Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY - 1912 - Volume 1
PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND WESTERNMOST CHINA. 1906-1909.
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY (Published 1912) PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND WESTERNMOST CHINA IN 1912 BY M. AUREL STEIN. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, COLOUR PLATES, PANORAMAS, AND MAPS FROM ORIGINAL SURVEYS IN TWO VOLUMES - VOL. 1
This is the complete and unabridged...
The Boy and Me
A Pyrenean Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The Boy and Me is a no holds barred account of a father and son’s extraordinary walk as they struggle and muddle their way through a perilous distance trek with an edge... June 2006. Steve and his son, Michael, set out on a journey that will take them on one of the most demanding long distance treks...
All the Clean Ones Are Married
and Other Everyday Calamities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In 1991, Lori Cidylo shocked her Ukrainian Polish-born parents when she told them she was leaving her reporter's job on an upstate New York newspaper to live and work in the rapidly dissolving Soviet Union.For six years she lived on a shoe-string budget in Moscow, in tiny, run-down apartments, struggling...
God's Middle Finger
Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of law and society have never taken hold in the...
India Charm Offensive
An Expat Pilot Flies The South Asia Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
"Exuberant—and funny—without neglecting the seriousness of surviving a year of love and war." —Kirkus Reviews
Here, we enjoy a triple feature: excellent writing, fascinating stories, and learning the rich first-hand experience of an American contract helicopter pilot. Sobotta...
Champagne Baby
How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine--and Life--the American Way
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
One of the best memoirs of 2016 (Library Journal) and winner of the Northern California Book Festival Award! Fresh, charming, and irresistible, Champagne Baby turns a familiar tale on its head: Instead of yet another American seeking the French secret to good living, a Frenchwoman finds her purpose—much...
by Sigurd F Olson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
The author of The Singing Wilderness and Listening Point begins this grand adventure: “There are few places left on the North American continent where men can still see the country as it was before Europeans came and know some of the challenges and freedoms of those who saw it first, but in the...
by Peggy Senger Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Quaker minister and spiritual adventurer, Peggy Senger Morrison writes about finding God in unexpected places. The book starts by proposing 12 spiritual disciplines for the 21st century. These include: adventure, courage, surrender, compassion and failure. The idea is to develop and hold an unmediated...
Stand Corrected
My Hiking Adventure in the Porqupine Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This story started out as a reminder of the hike my family and I had shared. From the first night out away from all the noise of the day to day life to the hour to hour frustration of the insects who invaded our lives. Between the beauty of the waterfalls and our ability to share the lives of the...
Sea Change
The True Story of What Happened When The Great-Great-Grandson of Charles Dickens Ran Away to Sea For a Year
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
'This book should inspire a great number of folk who may think it's too late for them to leave their desk and follow their wildest dreams into proving themselves wrong.' Ranulph Fiennes Twenty-one years of corporate life had looked after Ian Dickens pretty well. A directorship. A comfortable house,...
by Shirley Billing
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
SEIZE THE DAY before it's too late. There's a wonderful world out there to explore.A stunning account of seven years on the seven seas, the first lap of Peter and Shirley’s 65,000 miles sail around the world in their 35’ ketch CLYPEUS. A car accident jolted them into rethinking their...
Untie the Lines
Setting Sail and Breaking Free
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
In Casting Off we met Emma Bamford. Stressed out and fed up with London life, working 80-hour weeks and with no hint of a love life, Emma suddenly decided to quit her job, pack up her life and go and live with a man she's never met, and his cat, on a yacht in Borneo. In Casting Off we followed Emma...
by Tim Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
In Hold the Enlightenment, America’s favorite and funniest adventure writer returns with his most entertaining collection of essays yet, as he travels the globe and faces down challenges that are animal, topographical—and human.
Hold the Enlightenment takes Tim Cahill to sites as far-flung...
Just Sea and Sky
England to New Zealand the Hard Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
This charming account of the voyage of two men in a small boat half way
round the world from Plymouth to New Zealand in 1953 is a rare insight into a time, not long ago, when
sailors had no GPS, electronics, radio or any of the mod cons that we
take for granted today. Without lifejacket or a liferaft,...