Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Blind Descent
The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
“Heart-stopping and relentlessly gripping. Tabor takes us on an odyssey into unfathomable worlds beneath us, and into the hearts of rare explorers who will do anything to get there first.”—Robert Kurson, author of ShadowDivers
In 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the...
In the Shadows of the Morning
Essays on Wild Lands, Wild Waters, and a Few Untamed People (Signed by the author)
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Philip Caputo's passion for travel and adventure was inspired by the works of Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Herman Melville, and through the years this passion led to a rugged writer's life, filled with hair-raising experiences in the jungles of Vietnam, the rubble of Beirut, and the savannas of...
The Manaslu Adventure
Three hapless friends try to climb a big mountain
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The mountain gods were protective of Manaslu, a two-pronged peak in the Nepal Himalaya, and one of the world’s fourteen 8,000m peaks.
Many years ago, a Japanese team tried to climb it, but the gods had sent an avalanche in their wake which destroyed a monastery and set the local people against...
Africa Solo
My World Record Race from Cairo to Cape Town
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR
In the spring of 2015, Mark Beaumont set out from the bustling heart of Cairo on his latest world record attempt - solo, the length of Africa, intending to ride to Cape Town in under 50 days. Seven years since he smashed the world record for...
Naked and Marooned
One Man. One Island.
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
What do you do after you walk the Amazon?
Ed Stafford—adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River—likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford...
High Infatuation
A Climber's Guide To Love and Gravity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Throughout her life, Steph Davis has chosen to take risks, to trust her impulses, to make decisions based on what feels right inside--and never look back. Studying to be a concert pianist, she quit music the day she was introduced to rock climbing. Later, she abandoned the respectability of university...
by Robert Mads Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
This is the amazing story of seven summits solo - how an American living in New Zealand set out to climb the highest peak on each of the world's seven continents. En route to Everest, Anderson climbed solo the other highest summits on six continents. In the end, after several previous attempts, atrocious...
by Lee Klancher, Phil Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Put one of the most knowledgable motorcycle tour guides in Alaska in your pocket with this witty, fun book that brings to life the best roads and off-beat destinations in the state. This colorful guide lists all the road routes in Alaska with recommended dirt road excursions past mines, mountains...
by Lonely Planet, James Bainbridge, Lucy Corne
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Southern Africa is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Clamber up the world's oldest sand dunes in Sossusvlei, step back in time on Mozambique...
by Lonely Planet, Anthony Ham, Trent Holden
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet ***Botswana & Namibia***is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Spot jackals and black rhinos in Etosha National Park, explore the German...
by Lonely Planet, James Bainbridge, Mary Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Zambia, Mozambique & Malawi is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Visit the largest waterfalls on earth at Victoria Falls, canoe past...
Casting Off
How a City Girl Found Happiness on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
As a journalist for the Independent, Emma Bamford is swept along with the London rat race, lost amongst the egos of Fleet Street. Surrounded by budget cuts and bullies, the thrill of a breaking news story is no longer enough. And at 31, still struggling to get to a fourth date and surrounded by friends...
A Lizard in the Sun
Three Years of Zero Budget Travels
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
What would you do if you were desperate to travel around the world, but you had little or no money to finance your trip? You could stay home feeling sorry for yourself, keep putting it off until you could afford it, or just pack a bag and go, hoping to be able to live on your wits and find work along...
Solomon Time
An Unlikely Quest in the South Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Who hasn't fantasized about dismantling his or her hassled, wired-up life for a simpler existence? Yet who among us has the will and opportunity to do it? The answer, of course, is very few.
Will Randall, a young English schoolmaster, had such a chance -- and took it. He uprooted his conventional...