Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920 focuses upon the presentation and descriptions of identity that are presented through the depictions of the Olympics in the national press. This book breaks Britain down into its four nations and presents the debates that were present within their national press.

In My Backpack and I, Luke Harris, a young American schoolteacher, leaves the United States for the first time to travel around the world. During his adventure, he slept on the floors of strangers, took an eighty mile hike with no preparation, joined the mile-long club, got urinated on, and was scammed out of his money. Harris tells a story that will make you want to drop everything and travel...or not.