Whether you're an explorer or tourist, the journey often proves to be more exciting than the place your arrive at. Not to mention more alarming, entertaining, spectacular, dangerous or farcical. All of which is closely connected to...
Travel
- Author:THACKER, BrianSummary:
- Author:Laut, Agnes C., Neering, RosemarySummary:
In the early sixteenth century, the first exploratory ships arrived on the Pacific Coast of North America. These rovers were seeking gold and silver, fur pelts, a safe passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and above all, adventure....
- Author:Collectif d’élèvesSummary:
Un périple au pays de la cornemuse, des aventures dans des «paradis» tropicaux qui ébranlent de nombreuses conceptions, un retour au pays natal où rien ne se déroule comme prévu, une passion partagée par un père et un fils pour le...
- Author:Huard, JulieSummary:
Appareil photo en bandoulière et calepin en poche — à mi-chemin entre la touriste et la journaliste —, Julie Huard prend plaisir à capter ce qu’elle voit, mais surtout à aller au-devant des gens et, à travers les rencontres qu’elle fait...
- Author:Di Cintio, MarcelloSummary:
An Atlantic Books Today Editor's Pick. Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999. Like most outsiders, the Palestinian narrative that he knew had been simplified by a seemingly unending struggle, a near-Sisyphean curse of...
- Author:Preston, DianaSummary:
Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and...
- Author:Kopas, CliffSummary:
Babes in the woods. That’s how Ruth and Cliff Kopas were described by one of many colourful characters the pair encountered on their amazing journey across the Rockies through to British Columbia’s west coast in 1933. Married on the day...
- Author:Bush, LauraSummary:
#1 New York Times bestseller! To help commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the National Park Service, #1 New York Times bestselling authors former First Lady Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna Bush Hager have created an exuberant...
- Author:Heggstad, GlenSummary:
In November of 2001, Glen Heggstad decided to ride his motorcycle to the tip of South America. His journey was interrupted when he was kidnapped at gunpoint by Colombian rebels and held captive for five weeks. Yet even after his...
- Author:Alexander, CarolineSummary:
With richly evocative images and wonderfully entertaining anecdotes, Caroline Alexander transports you to the dense interior of equatorial Gabon. In One Dry Season, she chronicles her adventures as she makes her way alone through...
- Author:Parfitt, TroySummary:
Parfitt takes a look at Korea's fever-pitch nationalism and gives an assessment of the world's only Chinese democracy, has a run-in with a Nepalese rhinoceros and one or two equally volatile Vietnamese tour guides and ponders the...
- Author:BRYSON, BillSummary:
After nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer returned to America. Gathered here are eighteen months' worth of his writings about that strangest of phenomena - the American way of life.
- Author:Hughes, John FrancisSummary:
Nobody Rides For Free: A Drifter in the Americas chronicles former bike courier John Hughes' rambles through Latin America on a bicycle. In this gripping mosaic-travellogue, readers are introduced to banditos, artists, grifters, would-...
- Author:Simpson, RobSummary:
Join Rob Simpson on a dozen once-in-a-lifetime adventures in the world of international media
Though he’s now known to hockey fans across North America for his NHL commentary and as co-host of the Stellick...
- Author:Steele, RomneySummary:
"A very special book about a very special place." –Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food "What a world Romney Steele has given us in My Nepenthe! This personal tale is as tender...
- Author:ADAMS, StevenSummary:
Autobiographic account of the author's life including the accident that left him blind at age 29.
- Author:Malloy, Edward A.Summary:
Anne Tyler wrote a novel called The Accidental Tourist about a man who is forced to travel but does not want to have any new experiences... My goal on my trips has been just the opposite: not to do anything too foolish, but to be open...
- Author:Cilauro, SantoSummary:
- Author:Adams, MarkSummary:
A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger discovery: Amateur explorers are still...
- Author:Ruiz, AnaSummary:
Ana Ruiz visits the monuments, architecture and archeological remains of early Madrid, tracing its evolution up until the Christian conquest in the late 11th century. This history gives special emphasis to Madrids Moorish origins, while...