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Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs is part investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs and part travelogue documenting a cross-country road trip researching them as they’re served today. From avocado and spice in the West to ass-shattering chili in the East to an entire salad on a slice of meat in Chicago, Loftus, her pets, and her ex eat their way across the country during the strange summer of 2021. It’s a brief window into the year between waves of a plague that the American government has the resources to temper, but not the interest.

THIS GRIPPING AND TRIUMPHANT MEMOIR FOLLOWS A LIVING LEGEND OF EXTREME MOUNTAINEERING AS HE MAKES HIS ASSAULT ON HISTORY, ONE 8,000-METER SUMMIT AT A TIME. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of...

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 friendship. Join the horn-honking, signal-flashing, wheelie-popping pair as they endure painful bee stings, painful snake bites, and (when they talk to girls) painful humiliation.

The “mountain men” were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements in search of the skins of beavers and other wild animals, to sell or barter for goods. The lifestyle of the mountain men could be harsh, existing as they did among animals, and spending most of their days and nights living and camping out in the great unexplored wilds of the Rockies.

Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. A man who flies to Spain, sees a peasant farm on the wrong side of the river and, with scarcely a second thought, hands over a cash deposit. And then finds he has acquired not just the farm, but the farmer, too, who has no intention of leaving. Not to mention the lack of running water, electricity or even a bridge.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “One of the best golf books this century.” —Golf Digest Tom Coyne’s A Course Called Scotland is a heartfelt and humorous celebration of his quest to play golf on every links course in Scotland, the birthplace of the game he loves. For much of his adult life...

“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2025 By the YouTube sensation with three million followers, the inspiring account of a young woman who, in a moment of personal crisis, embarked on an epic, transcontinental motorcycle ride—and along the way found a...

More than fifteen years since its original publication, the #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young is still required reading in all branches of the military. Now Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway revisit their relationships with ten American veterans of the...

Outlander ist mehr als eine Serie – es ist eine Welt voller Geschichte, Abenteuer, Liebe und Magie. Nadja Fischer ist Reiseleiterin und führt normalerweise ihre Gäste in Schottland zu den Drehorten der Serie Outlander. In MERKET AUF! nimmt sie dich mit auf diese Reise. In jeder Folge steht ein Ort im Mittelpunkt. Gemeinsam entdeckt ihr Burgen, Landschaften und Plätze, an denen Historie und Fiktion aufeinander treffen. Folge für Folge. Ort für Ort. Dieser Podcast steht in keiner offiziellen Verbindung zu der Serie Outlander oder deren Rechteinhabern.

Get the inside scoop on Swinger and Ethical Non Monogamy Lifestyle travel and events! Hosted by veteran lifestyle couple and full time RVers, Cora and Max. They hope to entertain and educate listeners with information based on their personal experiences. Listeners can expect to laugh, be intrigued and maybe even have a few head nods along the way. Have somewhere you think they should visit? Email ideas to nextdoorswing@gmail.com, also follow on Instagram @nextdoorswing and Facebook NextdoorSwing.

Reisen ist mehr als ein Ziel. Wir packen unseren Koffer und haben unsere Freunde dabei.Willkommen bei „Reisen, Reisen - UNTER FREUNDEN“! Ein Ort für Begegnungen, für Ideen, für Gespräche unter Menschen, die das Unterwegssein lieben – im Kopf, im Herzen, im Leben.In diesem Podcast versammeln wir befreundete Wegbegleiter, besondere Projekte, neue Formate und Geschichten, die spannend und aufregend sind. Von Traumreisen mit unseren "Sunset Stories" bis zur lehrreichen Foto Masterclass - begebt euch mit uns auf eine vielseitige Reise, denn es gibt immer Neues zu entdecken.Für ...

Grandi viaggiatori hanno attraversato nel tempo ogni angolo del Bel Paese, dai più celebri ai più remoti, lasciandoci descrizioni ammirate e anche qualche reprimenda. Le loro opere, cosa potrebbero dire agli italiani di oggi, al tempo del turismo di massa e dei selfie fugaci? Lo sveleranno al microfono virtuale di Federico Massimo Ceschin, in questi "dialoghi impossibili", che attraversano i secoli grazie all'intelligenza aumentata...

Welcome to Miles and Memories—the podcast where we take you behind the scenes of our family’s epic travel adventures! Whether we’re towing our camper across the Rockies, road-tripping in our Tesla Model Y, or discovering off-the-beaten-path gems, this is your front-row seat to the stories, struggles, and laughter that happen along the way.Each episode expands on our vlog journeys with deeper conversations, travel tips, and heartwarming moments that didn’t make the final cut. Expect real talk about life on the road, emotional reflections, unforgettable destinations, and a few fun ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jimmy Buffett offers his philosophy on life and how to live it, “like sitting with Buffett at a beachside bar, listening to him spin tales” (Time). “Buffett took his family on a three-week trek around the Caribbean...

Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz—also his wonderful sidekick in A Walk in the Woods—he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Istanbul on the cusp...

Read by the author. For every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within... Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scenes, Anna felt invisible in her own life...

Ten Years a Nomad is for travel junkies, the travel-curious, and anyone interested in what you can learn about the world when you don’t have a cable bill for a decade or spend a month not wearing shoes living on the beach in Thailand.

On 8 August 1914, five days after the outbreak of World War One, the Endurance, a wooden-hulled, coal-fired icebreaker, set sail for the South Pole, in a bid to complete the first-ever trans-Antarctic expedition, which would cross the continent from the Weddell Sea to Scott's base at Cape Evans, via the Pole. However, despite the best planning, the ship succumbs to the ice floes of the Weddell Sea, and is subjected to months of uncontrollable drifting before its crew makes a scramble for Elephant Island, where they battle constant cold and starvation.

John Hooper's marvelously entertaining and perceptive new book is ideal for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Looking at the facts that lie behind and often belie the stereotypes, his revealing book sheds new light on many aspects of Italian life: football and Freemasonry, sex, symbolism, and the reason Italian has twelve words for a coat hanger yet none for a hangover.