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"Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner."-Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News

"Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, and Chaucer rolled into one."-Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist

"Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way."-Sue Kenney, Canadian author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim

"I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet."-Pieter, The Netherlands

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Professor Howard J. Wiarda, a leading academic expert on foreign policy, comparative politics, and international affairs, is the author of more than eighty books. Wiarda has traveled to many of the world's most troubled and exciting places. Now, in the more personal accounts of his global travels, he recalls his foreign research adventures, the countries visited, and the people he met and interviewed along the way.

Wiarda's new four-volume set, "Exploring the World: Adventures of a Global Traveler," details his travels and foreign adventures since 2006. In these travel books, he tells...

Here Is Where chronicles Andrew Carroll's eye-opening - and at times hilarious -- journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites where extraordinary moments occurred and remarkable individuals once lived. Sparking the idea for this book was Carroll's visit to the spot where Abraham Lincoln's son was saved by the brother of Lincoln's assassin. Carroll wondered, How many other unmarked places are there where intriguing events have unfolded and that we walk past every day, not realizing their significance? To answer that question, Carroll ultimately...

By opening herself up to new adventures, she ended up finding herself.

LeAnne chose to become a fly on the wall while visiting with her daughter in Africa, humbly learning so much more about life through quiet observation. By allowing herself to be empowered to try new things, she found she could perceive concepts and ideas that were not always comfortable or easy, and in doing so attained a new kind of strength and courage--to not only discover who she was, but also who she could be.