, the celebrated bard of Tuscany (New York Times) lyrically chronic...

from The Moment He Set Foot On It, Karl Rove Has Rocked America's Political Stage. He Ran The National College Republicans At Twenty-two, And Turned A Tex...

Product Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER“Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with...

This Book Tells Stories From Jon Falk's 40 Years With The Michigan Football Program--Categories: History United StatesState & Local

For six years, Helene Hanff held captive audiences all over the world with her monthly broadcasts on the BBC's Woman's Hour. In five-minute vignettes, she m...

a Best Nonfiction Book Of 2012: the Boston Globe, entertainment Weeklya Best Book Of The Year: Npr, st. Louis Dispatch, Vogue at Twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed...

Product Description Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and no...

now Revered As One Of North America's Top Birders, Kenn Kaufman Hit The Road At Age Sixteen And Spent A Year Crisscrossing The Country To See As Many Bird...

The Surprising And Compelling Story Of Two Rival Geniuses In An All-out Race To Decode One Of The World’s Most Famous Documents—the Rosetta Stone—and ...

Product Description New York Times bestseller An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him be...

In less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the wor...

Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an area known as the Bohemian A...

Anthony Doerr has received many awards — from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then...

Elizabeth Taylor's own story was more dramatic than any part she ever played on the screen. C. David Heymann brings her magnificently to life in this acclai...

From Religion, To Language, To The Stories Rooted In Our Faith And History Books, The Nile River Has Proven To Be A Constant Fixture In Mankind's Tales. In ...