Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books

Cairo to Cape Town by Motorcycle This is a vintage travel adventure that took place in 1962 as two 19-year-old neighbors and high school classmates from Ohio embarked on a journey of a lifetime:  a motorcycle journey from Cairo, Egypt, to Cape Town, South Africa. The pair visited...

‘Powerful and profound. Against the Odds reads like a thriller.’ - Glenn A. Baker When the world’s deadliest tsunami hit the southern coastal town of Tangalle in Sri Lanka on the morning of December 26, 2004, travel journalist John Maddocks was in a remote beachside cabana. He awoke from...

Bermuda Island Guide – Interactive City Guide - Waterfront Travel Series eBook This is a live interactive search guidebook with over 1500 preset searches the net for everything about the city; no typing and never out of date. Use as white or yellow pages! You can search events, restaurants, hotels,...

Airline employee Sābra Hunter, along with one of her co-workers, are off again . . . this time to Prague—or Praha, as the locals call it, to purchase one (or two) of the world-famous Bohemian crystal vases as a special wedding gift for a family friend.The trip doesn't go as planned,...

This book is about my brother Kevin Courtney who died tragically aged 30 in 1998 during his time in Hong Kong. Kevin was a born traveller and upon his many travels he always kept a diary along with hundreds of photos and postcards sent home to his parents. Kevin, a huge risk taker and a go getter,...

The stories featured in Baja California Adventures take place during a span of almost sixty years of travel in the rugged, parched, yet hauntingly attractive peninsula. The author kept detailed notes on most of his trips then fleshed out this skeleton in a narrative that places the reader in the role...

This book is an odyssey to discover exotic Jewish communities around the world––a road map of travel and adventure set in such locals as Russia (including Siberia), Tahiti, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Cuba, Morocco, Algeria, and Israel.

When you travel to a foreign land, do you experience this new place as your old self? Or do you becomea new version of you? From living in a van in San Diego to growing chocolate with indigenous tribes in Central America, to teaching in the Middle East and volunteering in Africa, Gregory V....

Ranulph Fiennes has entered the public imagination as the intrepid explorer par excellance. Taunted by his wife over the challenge of the never-before attempted circumpolar navigation of the globe, he set off in 1979 on a gruelling 52,000 mile adventure. Together with fellow members of 21 SAS regiment,...

Geht das? In zwölf Tagen mit 3.530 gefahrenen Kilometern einige von Amerikas atemberaubenden Canons sehen, einige für mich wichtige, wie den Antelope Canon im nördlichen Arizona? Nicht auf Harleys, sondern mit 700er, 800er BMW GS und Triumph Tiger XCx 800. Und zwar abseits der normalen Pfade mit...

This collection of wide-ranging essays from the New York Times–bestselling travel writer is “a steamer trunk full of delights” (Chicago Sun-Times). This collection of decidedly opinionated articles, essays, and ruminations, by the author of My Other Life and Kowloon Tong, transports the...

A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection   The Nobel Prize–winning novelist Orhan Pamuk reminisces on growing up on the banks of the mysterious Bosphorus in Istanbul. ** ** From the ghostly yalis, splendid waterside mansions built by the great Ottoman families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,...

When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she’s still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands...

**Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing. A Penguin Classic** Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa...