 | Emotionally wrung-out from her divorce, the painful ending of a subsequent love affair, and a general, long-standing feeling of malaise, novelist and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert decides to recharge herself through a year’s worth of travel, believing... |
 | John Steinbeck chronicles his attempts, as he travels from Long Island to California and back, to define what it is to be American. In the end, he concedes failure: it is impossible to generalize about his complicated homeland. However, his... |
 | INTO THE WILD developed out of an article Jon Krakauer wrote for Outside magazine. Emory University honors graduate Christopher Johnson McCandless--"Alexander Supertramp"--took off after college in rebellion against authority and his privileged... |
 | A collection of true stories of mountain climbing, from the author of "Into the Wild". |
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 | Former NPR foreign correspondent and self-confessed grouch Eric Weiner (his last name is pronounced "whiner"), travels to the countries with the highest levels of happiness (Thailand, Switzerland) and the lowest (Moldova) to find some of the... |
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