Best of
Travelogue

1994

Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers


Jim Rogers - 1994
    Investment Biker is the fascinating story of Rogers’s global motorcycle journey/investing trip, with hardheaded advice on the current state and future direction of international economies that will guide and inspire investors interested in foreign markets.

Wedding Bells for Beatrice


Betty Neels - 1994
    A widower with a small child and a busy medical career needed someone to make sure his domestic life ran smoothly. What she hadn't counted on was his decision to offer her the position. As his wife, she would have a comfortable lifestyle and everything that money could buy. But what was that, if Gijs couldn't offer her what she truly wanted�love?

West of the Thirties: Discoveries Among the Navajo and Hopi


Edward T. Hall - 1994
    This firsthand account illuminates the different logic of the Navajo and Hopi in a rough-and-tumble bygone world. 24 photos.

The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca


Michael Wolfe - 1994
    One of the world’s longest-lived religious rites, having continued without break for fourteen hundred years, it is, like all things Islamic, shrouded in mystery for Westerners. In The Hadj, Michael Wolfe, an American who converted to Islam, recounts his own journey a pilgrim, and in doing so brings readers close to the heart of what the pilgrimage means to a member of the religion that claims one-sixth of the world’s population. Not since Sir Richard Burton’s account of the pilgrimage to Mecca over one hundred years ago has a Western writer described the Hadj in such fascinating detail.