Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Incredible Adventure and Exploration Stories
Tales of Daring from across the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
An exciting collection of dangerous adventures, harrowing travels, and heart-stopping journeys, Incredible Adventure and Exploration Stories compiles tales from around the globe that are sure to amaze.
Popular and well-known tales of exploration venturing overland and across the sea are featured,...
by Ben Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A Himalayan Journey into Madness, Mayhem and Adventure !It documents a Nepal not spoken or written about in other travel or adventure stories – not sparing the reader from harsh realities, corruption and madness; a sojourn into the Himalayas that succinctly captures the myths, history, geography...
Why Travel Matters
A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
When you travel, you have a choice: You can be a tourist and have a nice time, or you can be a traveler and change your life. Why Travel Matters is for those who want to change their lives.
Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel...
Mobile Narratives
Travel, Migration, and Transculturation
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th–21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The ultimate adventure guide
This is the most comprehensive guide to Java ever produced. Hundreds of pages of travel tips and dozens of lively articles on history, nature, and the arts, take you right under the surface of Javanese life, with visits to lots of unique places.
Under the volcano
Java’s...
Indonesian New Guinea Adventure Guide
WEST PAPUA / IRIAN JAYA
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Journey to the Stone Age
In one of the last untamed places on Earth, Indonesian New Guinea’s snowcapped peaks tower above steaming rainforests and huge crocodiles stalk in thick mangroves ringing the island. Whether you lounge on the white beaches of Biak, or trek around Wamena, Indonesian...
Ultimate Book of Adventure
Life-Changing Excursions and Experiences Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
From tracking gorillas in Uganda to cliff diving in Brazil, surfing a volcano in Nicaragua, or starting a tomato fight in Spain, this action-packed guide is bursting with inspiring ideas for trying the unfamiliar, taking risks, or pursuing a new experience. Containing in-depth descriptions and logistical...
by Lisa Fleetwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2016
With teenage children and in-laws in tow, the Fleetwood family embark on their 3 month family vacation just days after the tragic loss of their beloved dachshund, Coco. When two miniature dachshunds in smart winter coats are spotted in Moscow, it's game on! A riotous, often hilarious dachshund spotting...
by Terrance Zepke
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
South Africa is one of the most popular destinations in the world because it has so much to offer...
At the top of the list is their spectacular scenery, such as Drakensburg Mountains, Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Peninsula--all of which offer a wonderful backdrop for their vast and amazing...
Pausanias
Travel Writing in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
In this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives. She considers the process and influences that shaped the "Periegesis", and maps out its literary and cultural context. Pausanias' text records contemporary interpretations of monuments...
Are We There Yet?
Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism connects the Victorian fascination with "virtual travel" with the rise of realism in nineteenth-century fiction and twenty-first-century experiments in virtual reality. Even as the expansion of river and railway networks in the nineteenth...
Livin'
From the Amsterdam Red Light to the African Bush
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In spite of a lifelong passion for travel, author Frankie Hogan admits that he often fell victim to “life getting in the way” until he decided, once and for all, to stop giving in to easy excuses, stop yielding to the reasons not to—and stop the cycle of procrastinating, putting off and waiting...
Extreme Pursuits
Travel/Writing in an Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Recent figures suggest that there will be 1.6 billion arrivals at world airports by the year 2020. Extreme Pursuits looks at the new conditions of global travel and the unease, even paranoia, that underlies them---at the opportunities they offer for alternative identities and their oscillation between...
Britain and the Narration of Travel in the Nineteenth Century
Texts, Images, Objects
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Interrogating the multiple ways in which travel was narrated and mediated, by and in response to, nineteenth-century British travelers, this interdisciplinary collection examines to what extent these accounts drew on and developed existing tropes of travel. The three sections take up personal and...