Archive for Items Categorized 'Travel', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Transcontinent 1910: The Automotive Adventures of Two Young Men

by Mark Chaplin

See the USA in your . . . Oldsmobile. From Massachusetts to Oregon. And back. Did they make it? Read about it in the autoists own words.

It’s About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record

by Richard Cook

This original book about an original musician is partly biography and partly discography and looks at 14 major albums to examine the life of the “Evil Genius of Jazz.”

Forward: The First American Unsupported Expedition to the North Pole

by John Huston and Tyler Fish

Forward, ever forward. This journey across the ice is also a journey into the characters of the two seasoned adventurers who test the limits of their physical endurance, willpower, and friendship.

The Adventurous Motorcyclist’s Guide to Alaska

by Lee Klancher

The only guidebook you’ll ever need. Really. Written specifically with the needs of the motorcyclist in mind, this book is useful to any traveler, even the armchair variety.

The Westford Knight and Henry Sinclair Evidence of a 14th Century Scottish Voyage to North America

by David Goudsward

What if it wasn’t Columbus who discovered America? Did the Westford Knight beat him to it? Professional archaeologists and historians largely reject this theory . . . but . . .