Walking the Americas
1,800 Miles, Eight Countries, and One Incredible Journey from Mexico to Colombia
Nonfiction, Travel, Caribbean & Latin America, Central America, Adventure & Literary Travel
| Author: | Levison Wood | ISBN: | 9780802165640 |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic | Publication: | March 6, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Atlantic Monthly Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Levison Wood |
| ISBN: | 9780802165640 |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
| Publication: | March 6, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Language: | English |
A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, Walking the Americas was published in the UK in February alongside the release of Wood’s eponymous Channel 4 TV series, which reached over 2 million viewers per episode. It has also been longlisted for the Banff Mountain Book award for adventure travel.
All of Wood's walking expeditions have been accompanied by a Channel 4 TV series. The series for Walking the Nile and Walking the Himalayas have been sold throughout the world.
Levison Wood is hugely promotable and is supporting the UK publication of Walking the Americas with a speaking tour and TV, radio, and press interviews.
Walking the Americas includes a full color, 16-page insert of photos taken throughout the expedition.
Levison Wood’s previous book, Walking the Himalayas, won the 2016 Edward Stanford Adventure Travel Book of the Year Award. Wood’s Eastern Horizons has been shortlisted for the Adventure Travel Book of the Year award in the UK.
Walking the Nile, which was published in hardcover by Grove Atlantic in 2016, sold well, received positive reviews in the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, and was named an Amazon Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction).
A former British paratrooper who served in Afghanistan, Wood is an accomplished writer, photographer, and explorer. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Wood was named one of “The 50 Most Adventurous Men” by Men’s Journal and a “Top 40 Traveller” by Condé Nast Traveler (UK).
Walking the Americas is especially relevant to American audiences as immigration and the US-Mexican border wall rise to the forefront of national debate. Wood travels the same path of many illegal immigrants to America—but travelling in the opposite direction—reporting on the individuals, cultures, and political atmospheres of the countries he visits.
This is a grand adventure narrative in the tradition of Tim Butcher’s Blood River and Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between.
A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, Walking the Americas was published in the UK in February alongside the release of Wood’s eponymous Channel 4 TV series, which reached over 2 million viewers per episode. It has also been longlisted for the Banff Mountain Book award for adventure travel.
All of Wood's walking expeditions have been accompanied by a Channel 4 TV series. The series for Walking the Nile and Walking the Himalayas have been sold throughout the world.
Levison Wood is hugely promotable and is supporting the UK publication of Walking the Americas with a speaking tour and TV, radio, and press interviews.
Walking the Americas includes a full color, 16-page insert of photos taken throughout the expedition.
Levison Wood’s previous book, Walking the Himalayas, won the 2016 Edward Stanford Adventure Travel Book of the Year Award. Wood’s Eastern Horizons has been shortlisted for the Adventure Travel Book of the Year award in the UK.
Walking the Nile, which was published in hardcover by Grove Atlantic in 2016, sold well, received positive reviews in the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, and was named an Amazon Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction).
A former British paratrooper who served in Afghanistan, Wood is an accomplished writer, photographer, and explorer. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Wood was named one of “The 50 Most Adventurous Men” by Men’s Journal and a “Top 40 Traveller” by Condé Nast Traveler (UK).
Walking the Americas is especially relevant to American audiences as immigration and the US-Mexican border wall rise to the forefront of national debate. Wood travels the same path of many illegal immigrants to America—but travelling in the opposite direction—reporting on the individuals, cultures, and political atmospheres of the countries he visits.
This is a grand adventure narrative in the tradition of Tim Butcher’s Blood River and Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between.
