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To feel the warm sea breeze of the Aegean, the roll of the ship, to see the dancing waves foam at the prow, to live for a moment like a modern-day Ulysses, and to explore the deep mysteries of Greek culture, ancient, medieval and modern, or to bask in the glories of the Italian renaissance--all of these delights and many more await readers of Cosmopolite's Journey. The journey includes, in stark contrast, experiences in the Second World War, an interlude in colonial Africa, and even an escape from an earthquake. This is travel writing at its best, and the reader's experience is...

The Whales, They Give Themselves is an intimate life history of Harry Brower, Sr. (1924-1992), an Inupiaq whaling captain, artisan, and community leader from Barrow, Alaska. In a life that spanned the profound cultural and economic changes of the twentieth century, Brower's vast knowledge of the natural world made him an essential contributor to the Native and scientific communities of the North. His desire to share his insights with future generations resulted in a series of conversations with friend and oral historian Karen Brewster, who weaves Harry's stories with cultural and...

This text explores the rivers of Greece which were gods and gods who were rivers, as individual deities in myth and art. Accounts of them are given by historians, mythographers and travellers, as well as by writers from Homer to Ovid.