Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Fun Disneyland Adventure
Enjoy You Disney California Adventure With This Handbook’s Ultimate Guide On How To Enjoy Disneyland Vacation, Excellent Ideas On Disneyland Weddings, Hotels, Baby Centers And A Whole Lot More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Disneyland is a place for everyone, and at Disneyland, they have thought of everything – including the babies. The Disneyland Baby Center is located on Main Street, behind the Plaza Inn. This is not a babysitting service. Instead, it is a place where you can attend to your babies needs.
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by Dennis Puleston
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1939
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1939
Few sailors have had a more varied and adventurous six years at sea than Dennis Puleston did from 1931-1937. Working as a teller in a London bank, he thirsted for adventure. After pooling his savings with a friend, he quit his job and went to sea on a 31 foot yawl. After a brief sail down the Portuguese...
Himalaya
A Literary Homage to Adventure, Meditation, and Life on the Roof of the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Intimate, exhilarating writings on adventure, meditation, and life in the captivating wildness of the Himalayan Mountains—with contributions from Amitav Ghosh, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore, Peter Matthiessen, and more.
For some, the Himalaya is a frontier against which people test themselves....
Darwin Slept Here
Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
**This entertaining combination of history, biography, and travel adventure is “a bracingly fresh portrait [of] Darwin . . . Nothing less than exhilarating” (Michael Pollan, New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma).
One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, Eric Simons...
by Lonely Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Journey back in time with this collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers. These extraordinary odysseys over land and sea captivated audiences and gave them a glimpse into countries, cities and cultures like never before.
Tales include Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed...
by Richard Henry Dana
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a...
Off Track
Anthology from The Writer's Playground
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
From an eerie green mist filling the rail car, to the rickety rails of India. From misunderstandings about other passengers, to disagreements between red riding hood and her lover. From long journeys, to quick deaths. If you find yourself riding the Tube on the way to work, or facing a longer journey...
Summer Doorways
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A memoir of youth and travel through post-WWII Europe from the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet of Migrations.
In 1948, both the European continent and a young poet named William Stanley Merwin were embarking on periods of profound change. Twenty-one, newly married and just...
The Great Travels & Travellers (Illustrated Edition)
The Exploration of the World - Complete Series: Discover the World through the Eyes of the Greatest Explorers in History
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This 3 Volume series takes the readers on an unforgettable journey from 505 BCE till 19th Century recounting extraordinary tales of exploration and navigators. Verne's knowledge is truly remarkable and vast which he has also used in his great science fiction classics and adventure stories and thus,...
by Peter Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Madagascar is a land where lizards scream and monkey-like lemurs sing songs of inexpressible beauty. KKnown as the Great Red Island, it is a place where fossa and tenrecs, vangas and aye ayes thrive in a true 'Lost World' alongside bizarre plants like the octopus tree and the three-cornered palm....
by Phil Deutschle
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
With his life literally hanging from a slender rope over a crevasse near the top of a Himalayan mountain, a young man relives in his mind a relentless two-year physical and spiritual test as a Peace Corps volunteer in a remote mountain village of Nepal.
Combining the elements of adventure story,...
Writing On The Road
A Tour de France for My Father
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Nina Jenkin's father Roy died of cancer when she was eight years old. In 1953, aged 21, he and his student friend Gordon Newbery had undertaken a 2300-mile cyclng trip through France and he kept a diary of their travels which he later worked up into an illustrated travelogue with over 150 pictures...
Cycle Touring For Beginners
A Guide To Exploring Near And Far By Bicycle
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
Cycling is one of the loveliest ways of travelling, and anyone can have as much of an adventure cycling to a town or village twenty miles from their home as riding to the other side of the world.
Cycle Touring For Beginners has twin aims:
The first is to encourage you to try cycle touring...
The Lonely Planet Story
Once While Travelling
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
The highly readable Lonely Planet Story: Once While Travelling is a unique mix of autobiography, business history and travel book. It traces founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler’s personal story as well as the often-bumpy evolution of their travel guide business into the world’s largest independent...