Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
by Henri Michaux
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
A wild journey to the East narrated by a writer who is “without equal in the literature of our time” (Jorge Luis Borges)
Henri Michaux (1899–1984), the great French poet and painter, set out as a young man to see the Far East. Traveling from India to the Himalayas, and on to China and...
by Washington Irving
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The productions of Washington Irving are deservedly held in high estimation, not so much, perhaps, for their intrinsic merits as literary compositions, although in this respect they hold no mean position, as for the inimitable tracings of adventurous life which they display through all their gradations...
by Anne Mustoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The British winter: rain, heavy; trains, cancelled; Christmas, expensive. How many times have you thought that there might be an alternative to grey skies and cold weather- one that will not break the bank?
Wintering abroad used to be the preserve of the very wealthy, yet since the advent of cheaper,...
Full Moon over Noah's Ark
An Odyssey to Mount Ararat and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson sets his adventurous compass on Mount Ararat, exploring the region’s long history, religious mysteries, and complex politics.
Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting...
Route 66 Still Kicks
Driving America's Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Two friends drive the renowned old highway in this “winning mixture of travelogue and history” (Booklist).
“You’ll never understand America until you’ve driven Route 66—that’s old Route 66—all the way,” a truck driver in California once said to author Rick Antonson. “It’s...
Last Minute Traveling Tips
Great Tips On How And Where To Look For Cheap Flight Tickets, Discount Hotel Rooms, Vacation Package Deals Plus All The Many Perks Of Traveling Last Minute So You Can Enjoy A Fun Holiday Without Breaking The Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
You can actually enjoy many advantages when you’re traveling last minute. Not only is it exciting “to live in the moment,” but you really can save hundreds of dollars just by putting off hotel bookings, flight reservations and holiday arrangements down to the very last possible time.
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Ciao Bella
In Search of New Relatives and Dante in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
'You really must read… Ciao Bella.' Sunday Times 'Fascinating… comic… delightful' Sunday Times 'Humorous… rich and satisfying.' Daily Telegraph 'Beautifully written, it made me laugh and I wanted to follow in Helena's footsteps round Italy.' Kate Figes 'A travel book with a difference.' Coventry...
by Linh Dinh
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Roaming the country by bus and train, on a budget and without any institutional support, Linh Dinh set out to document, in words and pictures, what life is like for people. From Los Angeles, Cheyenne, Portland, and New Orleans, to Jackson and Wolf Point--Linh walked miles and miles through unfamiliar...
Motorcycle Messengers
Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Motorcycle Messengers is a collection of travel stories from some of the leading writers in the genre ... plus a few people you've never heard of. Consider it a sample pack of authors. Read a story by the fire and discover your new favourite motorcycle travel writer.
Lois Pryce exploits her...
Make Solo Travelling Funny
The singles guide to affordable, exciting and hottest travel destinations
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Believe it or not, you can have a blast travelling to some of the hottest and exciting places in the world and party with awesome people from all over the world for just a few hundred dollars!
Yes, it’s true. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars just to get out of your home and...
by Clive Leatherdale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The scariest place on earth.' So said President Bill Clinton on his visit to the no-man's land between South and North Korea. The minefields and barbed wire mark the jagged edge of world peace. If the world is to see a nuclear war, Korea is the likely flashpoint. The contrast between the two Koreas...
by Ron MacMillan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
The Shetland Islands sit where the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea meet, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Over the centuries they have been a vital staging post for Vikings, Hanseatic traders and merchant sailors from faraway lands. Yet somehow, the same islands remain 'off the map'...
by Ian Gibson
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Un gran libro de Ian Gibson sobre recorridos, reflexiones e irreverencias de España.
Coincidiendo con el 60 aniversario de su llegada a España, Ian Gibson emprende la aventura de recorrer y analizar algunos de los lugares clave de nuestra geografía para comprender el espíritu, la cultura...
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
An astonishing account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the New York Times–bestselling author of South and West.
In Miami, the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking looks beyond postcard images of fluorescent waters, backlit...