Adventure Writing

In France, Johnson is like an alien from another planet. Everything is strange to him. His goal is to speak French without going to prison, drive without being squashed like a bug, dance the tango without losing his marriage, and belt out a tune with a world-class jazz combo without being booed off the stage. Repeatedly, the author fearlessly steps into harm's way. He joins a summer acting troop and witnesses the French version of sexual liberation.

Tasmania to London. One end of the globe to the other. Eight hundred hitchhiking rides. Eighteen thousand miles. Four seasons. Three continents. Nineteen countries. How many rides does it take to hitch from Tasmania to London? Rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin decides to find out, propelling him into a high-stakes adventure of a lifetime that sees him tackle searing desert, freezing mountains, tropical jungle, and barren steppes on little more than a thumb and a prayer.

In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger hit the road to explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry. Weaving together first-class travel writing and crack investigative journalism, the pair pursues both adventures and answers: Why are nuclear weapons still on hair-trigger alert? Is there really such a thing as a suitcase nuke? And which nuclear power plants are most likely to be covers for weapons programs?

Seven years ago, readers and listeners around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history launched him across the West in a covered wagon pulled by mules and propelled his book about the trip, The Oregon Trail, to ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Buck returns to chronicle his latest incredible adventure: building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans.

From dim sum in Hong Kong to giant platters of Peking duck in Beijing, fresh-baked croissants in Paris and pierogi on the snowy streets of Moscow, Platt takes us around the world, re-tracing the steps of a unique, and lifelong, culinary education. Providing a glimpse into a life that has intertwined food and travel in exciting and unexpected ways, The Book of Eating is a delightful and sumptuous trip that is also the culinary coming-of-age of a voracious eater and his eventual ascension to become, as he puts it, “a professional glutton.”

Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city's remote and forgotten reaches. When John Rogers packed away his rucksack to start a family in London he didn't stop travelling. But instead of canoeing up the Rejang River to find retired headhunters in Sarawak, he caught the ferry to Woolwich in search of the edge of the city at Crayford Marshes.

Simon Zane is an average guy that sometimes finds himself in sticky situations as he goes from one venture to the next. He navigates a difficult childhood that drives him to organize his own ultramarathon. He fights in Operation Desert Storm, falls in love with a German spy during the Cold War, takes risks in business, and much more, proving that an IT guy can be a hero too.

A sinister murderer is targeting Mechcrafters in the city, draining the silver nanotech life force from their blood and leaving only mutilated shells behind. As the body count rises and the hunt for the villain ramps up, terrible secrets within the Phalanx faction come to light, threatening everything Jake London and his team have fought for. Now Jake must choose to either quell his uniquely powerful abilities to put his peers at ease, or unleash his full potential to protect those he loves.

Fast action with a little romance thrown in. Twist and turns with a surprise ending. The good guys should win. This is a fast listen with entertaining characters. You'll love the main hero and his lady or should I say, ladies. The scene is southern Alabama and money attracts bad guys like honey attracts bees. A good suspense with believable people. This is the first book of the series and you'll want to listen to all of them.

Ripped from his life on earth too soon, Lewis is determined to find the answers about who he once was and who he is now. Join him and his friends for the challenges that lie ahead. Lewis and his clan - the family he has chosen and made along the way, have decided to form a clan in order to find the secrets of the life Lewis once knew and the true future of of the world of Sagana. A fast paced, bloody good time, Call of the Keepers is the first book in an adventure/fantasy series divided between our world and Sagana.

While camping in the Pacific Northwest woods, Connor loses his golden retriever puppy. His life turns from bad to worse when his parents file for divorce, and he and his little sister Penny are bounced between their parents’ separate homes. In an effort to find his dog, Connor, his best friend Darius, and Penny return to the campgrounds and encounter a mythical ape-like cryptid in the woods. Enticed by the considerable reward for trapping the Sasquatch, the kids realize they are not the only ones in pursuit of the elusive creature.

When Darin Dunn first moved to Thailand at age 22, little did he know all the adventures in store for him. In listening to this book, you will find yourself smelling the environments, tasting the food, and feeling the joy and frustration that he experienced as he made his way across the Lao frontier, down the Mekong River, through insurgent military camps in Myanmar, kayaking the mangrove forests of Southern Thailand, and dodging landmines in Cambodia and Myanmar.

The folk of the dark and mysterious Eben Hollow try desperately to defend their village from the evil hand of Satan and his minions. A bevy of villainous foes led by the wicked sorceress, Eva Strella, and her servant of the woodland, Lord Ganoate, give everything they can conjure to destroy the Village of Eben Hollow and scatter its people once and for all. Should they triumph, the gates of hell shall open, unleashing Lucifer's plague upon the seven provinces and the world.

Meet Braelin, a young woman in the year 2056, whose life is soon to be changed forever by a virus known as C47 - a virus that wipes out much of the world, including her parents and her twin.

Lights, Camera Jemuru - Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia is the remarkable true-life story of a high-flying adman who swapped his expense account lifestyle in London to go and teach in a back-street community film school, Gem TV, in Addis Ababa. Bob Maddams spent years living and working in Ethiopia and filming took him and the Gem TV filmmakers all over the country; from shanty towns and famine feeding stations to the rock hewn churches of Lalibela and the source of the Blue Nile.

Before he grew up and became one of Washington's most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff, with the photos hung on his bedroom wall to prove it. Decades later, Ferguson's latent buffdom is reignited. In Land of Lincoln, he embarks on a curiosity-fueled coast-to-coast journey through contemporary Lincoln Nation, encountering everything from hatred to adoration to opportunism and all manner of reaction in between.

On the 200-day journey around the world, Wigge makes forty-two trades and meets strange, kind, funny, friendly, eccentric, and good-natured people who help him in his quest. It’s a journey you won’t want to miss!

Caleb's finest hour is his deepest secret. Not even his parents knew what really happened after three nights in the wilderness. Now another school, another class, and another group of kids who were not his friends.

Every year, bugs from all walks of life make the pilgrimage in hopes of seeing the Monarch. It's said that any bug able to survive the journey to the peak of Mount Kaefer is magically granted a single wish. The path, known as The Oak Road, is winding, strange, and full of dangers. Which is exactly why Titan has never even dreamed of being a Pilgrim. However, the Monarch has other plans.

On his very first visit to America, motorcycle traveller Lawrence Bransby embarks on a journey that will take him from Southern California to the northernmost points of both Alaska and Canada then back across the USA to Texas. Along the way he has numerous adventures, meets people, has an accident somewhere above the Arctic Circle and, in the process, attempts to understand a little of what it means to be American. Bransby's writing is intimate, raw and immediate, taking the listener along with him as a vicarious pillion passenger.