Although he edits travel and adventure magazine for a living and is married to a Peruvian, Mark Adams was more comfortable with hotels and beds rather than tents and sleeping bags and hardly ever traveled outside of Lima while in Peru. But that didn’t stop him from hooking up with one of the best travel guides in South America, a Peruvian mule driver, a cook, a half-dozen mules and a couple of guys to drive them to follow the footsteps of the man who was once known as the discoverer of Machu Picchu, Hiram Bingham.

In Berlin in the 1930s, Karl Stern learns to box from legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.

Two beavers thwart an evil plot by penguins who plan to turn Beaver Island into a frosty resort.