Adventure category: 46748 books
Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Weapon of a Jedi
A Luke Skywalker Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Luke Skywalker returns for an all-new adventure in this thrilling upper middle grade novel. Set between Star Wars: A New Hope and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the story finds Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, and R2-D2 stranded on a mysterious planet, and explores a dangerous duel between Luke and a strange...
Cubicle to Cuba
Desk Job to Dream Job
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
In this introspective travelogue, author, speaker, and adventurer Heidi Siefkas shares her transition out of the corporate world and Cubicle Land to life on the road in Cuba and beyond.
Heidi highlights another side of Cuba as well as the perspectives gained from years of travel to the once...
First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria
How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
In this hilarious memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him— literally to the ends of the earth.
Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without sushi,...
Drive Around the World
One Family, One Car, One Year, One Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
We've driven around Australia, how about we drive around the world?'
And with this one fanciful remark, the seeds were sown for what would become a worldwide adventure for one Melbourne family.
Fuelled by itchy feet and a profound desire to expand their family's horizons, after five years of meticulous...
by James David Victor
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
The man, the myth, the scoundrel.
A far-future space opera from Bestselling author James David Victor
Eliard Martin is the wayward son of House Martin. When an illegal deathrace ends in tragedy, he is blamed and sent to the prestigious military academy, Trevalyn, to learn responsibility...
by Poul Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
A time traveler stumbles upon a horrific plot to alter the future in this adventure from “one of science fiction’s most revered writers” (USA Today).
Born with a strange genetic mutation, Jack Havig can travel backward and forward in time at will. His unique gift enables him to visit...
by Kim Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Two brave women prove that to live a real life adventure, they only need to take the first step. Giving into an urge to see the world, they take their cat and move onto a sailboat in California. After a year's preparation they set sail into the Pacific Ocean. Three months later they arrive in...
Lois on the Loose
One Woman, One Motorbike, 20,000 Miles across the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Lois Pryce was working at the BBC in London, firmly set on the career track. But unbeknownst to her coworkers, Lois was leading a parallel life as well, that of a biker babe with an overwhelming case of wanderlust, one that couldn’t be satisfied by a weekend holiday. Her days in a cubicle were numbered,...
The Gold Miners' Rescue
Sheldon Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Historical fiction about great Christian heroes.
Introducing Sheldon Jackson.
As Adam Christian graduates from the famous Sitka Industrial and Training School, he dreams of one day becoming famous—like Dr. Sheldon Jackson, who started the school. The last thing Adam wants to do is...
by Eric Newby
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
With his trademark charm and sharp wit, Newby leaves no stone unturned in his quest for wonderfully detailed and quirky knowledge to share with his reader. Insightful, hilarious and sheer fun, this is an adventure not to be missed, by Britain's best-loved travel guide, and father of the genre. 'Why...
by Eric Newby
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush. Eric Newby's life of travel began in 1919, on pram-ride adventures with his mother into the dark streets of Barnes and the chaotic jungles of Harrods,...
by Eric Newby
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
A collection of writing from Britain's best-loved travel writer, ‘A Merry Dance around the World’ is the culmination of a lifetime of adventure. A collection of writing from eleven books by Britain's best-loved travel writer, A Merry Dance around the World is the culmination of a lifetime's adventures,...
Going Gypsy
One Couple's Adventure from Empty Nest to No Nest at All
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Empty nesters buy an RV and hit the road in this “thoroughly charming account of a romp across America” (Victoria Zackheim).
Almost every couple faces a “now what?” moment as their last kid moves out of the house. There’s a big empty nest looming over this new and uncertain stage...
The High Druid's Blade
The Defenders of Shannara
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Legend has it that Paxon Leah is descended from the royals and warriors who once ruled the Highlands and waged war with magical weapons. But those kings, queens, and heroes are long gone, and there is nothing enchanted about the antique sword that hangs above Paxon’s...