You know a trek is badass when it was created along a rugged coast to rescue shipwreck survivors. When its Wikipedia article is loaded with phrases like "surge channels" and "impassable headlands". When a friend of a friend sees a documentary on the trek, doesn't catch the name, and emails, "Tell me where this trek...

Rory MacLean's ' The Oatmeal Ark ' is part travel memoir, part historical fiction. Or maybe it's part history book, and part travel fiction. It's hard to pin this book down: it blurs the line between fact and fiction, past and present. The book follows the fictional Beagan Gillean as he travels the world in...

Despite being the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border is getting harder to cross with each tick of Homeland Security's danger level. As of January 31, 2008, all airplane flights to and from Canada required a valid passport; all highway border crossings required some serious documentation: ID card plus birth certificate,...