Adventure Writing

Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to 15 countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself.

Spiegel Bestseller! Ein Reise-Enthusiast, ein Motorrad, 30.000 Kilometer, 14 Länder und... eine Katze! Wer hat nicht schon einmal davon geträumt, die alte Routine hinter sich zu lassen und sich auf die Reise seines Lebens zu begeben? Auch Martin sehnte sich lange nach dem großen Abenteuer. Er hat den ersten Schritt am 24. August 2017 gewagt und sich auf den Weg gemacht. Aber nicht alleine, sondern zusammen mit seiner wunderschönen Gefährtin - mit Mogli!

Originally pursuing a circumnavigation, the journey took the author and his vessel on a 7,000-mile voyage to Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, and finally, to New Caledonia, where Salt Peter met her end. It was a journey of discovery, both physically and spiritually, with a range of experience to last a lifetime. I invite you to join me on this year-long adventure and experience with me an honest, uncomplicated, and enriching interaction with the seemingly endless ocean and volatile sky and discover with me the rewards of taking a chance.

Deep Water Dreams picks up with Hank and Julie as they, after sailing briefly in the Caribbean, prepare their boat for an Atlantic crossing with the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, or ARC.

De niño huyó del seminario y diez años después de la Academia Naval. En ese momento se embarca como polizonte en Marsella y viaja al Extremo Oriente, para iniciar una vuelta al mundo y una vida irrepetible en el siglo XXI. Fue asistente de un arqueólogo alemán en el Cuzco; persiguió el tesoro de los Khmer en Angkor Wat, Cambodia; extrajo perlas en zonas prohibidas de Sarawak del Borneo; trabajó en el negocio del tungsteno en la bahía de Hudson; y finalmente al final de los años 40 del siglo pasado, buscó diamantes en la Amazonía venezolana.

Nach der Reise zurück in den Alltag: Wenn die Heimkehr die größte Herausforderung ist. Die meisten Reiseberichte enden dort, wo die Reise aufhört. Aber was kommt danach? Wie knüpft man nach den aufregenden Erlebnissen wieder an das Leben "davor" an? Wie macht man weiter, wenn sich das Fernweh nicht abschalten lässt? In diesem Hörbuch berichten 21 Weltenbummler von den Schwierigkeiten ihrer Reiserückkehr. Offen und emotional erzählen sie in ihren Erfahrungsberichten von den Problemen des Ankommens, wie sie sich ihnen stellen und ihren Weg gehen.

Taking the Risk is Hilary Bradt’s engaging, insightful, amusing and sometimes alarming memoir about serendipitous adventures in travel and publishing. A travel industry trailblazer who co-founded Bradt Guides, Hilary looks back on 50 years of escapades, surprises, mishaps, disasters… and success. From her first solo trip aged three (on a British beach), she revisits six decades of hitchhiking, feeding the travel habit by working abroad, and starting a successful travel publishing company where knowing nothing proved a surprising asset.

More than 200 years later, the “voyage of discovery” — with its outsized characters, geographic marvels, and wondrous moments of adventure and mystery — continues to draw us along the Lewis and Clark Trail. Revisit the Lewis and Clark Trail and its famous people, landmarks, and events, exploring questions the expedition continues to raise, such as, What really motivated Thomas Jefferson to send out his agents of discovery? What “mutinous expressions” were uttered? What happened to the dog? Why did Meriwether Lewis end his own life?

Ein Jahrzehnt des Weltreisens hat aus Nick einen neuen Menschen gemacht: aufgeschlossen, abenteuerhungrig, aber auch nachdenklich. Und wer von ihm wissen will, ob seine Reisen wirklich immer geil waren, bekommt die ehrliche Antwort: "Nope." Ob auf selbst gebastelten Krücken, während einer nächtlichen Schießerei oder ausgeraubt bis aufs letzte Hemd - Nick hat mehr als einmal erlebt, dass Fehltritte und Grenzerfahrungen zum Reisealltag dazugehören.

Geordie Stewart left his home and his job in the army to cycle across Europe and Asia. Alone on a bike, he experienced freedom and isolation travelling across open deserts and through a vicious Siberian winter. His journey took him 13,000 miles, but this isn’t a story of the number of miles ridden. It's about choosing an unfamiliar path which led him to discover and confront previously unknown truths.

Außergewöhnliche Radtouren durch Deutschland, Polen, Weißrussland, Italien, Frankreich, Griechenland und die Türkei. Spannende Erlebnisse, lustige Geschichten und Tipps von jemandem, der sein ganzes Leben auf den unterschiedlichsten Fahrrädern unterwegs war. Ganz spezielle Urlaubsreisen mit dem Tandem, dem Liegerad von der Grafschaft Bentheim bis nach Jerusalem. Aber auch das kleine Radrennen mit dem Klapprad auf dem Weg zur Arbeit werden humorvoll beschrieben und sollen sogar zum Nachmachen anregen. Durch das Radfahren in Etappen kann jedermann auch weite Ziele erreichen!

Un libro imprescindible para todos los aficionados al True Crime, a los misterios sin resolver y al lado más oscuro del crímen en España. La periodista Cruz Morcillo recopila testimonios y experiencias de policías y guardias civiles a través de los crímenes más truculentos ocurridos en España. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.

Search for the Golden Moon Bear recounts Montgomery's quest--fraught with danger and mayhem--to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her little known subject. This beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka! It is also a powerful symbol of conservation. Search for the Golden Moon Bear is a field report from the frontiers of science and the ends of the earth, seamlessly weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary research into a fantastic travelogue.

The story of a trip around the world, visiting 24 countries in 33 days...beating out Around the World in 80 Days! LOL! Observations of people - rich and poor - going about their daily lives in so many different - yet sometimes similar - environments. The journey is sprinkled with humor, philosophical, and political comments.

China investiert geostrategisch Milliarden in die neue Seidenstraße. Jochen Dieckmann steigt in seinen Camper und erkundet das größte Infrastrukturprojekt von Wuppertal bis Hongkong auf dem Asphalt. Die Neue Seidenstraße ist das Investitionsprogramm, mit dem die chinesische Regierung derzeit neue Infrastrukturverbindungen und Handelswege zwischen Europa, Asien und Afrika entwickelt. Jochen Dieckmann, bekannt durch seine Reportage "Geschlafen wird am Monatsende" über die Machenschaften des Transportgewerbes, hat sich das Projekt persönlich angeschaut - "on the road" mit seinem Camper.

John Muir (1838 -1914) was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness areas in the United States. In the late 1800s, Muir made several trips to the relatively unexplored territory of Alaska. Travels in Alaska, originally published in 1915, describes the beauty of the Alaskan wilderness and its inhabitants as observed during his travels between 1879 and 1890. In poetic prose, he describes the area’s magnificent glaciers and its animals like bears, bald eagles, wolves and whales.

The Road to San Donato is an adventurous and nostalgic bicycling memoir of an American father and son tracing their Italian heritage. Riding rental bikes and carrying a bare minimum of supplies, Rob Cocuzzo and his 64-year-old father, Stephen, embark on a 425-mile ride from Florence to San Donato Val di Comino, an ancient village in the mountains outside of Rome from which the Cocuzzo family emigrated a hundred years earlier.

Man of the World is the gripping account of the first year of British adventurer Graham Hughes's daring Guinness World Record attempt to visit every country on Earth using only surface-based transportation, told with refreshing candor in his own words. Buckle up for a rib-tickling multinational caper of courage, tenacity, love, friendship, danger, panic, passport stamps, and geo-politics washed down with copious amounts of alcohol.

A true story of how a middle-aged married couple abandon lucrative white-collar professional careers to become long-haul truck drivers for Schneider National in Green Bay, Wisconsin. David Hamel, a mechanical engineer, and Shelley Hamel, past Director of Product Development for the American Girl doll company, decide to ditch their urban life and go to truck-driving school. For David, driving school was a piece of cake. For Shelley, it was murder. Nearly flunking out of truck driving school, Shelley successfully faces her twin demons of double-clutching and 10 nasty gears.

"Fabio Pasinetti ed io, nel novembre 2008, abbiamo attraversato a piedi, in totale autonomia, il deserto bianco egiziano, per un percorso di 250 chilometri che abbiamo coperto in due settimane. Temperature estreme, dune altissime, infide pietraie non ci hanno sconfitto. Provati, ma con una gioia immensa, abbiamo tagliato il traguardo. Per me la settima impresa nel deserto, per Fabio, che è non vedente, la dimostrazione di potercela fare. Per entrambi l'avverarsi di un sogno condiviso.