Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Living the Life
Tales From America's Mountains & Ski Towns
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Featuring 38 true-life stories of adventure and self-discovery, adrenaline, and honesty, a former professional NCAA downhill competitor reveals the soul skier’s raison d’être: finding exhilaration, faith, grief, love, and everything that truly matters amid the gloriously tangible, tactile, break-your-leg-if-you’re-not-careful...
1969 and Then Some
A Memoir of Romance, Motorcycles, and Lingering Flashbacks of a Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“A true story of unfettered freedom and adventure, speed, sex, fun and drugs” by the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award nominee (Columbia County Observer).
For anyone who’s heard about the 1960s, for those who remember it, and for those who can’t, this is Robert Wintner’s touching...
Coach Life
How Wanderlust Turned a Bored Baby Boomer into a Happy Camper
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Ignorance is not always bliss, especially for a single woman living and working out of a 10-ton motor home equipped with a panoply of mechanical mysteries and traveling with a persnickety cat. But after an unexpected career interruption Alexis, full of heartwarming optimism, snatches up the chance...
Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim
On Foot, Across Europe to Rome
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Watching in disbelief as his computer was struck by lightning in 2007, Harry Bucknall had no idea that the subsequent trail of events would lead him to Rome – five years later, on foot.
Following the Via Francigena, the ancient pilgrim path that dates back nearly two thousand years, Harry...
The Footloose American
Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South America
In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National...
Indian Creek Chronicles
A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1993
"The wardens climbed into their truck, ready to leave. 'You'll need about seven cords of firewood. Concentrate on that. You'll have to get it all in before the snow grounds your truck.'"
"Though I didn't want to ask, it seemed important. 'What's a cord?'"
So begins Pete Fromm's seven...
Lost Cosmonaut
Observations of an Anti-Tourist
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Daniel Kalder belongs to a unique group: the anti-tourists. Sworn to uphold the mysterious tenets of The Shymkent Declarations, the anti-tourist seeks out the dark, lost zones of our planet, eschewing comfort, embracing hunger and hallucinations, and always traveling at the wrong time of year. In...
Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens
A Couchsurfer's Memoir of Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Couchsurfer, hitchhiker, and rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin embarks on a couchsurfing adventure to the homeland of firebrand,” populist,” anti-American” president Hugo Chavez: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Alone in the crime capital of the world Maslin immediately finds himself in...
by David Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
During the four years he spent in black Africa as the bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, David Lamb traveled through almost every country south of the Sahara, logging more than 300,000 miles. He talked to presidents and guerrilla leaders, university professors and witch doctors. He bounced from...
Tales from the Expat Harem
Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This illuminating anthology provides a window into the country from the perspective of thirty-two expatriates from seven different nations-artists, entrepreneurs,...
The Explorers
A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Learn to unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of a great, forbidding adventure and “a fascinating examination of the seven key traits of history’s most famous explorers…[with] infusions of insight and enthusiasm” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In 1856, two intrepid...
Island that Dared
Journeys in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba in the company of Dervla Murphy, her daughter and three young granddaughters and you have a Swallows-and-Amazons-like adventure in the Caribbean as they trek into the hills and along the coast as a family, camping out on empty beaches beneath the stars...
Moods of Future Joys
Around the World by Bike Part One: From England to South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
An updated edition including new color photographs and a new afterword looking back at the journeyAlastair Humphreys’ around-the-world journey of 46,000 miles was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget, and spontaneous. Cycling across five continents and sailing over the oceans, his...
Cycling Across England
A Sea to Sea Ride
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Two women, two bikes, no backup on a Sea to Sea adventure.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century two friends set off to cycle from coast to coast across England. For one, it was to be the first of many long distance cycle rides.
Cycling Across England is an account of the fun, the food, the...