Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
by Sara Dawn Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
"People have told us how lucky we are, to get to sail far away. My typical response is to say luck has little to do with it, that we've worked so very hard, made many difficult decisions, and given up so much for so many years to get to this place on the Earth. But on nights like this, under...
by Patty Ann
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
At a significant crossroads in life, Yelapa called her name. On a pure whim, an impromtu travel decision found herself seduced by this remote village accessible only by water taxi. What started as a vacation adventure ended up bewitched and spellbound.
Tantalizing. Indigenous. Juicy. Enticing...
Land of the Midnight Sun
My Arctic Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
In an adventure of a lifetime, Alexander Armstrong wraps up warm and heads ever north to explore the hostile Arctic winter – the glittering landscape of Scandinavia, the isolated islands of Iceland and Greenland, and the final frontier of Canada and Alaska.
Along the way he learns from the...
by Dan Kieran
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
As we jet off on holiday, passing from airport lounge to hotel in our desperation to escape our everyday lives and find some better weather, wed do well to ask ourselves what on earth were doing. Do we really travel any more, or do we just arrive?The Idle Traveller calls on us all to re-assess why we...
Travel Detective Flight Crew Confidential
People Who Fly for a Living Reveal Insider Secrets and Hidden Values in Cities and Airports Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Travel Detective brings you insider travel secrets only pilots and flight attendants know.
Pilots are notoriously frugal, and flight attendants are underpaid and on a budget. They may hit one city four to six times a month, but they are there...
by Jeff Maynard
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers.
By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth...
by Russel Chiodo, Krista Stouffer
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
John "Brandy" Siebenaler and his wife, Marjorie, founded the Gulfarium, the first marine attraction of its kind on the Florida Panhandle. Since the gates first swung open in 1955, guests flocked to the Gulfarium. Displays of live specimens collected from the nearby Gulf of Mexico waters by Brandy,...
by John Christie, Josh Christie
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
This book is a trip-oriented guide, with each entry focusing on a specific activity at a particular location. Some examples are
biking the Acadia Carriage Roads;
climbing Bigelow Mountain;
or canoeing the Magalloway River.
It presents a series of trips that could comprise an entire summer...
The Man Who Climbs Trees
The Lofty Adventures of a Wildlife Cameraman
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
**“A vertiginous, white-knuckled adventure through some of the most spectacular forests in the world.” —Washington Post
Meet the man who climbs trees for a living. In this adventure memoir, Aldred carries us with him across the globe and up to the top of these towering forest titans as...
Burmese Looking Glass
A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“Burmese Looking Glass is a contribution to the literature of human rights and to the literature of high adventure.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
As captivating as the most thrilling novel, Burmese Looking Glass tells the story of tribal peoples who, though ravaged by malaria and weakened...
You Want To Go Where?
How to Get Someone to Pay for the Trip of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Christopher Columbus needed a sponsor for a dangerous expedition but the King of Portugal wasn't interested. He repackaged his proposal for the Queen of Spain. She put Columbus on retainer and the rest is history. Columbus may not have been the first to discover America, but he had a great publicist.
That's...
Breakfast for Alligators
Quests, Showdowns, and Revelations in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
A sharp-shooting SWAT team, a Venezuelan producer of alcoholic love potions, and an audacious subway rat are among the cast of characters award-winning author Darrin DuFord encounters in Breakfast for Alligators: Quests, Showdowns, and Revelations in the Americas. Through such mediums as public transit,...
by Miranda Emmerson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
"We buy food we can point to. We stalk the streets until rush hour and wait for the little hatches to open in the sides of restaurants. From the steamy openings, cooks in overalls sell jiaozi (dumplings) and bowls of thick, sticky, white congee – an unholy cross between soup and porridge. Baozi,...
Better Times Ahead APRIL FOOL
Looking Back on the Future of America (and the World)
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
"Better Times Ahead" is a true story that is an international action adventure story based on real events. Time wrap around the world. Ends with "Agenda for American Greatness" - how America can win the high tech, space age 21st century.
Think Ben Affleck (ARGO) doing what the author did...