Instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, Bill Bryson challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....

Focusing on the historical development and physical environment of the route traversed by present-day U.S. 40 across Indiana, this field guide is designed to help its readers see the American highway as a mammoth outdoor museum of American history.

Memoir of life in Indianapolis.

Marco Polo almost single-handedly introduced fourteenth-century Europe to the civilizations of Central Asia and China. Now this stunningly illustrated volume, edited by renowned historian Morris Rossabi, offers the complete text of Polo's travelogue (in the respected Yule-Cordier translation), enhanced with more than 200 images--including illuminated manuscripts, paintings, photographs, and maps. Sidebars and dozens of informative footnotes combine...

A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent catastrophe.

In 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is one of the most acute portrayals of the United Kingdom ever written. Two decades later, Bryson--now a British citizen--set out again to rediscover his adopted country. In these pages, he follows a straight line through the island--from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath--and shows us...

A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America, which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.

Indiana state parks provide something for everyone, whether it's a weekend hike in the woods or a family outing. Strange describes the features that make each park unique, as well as covering the park trails, history, and much more.

Photographer Jones sees beyond the surface of nature to the basic elements - earth, air, water, and rock. This text, inspiring from Jones's images, traces the cycle of his life from birth in Gosport to a life of journalism in the big cities of the world, and back home again, where he found both his voice as a writer and his spiritual rootedness.