Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this guide serves up a feast of wonder. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? Sardinia's "Threads of God" pasta? But far more than a menu of curious delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food's central place in our lives, touching on history--trace the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories. Culture--picture four million women gathering to make rice pudding. Travel--scale...

Gulliver's travels: Set sail for a grand adventure in storytelling with Gulliver, an 18th-century Englishman who travels to mystical lands filled with cunning sorcery, talking beasts and encounters with a mysterious tiny society. Odyssey : Join Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, on his heroic quest to return to his kingdom and family with riches much greater than gold.

Byx is the youngest member of her dairne pack. Believed to possess remarkable abilities, her mythical doglike species has been hunted to near extinction in the war-torn kingdom of Nedarra. After her pack is hunted down and killed, Byx fears she may be the last of her species. The Endling. So Byx sets out to find safe haven, and to see if the legends of other hidden dairnes are true. Along the way, she meets new allies--animals and humans alike--who...

When his friend moves away, a boy sets out on a journey to find her.

Margo Crane, a beautiful and uncanny markswoman, takes to the Stark River after being complicit in the death of her father and embarks on an odyssey in search of her vanished mother.

Yevliesza has been caring for her ailing father when she is summoned home to a world she has never seen. Using a hidden portal, she enters the realm of Numinat, a myth world arisen from legend. Although she is the daughter of witches, she was raised in the modern age with little knowledge of their arisen world and none of their magic. For the the last leg of her journey, she flies on the back of a dragon. When a storm splits open the sky, Yevliesza...