Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
by Merri Melde
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
A turbulent rafting trip down one of the world's wildest navigable rivers, the mighty Zambezi in Zimbabwe, tests the author's mettle, bringing her face to face with her weakness. Merri Melde's inspired narration of this short story provides a thrilling and terrifying ride for readers on this white-water adventure.
by Mark Gluckman
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This revised guide to a fast-growing water sport is for both novices and experienced kayakers. Whether you want to fish or just watch wildlife, sea kayaking offers new ways to enjoy Florida's hidden bays and open oceans. You'll find the latest information for a kayaking adventure: boats, camping,...
by Landis Ray Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
In the summer of 1974, I travelled through India and Nepal with a backpack and a low budget. As a member of an underground yoga sect, I encountered the third world up close and personal. It was a journey in search of my soul which nearly cost me my life. From late night police raids to spear toting...
Traveling Without Reservations
The Kids Grew Up, the Dog Died, We Took Off!
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Jean and Michael Gerber did what most of us only dream of doing. They sold their house, quit their jobs, and started an incredible and unforeseen journey. In Traveling without Reservations, Jean shares the story of traveling the world with her husband.
For two years, using the Greek Isles as...
The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys
32 eye-witness accounts of adventure in the Antarctic
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand accounts of men and women challenging one of the Earth's last...
Antarctica
A Tale of the Snow land
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Log in for a true adventure to a world of visual splendor and experience an intimate portrait of the most mysterious white continent ANTARCTICA by - Sutapa Joti - "A TALE OF THE SNOW LAND".
In Bengali: আশ্চর্য বরফদেশে ভ্রমনের অভিজ্ঞতার...
An Adirondack Passage
The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
A paddling classic back in print with new maps, photos, details, and afterword.
Christine Jerome walked into the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, and promptly fell in love with a 9-foot, 10½-pound canoe named the Sairy Gamp. More than a century before, in 1883, the Sairy Gamp...
Borderless Collie
One dog's grown up gap year
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Borderless Collie is the true story, wagging tails and all, of what it’s really like to step off the career ladder and take a grown-up gap year. Apparently lots of the 'thirty-something' generation, tired of scraping together that unaffordable-house deposit, dream of setting off on the adventure...
At Home Abroad
Today's Expats Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Who are the 21st-century expats? Do you wonder what motivates millions around the world to leave their homes, family and friends to immerse themselves in unfamiliar cultures, learn foreign languages and get to know new people? Have you considered joining them?
It’s a movement; the number...
Around the World on Two Wheels
An Old Man's Journeys through 76 Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Have you seen Hans Karlsson? If you live somewhere on this planet, he’s probably been there, riding through on his Honda Gold Wing. Around the World on Two Wheels: An Old Man’s Motorcycle Journeys Through 76 Countries recounts the true adventures of a man who has ridden (and is riding) his bike...
The Diary of an American Expatriate
I Came, I Saw, I Panicked
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Have you ever thought of chucking everything and starting life over in a new country? This is the true story of Ilene Springer who tells you what it's like to leave the US at the age of 55 to start a new life in another country, while reluctantly leaving two grown daughters behind who claim she is abandoning...
Seyyah
A 20,000 km journey along the Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Following the footsteps of Marco Polo, Alexander and Chenghis Khan, Gautham’s 20,000 km journey along the Silk Road traverses 8 countries - Greece – Turkey – Iran – Turkmenistan – Uzbekistan – Kyrgyzstan – China – Hong Kong. The adventure of travelling by land is not just about re-exploring...
The Geography of Madness
Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Why do some men become convinced—despite what doctors tell them—that their penises have, simply, disappeared. Why do people across the world become convinced that they are cursed to die on a particular date—and then do? Why do people in Malaysia suddenly “run amok”?
In The Geography...
Dragon Sea
A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed off the Coast of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Frank Pope pulls back the curtain on the intensely competitive underworld of shipwrecks in this thrilling story of treasure hunting gone wrong. When Oxford archeologist Mensun Bound—dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the Deep" by the Discovery Channel—teamed up with a financier to salvage...