Adventure & Literary Travel 18

The Adventures of a Hard-up, Diabetic Traveller with a Corn Flake Problem, details a decade’s worth of experiences from my travels in over 60 countries. I have travelled for 71.3% of this past deca……続きを見る

Johnny Rico is back. After risking his life as an Afghanistan stop-loss soldier, an experience he described in the cult phenomenonBlood Makes the Grass Grow Green*,* he now dares to embed himself on……続きを見る

BOOK DESCRIPTION: Since she fled in terror from an earthworm on the workbench of her biology lab, Zhang Su Li has found herself at various crossroads in life. Her penchant for travelling and talking……続きを見る

Another stunning novel by the author of The Alchemist. Aleph marks a return to Paulo Coelho’s beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world’s most beloved authors embarks on……続きを見る

Complete by Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa, translated by Henry YuleThe Travels of Marco Polo is the usual English title of Marco Polo's travel book, nicknamed Il Milione or Le Livre des Merveil……続きを見る

O livro reúne textos escritos pelo fotógrafo de surf Motaury Porto Filho para a coluna Muitas Águas, do site Waves. Traz um texto positivo, descontraído e com um humor ca……続きを見る

A hot air balloon ride over Bristol including forty panoramic, colour photographs. Taking-off in the early morning from Ashton Court Estate, west of the city and landing near Pucklechurch to the eas……続きを見る

Kevin Callan presents his best adventures -- and misadventures -- in the wilderness. Entertaining, yet enlightening, the stories are full of enthusiasm and are designed to get people to explore the ……続きを見る

“One lifetime is not enough for Rome,” the famous saying goes, and anyone who’s ever been there knows these words to be true. In City of the Soul, William Murray begins to show us why. Growing up in……続きを見る

A story of how ordinary people can achieve the extraordinary, exemplified through a 23,000 mile, 48 Day motorcycle journey circumnavigating the United States and Canada続きを見る

Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable, Rats is an unlikely account of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan. Sullivan spends the year with a notebook and night-vision gogg……続きを見る

In the fall of 2001, Jane Cooper took up a volunteer position funded by a Canadian organization, and moved to Odessa, Ukraine to work on a community development project. During the week she worked w……続きを見る

Reporting for the Los Angeles Times on the international blind tasting competition held annually in Amsterdam known as the Cannabis Cup*,* novelist Mark Haskell Smith sampled a variety of marijuana ……続きを見る

"This book is about the people I met as I crisscrossed Australia by train and plane and L-plated car: the undefeated dreamers and wild-hearted romantics, the obsessed hobbyists and beautiful failure……続きを見る

Prose, Poetry, and Photos set in China and Hong Kong. 続きを見る

This early works is a comprehensive and informative look at the subject containing I. - The Diary of Master Thomas Dallam, 1599 - 1600 and, II. - Extracts from the Diaries of Dr. John Covel, 1670 - ……続きを見る

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is considered the last of Dickens' picaresque novels. It was originally serialized in 1843 and 1844. Its main theme……続きを見る

A full-blooded, pacy biography of one of the most charismatic writers of the century, whose life and work were to inspire Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac and Mailer. ‘We cannot help but read on’: TLS.……続きを見る

Wilkie Collins' Rambles Beyond, Railways (1851) portrays the author’s travels on foot with his friend Henry Brandling. They cover 234 miles from the south coast to the Lizard and Penzance and……続きを見る

"Very vivid..." THE NEW YORK TIMES Awakened by the shuddering of a huge iceberg puncturing the side of the ship, Colonel Archibald Gracie was quickly dressed and on deck to see the aftermath of what……続きを見る

A passionate, bittersweet memoir of a love cruelly cut short, set in the splendour of East Africa. Natasha Illum Berg is secretly in love. As she waits for her married lover in her beautiful house i……続きを見る

Morocco is the essence of North African charm. Glittering Saharan deserts, snow-capped mountains and rolling green heartland, which drops down to the sparkling Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines.……続きを見る

The Twilight Zone of the Huntress is a collection of short stories relaying the authors adventures over the past 19 years, beginning when she married her current husband. At age 54, Kay Evon Sampson……続きを見る

A cidade flutuante que Verne nos apresenta neste romance não foi uma fantasia do famoso autor francês. O Great-Eastern foi um navio real e uma viagem a bordo deste colosso dos mares ent……続きを見る

In 1770, Captain James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia in his ship, the HM Bark Endeavour. Setting out from England in 1768, he was given two instructions: to observe the transit of Venus……続きを見る

This early work on the life and travels of Johann Schiltberger is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the conquests of Tamerlane, the politics of the Turks, the Greek re……続きを見る

On the Road with Francis of Assisi offers a unique and lively travelogue of parallel journeys: that of Francis of Assisi on his way to sainthood in the thirteenth century, and that of author Linda B……続きを見る

This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era. In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of ……続きを見る

'Don't Need The Sunshine' is a humorous journey around Britain's seaside holiday destinations. John Osborne has never been a fan of going abroad somewhere hot on holiday. He blames the bigging up of……続きを見る

Have you ever thought of chucking everything and starting life over in a new country? This is the true story of Ilene Springer who tells you what it's like to leave the US at the age of 55 to start ……続きを見る