DIVAfter ten years in England, expatriate American Bill Bryson was gripped by an urge to return to the land of his youth. Borrowing his mother’s old Chevrolet, Bryson travelled 13,978 miles through thirty–eight states, seeing pret...

In this combination history and travel guide, historical novelist Jeff Shaara selects 10 key battlefields of the Civil War, telling what happened at each, why the battle was important, and what a modern-day traveler will see when visi...

Helps beginner through intermediate students learn Hawaiian using techniques based on the highly effective Euro Method (an intuitive approach that surrounds the listener with native speakers and a new culture), with successive lesson ...

A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdoJohn Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes acros...

September 1996 found Philip Caputo on Barter Island, a wind-scoured rock in the Beaufort Sea populated by two hundred Inupiat and a handful of whites. As he gazed upon an American flag above the only school for a hundred and fifty mil...

Very similar in style to Walden, and in fact written while he stayed at Walden Pond, this account chronicles Thoreau's 1830 boat trip. In it, he weaves together travel writing, essays on religion, history, and lyrical poetry, as well ...

Zane Grey wrote about the West and lived it as well. Tales of Lonely Trails is a collection of true travel tales describing his explorations of uninhabited areas of the west, much of it on pack horses with a guide.Here are description...

The story of a student who went to extraordinary lengths - including living in a van on a campus parking lot - to complete his education without sacrificing his financial future. In a frank and self-deprecating voice, memoirist Ken Il...