Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
The Geography of Genius
A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.
In this...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
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by Peter Boardman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalayas.' So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976....
Desert Places
A Woman's Odyssey with the Wanderers of the Indian Desert
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
From the bestselling author of Tracks: A travel writer’s memoir of her year with the nomadic Rabari tribe on the border between Pakistan and India.
India’s Thar Desert has been the home of the Rabari herders for thousands of years. In 1990, Australian Robyn Davidson, “as natural a travel...
The Geography of Bliss
One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2008
Part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is.
Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash...
by Jon Krakauer
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet,...
by Jon Krakauer
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1998
**National Bestseller **
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five...
by Joanna Biggar
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In That Paris Year, five smart, adventurous young women arrive on the banks of the Seine in 1962 for their junior year abroad. What they get is an education of a different sort. As they move from the grueling demands of the Sorbonne by day to late nights of discovery in smoky cafes, the young Americans...
by Orhan Pamuk
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait,...
by English Teacher X
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
English Teacher X, a legendary figure in the world of TEFL, follows up his debut book with this raw, lurid, and vivid memoir of his first five years teaching English abroad.
In 1995, after a year of aimless wandering, a young man answered an ad in a newspaper in Bangkok and inadvertently became...
Plane Insanity
A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's 92 degrees in the cabin and someone forgot to use deodorant. A baby screams. A kid kicks the back of your seat. After two hours you haven't even left the taxiway. Welcome to modern airline travel! In Plane Insanity, Elliott...
by E.B. White
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan—with the reader arm-in-arm—remains the quintessential love letter to the...
Waterfront
A Walk Around Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Fusing history, lore, politics, culture, and on-site adventures, esteemed essayist and author Phillip Lopate takes us on an exuberant, affectionate, and eye-opening excursion around Manhattan’s shoreline. Waterfront captures the ever-changing character of New York in the best way possible: on a...
by Michael Palin
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
'The pace of this kind of travel has not much changed since Fogg set out in 1872. Trains may be a little faster, but there are certainly no high-speed rail links yet across India, China or the USA. Passenger services have practically disappeared from the world's shipping lanes ... Recourse to air...