Henry Carter Hull

For over 20 years, this comprehensive guide has been a popular choice for readers planning a cruise to Alaska. The 9th edition has been revised and updated and includes over 400 color photographs and maps and with all aspects of this exciting cruise. Exciting details of both the Inside Passage and Glacier cruises, from Seattle to Fairbanks, are inside. Includes two giant color pull-out maps with a mile-by-mile references to help readers track progress...

The author relates his father's experiences while lost in Tibet during the mid-1950s.

"The most original piece of travel writing about the Antarctic region I have read in years... Bradfield is a literary tour guide in the best sense." -- Elizabeth Leane, author of Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South A poet and a naturalist, Elizabeth Bradfield documents and examines her work as a guide on ships in Antarctica through poetry, prose, and photographs, offering an incisive insider's vision that challenges traditional...

Veteran travel writer Mark Seal was tired of buying disappointing travel guides. He wanted insider information about special travel destinations - the kind of tips you'd get from the locals or people who know all the best and hippest places - like celebrities. Sixteen years and a few hundred interviews later, Seal's Celebrated Weedend feature articles - city-by-city, star-by-star investigations of the coolest places to eat, sleep, and see - have...

Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is a fascinating case study of a large city in the developing world. With around 10 million people as the city enters the 21st century, this is a mega city with a mix of traditional and Western land uses. The program covers the main activities and problems. Despite the difficulties, the Thai residents go about their daily lives with a minimum stress, which reflects on their culture. A visit to some major tourist attractions...

Rue Claridge's cousin Elisabeth had disappeared, and Rue was determined to find her. But she never dreamed that when she followed Elisabeth's footsteps, she would find herself more than one hundred years in the past... and in jail, courtesy of Marshal Farley Haynes. She knew Farley was baffled but intrigued by her modern ways - and Rue was just as fascinated by the rugged marshal. Enough to dream that maybe he could live in her modern world and find...