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
The Lost Men
The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
History
Adventure
Survival
Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan
Travel
Reference
Imagine a City
A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World
Travel
Memoir
Aviation
Surrender or Starve
Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Africa
History
Travel
The Monks and Me
How 40 Days in Thich Nhat Hanh's French Monastery Guided Me Home
Buddhism
Memoir
Religion
Taste of Persia
A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan
Cookbooks
Food
Cooking
The Nepali Flat
Travel
Humor
The Driver
My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World
Biography
Cars
Racing
In the Land of Invisible Women
A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
Memoir
Biography
Religion
The Anglo Files
A Field Guide to the British
Travel
Humor
British Literature
Madam Ambassador
Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest
Biography
Memoir
Travel
Call of the Camino
Historical Fiction
Spain
Travel
The Forest People
Anthropology
Africa
Ethnography
There Was and There Was Not
A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
History
Memoir
Travel
Ayahuasca in My Blood
25 Years of Medicine Dreaming
Spirituality
Drugs
Science
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
India
Book Club
History
Magellan
History
Biography
Travel
Lila
An Inquiry Into Morals
Philosophy
Literature
Novels
On Looking
Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Grandma Gatewood's Walk
The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Biography
Travel
History
A Book of Silence
Memoir
Philosophy
Spirituality
Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
History
Science
Biography
In Search of Silence
Memoir
Biography
Travel
The Trigger
Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
History
War
World War I
In Europe's Shadow
Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
History
Travel
Romania
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
Canada
Memoir
Biography
Adriatic
A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
History
Travel
Politics
The Full English
A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
Travel
History
Politics
The Loom of Time
Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
History
Politics
Middle East
Why We Swim
Science
Sports
Memoir
Irisches Tagebuch
Travel
German Literature
Ireland
The Underworld
Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
Science
Nature
Environment
Dark Star Safari
Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Travel
Africa
Memoir
The Pillars of Hercules
Travel
Italy
Greece
The Ice at the End of the World
An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
Science
History
Environment
Wild Chocolate
Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul
Food
History
Travel
La Modification
France
French Literature
Novels
The Map That Leads to You
Romance
Contemporary
Travel
The Longest Line on the Map
The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas
History
Travel
Politics
The Milk Lady of Bangalore
An Unexpected Adventure
Memoir
India
Travel
Immersive
A Theatre for Dreamers
Historical Fiction
Greece
Summer
How to Win at Travel
Travel
Self Help
Finance
Search for the Golden Moon Bear
Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species
Science
Animals
Travel
Catfish and Mandala
A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Travel
Memoir
Asia
Fire and Blood
A History of Mexico
History
Religion
Travel
