Adventure & Literary Travel 100

In the previous adventure; the Audrey Eleanor and crew take a beating while trying to creep undetected past the furies and Mother Nature into Milbanke Sound and through Reid Channel.They manage to e……続きを見る

Simply saying the name Saltspring Island causes gentle breezes to whisper through my mind and fluffy sheep jump unbidden over my snob hurdles. Directly behind the sheep are groups of people stating ……続きを見る

Saturday morning arrives muffled in grey. Not exactly fog, just silent and still water and pearly-silver sky. It is surreal, seeing sail boats float in the glimmering clouds…no I have not been smoki……続きを見る

Renouer avec le passé pour envisager l’avenir. Michèle Rakotoson revient au pays après des années d’absence. Madagascar et sa capitale Antananarivo s’offrent au regard de celle qui vit an-dafin-dran……続きを見る

Australia: alla scoperta dell’ovest. Il libro è il racconto di un lungo viaggio sul più originale dei continenti, l'autore se ne va in giro per un mese attraverso l’immenso Western Australia. Con l……続きを見る

Environmental researcher David Kroodsma dreamed of bicycling down his driveway in Palo Alto, California, and pedaling for months until he reached the tip of South America. When he finally planned hi……続きを見る

Where to start?The rats have run rampant on board the Audrey Eleanor for two months we estimate.We call our neighbours who own The Knotty Gal, we want them to be aware that there are rats on the doc……続きを見る

Dent, Yuculta, Green; names of rapids that you need to pay attention to.This is where you need to know about current tables as well as tide tables.The whirlpools; the sinkers in two of these rapids ……続きを見る

Il était près de huit heures lorsque Michel Berthier-Lautrec rentra. Sa femme commençait à s’inquiéter. « Pourquoi ne vous êtes-vous pas mis à table sans moi ? dit Michel avec humeur. – Nous avons p……続きを見る

Well hello there, how are you doing, my it’s been a long, long time…how are we doing, well I guess we’re doing fine. Our adventures are sounding like an old country and western song. Do you remember……続きを見る

There are few women who live on the docks. When I happened to meet these women there an instant kindred connection. Our conversations are about boating, but with a feminine twist. One of my many ran……続きを見る

In the previous episodes the Audrey Eleanor had come under attack by an ex-navy cutter/gunboat.The crew now need to determine if Audrey has met the end of her days.The other consideration is whether……続きを見る

In the previous storey we left you while we were floating under the stars in the hot tub. There is a small community in Squirrel Cove. The general store is well stocked and has a decent marine hard……続きを見る

Spring is late coming to call in Pender Harbour this year. Does that make you in the north feel better? Now you should know that by late I mean the cherry blossoms are out, but the froths of pink fl……続きを見る

I remember bits and pieces of a song that go something like,” she got the goldmine and all I got was the shaft.” Don’t remember who sang it, or the name of the song. I recall stains of this lament d……続きを見る

Récit de voyage en Afrique Marie Gevers nous invite à franchir l’équateur, à remonter de parallèle en parallèle au pays des « vertes collines ». Nous longeons cette crête qui sépare le bassin du Con……続きを見る

YOU MISSED IT! Any event that is held in Pender Harbour shouldn’t be missed and that is especially true of the wooden boat festival! Still intimate, but with a broad spectrum of participants that p……続きを見る

We are docked at the government wharf in Deep Bay on Vancouver Island.The Coast Guard weather report is calling for another night of hurricane force winds after a night of record snowfall in an area……続きを見る

I love tying up. Anchoring out is wonderful, but being able to meet new and unusual people is always welcome after weeks of challenge and solitude. One of my favourite marinas is Thomas Basin in Ket……続きを見る

…We streak (literally) towards the dock. Waves crash over us and the dock as we try to reach Audrey. Grenville Channel, south of Prince Rupert, is deep, dark, long and narrow. Without a north wind,……続きを見る

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST, ANOTHER ONES GONE AND ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST! The Captain has trapped one more of the plague carrying varmints that we picked up while being on a dock below a hotel ……続きを見る

Pérégrinations au coeur des pays baltes Il faut découvrir les pays Baltes, dont l’histoire est profondément européenne, et tout spécialement Riga, la capitale de la Lettonie ; le Littoral de Courlan……続きを見る

This is London in the eyes of its the homeless, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and sex workers. This is London in the voices of Poles, Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Romanians and Russians. This is……続きを見る

.Trekking, diving, avoiding trouble, and other dodgy activities After spending the past 30 years traveling on business to locations around the World, the time arrived when Malcolm Teasdale could vis……続きを見る

Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel bo……続きを見る

A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author of the National Book Award–winning The Snow Leopard and t……続きを見る

After years of working on a string of sitcoms, Phil Doran found himself on the outside looking in. Just as he and his peers had replaced the older guys when he was coming up the ranks, it was now ha……続きを見る

As seen on Discovery Channel and for readers of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, Bill Bryson, Jon Krakauer, and David Grann, a riveting, adventurous account of one man’s history-making journey along the entir……続きを見る

“A sinister version of The Perfect Storm. Thrilling.”ーSunday Times (UK) For readers of The Perfect Storm, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, and Into the Wild There’s nothing that armchair adventure ……続きを見る

Peeling back the layers of Delhi’s centuries-old history, City of Djinns is an irresistible blend of research and adventure. Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of……続きを見る