Something wild is happening on Christmas Island, once ground zero for nuclear test explosions.
By David Wolman Aug 31, 2008
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In Antarctica, Gretchen Legler found a tribe of eccentrics living at 70-below under the biggest ozone hole on earth. She also found love.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
December 20, 2005
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In "Where Mountains Are Nameless," fearless adventurer Jonathan Waterman makes a passionate, personal case for preserving the Arctic Wildlife Refuge -- and the polar bears and caribous that call it home.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
August 2, 2005
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Russell Crowe and director Peter Weir bring Patrick O'Brian's seafaring adventures to the screen in this glorious and heartfelt action movie for grown-ups.
By Stephanie Zacharek
November 14, 2003
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Bill Bryson goes Down Under and finds an underdiscovered country with the friendliest inhabitants and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife on the planet.
June 19, 2001
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Bill Bryson -- A Walk in the Woods
Read by Bill Bryson
October 5, 2000
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Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks
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October 5, 2000
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"Into Thin Air"
By Jon Krakauer
October 5, 2000
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We've sold everything and we're hitting the road with our kids.
By Kate Convissor
August 9, 2000
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A quartet of intrepid mountain bikers tackles the far, unfriendly reaches of
Death Valley National Park -- and learns some lessons about life.
By David Darlington
June 5, 2000
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Public life may be dominated by men, but the worlds of house and hammam belong to women.
By Laura Fraser
April 21, 2000
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On an innocent walk into the Libyan Desert, our correspondent
discovers just how easily fancied adventures can turn into real ones.
By Rolf Potts
March 28, 2000
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I was willing to spring my gay porn past on my unsuspecting family if it would get me on the TV show "Survivor." But would it?
By Dylan James
March 13, 2000
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A lotus-eating stay on a Greek island ends with a life-changing midnight encounter.
By Laurie Gough
March 11, 2000
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Serendipity is the traveler's best friend.
By David Fox
January 12, 2000
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You cannot imagine the position I've been in since I started writing about sex.
By Virginia Vitzthum
January 11, 2000
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At Corfu's Pink Palace, the ouzo flows, the crockery flies and the libidos run wild.
By Rolf Potts
January 4, 2000
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An enigmatic encounter with a would-be African terrorist leaves an expatriate wondering about truth and faith.
By Frank Bures
December 8, 1999
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When I finally kissed a man in Africa, he ran away.
By Tanya Shaffer
December 3, 1999
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Between the fistfights and the Finnish girls, it's hard to get any writing done.
By Rolf Potts
November 23, 1999
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A woman confronts her painful past on an Outward Bound pilgrimage into the heart of fear.
By Barbara Wilson
November 20, 1999
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I journeyed 5,000 miles to learn that God is in the weiners and William S. Burroughs is a cult star.
By Rolf Potts
November 13, 1999
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At an obscure border town, our
correspondent discovers the biggest obstacle in negotiating the next
4,000 miles: The train has left without him.
By Rolf Potts
November 10, 1999
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In his first dispatch from an epic Beijing-St. Petersburg train trip, our
correspondent explores the mysteries of Mongolia.
By Rolf Potts
November 9, 1999
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In Gabon, a disenchanted journalist embarks on a hallucinogenic tribal rite.
By Daniel Pinchbeck
November 3, 1999
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