Celebrated travel-writer Paul Theroux turns his pen on the Americas, describing the trip from Boston to Patagonia, from subway to steam engine.

David Elliot Cohen and his wife Devyani Kamdar decided to take a year off and travel around the world with their three young children. Here, Cohen recounts the family's amazing journey through 16 countries, describes braving some frightful incidents with wild animals, and concludes that the family has been brought closer in ways that never would have been possible had they not left their hectic American existence.

The founder of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit revisits some famous and not-so-famous cases, providing psychological profiles of stalkers, murderers, and rapists.

Set at the end of the 18th century, the story is told by a man who tends the graves of the old Scottish Covenanters. As he tells their stories, a picture of Scotland during the Jacobite Rebellion is created, particularly in the tale of the novel's hero, Henry Morton, a Covenanter in love with a woman from a family of royalist sympathizers, and the noble Lord Evandale, who saves Morton's life even though they both love the same woman.

An avid sea kayaker writes about Irish history and culture, which presents an opportunity for self-reflection and soul searching. Chris Duff has traveled thousands of miles by sea kayak, including the three-month journey around the British Isles he describes here.