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
Yoga Bitch
One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment
Memoir
Travel
Humor
Rowing the Atlantic
Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
Travel
Memoir
Sports
Travels with Epicurus
A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
Philosophy
Travel
Greece
The Sunset Route
Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Solitude
Memories, People, Places
Travel
Over the Edge of the World
Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
History
Biography
Adventure
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
Biography
Humor
Travel
The Mexico Reader
History, Culture, Politics
History
Politics
Latin American History
Venice
Travel
Italy
History
Vanishing Frontiers
The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
Politics
Business
History
Sidecountry
Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports
Sports
Adventure
Essays
Eastward to Tartary
Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
Travel
History
Politics
Come Fly with Me
Historical Fiction
Romance
Historical
Hotel Babylon
Inside the Extravagance and Mayhem of a Luxury Five-Star Hotel
Travel
Memoir
Humor
The Finnish Way
Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
Self Help
Travel
Memoir
How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need
Survival Tricks for Hacking, Hurricanes, and Hazards Life Might Throw at You
Self Help
Travel
Survival
Lost on Planet China
Travel
China
Humor
Happier Than A Billionaire
Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, and Living the Zero Hour Work Week
Travel
Memoir
Humor
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Travel
History
Memoir
The Road to Little Dribbling
Adventures of an American in Britain
Travel
Humor
Memoir
Over the Edge
The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia
Adventure
Climbing
Travel
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
Travel
Nature
History
Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know
Tea
Food
Cookbooks
Dreaming in Chinese
Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
China
Language
Travel
Coming Into the Country
Travel
Nature
History
Tupaia
Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
History
Biography
Travel
Bangkok Days
Travel
Asia
Memoir
Seven Letters from Paris
Memoir
Romance
France
Evolution's Captain
The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
History
Biography
Science
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
How to Sail Around the World
Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail
Travel
The Klondike Fever
The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
History
Canada
American 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
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
Mystery
Travel
Book Club
In a Sunburned Country
Travel
Humor
Australia
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
Cooper's Creek
History
Australia
Travel
On the Trail of Genghis Khan
An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
Travel
History
Adventure
London
History
Travel
Biography
Back on the Road (Otra Vez)
A Journey Through Latin America
History
Travel
Politics
Pok Pok
Food and Stories from the Streets, Homes and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand
Cookbooks
Cooking
Food
Two O'Clock on a Tuesday at Trevi Fountain
A Search for an Unconventional Life Abroad
Travel
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Packing Light
Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage
Memoir
Self Help
Travel
The Monks and Me
How 40 Days in Thich Nhat Hanh's French Monastery Guided Me Home
Buddhism
Memoir
Religion
Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan
Travel
Reference
A Bite-Sized History of France
Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment
History
Food
France
Mutant Message Down Under
Spirituality
Book Club
Travel
The Lost Men
The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
History
Adventure
Survival
Mawson's Will
The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
Adventure
History
Survival
