Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Confessions of a Hostie
True Stories of an International Flight Attendant
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
If you have ever wondered what it would be like to be a jet-setting hostie, or international flight attendant, then spending a little time in Danielle’s life is a captivating journey. You might be surprised and shocked to discover many of the truths behind the lifestyle as well as the incidences...
by Dorian Amos
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The absolutely inspiring true tale of a young couple who gave up the "good life" in England to start a new life in the wilderness of the Yukon
Dorian Amos-a painter from Cornwall-and his wife decided that they were in need of adventure, so they gave up their comfortable...
Mediterranean Summer
A Season on France's Cote d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
An alluring, evocative summer voyage on the Mediterranean and into the enchanting seaside towns of France and Italy by a young American chef aboard an Italian billionaire couple’s spectacular sailing yacht.
Having begun his cooking career in some of New York’s and San Francisco’s best...
L'Appart
The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes...
Paris to the Pyrenees
A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Part adventure story, part cultural history, this “enjoyably offbeat travelogue” explores the phenomenon of the spiritual pilgrimage (Booklist).
Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees....
by Tahir Shah
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
For more than a century Henry Rider Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines has inspired generations of young men to set forth in search of adventure. But long before Rider Haggard's classic, explorers, theologians and scientists scoured the known world for the source of King Solomon's astonishing wealth....
One for the Road
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
"A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." --Chicago Tribune
"A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track." --The Telegraph (Sydney)
Swept off...
Walking the Amazon
860 Days. One Step at a Time.
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
As seen on Discovery Channel and for readers of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, Bill Bryson, Jon Krakauer, and David Grann, a riveting, adventurous account of one man’s history-making journey along the entire length of the Amazon—and through the most bio-diverse habitat on Earth. Fans of Turn Right at...
Staying On Top
Whitman University
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Sam Bradford has it all—he’s the #2 tennis player in the world, plenty of girls want to date him, and he’ll never want for money. At least, that’s what he thought until his accountant stole everything and disappeared. Interpol has no idea where to start, and neither does the American F.B.I.,...
Falling Upwards
How We Took to the Air
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
**Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013**
**The New Republic Best Books of 2013**
In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and...
The Phaselock Code
Through Time, Death and Reality: The Metaphysical Adventures of Man
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
ONE MAN'S REMARKABLE SEARCH FOR
THE ULTIMATE TRUTHS OF OUR WORLD
For Professor Roger Hart, life truly began after he almost lost his -- in a horrific fall off the slopes of Mount Everest that he miraculously survived. This near-death experience sparked a desire in him to devote his studies to the...
Treasure Island with free audio book link (Illustrated)
The most popular pirate story ever written in English
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER
If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day:...
by Daniel Garrison
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
Drifting in the Push is a fast-paced, comical romp that takes the reader on a journey through the unintentional adventures of one man’s reality. From the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, from Mexico to Alaska, missteps, stubborn obstacles, and fate are his constant companions, along with an...
by Colin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
An unexpected relationship turns into an unconventional adventure, as full-time traveler Colin Wright falls for an Icelandic girl who tests his ideas about relationships and becomes a partner-in-crime across three continents.