Travel Adventure Writing

For author Mike Honeycutt, there’s nothing more exciting than a remote trip with great scenery. In Mike Honeycutt’s World of Hunting and Fishing, he shares a travelogue that speaks to his passion for traveling the world to exotic locales to hunt and fish for unusual animal species.

Berlin schläft nie. Sie ist das deutsche Epizentrum neuzeitlicher Errungenschaften. Kristina Hammann hat die traditionsreichsten Sagen der Metropole aufbereitet...

Gespannt und sehr aufmerksam lauschen die Gäste im Theater Putbus dem Programm 'Mien Rügen'. Sie lassen das Heimweh von Ernst Moritz Arndt auf sich wirken, die Reisebeschreibungen von Johann Jacob Grümbke, die Erinnerungen von Bettina von Arnim. Die Vielfalt der Insel findet sich auch in der Musik Frank Fröhlichs wieder, mal melancholisch und dann wieder temperamentvoll.

Dieser musikalisch-literarische Ausflug fängt die Atmosphäre Dresdens zur Goethezeit ein - in der Mischung aus Reisebriefen, Gedichten, Tagebuchauszügen und Anekdoten, verwoben mit den gefühlvollen Kompositionen Frank Fröhlichs für Gitarre, Flöte, Cello, Harfe und Klavier, um die Vielfalt und Schönheit des in Gedanken zu bereisenden Ortes sinnlich einzufangen.

The United States is full of natural wonders, but few remain unspoiled by man as much as Yosemite National Park: a 750,000 square acre park near the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Despite being inhabited by people for nearly 3,000 years, the relatively remote spot helped ensure that even as America expanded west, the Yosemite area avoided being settled or exploited like so many other areas on the frontier.

A new geophon audio guide about the 2010 European Capital of Culture. A travel feature packed with interviews, recordings, music and tips to help you discover Istanbul...

Ihr Sprachurlaub auf Mallorca: Von den geschäftigen Straßen Palmas führt die akustische Reise in die Serra Tramuntana und an die Ostküste der Insel. Der Eisenbahndirektor erzählt dabei aus der Geschichte der historischen Bahn und die Museumsleiterin Aina Babiloni spricht über Mirós produktive Schaffensperioden auf Mallorca...

Dieses Hörbuch vereint die schönsten Sagen der Landeshauptstadt Bayerns...

Mit diesem Hörbuch laden wir zu einem Streifzug durch die wechselvolle Geschichte der Frauenkirche ein. Viele berühmte Schriftsteller, Musiker, Maler und Architekten bereisten Dresden und hiel­ten ihre Erlebnisse rund um die Frauenkirche in Romanen, Gedichten, Tagebüchern, Brie­fen und Reisebeschreibungen fest.

In einer gelungenen Verschmelzung von Prosa, Lyrik, Kochrezepten und Sagen sowie Tagebuchauszügen mit den gefühlvollen Kompositionen Frank Fröhlichs für Gitarre und Flöte entsteht eine Hommage an die wunderschöne Insel Usedom.

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collection: Close Calls and Great Escapes 1 features a bunch of frightening and horrific tales of fear and panic that can most certainly happen to you in your travels. Scary things do happen occasionally, and mostly your travels are the usual, typical, expected sorts of normal non-anxious experiences. But there are also those unexpected, strange and dangerous surprises that pop up now and again in your journeys.

Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his, and America's, favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world's first national park. Cahill has been "puttering around in the park" for a quarter of a century, slowly covering its vast scope and exploring its remote backwoods. So does this mean that he knows what he's doing? Hardly.

From the author of such travel adventure classics as Jaguars Ripped My Flesh and Road Fever, comes an informative and entertaining travelogue through one of America's favorite destinations: Yellowstone National Park. On his several-hundred-mile trek across the wilderness, the author explores such natural wonders as glaciers and geysers, muses about the microbiology of thermal pools, and witnesses moonbows arcing across waterfalls at midnight.

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.

Travel is one of the most effective ways to gain insight into yourself and the world. The essays contained in this book all center around some of the insights the author, Edwin Harkness Spina, gained while traveling to Peru, Tibet, Bali and Santa Monica.

Buddha, Moses, Jesus, and Mohamed - every great avatar spent at least part of their lives traveling - in part to spread their message - but more importantly for their own spiritual growth.

This inspiring collection contains powerful narratives from women who swim, surf, kayak, study glaciers, advocate for water conservation, carry forward their ancestral fishing traditions, and more. Collected by the team at She Explores, a media company and community that celebrates women in the outdoors, these first-person stories explore themes of independence, strength, healing, and self-discovery in nature.

Who doesn't like to travel? Traveling the world opens new vistas and experiences to all who undertake it. But when roaming abroad, to make the trip more pleasurable and successful, an in-depth knowledge of backpacking allows trekkers to avert mishaps and problems. In this information-packed audiobook, Have Backpack Will Travel, the author provides detailed information in numerous critical areas related to seeing the world as a backpacker.

Have you been putting off that trip of a lifetime hoping for a special someone to accompany you? Do you find yourself getting bored with the same old girls' weekends? Are you hesitant to step out of your comfort zone, plan a solo vacation, and just go? From pastries in Vienna to becoming a tourist in your own town and all points in between, this travel memoir and guidebook will inspire you to seek romance and adventure on your own terms. You will also get practical advice on how to stay safe while traveling single, create a budget, prepare and pack efficiently, and more.

With his Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former World, John McPhee explores not only the richly varied surface of the United States, but the geological wonders hidden deep beneath our feet. In this final book of the series, he embarks on a fascinating journey across the basement of the continent - the land masses forming Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and thereabouts - with a professor and geochronologist acting as a guide.

The mountain gods were protective of Manaslu, a two-pronged peak in the Nepal Himalaya, and one of the world’s 14 8,000m peaks. Many years ago, a Japanese team tried to climb it, but the gods had sent an avalanche in their wake, which destroyed a monastery and set the local people against them. When they returned the next year, they were met with sticks and stones, stripped naked, and sent home with red cheeks.