Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
by Jimmy Cai
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
“Travel writing is not only the most glamorous job in the world - it’s also the most fun - and it is easy to do!”
So says Raymond DuFoy (a pen name - more on that in a moment), world-renowned travel writer and photographer.
You’ll have seen his videos on international TV, probably...
Gadfly in Russia
A Story of Travel, History, People, and Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This memoir and literary travelogue from one of the UK’s most esteemed novelists offers rare insight into Cold War–era Russia.
In 1967, seeking an escape from his writing life, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe embarks on a road trip from England to Russia via Harwich and Finland in...
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
A Pedestrian in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.
In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience...
by Tony Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Situated on Lake Malaren on one of the world's most beautiful harbours, Stockholm has set the benchmark for civilized city-living since the time of the Vikings. Its medieval regal period saw the Vasa dynasty turn a small town in the shadow of Uppsala into the capital city of a dominant power in Europe...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Travel and Representation is a timely volume of essays that explores and re-examines the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel. The essays do so in a way that appreciates the entanglement of representations and travel at a juncture in theoretical...
To the Ends of the Earth
The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
“There are those who think that Paul Theroux is the finest travel writer working in English. This collection can only enhance that reputation.”—The New York Times Book Review
Author and travel writer Paul Theroux does what no one else can: he travels to the isolated, unusual, and fascinating...
The World, the World
Memoirs of a Legendary Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The acclaimed travel writer recounts six decades of adventures around the globe, from conversations with Hemingway to his war service in North Africa.
The consummate gentleman adventurer, writer Norman Lewis spent more than half a century exploring the globe and chronicling the amazing things...
by Lynn Veach Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
With When Village with Village Comes to Parle, Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler presents over five dozen unique essays, articles, and vignettes covering an eclectic range of topics. Travel the world with Dr. Sadler and her husband as she details some of their adventures abroad. Experience a thought-provoking...
Discount Trips
Top Ideas For Cheap Airline Tickets, Budgettravel, All Inclusive Travel Deals, Last Minute Flight Deals, And Budget Travel Books
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
With this five-star quality guide on discount trips you'll be amazed what you will learn about cheap airline tickets, budgettravel, all inclusive travel deals, last minute flight deals, and budget travel books.
Romancing the East
A Literary Odyssey from the Heart of Darkness to the River Kwai
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Profiling individual, legendary authors, best-selling author Jerry Hopkins combines his research and his own experiences as a longtime expatriate with an intimate knowledge of Asia and offers us a unique perspective on the impact of Eastern culture in Western literature.
From the time of Marco...
by Eric Newby
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
An illustrated ebook documenting the hugely varied and always entertaining career of one of Britain’s best-loved travel writers. Born in London in 1919, Eric Newby was educated at St Paul’s School. He began his travelling career in a perambulator commuting between Hammersmith Bridge and such seaside...
Words of Mercury
Tales from a Lifetime of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A career-spanning anthology from the greatest traveler—and travel writer—of the twentieth century.
The adventures of Patrick “Paddy” Leigh Fermor, Britain’s most beloved traveler, began in 1933, when he embarked on a walk from Holland to Constantinople—the entire length of Europe—at...
Europe, Europe
Forays into a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already "among the touchstones of the new travel writing" (Newsweek), one of West Germany's leading authors takes us on an insider's tour of Europe in the recent past. Focusing on Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, he describes...
Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume Two
Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, and Spirit of Place
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Travel memoirs “as luminous as the Mediterranean air” from the acclaimed author of the Alexandria Quartet, who is featured in The Durrells in Corfu (Time).
Born in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and...