Adventure & Literary Travel 23

At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of……続きを見る

The remarkable true story of one man's quest to break the record for cycling around the world On the 15th of February 2008, Mark Beaumont had pedaled through the Arc de Triomphe in Parisー194 days a……続きを見る

Once upon a time, a Disney World fan named Barb was stuck on the cold tundra of Chicago. She could only visit her beloved Florida theme parks once or twice a year. She must have had a Fairy God Moth……続きを見る

In an epic season of sport, Jim Fergus and his trusty Lab, Sweetzer, trek the mountains, plains, prairies, forests, marshes, deltas, and deserts of America. 続きを見る

Tony Cohan’s On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican D……続きを見る

Cahill is great! He is the P.J. O'Rourke of the outdoors! Fearless and hell-bent on overcoming all obstacles in his path, Cahill takes us to the oddest and scariest adventures nature has to offer. 続きを見る

Throughout her life, Steph Davis has chosen to take risks, to trust her impulses, to make decisions based on what feels right inside--and never look back. Studying to be a concert pianist, she quit ……続きを見る

"What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." -Henry David Thoreau Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three……続きを見る

Yet again disappointed in love, Suzanne decides to “wash that man right outta my hair” by fulfilling a long-time ambition to travel to the Far East on her own. Follow her solo adventures as she expl……続きを見る

Qu’est-ce qu’un enfant pas comme les autres? C’est soit un sorcier, soit un Kisimbi répondront sans réfléchir les Bakongo de la RD Congo. Traduit de la langue Kikongo au français, Kisimbi veut dire ……続きを見る

The cruise industry is now huge and getting bigger by the day. Every cruise line out there wants you as a client and their glossy brochures and colourful web sites promise the cruise of a lifetime. ……続きを見る

A step-by-step guide to performing the death-defying stunts you thought were only possible in the movies. For the millions of armchair daredevils who made Worst Case Scenario a mega bestzseller, Hun……続きを見る

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Disneyland, California. The Disneyland Resort is located in Anaheim, California. It is home to the original Disneyland Park, which opened on July 18, 19……続きを見る

A detailed account of the travels undertaken by Defoe roughly around 1722 is presented in this work. A unique travelogue it explains the places as well as the sentiments of the author during the tou……続きを見る

Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as fa……続きを見る

First published in 1989, in Bel Mooney's Somerset she sets the tone of this delightfully personal account of her 'adopted county'. Brought up in Liverpool, she writes of Somerset with the rapture of……続きを見る

What does it feel like to find the city's edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a p……続きを見る

Celebrated roving correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and bestselling author Bill Geist serves up a rollicking look at some small-town Americans and their offbeat ways of life. “In rural Kansa……続きを見る

Life as a Literary Device: A Writer's Manual of Survival is both a summation and a new beginning for Vitaliev, Life as a Literary Device is an analysis of how literature has bound his life and an ex……続きを見る

Join the bestselling author of Ciao, America! on a lively tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitorsーla bella figuraーand highlights its maddening, parado……続きを見る

Jill Frayne’s long-term relationship was ending and her daughter was about to graduate and leave home. She decided to pack up her life and head for the Yukon. Driving alone across the country from h……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century English traveler, writer, and natural historian Isabella Bird contributes this stunning narrative to the genre of early travelogues about Japan. The volume Unbeaten Tracks in Japa……続きを見る

Do you want to visit the dark side of the Internet? Out there – beyond the prying eyes of law enforcement – is a Secret Internet, a place where spies, master criminals, pornographers, journalists, t……続きを見る

When a 10-year-old boy befriends a carnival stuntman and his lion cub, he learns the true meaning of family, loyalty, love, and survival. For Dickie Kettleson, growing up during the Depression makes……続きを見る

Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy choosing his first library book in a Belfast school. The book was Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. And it has permeated Keenan's l……続きを見る

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high q……続きを見る

CARIBBEE is the untold story of the first American revolution, as English colonists pen a Declaration of Defiance ("liberty" or "death") against Parliament and fight a full-scale war for freedom aga……続きを見る

On June 16, 2006, the David B left Bellingham, Washington bound for Juneau, Alaska, on her maiden voyage as a passenger vessel. Eight years earlier, Christine and Jeffrey had found the David B tuck……続きを見る

Thailand and its infinite pleasures, including its greatest contribution to world civilization: the Sandwich Massage; Indonesian women who defy their padlocks and take turns with their customers; Vi……続きを見る

Running 3,000 miles from the east-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel. G……続きを見る