Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
by Janet Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Come experience a trip through South America. These adventure stories will take you through Argentina, Patagonia, Chile and Uruguay. You'll find funny stories and interesting stories and stories that might make you wonder why you're not out there traveling too.
The Impossible Takes a Little Longer
Driving Across the World and Back in a Land Rover
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The Impossible Takes a Little Longer is the story of an adventure-packed overland journey made by an inexperienced group of young men and women who set out to drive across the world to Australia and back in two old motor vehicles. The chosen route would take them through the bandit-infested areas...
A Tour of Bones
Facing Fear and Looking for Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Author, academic and adventurer, Denise Inge grew up in a large and rambunctious family on the east coast of America. She crossed the Sahara, charmed snakes in Marrakech and cycled the Adirondack mountains but her latest adventure is an interior one. It starts with the discovery that her house is...
Vanished!
Explorers Forever Lost
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
True and harrowing accounts of adventurers who never came home
Some adventures end in glory, others in obituaries. Instead of receiving laurels and a parade, the adventurers in Vanished! met infamy on a road with no return. Immerse yourself in these gripping accounts of explorers who ventured...
by Jonathan Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This book is a guide to walking the downtown streets of Yangon. Here are the stories of the streets and the people that live in them. This book is also about the love of walking, of discovering the rhythms, streetscapes and hidden treasures of individual streets. Yangon is a tough city, full of hardworking,...
by David Fetherston
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
My band of high school buddies all had a wanderlust, to search out the world, some of us went global, others headed off across the country. This story recounts the year of 1974 as The Great Australian Bite follows a life-changing journey of a young man in his early twenties from the East Coast, across...
by Judy Sheer Watters
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Hitchhiking is the least expensive way to get from point A to point B in any country. The only thing needed is a desire to be carefree throwing "caution to the wind." Once that desire hits, you must make detailed plans and consider contingencies to that plan if #1, you have no money or #2,...
In Search of Sundance, Nessie ... and Paradise!
A Family Adventure Motor-Homing Through Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to travelas one big, happy familyover one thousand miles in a motor home? Simon Bennett did more than think about it: He decided to do it. It all began when he and his wife, Emma, adopted a dolphin and a polar bear as gifts to give to their twin children...
by Nicholas Jubber
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
In 1177, Pope Alexander III wrote a letter to the legendary Priest-King of the Indies, Prester John. As his emissary he chose his physician Master Philip. No one knew where the elusive monarch's kingdom lay (or whether he even existed), but Master Philip was undeterred and set out from Rome...and...
An Affair with Africa
Expeditions and Adventures Across a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped...
by Henry M. Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Perhaps best known as the intrepid adventurer who located the missing explorer David Livingstone in equatorial Africa in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) played a major role in assembling the fragmented discoveries and uncertain geographical knowledge of central Africa into a coherent picture....
Invisible Frontier
Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins, and Rooftops of Hidden New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In the shadows of the city waits an invisible frontier—a wilderness thriving in the deep places, woven through dead storm drains and live subway tunnels, coursing over third rails. This frontier waits in the walls of abandoned tenements, hides on the rooftops, infiltrates the bridges’ steel. It’s...
The Lark Trilogy
Travels in Southern New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Three terrific books in one from one of New Zealand's leading natural-history and adventure writers. A quirky character called The Lark is threaded through three of Neville Peat's most highly acclaimed books: The Falcon and the Lark; Coasting: The Sea- Lion and the Lark, and High Country Lark. Whether...
Fly-Fishing the 41st
From Connecticut to Mongolia and Home Again: A Fisherman's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The New York Times has called James Prosek "the Audubon of the fishing world," and in Fly-Fishing the 41st, he uses his talent for descriptive writing to illuminate an astonishing adventure. Beginning in his hometown of Easton, Connecticut, Prosek circumnavigates the globe along the 41st...