Adventure Literary Travel category: 5767 books
by Mark J. Curran
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Travel and Teaching in Portugal and SpainA Photographic Journey is another in the series Stories I Told My Students. It follows the pattern of books listed above on Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, and Colombia. The book tells the tale of travel in Portugal and travel and summer teaching in the Arizona...
2017 Nowhere Print Annual
Literary Travel Writing, Photography and Art from Nowhere Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The Nowhere Print Annual represents the best literary travel writing, photography and art from award-winning Nowhere Magazine (nowheremag.com). Pocket-size, 5"x7", soft matte cover, color throughout, classic Nowhere design. Carry it wherever you travel.
by Terrance Zepke
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Cape Town is one the best cities in the world because it has so much to offer, from underground tunnel tours to abseiling off Table Mountain. Did you know that Table Mountain is older than the Alps, Andes, Rockies, and the Himalayas?
In this handy reference, the author reveals...
*best foodie...
by Terrance Zepke
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Marrakesh is the best of Morocco with its mysterious medinas, ancient ruins, magnificent mosques, famed gardens, colorful souks, and amazing adventures. Discover...
*Best Desert Adventures
*Best Hostels (Clean and Cheap!)
*Best Day Trips
*Best Rooftop Restaurants
*Best Tourist Tips
*Best Thrill!
*Best...
by Edith Wharton, Lavinia Spalding
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Description
A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. As the Whartons embark on three separate journeys through the country in 1906 and 1907, accompanied first...
Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume One
Blue Thirst, Sicilian Carousel, and Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Travel writing “as luminous as the Mediterranean air” from the acclaimed author of the Alexandria Quartet, who is featured in PBS’s The Durrells in Corfu (Time).
Born in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt...
No-Man's Lands
One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus.No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s...
Motorcycle Therapy
A Canadian Adventure in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
From the Canadian Rockies to the Panamanian jungle, Motorcycle Therapy rumbles with comic adventure as two men, fleeing failed relationships, test the limits of their motorcycles and their friendship. Join the horn-honking, signal-flashing, wheelie-popping pair as they endure painful bee stings, painful...
by Bruce Chatwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions,...
The Great Northern Express
A Writer's Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
From bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for.
Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate...
Adventure Divas
Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her...
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10
True Stories from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth,...
Courage Quest
Through Solo Adventure Travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
This is an engaging memoir of one woman’s solo backpacking travels through areas of the world most would not tackle, in her mid-life, she searched fifteen years for courage by confronting fear.
Sally DeMasi stepped from her comfort zone to expand new horizons and face her personal fears. ...
Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
****Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**
“Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard.”—*Sports...