Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
The Hard Way Around
The Passages of Joshua Slocum
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
A masterful biographer now offers a thrilling, definitive portrait of one of history’s most legendary icons of adventure.
In 1860, sixteen-year-old Joshua Slocum escaped a hardscrabble childhood in Nova Scotia by signing on as an ordinary seaman to a merchant ship bound for Dublin. Despite...
Which Way Is Camp?
An Ethiopian Spiritual Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
“Message to Dave, Message to Dave, do not hunt, do not fish, do not leave camp. A message will follow in a few days!” When I saw the airplane disappear in the direction of Sudan, my heart sank! This was the airplane that was to have reconnected us to civilization. Instead, I (we) watched in dismay...
by Mark Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The remarkable true story of one man's quest to break the record for cycling around the world
On the 15th of February 2008, Mark Beaumont had pedaled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris—194 days and 17 hours after setting off in an attempt to circumnavigate the world. His journey had taken...
Love and Other Ways of Dying
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • In this moving, lyrical, and ultimately uplifting collection of essays, Michael Paterniti turns a keen eye on the full range of human experience, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of everyday...
by Alexander von Humboldt
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
A great, innovative and restless thinker, the young Humboldt (1769-1859) went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in Venezuela - in the Llanos and...
by Mary-Lou Weisman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
Ah travel! New scenery, exciting adventures, time alone with a loved one. Truth is, travel can make or break a relationship. Just negotiating when to leave for the airport can be tricky: she insists on arriving hours ahead of flight time, he likes the excitement of a photo finish. But as Mary-Lou...
Confederates in the Attic
Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
**National Bestseller **
For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War -- reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more -- this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social...
Jungleland
A Mysterious Lost City and a True Story of Deadly Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
"I began to daydream about the jungle...."
On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba,...
Moby-Duck
The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanograp hers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth.
When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers,...
A Walk in the Woods
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body.
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia...
by Andrew P. Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The academic year must have been a difficult one as when the summer holidays arrived, secondary school teacher Andrew Sykes was happy to do as little as possible. But while sitting on his sofa watching the exploits of the cyclists at the Great Wall of China at the Beijing Olympics, he realised the error...
by Torre DeRoche
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
New love. Exotic destinations.
A once-in-a-lifetime adventure.
What could go wrong?
City girl Torre DeRoche isn't looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem?...
by Lebawit Lily Girma
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
With turquoise waters, dreamlike islands, and pristine rainforests, Belize is a sensory feast: dive in with Moon Belize. Inside you'll find:
Flexible, strategic itineraries from one week of highlights to a three-week adventure through the whole country, with tips for outdoor adventurers, archeology...
Long Way Down
An Epic Journey by Motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Eighteen countries. Five shock absorbers.
Two bikers. One amazing adventure...
After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF visits to Africa, they knew they had to...