Intrigued to learn that fleets of dhows have sailed the Indian Ocean with the monsoon winds for thousands of years aand still sail today, a the author flies to

Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across th

On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the

Monsoons can both help and harm people, plants, and animals. Readers learn how these powerful forces of nature form and their effects in several different place