Upper Loch Torridon. Photograph by Joseph Bowman The Scottish Highlands - located in northern Scotland between the North Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east - are noted for cool, cloudy, rainy maritime weather; endless, grassy moorlands; brooks of clean, cold water; fresh air, beautiful lochs an

High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak. When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by. From, "The Story of Mankind," by Hendrick Van Loon, published by Boni & Liveright, Inc., 1921. Page 1. The Crusader Castle at Simena was constructed by the Knights of Rhodes, probably i

A view of Grand Canyon's north rim from Skeleton Point. Photographer: Joseph Bowman Grand Canyon, located in northwestern Arizona, is over a mile deep, 18 miles wide in places, and 277 miles long. The Colorado River snakes and crashes through the bottom of the Canyon, flowing from northeast to southwest, eventually emptying into the Gulf of California. In her review of Kevin Fedarko’s book, “A Walk In The Park,” outdoor adventure writer Blair Braverman described the Canyon

Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro stands 19,341 feet above sea level at its highest point, Uhuru Peak, which sits atop Kibo, the highest of the three volcanic peaks that form Kilimanjaro. The mountain is located only three degrees south of the Equator, but is nevertheless capped with snow and glaciers, and is battered by high winds and ice storms even during the austral summer from January to March. No one is exactly sure what "Kilimanjaro" means. People say the name has its roo