I was capitvated with this book the moment I saw the cover on a book stand at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. I was nearing the completion of another book, so I picked it up and threw it in my pack to read as soon as I returned to Denver. And then Ian Baker's The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise sat on my home bookshelf for a couple of years for a reason I can't really explain. I picked it up a couple of weeks ago, at the start of my Christmas break, an...

There are so many historic trails in the United States that it's difficult to pick just one to study. The Lewis and Clark trail though holds a special place in the hearts of Americans, largely because it's the only one most of us have heard of, as we learned about it in grade school. To further my very limited grade school knowledge, I thought it'd be a good idea to pick up The Journals of Lewis and Clark and give it a go as there didn't seem to be a better way to learn about such a trip th...