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On the road again
By Wayne Rostad. 1996
Rostad revisits some of most interesting guests on his television show, "On the Road Again." Some of the extraordinary people…
he introduces are a Newfoundland man who is a connoisseur and salesman of fine iceberg ice, a couple in British Columbia who won the lottery but kept on running the town garbage dump, an Alberta man who eats bugs, and a Quebec woman who has adopted 24 disabled children.An innocent in Cuba: further curious rambles and singular encounters
By David McFadden. 2005
McFadden rambles through the highs and lows of Cuba, home to cigars, Guantanamera, and of course Castro. The beautiful Caribbean…
landscape, along with Cuba's rich history, culture, and uncertain future, lend themselves to his quirky eye. McFadden offers a series of vignettes of the people, cities, villages, roads, and countryside of the island the author refers to as "the most famous little country in the world." 2005.Three weeks with my brother
By Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks. 2004
A memoir chronicling the around-the-world adventure of author Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, in 2003. Leaving wives and families…
at home, the brothers journeyed to Machu Picchu, Peru; India; and the Australian outback, remarking on milestones in their lives, childhood remembrances, and truths about loss and hope. Bestseller. 2004.Amazon extreme: three ordinary guys, one rubber raft and the most dangerous river on Earth
By Colin Angus, Ian Mulgrew. 2001
With no money to speak of and inaccurate, fifty-year-old maps to guide them, a trio of twenty-something adrenaline junkies managed…
to persevere through violent rapids, guerrilla gunfire, mosquito-infested drinking water, and numerous bouts of sickness in an attempt to become the first team to raft the entire length of the Amazon River - and (barely) live to tell about it. Beginning with the dehydration that nearly did them in as they hiked the Andes to the river's source, the book is an account of the daily challenges, dangers, and triumphs experienced over the course of this five-month expedition. 2004, c2001.The lost continent: travels in small-town America
By Bill Bryson. 2002
Bryson describes his cross-country journey to revisit what he deems the "magic places" of his youth, beginning with his hometown…
of Des Moines, Iowa, and including the Rocky Mountains. Reminisces about his childhood and his father as he recounts adventures across thirty-eight states and 13,978 miles. Some strong language. c1989, 2002.Neither here nor there: travels in Europe
By Bill Bryson. 1991
Bryson retraces his journeys through Europe in 1972 and 1973, when he and a high school buddy backpacked through the…
continent. Bryson revisits many of those places, and describes the changes in the sites and within himself. As the interests of Bryson and his buddy were quite different then, Bryson blends the accounts of the two journeys, offering insight into the various countries as well as his own life. Bestseller. 1991.Beyond the sky and the earth: a journey into Bhutan
By Jamie Zeppa. 1999
In 1989 Jamie Zeppa decided to try something completely different from anything she had ever done before. She signed on…
as a teacher for two years in the Far East country of Bhutan. Once she arrived there she discovered the difficulties in bridging cultural divides, and the rewards that come from immersing oneself in a completely different culture. 1999.Attention all shipping: a journey round the shipping forecast
By Charlie Connelly. 2005
This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben…
chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspired poems, songs and novels in addition to its intended objective of warning generations of seafarers of impending storms and gales. Yet familiar though the sea areas are by name, few people give much thought to where they are or what they contain. In "Attention all shipping" Charlie Connelly wittily explores the places behind the voice, those mysterious regions whose names seem often to bear no relation to conventional geography. Armchair travel will never be the same again. 2005.Lands of lost borders: out of bounds on the Silk Road
By Kate Harris. 2018
As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer--had gone extinct. So she…
vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. Well along this path, Harris set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule. This trip was just a simulacrum of exploration, but Harris realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. Forget charting maps, naming peaks, leaving footprints on another planet: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. And where she'd felt that most intensely was on a bicycle, on a bygone trading route. So Harris hit the Silk Road again with Yule, this time determined to bike it from beginning to end. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, she celebrates our connection as humans to the natural world, and ultimately to each other--a belonging that transcends any fences or stories that may divide us. Bestseller. Winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize. 2018.2 1/2 men in a boat
By Nigel Williams. 1993
Nigel Williams's first work of non-fiction retells one of the most famous journeys of English literature - how Jerome K.…
Jerome rowed up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford - which Jerome transformed into the 1889 classic of English comedy "Three men in a boat". Williams's odyssey of the 1990s shows what has changed and what remains the same.Strands: a year of discoveries on the beach
By Jean Sprackland. 2012
A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, 'Strands'…
is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation. 2012.The old ways: a journey on foot
By Robert Macfarlane. 2013
Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the…
British Isles and beyond, the author discovers a lost world, a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations. 2013.Dark star safari: overland from Cairo to Cape Town
By Paul Theroux. 2000
'Safari' in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town -…
down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda and beyond to South Africa. This is travel as discovery, but it is in part a sentimental journey. Almost forty years ago, Theroux first travelled in Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students and revisits his African friends to see first-hand what has happened in Africa over four decades of independence. 2000.Clear waters rising: a mountain walk across Europe
By Nicholas Crane. 1997
Alone, and on foot, Nicholas Crane embarked on an extraordinary adventure: a seventeen-month journey along the chain of mountains that…
stretches across Europe from Cape Finisterre to Istanbul, with only an umbrella for company. This classic account is both a tale of endurance and a celebration of the people and landscapes that exist on the periphery of the modern world.After a thirty-year career as high profile vet, columnist, presenter and author, Bruce Fogle - the UK's bestselling cat &…
dog writer - decided to leave urban Britain and take a journey with his dog Macy. Travelling in the footsteps of the great American novelist John Steinbeck, who published Travels with Charley - his standard poodle - in the '60s, Fogle set off in search of the North America of his childhood. 2006.Great British railway journeys
By Charlie Bunce. 2011
City of Djinns: a year of Delhi
By William Dalrymple. 1993
Although New Delhi has been invaded and burned many times through the centuries, it has always been rebuilt. During his…
stay there, Dalrymple found a city full of relics, both architectural and human, from different periods of history, side by side. Research description is combined with tales of his travels and encounters with people from various levels of society, different religions, and numerous traditions. 1993.Under the Tuscan sun
By Frances Mayes. 1998
The author opens the door on a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the…
spectacular Tuscan countryside. She explores the nuances of the Italian landscape, history and cuisine. Each adventure yields delightful surprises - the perfect panettone, an unforgettable wine, or painted Etruscan tombs. 1998.The pillars of Hercules: a grand tour of the Mediterranean
By Paul Theroux. 1995
The popular author of The Great Railway Bazaar and other travelogues traces a modern version of the Grand Tour of…
Europe--a lively, sometimes violent journey around the shores of the Mediterranean. Originally published in 1995.All points north
By Simon Armitage. 1998