A reality TV show sends several people on an around-the-world scavenger hunt with $1 million as the

A reality TV show sends several people on an around-the-world scavenger hunt with $1 million as the prize in Carolyn Parkhurst's novel "Lost and Found" (Little, Brown).
A real-life trip around the world is the subject of "Pedaling to Hawaii" (Countryman Press), Stevie Smith's account of his global trek using only human power -- biking, skating and pedal-boating.
"Worlds To Explore" (National Geographic) offers 54 true tales of travel and adventure, to deserts, jungles, mountains and polar regions, that appeared in National Geographic magazine during the first half of the 20th century.
Take to the highway in "The Ride of Our Lives" (Ballantine), Mike Leonard's account of his family's misadventurous one-month, two-RV cross-country road trip, and in "Riding With Strangers" (Chicago Review Press), Elijah Wald's "one thumb up" adventure hitching rides from Boston to Seattle.