Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
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...
by Geoff Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
In 1912, Carl Stearns Clancy undertook the longest, most difficult and most perilous journey ever attempted on a motorcycle. By June 1913 he had made history, becoming the first person ever to travel round the world on a motorbike. A century on, bestselling author and biker Geoff Hill recreates...
Red Tape and White Knuckles
One Woman's Motorcycle Adventure Through Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
In Red Tape and White Knuckles, celebrated adventurer and author Lois Pryce shares the story of her 10,000 mile journey through the vast continent of Africa. Setting off from her home in London, Lois makes her way to the shores of Tunisia, the Sahara Desert, war-torn Angola, and the Congo basin...
Tribes with Flags
Adventure and Kidnap in Greater Syria
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
The ABC News correspondent’s riveting chronicle of his journey through the Middle East—and being held hostage by pro-Iranian terrorists in Beirut.
A New York Times Notable Book—with an introduction by the author.
On June 18, 1987, Charles Glass was kidnapped by pro-Iranian terrorists in...
Traveling in Place
A History of Armchair Travel
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn’t travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without...
The Best Travel Writing 2011
True Stories from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth,...
Boltzmann's Tomb
Travels in Search of Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
A selection of the Scientific American book club
Recommended by MSNBC, Los Angeles Times, & American Association for the Advancement of Science’s SB&F magazine
This wonderful scientific memoir captures the romance and beauty of research in precise poetic prose that is as...
Momentum Is Your Friend
The Metal Cowboy and His Pint-Sized Posse Take on America
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
“A reader’s trifecta: a humorous travelogue, a stirring adventure tale, and a touching family story.” —Bart King, author of The Big Book of Boy Stuff
Most people bring their inner child on an epic adventure. Joe “Metal Cowboy” Kurmaskie actually took his two kids along. For...
The Legacy of the Grand Tour
New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident in works of travel and literature. From its...
On the Water
Discovering America in a Row Boat
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
“I take a stroke and lean back, gazing up into the jet skies, bejeweled by the moon and the galaxies of stars. The hull glides in silence and with such perfect balance as to report no motion. I sit up for another stroke, now looking down as the blades ignite swirling pairs of white constellations...
End of the Rope
Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In June 2017, the media and the outdoor adventuring community were abuzz with news that Alex Honnold climbed Yosemite's El Capitan without a rope. Every year, we hear stories about the men who climb Everest, Anapurna, and other legendary peaks. End of the Rope brings to light the story of a woman...
THE GREAT TRAVELS & TRAVELLERS - The Incredible True Tales of Celebrated Navigators and Their Journeys (Illustrated)
The Exploration of the World - Complete Series: Discover the World through the Eyes of the Greatest Explorers in History
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: “THE GREAT TRAVELS & TRAVELLERS - The Incredible True Tales of Celebrated Navigators and Their Journeys (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This 3 Volume series takes the readers on an unforgettable journey...
Dare to Do
Taking on the planet by bike and boat
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Adventure Travel Book of the Year Award 2106
On 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France. Her aim was simple: to circle the globe entirely under her own steam - cycling, kayaking and rowing across Europe,...
by John Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
Zack Curtis truly dreads his thirtieth birthday. Estranged from his family and friends, he hopes his trip to Italy will lift his spirits and trigger the inspiration for a happier life. But he soon offends an elusive mobster who threatens to turn his dream trip into a nightmare. From the splendor of...