Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books

One woman’s adventurous search for love, meaning and connection.  In the ‘70s travel scenes of Afghanistan, India and Thailand, Elsie discovers adventure, friendship and freedom. After three years she returns to her welcoming and loving family in suburban Australia where time seems...

It was December 1974 when Margaret Winslow arrived in Punta Arenas, the only city on the Strait of Magellan, prepared to begin her doctoral thesis project. With both excitement and dread, she looked forward to working on familiar rocks in a dynamic region and exploring Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia....

If you're planning a trip to Key West and you're interested in doing more than the usual touristy stuff, this book is for you. In addition to revealing the usual touristy stuff, the author takes you off the beaten tourist path to discover the best of Key West. In this reference, you will discover... *the...

Taking a gap year lets you explore the world, increase your self-development and build lifelong memories before taking your next step in life. But with so many places to see and experiences to choose from, how do you know where to start? This step-by-step guide takes you through the whole...

Walt Hackman's "No Problem, Mr. Walt" is more than a poignant travel memoir. It is written by a father and easygoing voyager about his travels throughout China in his extraordinary quest to build an authentic wooden Chinese junk boat—in China! This delightful book is filled with humor,...

One scorching November day in the Cayman Islands, Robin falls in love with a newly-confiscated drug boat offered for sale by the government. Maggi suggests he submit a bid, never believing that he will be successful. It is a bitter-sweet surprise to her when they become the owners of a 55-foot ferro-cement...

There's trouble brewing in the Property Owners' Association. Greed, jealousy and hunger for power are a deadly mix when individual freedoms clash with group desires in this mountain subdivision. Returning for a second sespense-filled mystery, Jemma Chase and Detective Tucker find themselves...

In 1935, Harry I. Heller and two fellow adventurers headed to Florida hoping to discover an idyllic paradise. Instead, they found boggy wastelands, rats and mosquitoes, sticks of dynamite, black panthers, rushing rivers, and skunks. An explorer at heart, Harry had already spent one summer hitchhiking...

CLICK HERE to download a sample chapter from The Tecate Journals* More than a man-against-nature adventure-the author floats us along the border of political furor, cultural limbo, and dangerous human encounters*Touches on environmental issues, adrenalin-spiked action, and the author's ambivalence...

If you're an adventurer with an appetite, then this cookbook is for you! This lovely cookbook is a collection of globetrotting gastronomy to help you recreate your travels at home. The recipes in this book are from all over the world, from Vietnamese Pho and Indian Mango Lassi, to traditional...

From Istanbul to New Delhi to Boulder, Colorado, through Venice, Paris, Rome, and points between As travellers, we are always walking backwards, forever on the verge of stepping into the unknown, never knowing what waits around the next corner. You could be lost, forget your passport,...

The December issue of Travel Tales Monthly samples ‘drug tourism’ — the quest to achieve the sorts of brain-states that travelers avidly seek out for the purposes of recreating, vegetating, meditating, cogitating, experimenting, exploring, or seeking enlightenment and personal growth. Such...

Is it possible to cycle 1,000 miles across Britain in 13 days and still find the time to slow down and enjoy the ride? Twenty years after riding from Land’s End to John O’Groats, Alistair set out with his friends to repeat the adventure and quickly discovered that times have changed. Bike...

Tim and Rachel shared an adventurous first date that included a dangerous trek through an adult Halloween costume contest in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis. When they were married a little over a year later, they promised each other a life filled with adventures. Over the last decade,...