Adventure & Literary Travel 64

21 Views - Altbayern Zauberhaftes Foto-E-Book mit 21 Bildern Eigenwillige Ausblicke auf Altbayern von Rubens Bexter Wer irgendwann einmal nach Deutschland kommt, der sollte unbedingt Bayern besuchen……続きを見る

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most f……続きを見る

21 Views - Die Dolomiten Zauberhaftes Foto-E-Book mit 21 Bildern Eigenwillige Ausblicke auf die Dolomiten von Rubens Bexter Die Dolomiten sind weltweit einzigartig, ein Eldorado für Bergsteiger und ……続きを見る

The exhilarating, life-affirming call to spiritual arms from world-renowned spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff 'Gurdjieff's voice is heard as a call. He calls because he suffers from the inner chaos ……続きを見る

Green Hills of Africa is a 1935 work of nonfiction written by Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961). Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month o……続きを見る

New York's Central Park has captured the hearts of nature lovers the world over. Yet its meadows, brooks, and glens are man-made - and the man who made them was Frederick Law Olmstead. Here, in this……続きを見る

A experiência centenária de uma senhora que não se abateu com as dificuldades impostas na vida e que rodou o mundo buscando novas culturas e desafios que a levaram a ser conhecida como a vovó aventu……続きを見る

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, Mexico Horrors 1, features three wild and scary travel tales of unbelievable things that can happen to you in Mexico. Bad things do happen, and mostly there ……続きを見る

It takes forty days to know the mountain. Each spring, over eight hundred climbers attempt to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. The conditions are challenging, and without warning can become life-thr……続きを見る

The amazing autobiographical account of the youngest ever solo circumnavigation of the Earth. First time in English! If you want to see the other side of the world, you can do two things: turn the w……続きを見る

K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at 8611 metres only a couple of hundred metres lower than Everest. It is one of the most unrelenting and testing of the worlds 8000-metre peaks. Jim C……続きを見る

Concorde est le seul avion supersonique ayant effectué une carrière commerciale. Seul rescapé de la compétiton technique ayant opposé URSS, USA et le tandem Angleterre/France, il a sillonné les cieu……続きを見る

Cottage Country: a place for antics, shenanigans and perfectly executed belly flops. Spending time at the cottage is arguably the quintessential summer experience. Whether one travels there to swim……続きを見る

What do you like most when reading about adventures: descriptions about the terrain, the culture, the challenges, the personal growth, the interactions between other adventures? Women of the Way: Em……続きを見る

Als nach fast 25 Jahren Berufsleben aus Spaß Stress und aus Herausforderung Belastung wird, krempeln Petra und Klaus Vierkotten ihr Leben komplett um. Sie verzichten auf Karriere, Konventionen und K……続きを見る

Farthest South - Ernest Henry Shackleton Born in Ireland, Shackleton joined the merchant navy before being recruited for Captain Scott's 1901 expedition to Antarctica. He was with Scott on his first……続きを見る

Alone in Africa - Mungo Park Park's 1795-7 odyssey in search of the Niger first awakened the world to the feasibility of a white man penetrating sub-Saharan Africa. But unlike his illustrious succes……続きを見る

The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in th……続きを見る

No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-ha……続きを見る

Stranded on Bering Island - Georg Wilhelm Steller As physician and scientific know-all on Vitus Bering's 1741 voyage, Steller shared its triumphs, including landing the first Europeans in Alaska. He……続きを見る

Landfall at Botany Bay - James Cook The son of a Yorkshire farm labourer, Cook won distinction as a naval hydrographer but was still a controversial choice to command a voyage of scientific observat……続きを見る

Eating Dirt in Venezuela - Alexander von Humboldt Geographer, geologist, naturalist, anthropologist, physician and philosopher, Baron von Humboldt brought to exploration a greater range of enquiry t……続きを見る

Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford Palgrave A scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a French spy and a British ambassador- Palgrave was a man of contradictions, all of them highly compromised……続きを見る

First Crossing of America - Alexander Mackenzie "Endowed by nature with an acquisitive mind and an enterprising spirit", Mackenzie, a Scot engaged in the Canadian fur trade, resolved, as he out it "……続きを見る

Among the Sudanese - James Bruce Bruce reached the source of the Blue Nile in 1771, a century before the search for the source of the White Nile became headline news. His descriptions of the cruelti……続きを見る

This collection of classic tales comprises over 50 accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters and journals. They span the years 1800 to the end of the 20th century, in ……続きを見る

Alarms amongst the Uzbeks - Alexander Burnes Of all the "forbidden" cities (Timbuktu, Mecca, Lhasa, Riyadh and so on) none enjoyed a more fearsome reputation that Bukhara in Uzbekistan. The first Br……続きを見る

From the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters, Carsick is his hilarious (if not always 100% true) account of hitchhiking fearlessly into the heart of middle America. John Waters is putting his life on……続きを見る

Uniquely scribed memoir of travels and lifestyle experiences in the United States as a college student, soldier, father, husband and small business. An easy read with an incredible arrangement of wo……続きを見る

From the Canadian Rockies to the Panamanian jungle, Motorcycle Therapy rumbles with comic adventure as two men, fleeing failed relationships, test the limits of their motorcycles and their friendshi……続きを見る