Leslie Allen

FOREWORD I vividly remember my excitement as a child each time an explorer visited our home. As I listened to one fascinating story after another, I came to see geography as an African plain full of wildlife, or the teeming, fragile web of life in a rain forest, or a polar region where only...

A imerica's Wild West was as tame as a tearoom compared with the Chinese west of Joseph Rock's day. That, at least, was the impression the Austrian-born botanist and explorer RICHARD H, STEWART (PRECEDING PAGES); JOSEPH F, ROCK (BOTH) Joseph Rock depended upon Mull's king for safe passage...

Az emberiség történetének minden korszakában születtek csodálatos építmények. Ez a könyv elkalauzol minket az ókor hét csodájától elkezdve a középkoron át a legmodernebb épületek világáig. Ezen kívül egy fejezet a természeti csodákkal, egy másik pedig kifejezetten a...

7think I first realized that it was possible to walk for pleasureas opposed to walking simply to get somewherewhen I was a boy. The Rock Island Railroad ran through West Chester, the Iowa village where I grew up, and my friends and I explored along its tracks. We hunted rabbits in winter and shady...