Island Travel

In November 2018, a zealous American missionary was killed while attempting to visit an island he called "Satan's last stronghold," a small patch of land known as North Sentinel in the Andaman Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean. News of the tragedy fascinated people around the world. Most were unaware such a place still existed in our time: an island unmolested by the advances of modern technology.

Entertainment Weekly calls acclaimed author and essayist J. Maarten Troost a "funny, candid, and down-to-earth travel companion". Both witty and poignant, Headhunters on My Doorstep follows Troost as he retraces Robert Louis Stevenson’s path through the South Pacific. Somewhere between AA meetings in Tahiti and discovering how the Island of Merrymaking got its name, Troost reconnects with himself, his family, and the beauty of life.

Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this audiobook will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.

In the latest thrilling suspense novel from Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman, a group of mystery authors gathers on a secluded Greek island for a writers retreat, only to discover that their enigmatic host has been murdered and everyone present is a suspect. They’ll kill...

"Every once in a while, a book comes along that drops you into another world and takes you places you never could imagine. This is that book. An astounding accomplishment!" —R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps Set in nineteenth-century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, Island Witch...

Nature is excessive, lovely, and ominous in the Solomons and the Melanesians who live there, often blond or redheaded, are the blackest of all people. Before World War II such names as Guadalcanal, Savo, Munda were rarely heard. Guadalcanal, over 100 miles long by 30 miles wide, is the largest island. Then in descending order there's Malaita, San Cristobal, Choiseul, New Georgia, and Santa Ysabel. All of them are mountainous, covered with rain forest, and laced with rivers.

Super Cheap Galapagos Islands is a travel guide for people seeking cold, hard facts to enjoy the biggest Galapagos Islands adventure on the smallest budget. Our plans and Galapagos Islands' fascinating history, jaw-dropping wildlife, and landscapes will blow your mind, not your budget.

An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a...

Best-selling author Brian D. McLaren followed his love of nature (specifically, tortoises) all the way to the Galapagos Islands. There, he paid close attention to the flora and fauna around him but also to what was happening within him, how the natural world awakened his soul in a way that organized religion could not. McLaren's descriptions of birds, reptiles, fish, and flowers sing; he walks in the footsteps of Charles Darwin and grieves that Darwin has been demonized by his fellow Christians; and he reflects on how his own faith has evolved in the years since he left the pastorate.

Discovering St. George Island is like traveling back in time to before Florida's Gulf Coast beaches became commercialized with giant condos and hotels. This book will help you prepare for and get the most out of a vacation on St. George Island. Information and descriptions in this book are based as much as possible on personal experience.

En el segundo viaje me embarqué hacia las islas de África en medio del Océano Atlántico, como La Palma, Ascensión y Santa Elena en la última derrota del mítico buque correo perteneciente a la Corona Británica Saint Helene. En el tercer viaje accedí a las ignotas islas de América del Sur como Fernando de Noroña, perteneciente a Brasil, y San Andrés, perteneciente a Colombia.

En este audiolibro Jorge nos relata siete pequeños viajes a islas de difícil acceso de los siete continentes.

The Marshall Islands, named after a British sea captain who explored the group in 1788, are scattered like flung necklaces over about 750,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean. Positioned 2,200 miles southwest of Hawaii, they occupy an area between four and 20 degrees north of the equator. The islands are aligned in two groups. Those to the west are the Ralik Chain; to the east, they're in the Ratak Chain. Altogether they total 34 islands and 850 sea-washed reefs.

Each of the islands in this chain (Anguilla, St. Martin/Sint Maarten, Antigua, Barbuda, St. Kitts & Nevis) has its own history, culture and ecology, offering a cultural melange for those on an island-hopping vacation. Rainforest, beaches, wetlands, mangrove swamps and offshore shoals afford an unlimited variety of places in which to create your own adventure vacation.

Once we got to the Island, the view of all the different types of trees and plants was nothing like we had ever seen before. Our excitement, which had not dissipated since we left for the trip the day before, grew even more after stepping onto the lush beaches. We knew that this trip was going to be one of the most memorable trips we would ever go on. The funny thing was, we had no clue how right we really were.

En este audiolibro Jorge Sánchez nos cuenta su viaje a la isla de Socotra primeros, y al valle de Hadramaut, en el peligroso Yemen, donde se introdujo camuflado y rindió homenaje a los siete españoles asesinados por terroristas en 2007. Comienza su andadura por tierras americanas recorriendo las tierras de la maravillosa península de Baja California.

En el sexto viaje, Jorge exploró las islas de Rusia Asiática, como Sajalín, conocida como Karafuto por los japoneses, y la "isla prohibida" de Iturup, llamada en japonés Etorofu-to, en las Kurilesv, o Chishima-retto para los japoneses, tras obtener, de manera rocambolesca, un permiso para embarcar en un buque terriblemente balanceante en un frio mes de diciembre.

Durante el cuarto viaje Jorge recorrió islas US Dollaropeas muy poco conocidas, como Lampedusa, en el Mediterráneo; la Isla Pomona, al norte del Reino Unido; la Soberana Isla de Lundy; la Isla Sark, el último territorio feudal de US Dollaropa; la Isla Mainland, Helgoland, una isla que los alemanes trocaron a los ingleses por la Isla Zanzíbar, la Isla Tresco, etc.

El quinto viaje llevó a Jorge Sánchez hasta las Terres Australes Françaises, en la Antártida. En el buque de la armada francesa Marion Dufresne; viajó a la isla Rodrigues (la isla de los solitarios), Crozet (la isla de los Albatros de cejas negras), Kerguelen (la isla de los leopardos de mar), Saint Paul (la isla del volcán apagado) y Ámsterdam (la isla descubierta por Elcano).

Durante el séptimo viaje, Jorge recorrió parte del Océano Pacífico, desde Callao hasta Tahití, en la Polinesia Francesa, a bordo del crucero Maxim Gorki, escalando con mucha fortuna en el "Santo Grial" de los viajeros: la isla de Pitcairn (la de los amotinados del navío Bounty).