Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Trawler
A Journey Through the North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, the indefatigable Redmond O’Hanlon sets off on his next adventure: his own perfect storm, in the wild waters off the northern tip of Scotland. Equipped with a fancy Nikon, an excessive supply of socks, and no seamanship whatsoever, O’Hanlon joins...
by Eric Newby
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
'You've had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.' Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice. To avoid other tourists, Eric Newby had decided that the depths of winter would be the very best time...
Names for the Sea
Strangers in Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A memoir of a family’s year living in Reykjavik that “captures the fierce beauty of the Arctic landscape” (Booklist).
Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University...
The Ice Balloon
S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In this grand and astonishing tale, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, during the great age of Arctic endeavor, left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon. Called by a British military officer “the most original...
Somebody's Heart Is Burning
A Woman Wanderer in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
by James A. Michener, A. Grove Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. Co-written with A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise offers portraits of ten scandalous men and women, some infamous and some...
by Monisha Rajesh
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
"Crackles and sparks with life like an exploding box of Diwali fireworks." -- William Dalrymple
In 1991, Monisha Rajesh's family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home. Two years later, fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads and the creepy...
by Ian Frazier
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2001
National Bestseller
With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great...
The Anti-Pirate Potato Cannon
And 101 Other Things for Young Mariners to Build, Try, and Do on the Water
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Spark a passion for sailng and the outdoors in your child From the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards bronze medal winner! Ever since humankind began seafaring, boats and shoreline adventures have produced sturdy, independent, creative, self-reliant kids. From the author of the bestselling...
The Kindness Diaries
One Man's Quest to Ignite Goodwill and Transform Lives Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Kindness Diaries is now trending on Netflix!
Follow the inspirational journey of a former stockbroker who leaves his unfulfilling desk job in search of a meaningful life. He sets out from Los Angeles on a vintage motorbike, determined to circumnavigate the globe surviving only on the kindness...
Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman
Travels with Sled Dogs in Canada's Frozen North
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Polly Evans had a mission: to learn everything possible about the howling, tail-wagging world of sled dogs. Fool’s errand? Or the adventure of a lifetime? The intrepid world traveler was about to find out.
In the dead of winter, Polly Evans ventured to Canada’s far northwest, where temperatures...
God at the Edge
Searching for the Divine in Uncomfortable and Unexpected Places
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Here is a book about adventure, raw experience, and facing inner demons. Niles Elliot Goldstein is a young rabbi who sets out to find God in tough and often scary situations: dogsledding above the Arctic Circle, taking the Silk Road into Central Asia without a visa, being chased by a grizzly bear,...
The Consolations of the Forest
Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude. Winner of the Prix Médicis for nonfiction, The Consolations of the Forest is a Thoreau-esque quest to find solace, taken to the extreme. No stranger to inhospitable places, Sylvain Tesson exiles himself to...
Noodling for Flatheads
Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Com
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
The Old South is slow to give up its secrets. Though satellite dishes outnumber banjo players a thousand to one, most traditions haven't died; they've just gone into hiding. Cockfighting is illegal in forty-eight states, yet there are three national cockfighting magazines and cockpits in even the...