Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Dark Waters (The Expedition Trilogy, Book 1)
True Story of the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
“This is a delightful and funny adventure ... It is also lonely, dangerous and frightening.”—THE LONDON TIMES
He survived a terrifying crocodile attack off Australia’s Queensland coast, blood poisoning in the middle of the Pacific, malaria in Indonesia and China, and...
Oh Mexico!
Love and Adventure in Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
"Anybody who has ever been a 20-something traveler should enjoy this engaging read." - Bookseller and Publisher
Set against the vibrant background of one of the world's most dangerous cities, Oh Mexico! is not only a classic travel memoir, but also contains great narrative and stuffed...
by John Hay, W. Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
I've always been a fan of nineteenth-century travel narratives in English. They make comparisons that reveal more about England or the US than they do about the country visited. They don't avoid showing their awe or their disgust. They're resolutely opinionated and unabashedly judgmental. In other words,...
The New Age of Adventure
Ten Years of Great Writing
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
National Geographic Adventure has published the best work by today’s finest writers, and this tenth anniversary anthology assembles an elite corps of authors that includes Sebastian Junger, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Caputo, and two dozen others. These reporters have voyaged to the ends of the earth...
by Adam Nicolson
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Accompanied by an eight-part series, this is the story of Adam Nicolson’s adventure in a small boat around the western coast of the British Isles. Early in the year, Adam Nicolson decided to leave his comfy life at home on a Sussex farm and go on an adventure. Equipped with the Auk, a forty-two-foot...
by Deon Maas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
City boy Deon Maas flees the suburbs in search of adventure, and Africa is where he reckons he will find it. Over a period of 15 years he embarks on several journeys, once with his whole family in tow, to discover what it means to be African.He ends up ducking pirates in Madagascar, spending a night...
On a Mission from Dog
Walking Adventures in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Warned about living in the country of her dreams - Kenya - Lorraine closes the door on adventure and buries herself in domestic life. Lorraine is lured outdoors by 'DOG', a flea infested mutt who arrives on the doorstep. DOG is comfortable in this scary new world, and as they begin walking together,...
The Circumference of Home
One Man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
This much is clear to me. If I can’t change my own life in response to the greatest challenge now facing our human family, who can? And if I won’t make the effort to try, why should anyone else? So I’ve decided to start at home, and begin with myself. The question is no longer whether I must...
The City at Three P.M.
Writing, Reading, and Traveling
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In The City at Three PM, award-winning fiction writer Peter LaSalle offers 11 startlingly original personal essays dealing with his longtime quest for world travel of the literary sort.The range of offbeat experiences is wide-from driving recklessly across the county when young to seek out Saul Bellow...
Two Sailboats, One Moon
Journals from a year spent oceans apart
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Two Sailboats, One Moon is full of drama and tenderness, frustration and courage, travel adventures and sailing stories, as well as the minutiae of daily life. Qualities of good character abound. In 2002, Bob Bennett and Sue Montana had been together for 17 years. They had made a point of revisiting...
Riding Sky High
A Bicycle Adventure Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
One man’s once-in-a-lifetime, round-the-world cycling trip and the physical, emotional, political, and cultural roadblocks he hit along the way.
Dropping everything to travel around the world is a common dream, but few imagine embarking on that journey by bicycle. Exposed to the elements, legs...
Mysteries of the Gobi
Searching for Wild Camels and Lost Cities in the Heart of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
The Gobi is the largest, coldest and driest desert in Asia. Its shifting sands conceal ancient cities, 3,000-year-old mummies, dinosaur bones and areas where no man has set foot. It is also the last place on earth where the wild Bactrian camel clings to survival, its fragile habitat threatened by...
To Shake the Sleeping Self
A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycles across two continents and delves deeply into his own beautiful heart.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things
On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled...
Last Breath
The Limits of Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Sudden, extreme deaths have always fascinated us-- and now more than ever as athletes and travelers rise to the challenges of high-risk sports and journeys on the edge. In this spellbinding book, veteran travel and outdoor sports writer Peter Stark reenacts the dramas of what happens inside our bodies,...