Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Under the Stars
How America Fell in Love with Camping
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
“The definitive book on camping in America. . . . A passionate, witty, and deeply engaging examination of why humans venture into the wild.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
From the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and...
Mountain Lines
A Journey through the French Alps
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
The “disarmingly engaging” account of a young American’s solo hike from Lake Geneva to Nice, France: “Panoramic . . . breathtaking” (The New York Times Book Review).
In the summer of 2015, Jonathan Arlan was nearing thirty. Bored and dreaming of adventure, he comes across an image...
Wake Up and Smell the Shit
Hilarious Travel Disasters, Monstrous Toilets, and a Demon Dildo
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Stand back! The tales in this raunchy round-the-world romp might get you dirty.We've all had unspeakable experiences while traveling that we're ashamed to admit, but these often become our best stories in the retelling. The writers in this collection cast inhibition aside and reveal their weirdest and...
First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria
How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
In this hilarious memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him— literally to the ends of the earth.
Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without sushi,...
Drive Around the World
One Family, One Car, One Year, One Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
We've driven around Australia, how about we drive around the world?'
And with this one fanciful remark, the seeds were sown for what would become a worldwide adventure for one Melbourne family.
Fuelled by itchy feet and a profound desire to expand their family's horizons, after five years of meticulous...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Best known for his fiction writing, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an essayist, journalist, poet and travel writer. His first major work was An Inland Voyage, an account of his journey by canoe from Antwerp to northern France. The companion work to this, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879),...
Lois on the Loose
One Woman, One Motorbike, 20,000 Miles across the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Lois Pryce was working at the BBC in London, firmly set on the career track. But unbeknownst to her coworkers, Lois was leading a parallel life as well, that of a biker babe with an overwhelming case of wanderlust, one that couldn’t be satisfied by a weekend holiday. Her days in a cubicle were numbered,...
by Alan Dean Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predators
Over the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature’s most fearsome creatures. His travels...
Maiden Voyages
Writings of Women Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices, they write of disguising themselves as men for safety, of longing for family left behind or falling in...
Going Gypsy
One Couple's Adventure from Empty Nest to No Nest at All
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Empty nesters buy an RV and hit the road in this “thoroughly charming account of a romp across America” (Victoria Zackheim).
Almost every couple faces a “now what?” moment as their last kid moves out of the house. There’s a big empty nest looming over this new and uncertain stage...
Getting Genki In Japan
The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Family in Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The unexpected gift of a favored bottle of shiraz from her husband leads to the adventure of a lifetime for Karen Pond and her family—moving from rural Maine to the largest city in the world: Tokyo, Japan.
Getting Genki in Japan is a collection of illustrated travel and culture essays and...
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010
True Stories from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2010
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature. The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 is the sixth book in an annual series that presents stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures from women...
The Naked Tourist
In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east—and of the tour itself
Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself....
The Sea and the Jungle
An Englishman in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
"Suppose you were a quiet, respectable, sedentary business or professional man, and the captain of a tramp steamer bound to South America and up the Amazon suddenly dropped into your peaceful office, invited you to go along with him, got your acceptance by a clever trick, and had you at sea before...