Henry Carter Hull

Illustrations, photographs, text, and maps help profile the achievements of some of the most famous explorers, anthropologists, and archaeologists of the twentieth century.

Accounts of the author's travels, beginning at Gibraltar and journeying on around the shores of the Mediterranean Sea by foot, train, and ship.

As a puppy, Bella finds her way into the arms of Lucas, a young man who gives her a good home. When Bella becomes separated from Lucas, she soon finds herself on an epic, 400-mile journey to reunite with her beloved owner. Along the way, the lost but spirited dog touches the lives of an orphaned mountain lion, a down-on-his-luck veteran and some friendly strangers who happen to cross her path.

Among the ten films in this section are a transatlantic crossing in a Zeppelin dirigible, a 1925 stencil-colored trek through the Belgian Congo, World War I-era Parisian street kids in Montmartre, a 1916 visit to Los Angeles, a 1927 sound film of pilot Charles Lindbergh embarking on his New York-Paris flight, an early 1930s portrait of New York City's Coney Island, and a promotional film made for Josephine Baker's revue at the Folies-Bergère, Paris....

Alan Christoffersen loses his wife, his business, and his home and embarks on a cross country walk, leaving behind what little is left of his life, and in the course of his journey, the people he meets and the places he visits offer him hope, inspiration, and refuge.

Johannes Cabal is on the run from the government after stealing a mysterious book from a university library, and as he travels across the ocean on a passenger aeroship, Johannes realizes strange forces are at work.

"When Sebastian launches himself on a journey in a hot air balloon made entirely of Grandma's afghans and patchwork quilts, his boring day turns into the adventure of a lifetime"--