Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. --Publisher.

Offers a firsthand account of the 2000-2001 odyssey of Anne Bancroft and Liv Arnesen across the continent of Antarctica on foot, describing their difficult journey across 1,700 miles of harsh terrain in below freezing temperatures.

1859: Mrs. Jacob Klein has a husband, children, and a warm and comfortable home in California. No one knows how she came to be out West thirteen years ago. It was a tale of tragedy, mishaps, and unthinkable choices-- yet also sacrifice, courage, and a powerful, unexpected love. 1846: On the outskirts of Cincinnati, wagons gather by the hundreds, readying to head west to California. Among the throng is a fifteen-year-old girl eager to escape her abusive...

Florence Page Jaques and Francis Lee Jaques, her naturalist husband, spent the last months of 1942 on Gunflint Lake in Minnesota's North Country.  Together, using her journal and his sketches, they produced text and illustrations for Snowshoe Country, first published in 1944 and now reissued in its original format.  It received the John Burroughs medal for the best nature book of the year in 1946.