Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
It's Not About the Tapas
A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Single, stressed, and living amid the hustle and hurry of modern Hong Kong, Polly Evans had a vision: of mountains and orange groves, matadors and promenades–and of a glorious, hassle-free journey across Spain by bicycle. But like any decent dream, Polly’s came with its own reality: of thighs...
Jungle (Movie Tie-In Edition)
A Harrowing True Story of Survival in the Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting...
Pilgrim in the Palace of Words
A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Pilgrim in the Palace of Words is about language, about the words that splash and chatter across our tongues. Some six thousand languages are still spoken on the planet, and author Glenn Dixon – an expert is socio-linguistics and a tireless adventurer – travels to the Earth’s four corners to...
by Harris, John R
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
At winter's end in 1947, driven by the devastating loss of a son killed in World War II, naturalist Edwin Way Teale followed the dawning spring season northward in an amazing 17,000-mile odyssey from the Everglades to Maine. He wrote about the adventure in North with the Spring. Its sequel Wandering...
The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
The laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey in the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati—possibly The Worst Place on Earth.
At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost—who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up...
Tracks
One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The incredible true story of one woman’s solo adventure across the Australian outback, accompanied by her faithful dog and four unpredictable camels.
I arrived in the Alice at five a.m. with a dog, six dollars and a small suitcase full of inappropriate clothes. . . . There are some moments...
Holy Cow
An Indian Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the...
The Feather Thief
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
**As heard on NPR's This American Life
“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science...
Natural Born Heroes
Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete, and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere.
After...
by Michael Crichton
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and *Sphere *comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro.
Fueled by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael...
The Lost Girls
Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World.
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“Brave, funny, and deeply moving.”
— Cathy Alter, author of Up for Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex, and Starting Over
“Three cheers to The Lost Girls for showing us, with good humor and graceful prose, the beauty and importance of leading life astray.”
— Franz...
by Caitlin Doughty
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
“Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker**
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin...
by Thor Heyerdahl
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Now a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahl’s astonishing three-month voyage across the Pacific.
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor...
The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America
A Flight Into the Heart of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The compelling real-life adventure from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Coonts—now available as an ebook
Bestselling author Stephen Coonts’s stirring ode to aviation: a revealing account of his three months spent exploring small-town America from the skies
Stephen Coonts...