num_pages: 480
description: Shares the author's eyewitness accounts of such historical moments as the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, the Eichmann trial, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the relinquishment of Hong Kong, in a collection of writings that spans the latter half of the twentieth century. 25,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The World: Travels 1950-2000
titlecomplete: The World: Travels 1950-2000
genres: Essays, Biography, Travel, School, Travelogue, Anthologies, Nonfiction, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 348
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc