Travel Writing Memoirs

'We can give you a start. You will need a six foot by four foot piece of canvas and blanket. If you stay for three months we will refund your fare. You will need to fly TAA out of Cloncurry and advise me your date of arrival.' And so began the adventures and misadventures of young Roland Breckwoldt. It was 1960. He was not yet sixteen, and the unworldly Roland was leaving his home on the semi-agricultural fringes of Sydney to work as a stockman on the vast cattle stations of the Gulf Country of North Queensland.

In her late twenties, writer and naturalist Lucy Bryan found herself in between places. Her marriage to her first love had crumbled. Her beloved father had died of cancer. Doubt had supplanted the faith that had guided her since childhood. Uprooted and adrift, she turned to the natural world in search of meaning, connection, and a renewed sense of self.

Set in a bygone era of the early ‘90s with no mobile phones, email, or sat nav, three single young women decide to leave England and embark on a continental road trip. They save up some cash, buy an old Renault 5, and get on the ferry to France two days before Christmas, much to the amusement and disdain of family and friends. Over the course of the next six months, the car becomes their home while they travel to France, Andorra, Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, and Portugal, meeting colorful characters and experiencing good old-fashioned sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.

Award-winning memoirist Meg Stafford has an adventurous spirit, and this time she takes us along for the ride. When her daughters venture into terra incognita—one of them meditating in the Himalayas and the other negotiating with the Colombian military—Stafford decides to go too. In the process, she reflects on her own lifetime of wanderlust and what it means for a parent to love and to let go. Generous, insightful, and deeply funny, Stafford is the ideal tour guide for a journey as big as the world and as intimate as the human heart.

For many years I’ve dreamt of memorializing our bike club’s history, and I’m excited to finally fulfil my dream. I’ll take you from our very roots, and travel with you around North Carolina and to several different states as we rode together on our bikes, laughed and carried-on off the bikes, and just had a fantastic time spending time with each other.

Осенью 1922 года Альберт Эйнштейн предпринял путешествие по Дальнему и Ближнему Востоку длиной почти полгода. На нить его сложного маршрута были нанизаны Гонконг и Сингапур, две короткие остановки в Китае, многочисленные лекции по всей Японии, почти двухнедельное пребывание в Палестине и трехнедельное — в Испании. Под этой обложкой приводится полный текст дневника, который физик вел на протяжении поездки. Сделанные наскоро записи отражают соображения автора о науке, философии, искусстве и политике, а также сиюминутные впечатления и отвлеченные размышления об актуальных событиях.

South Solo is a story of indomitable courage, of passion to save an endangered species like the albatross, and the unique adventure of solo kayaking in the frigid waters off Antarctica.

For those looking to teach English in Japan or are already there, this series offers hard-won lessons of how to land with a running start and set yourself up for success.

Dana has written two thrillers, Blindfold Game and Prepared for Rage, and when researching both novels she went on patrol with the US Coast Guard, first on the Alex Haley for 16 days in the Bering Sea, and then on Munro for seven weeks off the coasts of Central and South America. Dana was invited to write a daily blog from the ship so the shore-bound families of the crew could witness, as much as possible, the lives their loved ones were living at sea.

Two Years Before the Mast, written by Richard Henry Dana, provides a vivid account of "the life of a common sailor at sea". Dana sails from Boston, around Cape Horn, stopping in several ports along the California coast including San Diego, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco. On the return trip around Cape Horn in the middle of the Antarctic winter Dana describes terrifying storms and incredible beauty, giving vivid descriptions of icebergs and the scurvy that afflicts members of the crew.

Thilo Mischke unterwegs zu den Rändern der Welt: Mit eindrücklichen Reisereportagen begibt sich Mischke auf die Suche nach Antworten auf einige große Fragen. Als Journalist hat Thilo Mischke weit über hundert Länder dieser Welt bereist. Es ist dabei nicht der Reiz des Extremen, der ihn in die entlegensten Ecken treibt, sondern sein offener Blick für Menschen und ihre Geschichten, ja ein unersättlicher Hunger auf Lebenserfahrung.

Too often, we cannot see outside of our cultural lenses. Nor do we have the objectivity to identify the sensitivity one lives with. From Baghdad to Berkeley will transport you to all continents of the world with Nadia’s riveting travel life stories that will make you laugh, cry, and rethink what you believe to be true.

Min rejsedagbog omhandler den 1. Thule-ekspedition og er en af verdenslitteraturens klassikere. Med sin grønlandske baggrund vandt Knud Rasmussen befolkningens tillid og hengivenhed, hvor han end kom frem. Han talte sproget flydende, var uovertruffen som slædekører og levede under sine rejser blandt grønlændere og andre inuit som en af deres egne.

1842 brach der junge und schon gefeierte Autor Charles Dickens zu einer Lesereise nach Amerika und Kanada auf - von Boston bis St. Louis, von Richmond bis Quebec, mit Bahn oder Schiff. Zunächst stellte er sich ein Amerika vor, in dem eine tolerante und demokratische Zukunftsgesellschaft entstehen würde, ohne den Dünkel der englischen Aristokratie. Umso enttäuschter war er über den amerikanischen Kapitalismus und vor allem über die Sklaverei. Seine Kritik an Land und Leuten formulierte er unmittelbar und nicht ohne Ironie in seinen "Aufzeichnungen aus Amerika", gelesen von Christian Brückner.

Everyone has dreams of what they want to accomplish in life. Marty Essen’s childhood dream of becoming a herpetologist gave way to his dream of becoming a popular DJ, which led to his dream of becoming a big-time talent manager, which morphed into the dream of becoming an in-demand author and college speaker. While he achieved most of his dreams at various levels, he also realized that he didn’t necessarily have to reach the top to find success or happiness. Sometimes, “almost” is close enough.

Boyhood in the 1960s and ‘70s was a time for exploration and mischief. Author Michael Tougias found more than his share of misadventures in the woods and on the water: some life-threatening, but others innocently hilarious. Over time - and after reading a multitude of adventure books - these experiences took shape in his quest to be a mountain man, owning a cabin in the forest and living off the land. Part of that dream would come true, but only after a family tragedy that shook his world and forced changes in his life.

Years ago, Steve Hannah’s chance detour through the Midwest cut short a planned cross-country trip. He found himself in Wisconsin, a distinctly different place from the East Coast, where he was born and raised. Charmingly beautiful and full of welcoming people, America’s dairyland would soon become his home. Dairylandia recounts Steve Hannah’s burgeoning love for his adopted state through the writings of his long-lived column, “State of Mind”.

Nacho Dean es un joven de 35 años que ha cumplido un sueño: ser el primer español en la historia en dar la vuelta al mundo a pie. En tres años ha atravesado 4 continentes y ha recorrido 33.000 km. Durante el camino presenció un atentado terrorista en Bangladesh, escuchó dingos aullando alrededor de su tienda de campaña en Australia, le intentaron asaltar con machetes miembros de las maras en El Salvador, estuvo frente a un rinoceronte en las junglas de Nepal, contrajo la fiebre chikungunya en México, probó la ayahuasca en Perú...

Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning author, was known as much for his prose as for his travels to exotic locales; his gusto and charm created excitement wherever he went. In Ernest's Way, we follow Cristen around the globe to the places he lived, wrote, fought, drank, fished, ran with the bulls, and held court with T.S. Elliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein and many other influential writers, artists, and intellectuals of the 20th century.

Edited by Krishna Ramanujan and Guillermo Rodríguez, Journeys offers access to Ramanujan's personal diaries and journals, providing a window into his creative process. It will include literary entries from his travels, his thoughts on writing, poetry drafts, and dreams. His diaries and journals served as fertile ground where he planted the seeds for much of his published work....