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One Year Off: Leaving it All Behind for a Round-the-world Journey with Our Children
by David Elliot Cohen[book Excerpt] In the end, I wrote twenty-three of these e-mail updates. They described our travels by airplane, ship, bus, car, van, train, camel cart, oxcart, and elephant howdah through sixteen countries on six continents. They recounted the times we got hopelessly lost in Rome and Cape Town, how we rushed our daughter to the emergency room in Bangkok, how we escaped a charging hippo in Botswana, how Kara nearly died in Australia, and how I stumbled upon a bit of enlightenment in a cave in rural Laos. They described what it was like to live out of a suitcase for more than a year and how we managed to coexist as a family in tight quarters twenty- four hours a day. As you read these adventures, anecdotes, and minor epiphanies, I hope you get the sense that these letters were sent to you, or better yet, that you traveled with us during our one amazing year off.
Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan
by Mary Anne WeaverEmphasis on the past fifteen or so years.
After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese
by Lady BortonMoving story of the people of Viet Nam by an American woman whose experiences in Viet Nam span 25 years. Tells stories of ordinary people, especially women, during and since the war.
Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories
by Gerald DurrellHumorous stories of the author's travels and the eccentric people and animals he has encountered. Author was a British naturalist.
Blind Courage
by Bill Irwin Dave MccaslinBill Irwin, a confessed non hiker, and his German Shepherd Seeing eye dog Orient, through hike the 2000 mile plus Appalachian Trail. With the help of Orient, god, and many great friends he meets along the way, Bill tells of the trials, triumphs and adventures on the trail. From the time a bear slowed their progress, to the time he almost slid off a cliff to certain death. The book is filled with stories that will make you laugh, reflect, and maybe bring you to tears.
Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage down the Wildest River in Borneo
by Tracy Johnston"Taking the mid-life crisis to the limit-as mail-order adventure/ travel fantasies meet reality head-on in a tale of lost luggage, frayed nerves, rainforest slime, leeches, female trouble, wounded warriors and thundering rapids. The book is a poignant and entertaining memoir of a woman's wild ride into the uncharted realms of middle age while descending the Boh River of central Borneo. A captivating and truly off-beat rite of passage." -Eric Hansen The adventure begins when Ms. Johnston learns that her duffel bag--her Boh River survival gear--did not leave L.A. The adventure ends ... well, you'll have to read this spellbinding book!
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower,1620 (Dear America)
by Kathryn Lasky12-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
Canoeing the Boundary Waters
by Marion StresauThe Account of One Family's Explorations in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Gringo Viejo
by Carlos FuentesDuring the years of intense revolutionary struggle in Mexico, an old North American writer heads south of the border in search of his destiny.
Charbonneau's Gold: A Lewis & Clark Story
by Rita ClearyThe hardships were incredible. The duration of the trip overland and over the Rockies was much longer than expected. Some hope arrived with Charbonneau, who claimed he knew the way to the Pacific
Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei
by David MuraMura, an American poet of Japanese descent, went to Tokyo to live for a year. Here, he presents his observations and reflections on the many cultural differences he encountered.
Robert T. Moran's Cultural Guide to Doing Business in Europe
by Michael Johnson Robert T. MoranThe author tells how he would do business in Europe. He reviews the cultures of different countries.
A Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States
by Patricia PessarA Visa for a Dream:Dominicans in the United States is part of the New Immigrant Series. This installment of the series takes an indepth look into the Dominican experience in America. Through economics, culture, gender, and generations, Patricia Pessar provides a comprehensive look into the lives of newly immigrated Dominicans, established Dominicans populations and those that remain in the Dominican Republic. (taken from the book)
Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor's Road Trip
by Jim RogersBehind the wheel of a sunburst-yellow, custom-built Mercedes, Rogers and his fiancee, began their Adventure They drove through 116 countries, through war zones, deserts, jungles, and blizzards.
The Park and the People: A History of Central Park
by Roy Rosenzweig Elizabeth BlackmarThis exemplary social history is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. In rich detail, Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig tell the story of Central Park's people--the merchants and landowners who launched the project; the immigrant and African-American residents who were displaced by the park; the politicians, gentlemen, and artists who disputed its design and operation; the German gardeners, Irish laborers, and Yankee engineers who built it; and the generations of New Yorkers for whom Central Park was their only backyard.
Charles Kuralt's America
by Charles KuraltCharles Kurault takes a year-long trip across the United States, visiting well-known and out-of-the-way places alike. He describes the things he sees, the people he meets and his thoughts on it all.
Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France
by Peter MayleAfter trying--what folly!--to live in other places, Peter Mayle is back in his beloved Provence. He celebrates his homecoming by sharing with us a whole new feast of adventures, discoveries, hilarities, and culinary treats, liberally seasoned with a joyous mix of Gallic characters. The pauses for refreshment include an unforgettable meal in a converted gas station, a rendezvous with the very best bouillabaisse, and visits to eventful weekly markets. But there is life after lunch, and we also discover a school for noses in Haute Provence, a gardener who grows black tomatoes, the secret the the oversexed butcher, a celebration of Alowine (Halloween) Provence-style, and the genetic effects of two thousand years of Fois gras. There is a memorable tour of Marseille, a comprehensive lesson on olive oil, a search for the perfect corkscrew, and invaluable recommendations for splendid local cheeses, wines, honey, bread, country restaurants, and off-the-beaten-track places to stay. Never has Peter Mayle written with more unabashed pleasure about his heaven on earth.
Mississippi! (Wagons West Series, Book #15)
by Dana Fuller RossFrom north of St. Louis down past Natc Kez to the fertile Bayou, the broad deep river carried barges piled high with valuable cargo and stern -wheelers crowded with eager Americans hungry for the sin and sweetness of exciting New Orleans, But on its seamier streets a dark underworld flourished. There, a cruel ex-lawman hid the beautiful young gentlewoman he had seduced with lies, while he plotted to kill the bold Englishman who had sworn to avenge her honor. And from the far west rode Toby Holt-a fighting man as famous as his father, Wagonmaster Whip Holt-to wage a one- man war on a dreaded Oriental Tong... as the forces of good and evil prepared to battle for control of this rich, fast growing land along the MISSISSIPPI!
The New England Berry Book
by Bob KrummContains a guide and recipes for wild blueberries, huckleberries, blackberries, black currants, black raspberries, beach plum, chokecherries, juneberries, elderberries, red raspberries, cranberries, and strawberries.
Dodge City (Stagecoach Station, # #1)
by Hank MitchumThe massive Concord stage thundered across the empty lawless miles of the Great Plains bound for the wickedest town in the West--Dodge City. It was a wide-open cattle town always itching for a fight, and a big one was about to start. For Burl Channing was on this stage, a Federal marshal hell-bent on a mission of personal vengeance to bring a vicious murderer to justice. The man he seeks is Frank Killian, a cunning gambler with a killer's finely honed edge. Frightened of one man and betrayed by the other, Emily Barker, a beautiful young widow, is suddenly caught up in their struggle -- a battle that will soon explode in front of the legendary Long Branch Saloon in one of Dodge City's deadliest gunf ights.
Tennessee! (Wagons West Series, Book #17)
by Dana Fuller RossAmbition drives the brave to great deeds, the unscrupulous to great evil. And a Washington politician had both ambition and money enough to hatch a dark plot to threaten America's cherished democracy. The heart of the conspiracy lay amid Tennessee's secluded hills, where outlaws and misfits formed a powerful private army. Now secret orders from the White House named the legendary frontiersman, Toby Holt--son of the great wagonmaster Whip Holt--to take a desperate stand against the deadly renegades. But another danger awaited this fighting man: an extraordinary womar too hot-blooded and beautiful for even happily married Tob> Holt to resist.
Dams, Parks, and Politics: Development and Preservation In the Truman-Eisenhower Era
by Elmo RichardsonThis book is a chronicle of the myopia and gamesmanship that dominated Americans' understanding of their environment on the eve of the nation's ecology crisis. Based almost entirely on primary sources, Elmo Richardson's study examines the interplay between the national policies and programs for development and preservation of natural resources in the centralist Truman administration and the localist, enterprise-oriented Eisenhower administration. He shows that the decade examined brought about very little change in the values held by federal policy makers. Although the development of resources was a prominent issue in the elections of 1948, 1952, and 1956, what emerges from Richardson's account is the shallowness of understanding on the part of the decision makers and the public, and the ease with which policy direction could be deflected. The book demonstrates the persistence of the tradition of development and the nonpartisan character of the movement for preservation, which crossed party lines, regional lines, and economic interest groups.
Chesapeake Bay Walk
by David Owen BellFrom the Book Jacket: What Awesome Chesapeake does for older children, this book will do for youngsters ages four to nine-awaken them to the wonders of the Chesapeake Bay and the life in and around it. Written by the same author, Chesapeake Bay Walk takes young children and their parents or teachers on an unforgettable shoreline journey. On a stroll through its pages, they can find soft-bellied bullies, birds once hunted for their feathers, crabs older than dinosaurs, "bald" five-year-olds, and living prehistoric creatures made of water. David Owen Bell, author of Awesome Chesapeake and Chesapeake Bay Walk, has been involved in children's outdoor education for many years. Jennifer Heyd Wharton, a watercolorist, has also illustrated four children's books.