In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot – from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip Author Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), OBE, DSO was a British author and soldier,…
A memoir of one young man’s coming of age on a journey across America–told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the way. Author Andrew Forsthoefel is a speaker and peace activist. After graduating from Middlebury College, he spent a year walking across the highways of America,…
The exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S.military personnel into a land that time forgot. Author Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is the author of Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of…
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. Author An American journalist who wrote for Collier’s, among other magazines and was later an editor for Time, Inc. Books. Alfred Lansing served in the US Navy from 1940-46. He…
