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One room in a castle: letters from Spain, France & Greece
By Karen Connelly. 1995
Connelly writes of her travels and experiences in Spain, France, and Greece. Favouring letters because of the "sometimes funny, sometimes…
jarring intimacy" they create, Connelly has collected letters she has written to friends, to herself in diaries, and to the reader of this book. 1995.One year off: leaving it all behind for a round-the-world journey with our children
By David Elliot Cohen. 1999
Travelogue of a forty-year-old suburbanite who sold his house and possessions, closed his thriving business, and set out in 1996…
with his wife, three children, and a baby sitter on a thirteen-month, sixteen-country trip. This is a compilation of the lengthy descriptive e-mails he sent to friends while on the road. c1999.Deux ans au Mexique avec ma famille: chroniques de voyage ((Collection Récit de vie).)
By Robert Brown. 2013
" Suivez les aventures d'un couple de Québécois et leurs deux enfants à Cuernavaca, une ancienne ville coloniale située à…
85 km au sud de Mexico. Pendant deux ans, ils y ont vécu des situations parfois cocasses, parfois formatrices, lesquelles vous feront rire et même réfléchir. Découvrez la nouvelle réalité d'un ex-salarié devenu un homme au foyer et un père digne. À travers le regard aiguisé et les fines observations de Robert Brown, qui tente de s'accommoder raisonnablement dans son pays d'adoption temporaire, vous lirez avec plaisir les péripéties d'une famille qui délaisse le bien-être d'une existence rangée pour élargir sa zone de confort dans la vie. " -- 4e de couv.Le crash et le défi, survivre (À vrai dire)
By Johanne De Montigny. 1985
29 mars, 1979. Un F-27 de Québécair quitte l'aéroport de L'Ancienne-Lorette à destination de Montréal. Une minute 48 seconds plus…
tard, c'est le crash. Bilan: 17 morts. Voici le récit bouleversant d'une des sept passagers qui ont eu la vie sauve. 1985.Nullarbor (Étonnants voyageurs)
By David Fauquemberg. 2007
À l'orée des années 2000, un jeune homme traverse seul le Grand Ouest australien. Les Hell's Angels rôdent sur la…
plaine de Nullarbor. Les pêcheurs de l'océan Indien tirent les squales à la Winchester. Et les aborigènes dérivent dans les mangroves du Kimberley. 2007.On the road again: thirty years on the traveller's train to India
By Simon Dring. 1995
Over thirty years after his first trip, the author retraces his route to India - through Europe, the Middle East…
and Asia - documenting the changes and meeting a new generation of nineties' travellers. What are they looking for? Do they like it? Is it the same thing that the travellers of the sixties were in search of? Do freedom and friendship, curiosity and an overwhelming desire to survive, learn and grow still fire the imagination and challenge us to seek new horizons? 1995.On the shores of the Mediterranean
By Eric Newby. 1984
The author and his wife set out from Tuscany to investigate the Mediterranean as it was and as it is…
now. They travel via tough Naples with its Camorra murders and eight-horse hearses to Venice, Yugoslavia and a dull bus tour of Albania. He climbs Mount Olympus in a cloud, takes a Turkish bath in Istanbul and is fined for climbing the Great Pyramid. Includes strong language. 1984.Off the map: western travels on roads less taken
By Stephen Hume. 2001
On a shoestring to Coorg: an experience of South India
By Dervla Murphy. 1976
Returning to India in an attempt to improve her feelings about the country, the author arrived with her small daughter,…
in the tiny province of Coorg. Here they settled down happily to learn something about its customs, ceremonies and attitudes. 1976.Off the map: bicycling across Siberia
By Mark D Jenkins. 1992
In 1989, three American and four Russians crossed Siberia by bicycle. The author describes the arduous 4-month-long journey; relationships with…
his teammates; an unwanted police escort for the first leg of the trip; cultural differences between Russians and Americans, and the Siberian landscape. Strong language. 1992.On Celtic tides: one man's journey around Ireland by sea kayak
By Chris Duff. 1999
Kayaker Chris Duff, on his slow boat around Ireland, spends equal time on land and sea. He brings us an…
old-fashioned travelogue of excitement on the waves, unhurried explorations of monasteries and ruins, and conversations in pubs. 1999.Old Patagonian Express: by train through the Americas
By Paul Theroux. 1979
The way from Boston to Patagonia, Paul Theroux discovered, was one of great contrasts - contrasts in people, in temperature,…
in scenery, in altitude, in attitude. Some of the trains were superb, most were deplorable. Parochialism and xenophobia were coupled with some of the most staggeringly beautiful sights in the world, and some of the most squalid. Throughout, he observed and experienced with a sharp eye, an unbiased mind, and ultimately, a vivid pen. 1979.L'homme qui marche
By Jean Béliveau, Géraldine Woessner. 2013
Après la faillite de son entreprise d'enseignes lumineuses, Jean Béliveau est parti sur un coup de têtele jour de ses…
quarante-cinq ans, le 18 août 2000, de Montréal. Il est rentré chez lui le 16 octobre 2011 après avoir parcouru 75 543 km à travers 64 pays. Il a réussi sans préparation à effectuer la plus longue marche ininterrompue autour du monde et celle-ci a été reconnue par l'Unesco dans le cadre de la décennie internationale dédiée à la paix pour les enfants. Durant ces onze années, le marcheur porte turban et grande barbe au Soudan, mange des insectes en Afrique, du chien en Corée et du serpent en Chine. Il dort sous les ponts, dans des foyers pour sans-abri, voire dans des prisons, mais la plupart du temps chez des gens séduits par son aventure. 2013.Notes from a big country
By Bill Bryson. 1998
This book contains eighteen months worth of the author's popular columns about the strangest of phenomena - the American way…
of life. The text discusses the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, the jaw-slacking direness of American TV, and the smug pleasure of being able to eat beef without having to wonder if when you rise from the table you will walk sideways into the wall. 1998.Norway: the essential guide to customs & culture (Culture smart!)
By Linda Davis March. 2016
North to danger
By Walt Morey, Virgil Burford. 1969
No worries: a journey through Australia
By Mark McCrum. 1997
Knowing nothing of Australia except the lager-ad cliches of sun and surf, kangaroos and didgeridoos, Mark McCrum arrives Down Under.…
Hitching, flying, by Greyhound and by train, he makes his picaresque way around the vast brown land. He explores the country and meets its varied inhabitants, from royalist hippies to republican cattle-ranchers, from Perth millionaires to desert Aboriginals. 1997.No man's river
By Farley Mowat. 2004
Upon returning from European combat, Mowat met up with Charles Schweder, a trapper, son of a white man and Native…
woman. The two canoed and portaged around the lakes and rivers of Manitoba and the then Northwest Territories, and as Charles guided Mowat through the landmarks of the landscape, including spooky gravesites, foaming cataracts, caribou on the move, and a hawk named Windy, Mowat observed Charles' place between the white and native worlds. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2004.No other country
By Alfred W Purdy. 1977
The author takes a long, leisurely look at Canada and its people. He tells about racial tension in Aklavik, B.C.…
fishermen, men who rode the rails during the Depression, and many others. 1977.Ninety-two days
By Evelyn Waugh. 1991
Waugh chronicles a nightmarish South American journey, made on foot, horseback and by boat, and debunks the romantic notions attached…
to rough travelling. He describes Guyana, populated by visionaries, rogues and ranchers, and the jungles of Brazil. While his trip is dangerous and uncomfortable, Waugh's witty and acute descriptions truly give the reader a share in the experiences of the traveller. 1991.