Travel Memoir

Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness is the story of the journey Ron Melchiore undertook as a young man from the city, first to homesteading in northern Maine and then to living in the bush of northern Saskatchewan. He has lived off grid since approximately 1980 and speaks candidly about the joys and the tribulations of his chosen lifestyle.

Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion, his dogs and supplies, the skin on his hands and the soles of his feet; thirst, starvation, disease, snowblindness - and he survived.

Keith Foskett’s dream of escape started with a single step. When the long-distance hiker chose to backpack all 2,180 miles of the Appalachian Trail, he left ordinary life behind for five months. Enduring an incredible test of physical and psychological strength, Foskett was pushed to his limits....

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get...

From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you're gonna be alright. Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scattered his father's ashes from the mountain range. His father was a man...

Dr. Peter McGraw, founder of the Humor Research Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, teamed up with journalist Joel Warner on a far-reaching search for the secret behind humor. Their journey spanned the globe, from New York to Japan, from Palestine to the Amazon. Meanwhile, the duo conducted their own humor experiments along the way-to wince-worthy, hilarious, and illuminating results.

David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles his most intriguing finds. It describes the extraordinary techniques used, the detailed research, and mid-ocean stamina and courage required to find a wreck thousands of feet beneath the sea, plus the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies. Combining the adventuring derring-do of Indiana Jones with the precision of a scientist, The Shipwreck Hunter opens an illuminating porthole into the shadowy depths of the ocean.

Walking with Buddha is a moving-meditation set along Japan's stunning Shikoku 88-Temple Trail. The ancient 1,200-kilometer path around the island of Shikoku serves as a reflective backdrop for cultural immersion and introduction into the Buddha-Nature. - Wearing her heart on her sleeve, Lockhart sets off on a walking-pilgrimage to nourish her soul and contemplate her next fifty years. While learning to embrace her own Buddha-nature, she discovers the wisdom, courage, and grace to accept change and re-create a life she truly desires.

The memoir of a young diplomat’s wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris—one dish at a time When journalist Ann Mah’s diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she immediately begins plotting gastronomic...

1800kalin India: 1800களன இநதய • Mark Twain மரக டவன | Translator Priya Ramkumar | பரய ரமகமர Produced by : Aurality மறறம சவசம பதபபகம Narrated by: Bhavani Anantharaman ‘Following the Equator’ எனகற பயண நல பகழபறற அமரகக எழததளர மரக டவனல (Mark Twain) எழதபபடடத. உலகன பல மககயப பகதகளகக 1895 • 1897கக இடய அவர பயணம சயதர. அநத அனபவஙகளன தகபப இநத நல. அநதப பததகததலளள இநதயப பயண அனபவஙகள மடடம இநதப பததகததல மழபயரககபபடடளளன. 1800களன இநதயவ இநத நல படமபடததக கடடகறத. இநதயவன பலவற கலசரஙகள, பழகக வழககஙகள, உட, உணவ, சமக அமபப, மழ, நலம, அனறய ஆஙகலயர ஆடசயளரகள என அனததப பறறயம சவரஸயமன, வசததரமன மறறம மககயமன கறபபகள இநத நல மழவதம வரவக கடககனறன.

On June 11, 1898, Jeremiah Lynch decided that it was time for him to try his hand at mining the land of the Klondike as he set out on a steamship from San Francisco bound for the northwest. Lynch’s remarkable account of three years spent in the Klondike provide a vivid depiction of what life was like during the famous gold rush. Through the course of his years in the Yukon he meets some remarkable characters, some who have struck a rich vein and are enjoying the joys of success and others who are struggling to make ends meet in the bitter conditions that they now live in.

Em 2021, em plena pandemia, a navegadora Tamara Klink partiu da França com o objetivo de chegar até a costa brasileira pelo mar. Nessa empreitada ambiciosa, contou apenas com a companhia permanente de seu caderno e do barco, Sardinha. À distância, teve o apoio (e também a preocupação) constante da família, dos amigos, de Henrique — conselheiro de primeira hora —, e dos admiradores nas redes sociais, que seguiram a viagem praticamente em tempo real.

Raised in the extreme religious cult called the Children of God, Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed by a crocodile, her world went dark. To escape paralyzing grief, Buhring set herself a goal. Never having seriously ridden a bike, she set out to ride one around the world.

يتناول هذا الكتاب مذكرات الرحالة الإسباني «دومينجو باديا إي ليبليش» الذي انتحل شخصية «علي باي العباسي» مُدَّعِياً أنه من أحفاد العباسيين الهاربين إلى أوروبا بعد سقوط دولتهم. بدأ رحلاتـه من المغرب حتى الشرق العربي في مرحلة من أخطر مراحل المنطقة سياسياً مع نهايات القرن الثامن عشر وبدايات القرن التاسع عشر؛ الفترة التي شهدت المدّ البريطاني الفرنسي على المنطقة للسيطرة على طريق التجارة مع الهند وشرق آسيا. هذه المذكرات والرحلات لم يلتفت إليها سوى القليل من العرب رغم ترجمتها ونشرها في عدد من اللغات الحية مثل الفرنسية والإنجليزية والألمانية. يشمل هذا الكتاب وصف رحلة علي باي إلى المدن والمجتمعات التي مر بها من شمال أفريقيا إلى الإسكندرية والقاهرة، ثم رحلته إلى الحجاز وأدائه مناسك الحج، مع وصف دقيق لمكة والكعبة المشرفة، والشخصيات التي التقاها في الحجاز، ثم عودته إلى القاهرة والرحيل منها باتجاه الشام، ماراً بشمال سيناء ومدن وقرى فلسطين حتى وصوله إلى أورشليم (القدس)، ليواصل رحلته منها إلى دمشق، مع وصف دقيق لنشاط سكان تلك البلاد في مجال التجارة، والعناصر المختلفة المكونة لمجتمعاتها السكانية.

The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes of exile which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German provinces to Switzerland, France, New York, Constantinople, and Jerusalem.

Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small, green van, flitting between Llanberis, Wales, and Chamonix in the French Alps. Tides, Nick’s second work, is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut, Echoes. Tides is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one’s life to climbing.

Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads listeners on a breathtaking journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, where organs, bones, and even live people are bought and sold on The Red Market. The Red Market sheds a blazing new light on the disturbing, billion-dollar business of trading in human body parts, bodies, and child trafficking, raising issues and exposing corruptions almost too bizarre and shocking to imagine.

This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter—who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England—to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed.

Lin and Larry Pardey's first book, Cruising in Seraffyn, is credited with launching 50,000 dreams. This third book in the critically-acclaimed Seraffyn series chronicles their three years spent exploring Ulysses' wine-colored sea.

From Maia Toll, the best-selling author of the Wild Wisdom series and The Night School, comes the enchanted story of her own magical awakening, a journey from Brooklyn to Ireland that will inspire readers to uncover their own inner magic. What is the word for craving a relationship with the...