Various authors recount the experiences they had while traveling through the Southwest.

At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty...

Presents a comic book version of the story of thirteenth-century explorer Marco Polo's journey to China, describing some of the things he saw while in the service of Kublai Khan.

In the winter of 1983, the largest El Niño event on record, a series of "superstorms," battered the West. That spring, a massive snowmelt sent runoff racing down the Colorado River toward the Glen Canyon Dam. As the water filled the dam, worried federal officials desperately scrambled to avoid a dramatic dam failure. In the midst of this crisis, a trio of river guides secretly launched a small, hand-built wooden boat, a dory named the Emerald Mile,...

Relates the experiences of a German prince, his servant, and a young Swiss artist as they traveled through the Missouri River Valley in 1833 learning about the territory and its inhabitants and recording their impressions in words and pictures.

"When Amelia Hollenback died in 1969 at age ninety-two, two surviving great-nieces rescued from the Hollenback residence in Brooklyn, New York, a trunk filled with letters, diaries, journals, and memorabilia from the large Hollenback family. Included in this treasure trove was the story of the 1897 trip that is the subject of this book. The time capsule offered the letters and photographs of an extraordinary southwestern adventure undertaken by sisters...

Nelofer Pazira recounts the experiences she had during her childhood in Afghanistan during the Russian occupation.