Looks at the worlds of Amelia Earhart, Jacques Cousteau, Marco Polo and other famous explorers, sharing real-life photographs of their equipment and personal possessions as well as objects they found.

Alastair Bonnett explores extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places including micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands. Consider Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and making his wife a princess. Or Baarle, a patchwork city of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the street can involve traversing national borders. Or Sandy...

Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution.

"Simple text and full-color photographs describe the highest places on the planet"--

Presents charts, tables, lists, and other data on animals, money, continents, countries, calendars, nomadic peoples, costume, languages, food, plants, flags, cartography, oceans and rivers, music, cities, landmarks, religion, and weather.

Essays on the natural world of the redrock desert and canyons of Utah and Arizona.