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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Travel along with Steve as he visits 100 countries and all 7 continents. From a middle-class family in Brooklyn, New York he left the corporate world to explore the rest of the world - and found amazing people, places, and experiences from the Tropics to Antarctica. A fascinating read whether you aspire to travel, have been places, or are well-traveled. You'll learn and grow with the author, who presents his story in a light, easy-to-follow perspective...
4) Con la sangre despierta: el primer arribo a esa ciudad narrado por once escritores latinoamericanos
Series
Publisher
Sexto Piso
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
Español
6) To Timbuktu
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Casey and Steven met in Morocco, moved to China then went all the way to Timbuktu. This illustrated travel memoir tells the story of their first two years out of college spent teaching English, making friends across language barriers, researching, painting, and learning to be themselves wherever they are.
Author
Publisher
Matt and Karen Smith
Pub. Date
�2012-2016.
Language
English
Description
"DEAR BOB AND SUE chronicles the journey of Matt and Karen Smith, who took a mid-career break to travel to all 58 U.S. National Parks. Written as a series of emails to their friends, Bob and Sue, they describe their sense of awe in exploring our national parks, and share humorous and quirky observations. The national parks are among the most stunning places in America - pristine wilderness, geologic wonders, and magnificent wildlife - places everyone...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"When journalist Lauren Collins moved to Geneva, Switzerland, she decided to learn French in order to be closer to her French husband and his family. Her hilarious and idiosyncratic memoir about the things we do for love is an exploration across cultures and history into how we learn languages, and what they say about who we are"--
Author
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
�2006
Language
English
Description
This book is about how early American families lived in these houses and the range of their lives in them. "In a journey that spans the infant nation from New England to the deep south, we see the full sprctrum of early domestic architecture in its quirky, graceful, crude sophisticated innovative unabashed American-ness" (cover).
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent. And to honor his hero, Wyatt Earp, he would carry Earp's gun belt on the flight. The main obstacles to Ellsworth's ambition were numerous: he didn't like the cold, he avoided physical work, and he couldn't...
