Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books

Tomasz Zackiewicz - autor niezwykle poczytnych za granicą powieści i książek o tematyce archeologiczno-historycznej oraz artykułów naukowych, szczególnie popularnych w Niemczech, Wielkiej Brytanii i Stanach Zjednoczonych. Jego anglojęzyczne publikacje stanowią cenny materiał edukacyjny zarówno...

The Grand Plateau actually refers to the mind-boggling landscape that is the Colorado Plateau of southern Utah, northern Arizona and southwest Colorado. This volume takes you on a fine art photographer's tour of visual delights ranging from the wonderfully sublime to the ultra-exotic. Enjoy the adventure!

TRUE TALES OF A MODERN ADVENTURER! Pirates, parrots, hurricanes and... Himalayas! Stalked by jaguars in the jungle of Guatemala! Will they survive pirates off Costa Rica? How does he escape war in Kashmir? "Jon’s stories are wonderful. I would liken them to Jack Kerouac’s, in that...

After the worldwide success of my first book, I received many emails asking for more true-life adventure stories and tales. Within the covers of this, the second book of what became a popular trilogy, you will vicariously be swept off a yacht at night in a storm, spend a night in jail in Iran, attacked...

Acclaimed journalist Bernard Ollivier begins his epic journey on foot across the Silk Road. Upon retirement at the age of sixty-two, and grieving his deceased wife, renowned journalist Bernard Ollivier felt a sense of profound emptiness: What do I do now? While some see retirement as a chance...

Przewodnik z Tybetu. Na ścieżce przeznaczenia „Przewodnik z Tybetu” to powieść o charakterze przygodowym i sensacyjnym. Tytułowym przewodnikiem z Tybetu zostaje Polak, lekarz z Warszawy, który po tragicznej śmierci swej rodziny poszukuje nowego celu w życiu. Marek (tak ma na imię...

Wherever Chelsea Handler travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stories ever. On safari in Africa, it's anyone's guess as...

Uniquely scribed memoir of travels and lifestyle experiences in the United States as a college student, soldier, father, husband and small business. An easy read with an incredible arrangement of words!

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass...

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant...

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour** In David...

* * * * "I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa Rica and prevailed? Hadn’t I survived fainting in a San José brothel?  Hadn’t...

In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his...

"Theroux's best novel in years." CHICAGO TRIBUNE MY SECRET HISTORY is Paul Theroux's tour de force. It is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world traveler, a lover of every kind of woman he chances to meet in a life as varied as a man can lead. From his days as an altar...