Over 1,000 men have climbed Mount Everest, 12 have walked on the moon, and only six have rowed the North Atlantic from west to east. No woman had yet accomplished this feat—until now.

A vastly entertaining, utterly charming adventure in search of the oldest olive tree in the world, told by the talented landscape artist assigned to find it no matter the cost.

In 2003, the whole world celebrated Maud Fontenoy, the first woman to row alone across the North Atlantic. In 2005, raising the bar, she took on a far more difficult challenge: the Pacific Ocean—again, a feat no woman had ever before accomplished.

A beautiful and eminently useful guidebook to the regions of France, with more than 130 color photographs to accompany the text.

The remarkable rags-to-riches tale of Olivier Baussan and the road-side soap stand that became L'Occitane, one of the world's most successful purveyors of natural fragrances.

The Indiana Jones of travel writing takes you on yet another riotous ride in his quest to find the source of King Solomon's gold in Ethiopa, the land of the Queen of Sheba.

In the tradition of The Ice Master and The Endurance, the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery.

New York City, the capital of the world, deftly and uniquely captured in stunningly candid pictures and fetchingly personal prose, over the past half-century.

From the same magical landscape that gave birth to Frances Mayes’s best-selling Under the Tuscan Sun comes this touching, down-to-earth, humorous memoir of a native son.

A riveting white-water ride down a raging river in the Italian Alps, pitting people against Nature, in “the novel Tim Parks was born to write” (Sunday Telegraph, London).