Travel
Whether scaling Everest's deadly peaks or navigating the cultural maze of foreign streets, these adventurous books transport you into transformative journeys around the globe. Each narrative weaves practical insights with personal revelations, exploring both the physical territories crossed and the interior landscapes changed by travel.
Travel Book Summaries
Vanishing Frontiers
The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
Politics
Business
History
Happier Than A Billionaire
Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, and Living the Zero Hour Work Week
Travel
Memoir
Humor
Inside the Apple
A Streetwise History of New York City
History
New York
Travel
Sidecountry
Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports
Sports
Adventure
Essays
The Ends of the Earth
From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
Travel
History
Politics
Dreaming in Chinese
Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
China
Language
Travel
The Outermost House
A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Nature
Memoir
Travel
Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know
Tea
Food
Cookbooks
Eastward to Tartary
Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
Travel
History
Politics
Over the Edge of the World
Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
History
Biography
Adventure
Monsoon
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
History
Politics
Asia
Seven Letters from Paris
Memoir
Romance
France
The Lost Continent
Travels in Small-Town America
Travel
Humor
Memoir
The Finnish Way
Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
Self Help
Travel
Memoir
The Road to Little Dribbling
Adventures of an American in Britain
Travel
Humor
Memoir
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
Travel
Nature
History
Hotel Babylon
Inside the Extravagance and Mayhem of a Luxury Five-Star Hotel
Travel
Memoir
Humor
City of Gold
Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism
History
Middle East
Politics
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Essays
Memoir
Travel
BOOM
Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline
Travel
Politics
Environment
Evolution's Captain
The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
History
Biography
Science
Over the Edge
The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia
Adventure
Climbing
Travel
Venice
Travel
Italy
History
The Mexico Reader
History, Culture, Politics
History
Politics
Latin American History
Come Fly with Me
Historical Fiction
Romance
Historical
How to Sail Around the World
Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail
Travel
Coming Into the Country
Travel
Nature
History
Moby-Duck
The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
Science
Travel
Environment
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Travel
History
Memoir
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
Mystery
Travel
Book Club
Halt Station India
History
India
Travel
Tupaia
Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
History
Biography
Travel
The Klondike Fever
The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
History
Canada
American History
Packing Light
Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage
Memoir
Self Help
Travel
Bangkok Days
Travel
Asia
Memoir
The Monks and Me
How 40 Days in Thich Nhat Hanh's French Monastery Guided Me Home
Buddhism
Memoir
Religion
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
Biography
Humor
Travel
Trespassing Across America
One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan
Travel
Reference
On the Trail of Genghis Khan
An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
Travel
History
Adventure
Back on the Road (Otra Vez)
A Journey Through Latin America
History
Travel
Politics
Two O'Clock on a Tuesday at Trevi Fountain
A Search for an Unconventional Life Abroad
Travel
Memoir
Biography Memoir
London
History
Travel
Biography
Pok Pok
Food and Stories from the Streets, Homes and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand
Cookbooks
Cooking
Food
In a Sunburned Country
Travel
Humor
Australia
In the Land of Invisible Women
A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
Memoir
Biography
Religion
The Nepali Flat
Travel
Humor
Mile Marker Zero
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Travel
History
Mawson's Will
The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
Adventure
History
Survival
Cooper's Creek
History
Australia
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