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Despite seeing an 11% drop in popularity, Expedia remains the top travel-related site on the Internet. Overall, travel industry web sites saw a 2% drop in total…

Review: Traveller (1997)

Director/ Director of Photography: Jack GreenWriter: Jim McGlynnEditor:Michael RuscioMusic:Andy PaleyProduction Designer:Michael HelmyProducers:Bill Paxton, Brian Swardstrom, Mickey Liddell…

Is it Safe to Travel in Africa?

Is it really dangerous? Africa is famous for its natural beauty, national parks, and amazing wildlife. Unfortunately, it is also well-known for being unsafe. While this may be true for some areas…

Blues Traveler Biography

Blues Travelerblues/rock band Lead singer John Popper almost had no choice but to embark upon a music career after his parents had enrolled him in music lessons for one instrument after…

Hall, Basil

(Encyclopedia) Hall, Basil, 1788–1844, British naval officer and traveler. In the service from 1802 to 1823, he commanded vessels on scientific assignments and voyages of exploration. He wrote of…

Garrettson, Freeborn

(Encyclopedia) Garrettson, Freeborn, 1752–1827, American Methodist preacher, b. Maryland. At the time of his conversion to Methodism (1775), he freed his slaves and began his journeys as a preacher.…

Chamisso, Adelbert von

(Encyclopedia) Chamisso, Adelbert von (Louis Charles Adelaide de Chamisso)Chamisso, Adelbert vonäˈdəlbĕrt fən shəmĭˈsō [key], 1781–1838, German poet and naturalist, b. Château de Boncourt, France. He…

Baron Munchausen: Introduction

by Rudolph Erich Raspe Travels of Baron MunchausenIntroduction It is a curious fact that of that class of literature to which Munchausen belongs, that namely of Voyages Imaginaires, the…