Travelers & Explorers

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author, director, actor, and YouTube superstar Shane Dawson returns with another highly ...

A Powerful, Blazingly Honest, Inspiring Memoir: The Story Of A 1,100 Mile Solo Hike That Broke Down A Young Woman Reeling From Catastrophe--and Built Her Ba...

a Shimmering Evocation, By Turns Intimate And Panoramic, Of One Of The World’s Great Cities, By Its Foremost Writer. Orhan Pamuk Was Born In Istanbul And S...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Overview: Once Upon A Time An Indian Writer Named Amitav Ghosh Set Out To Find An Indian Slave, Name Unknown, Who Some Seven Hundred Years Before Had Travel...

A History Of Mount Everest Expedition Is Intertwined With The Disastrous Expedition The Author Was A Part Of, During Which Five Members Were Killed By A Hur...

Prologue: Obsession -- Part One: Some Gallant Heart. A Blaze Of Light ; Shadows ; Bond For Our Blood ; The Abban ; The Enemy Is Upon Us -- Part Two: What Mi...

French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North Am...

Was What’s My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the ...

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

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

Since the founding of the National Park Service in 1916, tens of thousands of NPS employees and volunteers have devoted themselves to preserving our public ...

"A revelation."--Marc Weingarten, Washington Post Acclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings--brilliantly translated into English for the first...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hi...

By Sy Montgomery ; Illustrated By Rebecca Green.Categories: Travel ReferenceGeneral

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...

Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near t...

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Ab...

Attention Habs Fans!Think you know more about the Montreal Canadiens than everyone else? Well, now you've got a chance to prove it! Whether you're a die-har...

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...

They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is ...

Robin Wiszowaty Relates How She Left Her Suburban Illinois Home To Travel To Kenya To Join An Impoverished Maasai Community, And Describes The Poverty, Drou...

Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may...

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...

In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airp...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This on-point guide to growing up by Instagram sensation Mari Andrew features “achingly vulnerable and completely relatable...

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

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...

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....

In this technology-driven age, it’s tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sen...

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...

Now in paperback, Engineers tells the story of the brilliant minds that have constructed our man-made world, from ancient pyramids to modern spaceflight D...

In 1993, Sigrid Rausing, A Young Student Working On A Phd In Anthropology, Went To Spend A Year Living In Estonia, A Remote Baltic State That Had Just Gaine...

A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. "The Lost Continent" is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth ...

The Emergency Teacher is Christina Asquith’s moving firsthand account of her year spent teaching in one of Philadelphia’s worst schools. Told with str...

In Journeys To Impossible Places, Best-selling Author And Presenter Simon Reeve Reveals The Inside Story Of His Most Astonishing Adventures And Experiences,...

National BestsellerIn Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through E...

A Book That Challenges Each Of Us To Take Control--to Make Our Lives Be About Something While At The Same Time Remaining Clear-eyed About The Commitment--th...

mark Twain Founded The American Voice. His Works Are A Living National Treasury: Taught, Quoted, And Reprinted More Than Those Of Any Writer Except Shakesp...

Author Is A Well-known Media Figure From The Same Era Of Muchmusic As Christopher Ward An Intriguing Mix Of Canadiana And Pop Culture — Kim’s Experience...

The New York Times bestseller from prizewinning author David Michaelis presents a "stunning" (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roos...

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