Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Who Picked This Place?
The Fantastical Vacations of a Bald-Headed Man and a Bird-Watching Woman
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2006
Book Description: In his last book about vacation misadventures, Travels with Anne, Stuart Anderson won our sympathy by describing his experiences, in remote corners of the world, with broken-down vehicles, clueless guides, unbearable traveling companions, miserable weather, and decidedly uncooperative...
by Matthew Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Tom and Swan explore Ketchikan Alaska and their spirituality before heading north to Cordova to meet up with Swan’s dad. Tom and Paul have an oil and water relationship until shocking events on Eddie Spaghetti’s boat bring them together like a pair of murderous criminals. The fishing is good,...
by Richard F. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurer’s firsthand epic account of daring 1854 expedition to forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of detailed information on Muslim beliefs, manners and morals; plus pleasures and perils of the desert. A wealth of geographic, ethnographic and linguistic data.
by Lawrence Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Madagascar is a drug. Between its dazzling culture and biosphere—ninety percent of its species found nowhere else—everything is beautiful. But nothing is possible.
The world’s fourth largest island is also its fourth most corrupt nation. The rivers run red.
In 2016, I flew thirty hours over...
The Lost Tribe
A Harrowing Passage into New Guinea's Heart of Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Two years before this story begins, the Liawep were living deep in the jungle of Papua, New Guinea, long forgotten by the outside world. Numbering seventy-nine men, women, and children, the tribe worshipped a mountain, dressed in leaves, and hid when planes flew overhead, believing them to be evil...
Free Books for Lovers of Explorations and Discoveries
Over 100 Downloadable, True-adventure Books for You to Enjoy
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Welcome to a collection of well over 100 FREE books on thrilling expeditions and discoveries now available for a free download into your computer, tablet or reader.
This is an exciting collection of accounts, diaries and journals of many adventurers who dared to tackle some of the most mysterious...
Camp Six
The 1933 Everest Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Frank Smythe's Camp Six is one of the greatest Everest accounts ever written. It is the story of the 1933 Everest Expedition, in which Smythe, climbing alone after his partner Eric Shipton had turned back ill, reached a point perhaps higher than any man had done before - and some twenty years before...
by Robert Mads Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
In the spring of 1928, two men in a single-engine plane took off from the northernmost point in America - Barrow, Alaska. Flying for over 20 hours across the Arctic, they completed a journey to Spitsbergen, Norway, described by their contemporaries Byrd and Amunsden as 'the most remarkable journey ever...
by Rod Heikell
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Sailing Ancient SeasA crippled boat and a lot of broken dreams. A broken marriage and a hunger to sail down into the Indian Ocean. This is both a love story about a boat, his beloved Tetranora and a story of a voyage out of love and into life. Along the way it explores ancient sailing routes from...
Walking the Downs Link
Planning Guide & Reflections on Walking from St. Martha’s Hill to Shoreham-by-Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This is the first guide to walking the Downs Link, a 37-mile trail that links the North Downs Way to the South Downs Way, continuing beyond to the coast where it ends at Shoreham-by-Sea. The Downs Link is an excellent trail for a long weekend walk, or for walkers seeking to do a first long-distance trail....
Wanderer
The Ultimate Hippy Trail Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
During the crazy latter days of the Vietnam War, many young travelers wandered about doing drugs, having sex, sleeping out, and back-packing through Europe, North Africa, and Asia. As a young man coming of age, just out of college, with no clear future and unable to pay rent, the bushy-red-haired...
Outpost
A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet. Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. These are landscapes that speak of deep time, whose scale can knock us down to size. Their untamed...
Peaceful Freeman
A Story by a Peaceful Freeman on the Land
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This is a magnificent read, The author is clearly highly educated and a little crazy but in a nice way as he explains in detail why he ups and leaves his, what seems a mundane life to live on the road of adventure. Fact is stranger than fiction with the words from this philosopher. Peaceful Freeman...
FEETS...Around the World
A True Story of Love and Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In 1978, Mark and Karen sat on a sunny hillside in Humboldt County, California dreaming of all the wondrous places in the world they wanted to see. This story tells of their travels, travails, adventures and misadventures over the course of the 18 months that they wandered the world and lived those dreams.