Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Want to travel safely? One of the most important point people often neglected is the travel insurance. Do you know that when you are flying on an airplane, your ticket automatically consist of travel insurance for that flight? It's because of safety!
So, why not get a travel insurance so that...
Rowboat in a Hurricane
My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Atlantic Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
"Like many other adventurers before her, Angus bravely sacrificed a host of human comforts to give us a glimpse into an experience most of us wouldn't dare dream of. At the same time, she humbly inspires us to make a small effort to reverse the tide." -- Ottawa Citizen
In 2005-06,...
The Black Nile
One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea
With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who'd never been off American soil and set out from Uganda, paddling...
Time on the Ocean
A Voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
"Dorgan’s spirit soars – and with it the reader’s...Time on the Ocean will be relished by all sailors, to be sure. But it will also give hours of pleasure to anyone who appreciates superb writing and for whom a tale of the human spirit pitted against raw nature is irresistible." -The...
by Tom Kevill Davies
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Over 100,000 miles to cover, one man, one bike and one hungry stomach. Having created his alter-ego, the Hungry Cyclist and with thousands of pedal-powered miles before him, Tom Kevill-Davies pushed off from New York City on one of the most ambitious gastronomic adventures ever undertaken. A ballsy...
Belizean Sextet
Six Tales of Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Brian was born and raised in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. He served four years in Ghana, West Africa as a volunteer with CUSO, Canadas version of Peace Corps. He taught high school English in Ontario before working as a Union organizer until his retirement.
A chapbook of some of his poems Murder,...
by Marisa Raoul
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
I once lived in a place far, far away. A land where "les folies", were a regular and standard occurrence. Where each day presented new challenges and endless temptations sought to ruin me.'
Marisa Raoul has travelled with her European parents, worked as a flight attendant for an...
by Harry R. Roegner
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
Experience remote tropical butterfly collecting locations first hand: topography; politics; jungle; exotic butterflies and their defenses; plus the challenges facing these rare and beautiful insects and the people around them.
The books starts with an introduction covering the author's collecting...
by Jim Hendrickson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book is a collection of twenty-nine articles, most of which have been published in American travel magazines. The plethora of stories within each article is personal, informative, entertaining and timeless.
In Latin America you will travel across rural Guatemala and socialistic Venezuela by minivan,...
Africa Calls My Name
Remembering, Not Wondering
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
The allure of Africa has drawn explorers and thrill seekers for hundreds of years, but what compels a young family to leave behind financial stability, family and friends, most of their belongings, and all that is familiar, for the unknown?
Follow Elaine, mining engineer husband Roy, and children...
Tales of a Silver-Haired Volunteer
Going Far and Giving Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
When she retired, Carole Howard took a surprising – some might call it radical – giant step out of her comfort zone. With little idea of what to expect, she overcame her usual risk-aversion and volunteered with her husband to be management consultants for a non-profit in Senegal, West Africa....
Three Legs to Newfoundland
The True Story of Two Graduate Student Friends on a Wintertime Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Instead of heading for the ski slopes or south for fun in the sun and sand, University of Virginia business school buddies, Timm and Mylan, opt for winter "vacation" aboard a merchant cargo ship carrying a full load of recycled paper up to the frigid north: Corner Brook, Newfoundland. ...
Anything Worth Doing
A true story of adventure, friendship and tragedy on the last of the West's great rivers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
2012 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD WINNER
Anything Worth Doing tells the unforgettable true story of larger-than-life whitewater raft guides Clancy Reece and Jon Barker, two men who share a love of wild rivers and an unbending will to live life on their terms, no matter the cost.
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by Pilgrim
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Free Pilgrim is the story of one's man's journey down physical, spiritual, and mystical paths. In his photographs, taken in countries all over the world, he captures the mundane and the surreal, the modern and the ancient, and inspires us to go out and see them for ourselves first hand. With vulnerability...