A gifted photographer's arresting color pictures bring to life the majestic mountains, lush oases, great shifting sands, and fascinating peoples that make up the incredible landscapes of the famous Sahara.

"The desert cannot be described; it must be lived", states the Saharan nomad whose text opens this sensitive appreciation of the world's largest desert. For readers who will never experience that reality, this volume's stunning photographs and engrossing text will evoke its essence. From Timbuktu and its legendary gold riches to Tuareg nomads and their battles with European expeditions for control of the land, the book unfolds the Sahara's dramatic history of exploration and exploitation. Added to this background are thrilling personal accounts written by explorers, naturalists, and journalists whose own tales of adventure and surviva ...More

In the tradition of Thomas Cahill and Bruce Chatwin, this fascinating book takes readers on a firsthand journey through the greatest stories ever told, drawing from the latest archaeological research about each site and exploring how geography affects the larger narrative of the Bible. Endpaper maps. ...More

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From a compelling and profoundly sophisticated travel writer comes a new book of unexpected explorations. The journeys Iyer describes take him from Laos and Yemen to Haiti and Ethiopia. ...More

Combining an edge-of-your-seat adventure story with a fascinating, little-known piece of World War II history, one of the world's most accomplished rock climbers recalls his ascent of a mountain in the heart of one of the Earth's last uncharted pockets. 3 maps. ...More

An unforgettable sailing adventure to the world's most dangerous continent describes what it is like to withstand heaving seas and crushing waves for days on end, seasickness, and the first sight of the treacherous baby icebergs. ...More

The Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiquity. Now, with this monumental volume of Egyptian culture, history, and arcania, readers will be able to immerse themselves in the great lady's world more completely than ever before.

Journey through the bustling streets and markets of Cairo a hundred years ago. Surround yourself with the customs and color of a bygone time. Explore ancient tombs and temples and marvel at the history of this remarkable land -- from the age of the pharaohs through the Napoleonic era to the First World War. Also included in Amelia Peabody's Egypt are a hitherto unpublished journal entry and intimate biographies of the Emersons and their friends, which provide a uni ...More

Jim Rogers was a Wall Street legend long before he wrote Investment Biker. In the 1970s he made what he describes as 'more money than I knew existed in the world' managing the Quantum Fund with George Soros. At age thirty-seven he retired. Since then he has invested his own funds, been a finance professor at Columbia University, and hosted television programs on WCBS, FNN, and CNBC, among many other things. But he's also renowned for being cut from a different cloth than most of the people on Wall Street. He's a contrarian, and a daring one at that - Rogers was the one who realized that the perennially moribund Austrian stock market was a Sleeping Beauty, kissed her, and woke her up. The Austrian economy boomed as a result; Rogers made another fortune for his trouble. Besides that, he's a smalltown southern boy (his hometown was so small ...More

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Invited to live with a Kabul bookseller and his family for several months, an award-winning journalist now gives readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. ...More

Winner - 2001 ALA Non-Fiction Notable Selection
An evocative portrait of one of the most breathtaking yet little-known places on earth, written by England's #1 bestselling, award-winning author--"one of the two or three best living travel writers, in some ways probably "the" best" (Jan Morris). Map. ...More