Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Ghost Wave
The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Rising from the depths of the North Pacific lies a fabled island, now submerged just 15 feet below the surface of the ocean. Rumors and warnings about Cortes Bank abound, but among big wave surfers, this legendary rock is famous for one simple (and massive) reason: this is the home of the biggest...
Ultimate Sailing Adventures
100 Extraordinary Experiences on the Water
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Do you dream of sailing around one of the Great Capes? Would you like to cruise up the Amazon or windsurf across the Pacific? How about competing in the America’s Cup or Volvo Ocean Race? These are just a few of the 100 extraordinary experiences included in Ultimate Sailing Adventures._x000D_ There...
Sailing the Pacific
A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth, and a Journey into Its Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Solo sailors are widely known to be a breed apart, and here's an unforgettable book that shows just how wide a berth they give themselves from the crowds. Several years ago, Miles Hordern, a schoolteacher by training---though he had run away to sea a few times before---set sail on a twenty-eight-foot...
by Backroad Bob, Robert H. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
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by Billy Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Billy Connolly - raconteur, comedian, and irrepressible wanderer - has spent much of his life in the United States. It's a country he knows and loves a great deal, but even someone as well-travelled as Billy can always discover knew things about such a vast nation. So he's off on the move again, this...
Under the Arms of the Sky
A Sailing Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
This is the journey that saw Kate and Hugh step outside their comfort zone in every respect. Ditching jobs, saying goodbye to family in Sydney, and reducing their worldly belongings to what fit on a 13m sailing boat. It was a huge leap of faith for a new couple in their 30s. Throwing off the dock-lines...
So Long! I'll Be Back In 30 Years
Three decades of life-changing encounters and events across Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
In "So Long! I'll Be Back in 30 Years", author Margo McCutcheon takes readers on a 30-year journey through Asia and an array of unique characters, adventures, disasters and life-changing encounters. Open the book randomly and step into the life of a Filipino girl living and thriving in a...
Alone on the South Downs Way
One Woman's Solo Journey from Winchester to Eastbourne
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Alone on the South Downs Way is the story of Holly Worton's 100 mile walking journey along one of England's National Trails in 2015. An avid walker, she thought she was up for the challenge of an eight day hike, and happily set off to explore the South Downs. What followed was a magical journey through...
Flying Angel
Vanuatu, the Happiest Country You Never Heard of !
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
To sail around the world on Rivendel II, our 43-ft sloop, my husband and I set course for Australia in 1998. Providence landed us in Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides, independent since 1980. Rural island villages had lost electric power and communication, as well as transportation, education and...
Two Are Better
Midlife Newlyweds Bicycle Coast to Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Waiting upon the Lord takes on new meaning when you've been searching for companionship for over thirty years. Such was the case for Tim and Debbie Bishop. At age 52, the couple finally found in each other that special someone they'd been searching for years to marry. They moved from marriage proposal...
Everest
Reflections From The Top
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first ever to set foot on the highest point on earth: the summit of Everest. It was a magical moment. Since then many men and women have striven to reach the top of this awesome mountain, which can be at once beautiful and mystical, unpredictable...
Wild Voices
Journeys Through Time in the Scottish Highlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The journeys in this book are tales of adventure on foot and by canoe through some of the last wild places in Scotland. Each journey is haunted by the ghost of another writer - Neil Gunn, Iain Thomson, Rowena Farre - who has left behind the trace of his or her own experience of these isolated hills,...
by Johnny Molloy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Whether forging uncharted territory or slipping along marked canoe trails, get ready to experience more than 400 miles of creeks, bays, marshes, and the Gulf of Mexico. This indispensable guide for the ultimate adventure by canoe or kayak now includes GPS coordinates and twelve new paddle routes.
by Riley McLincha
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
The Runyaker's Journey is a story of two journeys. The first, the Horseshoe-to-Horseshoe Runyaking Expedition, a solo adventure of paddling and running 1400 miles from Oxford, MI to Niagara Falls, ON. The journey took fifty-seven days over four summers, using a 9.5-ft kayak he calls Swiftee. Secondly,...