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October 2001

Engineering Odysseys

Scientists' curiosity often turns them into world travelers. But the ease of travel makes it hard to really get away.

By Michael Hawley

Finish your summer book list? Mine included Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354, translated by H. A. R. Gibb; The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin; and a pair of books by Boston's most enduring couple, Brad and Barbara Washburn (The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mt. McKinley, by Barbara with Lew Freedman; and Exploring the Unknown: Historic Diaries of Bradford Washburn's Alaska/Yukon Expeditions, edited by Lew Freedman).

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