Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Travel Writing. In HIKING IN SIBERIA, Lawrence Millman follows the trail of a woman who once tried to walk (and row) from New York City to Siberia. He also gets a ride from an apparent ghost in Iceland and attends a feast in Micronesia where the pièce de résistance is fruit bat penis...read more

Product Description: Let author Lawrence Millman escort you on a journey into the history of over 150 fungi species. Learn how to make spore prints, discover which species are edible, find out which mushroom the Vikings ate before their raids and more.

A fascinating true adventure story chronicles the experiences of Edward Beauclerk Maurice, a young explorer for the Hudson Bay Company who was taught survival techniques, and much more, by the Inuit people. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Product Description: A fearless explorer searches for gold on the rugged Canadian frontier in this adventure classic.

Eskimo folktales in translation

A fresh collection of true-life adventure stories by the acclaimed author of An Evening Among Headhunters from across the globe takes readers to remote Pacific Islands, the Arctic, and Alaska, among other wild places. Original.

The author of Our Like Will Not Be There Again and Northern Latitudes recounts his experiences traveling from Norway to Newfoundland via the Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The first collection of poetry by noted travel writer Lawrence Millman."Tent Dwellers—Okak, Labrador"Inside this licheny ring of stones that once held down a sealskin tent, I pitch my own domed aquamarine tent and then quickly crawl inside to escape an ice pellet shower, whereupon I see a couple of my predecessors squatting dim and hazy, Dorset People with cuprous, epicanthic faces, scrapers of skin, tellers of tales, diviners of the weather, who stare at this pallid specimen from a distant age in his nylon-lined apparel, astonished that he somehow survived and they did not...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays recounting journeys to such locations as the Cook Islands, the Arctic Circle, the Yukon Territory, the isle of Sark, and the Ecuadiorian Amazon describe the author's encounters with the locals and experiences with their cultures

Describes the year spent by Englishmen John Hornby and James Critchell-Bullock in the Barren Lands of Canada's Northwest Territories in 1924

Product Description: Book by Millman, Lawrence

Includes tales of Wolverine the trickster, unusual partners, cannibals, animals, magic, and the hero Tchakapesh, as told by the Innu of Labrador, a Native Canadian people who have experienced relatively few outside influences

Product Description: Book by Millman, Lawrence

Jesse is a slightly retarded teenaged boy whose perspective on his older brother's experiences in Vietnam leads him to acts of violence in imitation of the war he sees on the television news