Essays & Travelogues

Bad Karma: Confessions of a Reckless Traveller in Southeast Asia

von Tamara Sheward

Sheward hits the road with her twenty-something chum, Elissa, and they head for Thailand, Laos and Cambodia with nary a plan. Sheward has a gift for writing humorous prose, with chapter titles such as "Smells...

Barcelona: The Great Enchantress

von Robert Hughes

Beginning with a vivid description of his wedding in the splendid medieval ceremonial chamber in Barcelona's city hall, Hughes launches into a lively account of the history, art, and architecture of the storied...

Into the Wild

von Jon Krakauer

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings...

A Traveller In Rome

von H.v. Morton

A gem for the tourist and armchair traveler alike, by the incomparable H. V. Morton. "The master of the genre." --Jan Morris

The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Antarctic

von John Keay

Farthest South - Ernest Henry Shackleton Born in Ireland, Shackleton joined the merchant navy before being recruited for Captain Scott's 1901 expedition to Antarctica. He was with Scott on his first attempt...

Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light

von David Downie & Diane Johnson

 “Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer...

Near Death in the Arctic

von Cecil Kuhne

“The fine snow choked his eyes, ears, and throat, and he did not hear his own smothered death cry. Down in cold blackness, 150 feet down, his falling body smashed into a projecting ledge of ironclad ice. With...

Who Goes There

von Nick Griffiths

Who Goes There; is the sequel to Nick's hugely popular Doctor Who memoir, Dalek I Loved You (Gollancz, 2007 & 2008). It's a travel book with Doctor Who at its core. Nick travels England and Wales, seeking locations...

Bon Courage

von Ken McAdams

One year and one arduous home-renovation into their marriage, Ken and Bing head to the French countryside to celebrate their long-delayed honeymoon, swearing they're getting out of the home-fixing business for...

The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing

von John Rasmus & Sebastian Junger

National Geographic Adventure has published the best work by today’s finest writers, and this tenth anniversary anthology assembles an elite corps of authors that includes Sebastian Junger, Peter Matthiessen,...

The Best American Travel Writing 2011: The Best American Series

von Sloane Crosley & Jason Wilson

A collection of the best travel writing pieces published in American periodicals during 2010.

Afrika - Dispatches from the Outside Edge: An Epic Journey to Save and Improve Lives

von Kingsley Holgate

Driven by his passion for exploration and a sincere love of Africa, intrepid modern-day adventurer and humanitarian Kingsley Holgate and his family set off on an epic 64 327-kilometre, 33-country journey around...

So Long! I'll Be Back In 30 Years: Three decades of life-changing encounters and events across Asia

von Margo McCutcheon

In So Long! I'll Be Back in 30 Years, author Margo McCutcheon takes readers on a 30-year journey through Asia and an array of bizarre characters, adventures, disasters and life-changing encounters. Open the...

The Watery Part of the World

von Michael Parker

Michael Parker’s vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two...

What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago

von Jane Christmas

To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic's warning of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired...

Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg

von James M. Mcpherson

“[I]n a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our power to add or detract.”...

Keeping Afloat

von John Liley

Keeping Afloat is a light-hearted tale of John Liley's exploits on the canals of France. John was working for a boating magazine when he was overcome with a dream of owning and operating a hotel-barge in France....

Paddle

von Jasper Winn

One summer, writer and musician, Jasper Winn set himself an extraordinary task. He would kayak the whole way round Ireland – a thousand miles – camping on remote headlands and islands, carousing in bars...

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

von Eric Weiner

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case,...

Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico

von Tony Cohan

Tony Cohan’s On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican Days, point...