Travel / specialized Guides

Bad Karma: Confessions of a Reckless Traveller in Southeast Asia

by Tamara Sheward

Sheward hits the road with her twenty-something chum, Elissa, and they head for Thailand, Laos and Cambodia with nary a plan. Sheward has a gift for writing humorous prose, with chapter titles such as "Smells...

Down The Road in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam: A Bicycle Tour Through War, Genocide and Forgiveness

by Tim Travis & Cindie Travis

"Freedom is addictive" Bicycle touring, for the Travises, is the purest realization of a free life. Tim and Cindie travel farther outside their comfort zone than ever before. They encountered oppressive communism,...

Sailing with Strangers: A Story of Courage, Survival, and Living a Dream

by Charley Hester

In October, 2002 Charley Hester boarded a 46 foot sailboat with five people he had never met, for a 6 month, 15,000 mile voyage around South America by way of the Panama Canal, the Galapagos, Easter Island,...

The Gay Travel Guide For Tops And Bottoms

by Drew Blancs

The Gay Travel Guide For Tops And Bottoms is a very tongue and cheek (or Hot dog and bum) approach to travel for gay tops and bottoms. Our special travel duo of gay men set out to find the best places for gay...

Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

by Josh Gates

Truth is stranger than legend . . . and your journey into both begins here.

World adventurer and international monster hunter Josh Gates has careened through nearly 100 countries, investigating frightening myths,...

Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

by Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman

It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor - actor and self-confessed bike nut - noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world,...

Live Your Road Trip Dream

by Philip S White & Carol J White

Boomers, Gen-Xers, Seniors and more - everyone has a dream of that long, "go-anywhere-you-want" trip in the back of their mind. If so many dream it, why do so few do it? Authors Phil and Carol White believe...

Golf Journeys & Culture

by Andrew Marshall

Golf Journeys & Culture is a collection of golf trips to some of the most beautiful and interesting golf courses in the world. During an 8-year period, Andrew and Paul Marshall travelled to 13 countries and...

The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing

by John Rasmus & Sebastian Junger

National Geographic Adventure has published the best work by today’s finest writers, and this tenth anniversary anthology assembles an elite corps of authors that includes Sebastian Junger, Peter Matthiessen,...

Tony Wheeler's Badlands

by Lonely Planet

In an age of plastic knives on planes, Tony Wheeler can make the extraordinary claim of having visited all the rogue countries currently on newreaders' lip. Badlands is a witty first-hand account of his travels...

Berlitz: Complete Guide to Cruising and Cruise Ships 2013

by APA Publications Limited

If you are one of the 20 million people thinking of taking a cruise this year, this best-selling book, the cruise industry bible, will tell you everything you need to know to pick the right cruise for you. Updated...

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

by Steven Callahan

Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model...

Down The Road in South America: A Bicycle Tour Through Poverty, Paradise and the Places in Between

by Tim Travis & Cindie Travis

Tim and Cindie's around the world bicycle touring adventures continues in this second book about exploring South America. This part of the journey was even more challenging with the highest mountains, coldest...

Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Mark Richardson

Part travelogue, part meditation on an author and his work, Zen and Now is a tribute to a beloved American book and the landscape that inspired it.

Since it was first published in 1974, Robert Pirsig’s Zen...

The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes

by Carl Hoffman

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 far from...

How I Found Livingstone

by Henry Morton Stanley

Livingstone's 1840s expedition into Africa, the "Dark Continent", caught the public's imagination. In 1864 he returned to Africa and all but disappeared. Public interest ran so high, that in 1869 the publisher...

Disneyland's Hidden Mickeys

by Steven M. Barrett

Hidden Mickeys are partial or complete images of Mickey Mouse that are cleverly concealed by Disney's Imagineers and artists in attractions, hotels, restaurants, shops and other spaces in the Disneyland Resort....

Best of Paris 2011

by Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette & Collectif

Edition pour anglophones à la recherche de bons plans sur Paris. Un guide pratique et essentiel pour trouver un logement, un restaurant, organiser ses visites, ses sorties, son shopping, accompagné des...

Everything That Follows Is Based on Recent, Real-Life Experience That Has Been Proven to Work: Professional Survival Solutions

by James Shepherd-Barron

"In the course of my work I have built an airstrip in Burundi, helped deliver a baby to a Rwandan refugee on a Congolese roadside, navigated to safety when lost in the deserts of Chad, taken cover from ricocheting...

Pillars of Hercules

by Paul Theroux

"DAZZLING."

--Time

"[THEROUX'S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING GESTURE; a storyteller's sense of pacing and gift for granting closure to the most subtle progression of events;...