Charley Boorman

Ewan McGregor

Robert Uhlig

The popular actors recount their three-month, 20,000-mile motorbike journey from London to New York through three continents and some of the harshest terrain on Earth.

Chasing Shadows Across the World

Long Way Round

From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started. Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their stamina. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls' testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads. And yet despite all these obstacles they managed to ride more than twenty thousand miles in four months, changing their lives forever in the process. As they travelled they documented their trip, taking photographs, and writing diaries by the campfire. Long Way Round is the result of their adventures - a fascinating, frank and highly entertaining travel book about two friends riding round the world together and, against all the odds, realising their dream.

The author describes his participation in the most challenging race in the world, the Dakar Rally, along with two fellow motorcyclists, and details their adventures in the countries hosting the rally as well as the history of the race.

Race to Dakar

David Hempleman-Adams

"Walking on Thin Ice?" is a lesson requiring students to examine the scientific evidence of changes in the Arctic ice cover, intended for use with students in grades 6-12. Eric J. Miller and Andrea J. Perelman created this lesson, which is based on a "New York Times" article. The lesson includes objectives, procedures, and extension activities. The Learning Network, a service of the New York Times Co., provides the lesson online as part of the Daily Lesson Plan Teacher Connections resource.

In Pursuit of the North Pole

Walking on Thin Ice

James Dyson

Dyson details the greatest achievements of the human imagination since early hominids invented stone tools about 250,000 years ago. Through thousands of years and vital inventions more -- the canoe, the wheel, ink and papyrus, language, maps, currency, law -- the primitive hunter-gatherer of the Stone Age would evolve into the literate citizen of ancient Rome at the time of Christ, as the opening chapter of this fascinating chronicle shows. Succeeding chapters follow human technological advances up to the seventeenth century and then in the age of industrial power, the age of electricity, the atomic age, and the postwar world of the microchip and the genome. Also includes universal joint, steam engine, ball bearings, steam wagon, battery, suspension bridge, dynamo & motor, fuel cell, vulcanization of rubber, airship, internal combustion engine, bicycle, traffic lights, steam turbine, fingerprint forensics, motor car, motorcycle, lie detector, aeroplane, windscreen wipers, caterpillar tracks, television, liquid-fuel rocket, jet engine, helicopter, obile phone, general-purpose computer, video game, computer mouse, optical disc, lcd and led, personal computer, and many others. Not only does Dyson survey the history of human inventions, he also explores the circumstances and impulses that underlie them. While necessity often proves to be the mother of invention, frustration and serendipity, too, can prod genius. Frustration over the countless ships and lives lost at sea led to John Harrison's invention of extraordinarily accurate clock.

Great Inventions

This complete illustrated history of inventions and inventors that have shaped civilization and the modern world is a useful reference guide and source of inspiration for would-be inventors of all kinds, young and old alike.

Mammoth Book of Great Inventions

A handsome, lavishly illustrated volume celebrates the human genius for invention from the dawn of civilization to the beginning of the new millennium.

Robert Uhlig

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