Most people set their sights on a trip to Disney World, John Cross goes to Churchill Manitoba to watch Polar Bears. This is an adventure book full of historical and personal antidotes rather than your usual travel guide.

A great read for the daring traveler.

Frank Hyland, former AJC writer and editor, and best selling biographer.

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of man and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's...