Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Twenty-Seven Years in Alaska
True Stories of Adventure in the Alaskan Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Twenty-Seven Years in Alaska is the story of one woman’s adventures in the remote wilderness of the north. From canoe camping next to unnamed lakes, to kayaking in Alaska’s pristine waters, she describes her many encounters with the bears, moose and other animals that make this wilderness their...
by Robbie Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
A humorous, soul-searching account of an aging hippie who gives up his hard-won career, family, and home life to bike around the world in search of new experiences
At age 45 Robbie Marshall had it all, or so it seemed. He had been married, had two children, and built up a successful...
Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 5) Motorcycle Humor
You Might Be A Real Motorcyclist If ...
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Motor Cycle Road Trips (Vol. 5) Motorcycle Humor - You Might Be A Real Motorcyclist If ...
Find out if you're a "real" motorcyclist.
The following seven magazine articles from the Motorcycle Humor - You Might Be A Real Motorcyclist If ... CD are humorous looks at motorcyclists compiled...
A Bicycle Journey to the Bottom of the Americas
Being a True Account of a Bike Adventure from Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2000
Remember when you were a kid and you got your first bicycle? After a few weeks of mastering the dynamics of balancing, steering, and pedaling, all at the same time hopefully, your father released his protective, steadying grip on the seat and you went wobbling off on your own. It was probably your...
Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 18) Isle of Man TT Races
The Greatest Road Racing On Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
These nine published magazine articles from the Backroad Bob's Motorcycle Adventures - GPs, MotoGPs, England, Ireland, & The Isle Of Man CD are about the greatest motorcycle racing event on the planet - the two-week long festival of speed known as the Isle of Man TT Races.
You may have heard about...
Daisy's Diaries
Challenging Life on a 1948 Triumph Motorcycle.
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Almost everyone, at some point in their life, feels like simply screaming, giving it all up, walking away, and starting all over again. Maybe even do something slightly crazy. Life can be like that, and every now and again somebody actually does something about it. Hurrah! In Daisy’s Diaries, the...
Pedals, Panniers and Punctures
One woman, one bike and no backup on a unique End to End Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Cycling the End to End is so much more than just sitting on something no bigger than, and as hard as, the sole plate of an iron and pedalling, as Julia was to discover. Every experience seemed to be about extremes: Cornish hills, Cheshire plains, busy Devon lanes, empty highland roads, downpours,...
by Andy Brown, Tim Garratt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The inspiring story of the first people to ride mountain bikes across the vast deserts of Australia, the dangerous bushlands of Africa, and the mountains of South America
Fed up and disillusioned with corporate life, Andy persuaded Tim to leave his job and cycle around the world-convinced...
Wide Hips, Narrow Shoulders
A Bike Touring Adventure Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2001
This is a story about a 45-year-old man who simplifies his life by getting rid of his material possessions and then sets off around America on a bicycle to discover new ideas about his country and himself. The journey takes him through all 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C.
Stone Woman Part 11
Cries of Furies
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
In the previous Adventure, The Audrey Eleanor managed to navigate Whiterock passage and find moorage at the government dock at Read Island. The owner of the little country store has invited the crew to come ashore and visit her island home… Stone staircases lead upward from the rock walkway we...
Ivory Island
Cries of Furies
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
In the previous adventure; the Audrey Eleanor and crew take a beating while trying to creep undetected past the furies and Mother Nature into Milbanke Sound and through Reid Channel.They manage to escape after 20-foot seas threaten to roll them side over side and dredge them into the ocean floor:...
Savage Grace
A Journey in Wildness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Jay Griffiths is a tour guide for anyone who has ever wished to commune with the side of our human psyche that remains in touch with the wild. Equally at home among the sea gypsy” Bajo people who live off the coast of Thailand and forage their food from the ocean floor, drinking the psychedelic...
Nepal Himalaya
The most mountainous of a singularly mountainous country.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Throughout 1949 and 1950 H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman mounted pioneering expeditions to Nepal and its Himalayan mountains, taking advantage of some of the first access to the country for Western travellers in the 20th century. Tilman and his party—including a certain Tenzing Norgay—trekked into the...
The Other Side of Everest
Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
May 1996 began like most other climbing seasons on Mount Everest. The arrival of spring brought the usual pre-monsoon period, with teams of hopeful mountaineers ready to reach for the roof of the world. Among the dozens of climbers were Jon Krakauer and Anatoli Boukreev (who would both later write...