Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
Freud's Trip to Orvieto
The Great Doctor's Unresolved Confrontation with Antisemitism, Death, and Homoeroticism; His Passion for Paintings; and the Writer in His Footsteps
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
"[An] unusual meditation on sex, death, art, and Jewishness. . . . Weber weaves in musings on his own sexual and religious experiences, creating a freewheeling psychoanalytic document whose approach would surely delight the doctor, even if its conclusions might surprise him." —New Yorker
"Freud's...
by W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
“W. G. Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence–humane, digressive, deeply erudite, unassuming and tinged with melancholy. . . . In [Campo Santo] Sebald reveals his distinctive tone, as his winding sentences gradually mingle together curiosity and plangency, learning...
Hermit in Paris
Autobiographical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
“As for my books, I regret not having published each one under a different nom de plume: that way I would feel freer to start again from scratch each time, just as I always try to do anyway.” — from Hermit in Paris
This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait...
by Helene Hanff
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Nancy Mitford meets Nora Ephron in the pages of The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff’s delightful travelogue about her “bucket list” trip to London
When devoted Anglophile Helene Hanff is invited to London for the English publication of 84, Charing Cross Road—in which she...
The River at the Center of the World
A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China, pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai, it has also historically...
by Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A collection of travel essays from the bestselling author whose writing sparkles with “prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves” (Time).
Few men have traveled as wisely as Lawrence Durrell. Born in India, he lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and...
For the Love of Ireland
A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Welcome to the Ireland of its Writers
Walk the streets of Dublin with Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Roddy Doyle. Contemplate the wild glens of Wicklow with John Millington Synge and Seamus Heaney. Wander the thrilling Cliffs of Moher with Wallace Stevens. Visit antic Limerick...
Guadeloupe, Marie-Galante and Saintes islands
Discover a Caribbean paradise!
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Would you like a slice of paradise?
So… Welcome to Guadeloupe, the paradise island in the Caribbean Sea with a French touch!
Do you think that exotic tourism, ever-sunny beaches, incredible flowers and nature are not for you?
Make no mistake: this is possible!
Our eGuide will definitely...
The Complete Travel Writings of Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad + Roughing It + A Tramp Abroad + Following the Equator + Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Travel Writings of Mark Twain” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
It is a complete collection of Mark Twain’s travel writings – including ‘The Innocents Abroad’, ‘Roughing It’, ‘A Tramp Abroad’,...
The Complete Collection of Travel Literature
In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Beyond the Devil's Teeth, House of the Tiger King, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Travels With Myself, Trail of Feathers
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
This edition brings together Tahir Shah's full collection of travel writing: from India to Africa to South America, join the author on his unusual adventures and expeditions around the world.The first and last books in the collection are of international travels. Beyond the Devil's Teeth is the author's...
by Susannah Patton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Richly illustrated with maps, historical and contemporary photographs, and period artwork, this guidebook takes tourists and armchair travelers on a stimulating journey through the small towns, rolling hills, and windswept coast of Flaubert’s Normandy. The novelist’s homes and the locations that...
Marco Polo Didn't Go There
Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications...
World Travel Adventures
True Encounters from over 100 Countries by an Ordinary Guy with Extraordinary Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Travel along with Steve as he visits 100 countries and all 7 continents. From a middle-class family in Brooklyn, New York he left the corporate world to explore the rest of the world - and found amazing people, places, and experiences from the Tropics to Antarctica. A fascinating read whether you...
A Travel Junkie's Diary
Searching for Mare's Milk and Other Far-Flung Pursuits
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Dina Bennett’s on the road again—and she can’t stop! Having completed the 7,800-mile Peking to Paris Classic Car Challenge while braving carsickness and patching rocky marital relations, she’s once more in over her head, enduring 100,000 miles of road trips through the world’s out-of-the-way...