Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Summers in Supino
Becoming Italian
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Every summer Maria and her husband, Bob, went to their little house in the Italian village of Supino, and every year it was a new adventure. Only in Supino would you find a pizzeria in a sheep pasture, a seafood restaurant hidden in the woods, or an electrical cord draped from one balcony to the next...
Dude Making a Difference
Bamboo Bikes, Dumpster Dives and Other Extreme Adventures Across America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
You want to do something for the planet, but what? Change a light bulb, install a low-flow faucet, eat organic? How about ride forty-seven hundred miles across America on a bamboo bicycle, using only water from natural sources, avoiding fossil fuels almost completely, supplying your few electrical...
Arctic Diary
Surviving on thin ice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
It's hardly a surprise to discover that Sam Branson has a love of adventure and a real concern about our future in a world where the climate is changing rapidly. Journeying into the heart of the Arctic wilderness with his father and a film crew, Sam explores the changing landscape and the lives of...
Motorcycle Dual Sporting Compilation - On Sale!
Dual Sporters & Thumper Humpers & More Dual Sporters & Thumper Humpers Compilation
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
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Borders, Bandits, and Baby Wipes
A Big Adventure in a Tiny Car
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Inspired and challenged by his quests of “getting there,” Bassam Tarazi and two friends signed on for the infamous Mongol Rally, a nearly 10,000-mile road trip from London to Mongolia through terrain that would make a mountain goat’s knees buckle, in a vehicle that was little more than a go-kart.
Borders,...
by Henry M. Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Perhaps best known as the intrepid adventurer who located the missing explorer David Livingstone in equatorial Africa in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) played a major role in assembling the fragmented discoveries and uncertain geographical knowledge of central Africa into a coherent picture....
Sea Of Dreams
Racing Alone Around The World In A Small Boat
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
The biennial Around Alone yacht race (now known as the 5-Oceans Challenge) is the most thrilling adventure in the world for the sailors passionate enough to undertake it. Among the competitors in 2002 was Derek Hatfield, a former fraud-squad Mountie, whose forty-foot Spirit of Canada had cost him...
Extreme Frontiers
Racing Across Canada from Newfoundland to the Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Charley Boorman is back on his bike exploring the world's second largest country - home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man.
Canada is a country of extremes, and Charley knows all about pushing the limits. He goes dirt biking in New Brunswick, dives through old...
Long Cloud Ride
A 6,000 Mile Cycle Journey Around New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
After two months on board a Russian container ship sailing 15,000 miles across the world, Josie finally arrives in New Zealand with her bike. Over the next nine months she cycles 10,000 kilometres all over North and South Islands while experiencing the wettest, windiest and stormiest year on record....
by Simon Yates
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try ever-steeper faces and others specialise in a particular range or region. I am increasingly drawn to remoteness - to places where few others have trod.' The Wild Within is the third book from Simon Yates, one of Britain's most accomplished...
Man Up And Paddle!
A Wild And Dangerous Circumnavigation Around Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Cathal McCosker and Leon Harris circumnavigated 1200 miles of Ireland's wild coastline in 67 days by sea kayak. On route, he survived 40-foot waves, dangerous tides that could have dragged him out to sea, and jellyfish stings which left him in much pain. He and his friend Leon made this perilous journey...
An Exile of the Mind
An adventure of life in the slow lane
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In An Exile of the Mind, Brian shares his amazing and sometimes jaw-dropping experiences on a humorous journey of self discovery. Leaving England as a teenager for the antipodes, he has followed an adventurous and unconventional path through life, visiting over 50 countries by the age of 29. Travelling...
by Michael Palin
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
No.1 bestseller Michael Palin's epic journey from the North Pole to the South Pole.
'The cracked and fissured ice-pack offers no comfortable reassurance - no glimmer of any reward to the traveller who has made his way to the top of the world. The Arctic Ocean, known to the Victorians as the...
by Michael Palin
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
No. 1 bestseller and superstar doing what he does best, introducing millions of avid readers to little-known peoples and places.
Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern...