"A middle grade biography of Jack London that sheds light on how he drew upon adventure and life experience to create works of literature"--

John Craighead George is an Arctic whale scientist studying bowhead whales in Barrow, Alaska. He conducts his research in harmony with the cultural traditions of the Iñupiaq Eskimos, natives to the area, who have been hunting these whales for more than two thousand years.

Chronicle of an expedition into the Llanganati Mountains of Ecuador in search of 750 tons of worked gold, which the Incas hid from the Spanish conquistadors after Pizarro executed the Sun King, Atahualpa.

An exploration of one of America's great rivers, from its headwaters in Minnesota to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico.