Adventure & Literary Travel 17

Writer and psychologist Stephen Cartmell set off to explore Britain using the cultural melting pot of the UK's 60 racecourses as his staging posts. During his travels the author observed the frequen……続きを見る

A humorous account of the author's two years living in Kenya and working for the UN. Lonergan's memoir tells two parallel stories: one of the vivid contrasts in Kenyan society and the other recounti……続きを見る

There's trouble brewing in the Property Owners' Association. Greed, jealousy and hunger for power are a deadly mix when individual freedoms clash with group desires in this mountain subdivision. ……続きを見る

When Mark Heyward first went to Indonesia, to teach at a small school in East Kalimantan, little did he realise how life changing his decision would prove to be. Within three years his Australian li……続きを見る

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. Pioneering new ground in outdoor literature, this was Stevenson's first book……続きを見る

**Winner, Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize, and the University of Johannesburg Prize, 2007 Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2008; and the Warwick Prize 2009 ‘One of the mo……続きを見る

**The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of co……続きを見る

This is the harrowing account of arguably the most ill-fated expedition in the long maritime history of the Low Countries. At the end of the 16th century five heavily armed ships sailed from the por……続きを見る

Possibly the most gung-ho man on television Daily TelegraphBritains fishermen are no ordinary men. Their working day is long, tough, grueling and dangerous and now their livelihood is at risk.In his……続きを見る

In 1895, Joshua Slocum set sail from Boston. Three years later, he returned, making the first solo circumnavigation of the globe. classic travel book, the author sails solo around the world in 1895 ……続きを見る

Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park allows visitors to keep the diamonds they find. This author found a rare, flawless, golden yellow 2.04-carat diamond. It was independently appraised by a jewe……続きを見る

Is It Really Too Much To Ask? is the fifth book in Jeremy Clarkson's bestselling The World According to Clarkson series. Well, someone's got to do it: in a world which simply will not see reason, Je……続きを見る

Cycling the End to End is so much more than just sitting on something no bigger than, and as hard as, the sole plate of an iron and pedalling, as Julia was to discover. Every experience seemed to be……続きを見る

Instead of heading for the ski slopes or south for fun in the sun and sand, University of Virginia business school buddies, Timm and Mylan, opt for winter "vacation" aboard a merchant cargo ship car……続きを見る

Ever heard of a bloke called Offa? King of Mercia, he instigated the building of a defensive dyke. 12 centuries later a long distance path was laid out, roughly following the line of Offa’s Dyke, an……続きを見る

In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in h……続きを見る

A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, gen……続きを見る

**The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating dis……続きを見る

In 2007 a crack writing team produced a flying bible called “YOU F’COFFEE SIR?!!!. These girls promptly escaped from obscurity and in to flying legend. Today, still wanted by the management, they su……続きを見る

In the wry but affectionate tradition of Bill Bryson, Ciao, America! is a delightful look at America through the eyes of a fiercely funny guestーone of Italy’s favorite authors who spent a year in W……続きを見る

Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk’s tonsils currently reside? Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets? Curious about Chuck’s debut in an MTV music video? What goes on at……続きを見る

Anne Rice's Unauthorized French Quarter Tour is a historical fiction tour which blends old New Orleans with present-day New Orleans. This tour only covers the Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches ……続きを見る

From bestselling author Torey Hayden comes a moving novel of loss and redemption. Abundance, Montana, once a lively mining town in the days of the wild west, is now not much more than a ghost town. ……続きを見る

Here are two acclaimed memoirs in one remarkable volume. In an extraordinarily compelling voice, Dorothy Gallagher tells stories taking us from her parents’ beginnings in the Ukraine to her own chil……続きを見る

In Beyond The Blue Horizon Alexander Frater reveals and relives the romance and breathtaking excitement of the legendary Imperial Airways Eastbound Empire service – the world’s longest and most adve……続きを見る

This fascinating volume contains a collection of travel writings by D. H. Lawrence, first published after his death in 1932. In this text Lawrence compares the vibrant world of the Etruscan civiliza……続きを見る

“Sometimes on nights like these, when I’ve been working late and the house is quiet, my mind skims away through the years to the time when we lived on Corfu. Our time there floats in the darkness of……続きを見る

“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her ……続きを見る

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Full of insights, marvelously entertaining . . . haunting and beautifully written." --The New York Review of Books "I lived in Athens, at the intersection ……続きを見る

Book Description: When Adeline Loh could no longer endure the zombie training camp that is the office, she did what any sensible person would do: flee Malaysia with her paranoid vegetarian companion……続きを見る