The Royal Road to Romance is the travel classic in which a happy, young romanticist goes laughing and beating and fighting his vagabond way into the glamorous corners of the world. When Richard Halliburton graduated from Princeton, he chose adventure over a career, traveling to far away places. This vivid book tells what happened, from a break-through Matterhorn mountain ascent in the Alps to being jailed for taking forbidden pictures on Gibraltar....

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. Pioneering new ground in outdoor literature, this was Stevenson's first book. He had decided to become free from his parent's financial support so that he might freely pursue the woman he loved; to support himself he wrote travelogues, most notably An Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

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Every family has a black sheep - and Rennie's it. When he puts his mind to something - revenge, proving someone wrong, driving his father crazy - he's unstoppable. Which turns out to be a good thing when the grandfather he barely knew sends him to Iceland, of all places, and his stubbornness and will to survive are put to the ultimate test.

"Engaging… [McCarthy's] curiosity is infectious and there's plenty to amuse." - St Petersburg Times "Hilarious...If McCarthy isn't telling a fabulous yarn himself, he's quoting someone who is." - Washington Post "McCarthy is stitch. Move over, Bill Bryson. You've finally met your match." - Chicago Tribune "An entertaining romp [and] a meditation on Ireland today." - Conde Nast Traveler "Highly engaging…a very funny book." - Los Angeles Times...

In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.

Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over two years, nearly killing him more than once. Attempting to sail farther North than anyone ever has, he embarks from Iceland on the Cresswell in the summer of 1959. His only companion? A three-legged, one-eyed Labrador named Nelson. He spends his first winter holed up near an Eskimo village in a Greenland fjord. After a violent snowstorm...

Can Dirk and Anna escape the Nazis before it's too late? In late 1944, the Nazis have their sights set on expanding their empire by conquering the Dutch. In response, 13-year-old Dirk's papa leaves everyone he loves behind to fight with the Resistance. After the Gestapo snatches his older sister, Dirk learns they'll come for him next. A knock on the door in the middle of the night catapults Dirk and his 6-year-old sister, Anna, into a frightening...