Adventure category: 46748 books
Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR
What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?**
In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast...
Adrift
Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting...
by M.G. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This is a collection of the first three picture books in the World Adventurers for Kids Series: "Alexander the Salamander," "Ellie the Elephant," and "Zoe the Zebra."
The World Adventurers for Kids Series features illustrated adventure stories told in...
City of Djinns
A Year in Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Peeling back the layers of Delhi’s centuries-old history, City of Djinns is an irresistible blend of research and adventure.
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from...
At Home in the World
Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family’s adventure around the world—seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way—she discovers what it truly means to be at home.
The wide world is calling.
Americans Tsh and Kyle met...
Crazy River
Exploration and Folly in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out...
The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost
A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has never visited. There she forms...
Around the World in 50 Years
My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the...
by Airborne Andy
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
11,260 miles, 25 days, 5 bears, 4 tires, 3 close encounters, 2 oil changes, 2x out of gas, 1 crash, 1 fire, 1 blizzard, 1 dog fight, 1 thousand mile day, and 1 conversation with God! “Alaska by Motorcycle – are you sure you know what you are doing?” is the story of one man’s experience braving...
by John Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches....
Yukon Alone
The World's Toughest Adventure Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In the tradition of Into the Wild, a story of daring and determination in one of nature's harshest, loneliest, and most beautiful places.
The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is among the most challenging and dangerous of all the organized sporting events in the world. Every February,...
by John Scalzi
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
*2018 LOCUS AWARD WINNER OF BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL*
*2018 HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL*
“John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today.” —Joe Hill, author of The Fireman
The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe...
Rogue Protocol
The Murderbot Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Rogue Protocol is the third entry in Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries.
Starring a human-like android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left...
by David Gerrold
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
This space adventure series is filled with “moral conundrums, fascinating characters, and pulse-pounding action” (Robert J. Sawyer, author of Starplex).
The Morthans consider the human race to be little better than animals—even though they came from humans themselves. Now they are determined...