Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
by Robert Twigger
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**A sweeping biography of the Himalayas by the acclaimed author of Angry White Pyjamas.
Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. These mountains, home to Buddhists, Bonpos, Jains, Muslims,...
Get Your Travel Writing Published
Perfect your travel writing and share it with the world
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Get Your Travel Writing Published will give those of you who love to travel and long to write about it the essential tools to turn it into a profession. By the end of this book, you will know what steps you will need to take to get your work published, the ABCs of writing winning travel articles and...
by Joshua Samuel Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
What's the road-toasted travel writer to do after leaving the road behind?
Why not put together a series of insights and observations from Belize to Beijing, have each illustrated lovingly with a one-panel cartoon and create a collection of short stories with a memorable yet slightly unwieldy...
Chasing Che
A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Intrepid journalist Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places in Ernesto "Che" Guevara's classic Motorcycle Diaries, seeking out his own adventure as well as the legacy of the icon Che would become, Symmes retraces the future revolutionary's path. And...
First We Quit Our Jobs
How One Work Driven Couple Got on the Road to a New Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
What happens when two executives leave their jobs, friends, and the city behind to hit the road in a twenty-seven foot RV? America the beautiful becomes a place of sights, foods, people, memories, and a little wisdom.
After fifty-two combined years in the corporate fast lane, Marilyn Abraham...
THREE HARLEYS, THREE AUSSIES, ONE AMERICAN DREAM
A 5,000 mile Motorcycle Adventure around the USA
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Three Harleys, Three Aussies, One American Dream puts you in the saddle for an exhilarating ride around the USA in search of the real America.
Join three Australian baby boomers racing down twisty back roads to explore magnificent national parks, experience the buzz of exciting cities, and...
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011
True Stories from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2011
Since publishing A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This...
The Timbuktu School for Nomads
Across the Sahara in the Shadow of Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
"A passionate paean to the Sahara." -- New York Times, Season's Best Travel Books
The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia....
You Only Live Once
A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in all of us
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in All of Us is not just another bucketlist of big-ticket items. We've all heard about Venice and, yes, it is probably worth going to Italy to see its waterways, but hopefully...
by Stephen Henighan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller. He weaves together daring literary criticism with front-line reporting on events such as the end of the Cold War in Poland and African reactions to the G8 Summit.
Dispatches from Pluto
Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize
Mississippi's #1 Bestseller of 2015 and 2016 (The Clarion-Ledger)
A New York Times Bestseller
In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi...
by Tim Severin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Insightful travel writing, riveting narrative history, and clever scholarly discoveries make this a remarkably rich and varied book. Tim Severin has once again demonstrated a superb ability to bring together literature and adventure in an engrossing narrative.
by Dominic Goncalves
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2002
Dominic Goncalves led a normal life until he was nine then his parents sold their house and business, bought a boat, and set off to sail around the world. So began an epic adventure of sailing aboard their thirty-seven-foot Endurance, Indigo from the tip of Africa across the South Atlantic Ocean to...
Birding Without Borders
An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year. For 365 days, with a backpack, binoculars, and a series of one-way tickets, he traveled across forty-one countries and all seven continents, eventually spotting 6,042 species—by...