. >> here are a few book fairs and festivals from around the country: >> from new york city, lieil leibovitz visit the chinese empire in 1872. the boys are listed as members as the chinese educational mission were sent to the united states to lead the innovations of the west and return to china with new ideas. this is about 35 minutes. >> before i start to tell you the story of these remarkable men, i'd like to tell a very short story of a far less remarkable man myself. i was born in tel aviv israel and i was born my mother took me to send the center any exotic faraway land filled with rich and splendid treasures. i am talking of course about the jersey. when i got to new jersey and attended summer camp for a couple months, i made a bunch of startling discoveries. some discoverers were small, like the fact they choose previously believed to reside in fruit, actually could come in a box or that there was a channel mtv but had nothing but cartoons. but other discoveries were significantly larger, like baseball. even with my juice and cartoon adult and 10-year-old mind, i knew there was someth