Travelers Tales: 66 books
How to Shit Around the World
The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
This book deals with the litany of the traveler's basic health problems. Readers will learn how to avoid and deal with:Traveler's DiarreheaUnhealthy waterWeird foodsStrange ToiletsDehydrationGastroenteritisImmunizationLack of adequate hygieneWormsSnakes, Spiders and LeechesGoing outsideBathingThe special problems of childrenIssues with seniors
Kite Strings of the Southern Cross
A Woman's Travel Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
A passionate journey of love, discovery, and serendipity radiating from a remote Fijian beach to the far reaches of the globe. Heartwarming, funny, and wise, Laurie Gough has written a profound testament to the invaluable lessons of the road.
A Small Key Opens Big Doors: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories
Volume Three: The Heart of Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Cold War officially ended in 1991 and opened a world of fresh opportunities for the Peace Corps. The fact that PCVs could move seamlessly into a constellation of states that once comprised the USSR is a testament to the flexibility and durability of the organization. All Peace Corps needs is an invitation....
Gather the Fruit One by One: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories
Volume Two: The Americas
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Take some Inca, Aztec, Maya, and Moche, mix in Spanish, French, English, Dutch and Danish, stir it to the rhythmic beat of Africa and what do you get? A zesty brew, expressed in a callaloo soup of language, food, music, and religion. So much passion, so much sorrow. What seems familiar in the Americas...
Wild with Child
Adventures of Families in the Great Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Wild with Child is a unique collection of true stories by parents who boldly head out into the wilderness with kids in tow (or in the lead, as the case may be). These stories run the gamut of adventure: winter camping, climbing, spelunking, field research, skiing, llama trekking, fishing, hunting, and...
Even the Smallest Crab Has Teeth: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories
Volume Four: Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
From land-locked Afghanistan to the smallest of islands in the far reaches of the Pacific Ocean, stories by peace Corps Volunteers from this region come from (mostly) Hindu India-1,269,210 square miles worth of democracy patched together from princely states-Confucian Korea, Muslim Indonesia and Buddhist...
The Sword of Heaven
A Five Continent Odyssey to Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Any attempt at peace must be attended by a knowledge of self,” discovers writer and photographer Mikkel Aaland, who grew up with a bomb shelter for a bedroom, in terror of nuclear war. At the height of the Cold War, Aaland finds himself drawn into a mysterious Shinto priest’s plan to save the world....
Kin to the Wind
A Troubadour's Magical Journey around the World with No Money
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Kin to the Wind is the memoir of Moro, a gifted virtuoso guitarist and composer, who first played (and wrote his first composition) when he was six and performed his first of many concerts when he was twelve. The book recounts his journeys as he traveled the world as a troubadour, using only his guitar...
by Roger Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The second book in the Billy Gogan Series by Roger Higgins is a powerful and thrilling historical novel about friendship, cruelty, and the search for love during the most brutal battles of the Mexican American War.
The adventures continue for Billy Gogan, an intrepid Irish-American immigrant....
Mother Tongue
A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov’s story.
Mother Tongue is an exploration of lives lived in the chaos of a part of the world known as the Balkans. It follows the lives of three generations of women—Katarina,...