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by Jeremy Schmidt Publisher Comments Two young couples' adventures around the Himalaya by bike, truck, and foot.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Giles Milton Publisher Comments The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago, remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jonah Blank Publisher Comments For 3,000 years, India has told the epic tale of the blue-skinned man-god Rama's journey across its timeless land; this unique travel book retraces his steps and retells his story in a vivid portrait of India today.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Pezzelli Publisher Comments - Will appeal to fans of Nicholas Sparks and Jeanne Ray. - Home to Italy will feature French Flaps, making it a beautiful gift or keepsake.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jana Richman Publisher Comments Searching for Faith, Family, and Inner Peace on the Back of a Motorcycle Between 1846 and 1866, about 50,000 Mormons traveled the Mormon trail, burying more than 6,000 of the faithful along the way. Four generations ago, seven of Jana Richman’s... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by James Oreilly Publisher Comments “Melting pot,” a phrase inevitably associated with the United States, may be even more applicable to Mexico, where ancient civilizations merge with modern cultures in a cross-current of peoples, languages and dialects, art and music... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Dea Birkett Publisher Comments The unique, true, and compulsively readable story of one woman's journey to the utterly strange, world of Pitcairn Island, the final refuge of the legendary Bounty mutineers -- and home today to their thirty-eight descendants.... (read more) Your price $13.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Andrew Pham Publisher Comments A Vietnamese Bicycle Days by a stunning new voice in American letters. Andrew X. Pham dreamed of becoming a writer. Born in Vietnam and raised in California, he held technical jobs at United Airlines-and always carried a letter of resignation in his... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Roff Smith Publisher Comments Smith writes of his nine-month, 10,000 mile trip around Australia.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Dorothy Stephens Publisher Comments In 1953, when Dorothy Stephens and her husband lived in married student housing at the University of Michigan, she envisioned a safe, conventional life ahead. She never imagined living in Kenya toward the end of the Mau Mau uprising, plunged into an... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Mary Morris Publisher Comments Traveling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras, from the seashore of the Caribbean to the exquisite highlands of Guatemala, Mary Morris, a celebrated writer of both fiction and nonfiction, confronts the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Brian Keenan Publisher Comments In the course of a journey that takes him through four geographical quarters from snowmelt in May to snowfall in September, Keenan discovers a land as fantastical as a fairytale but whose vastness has a very peculiar type of allure.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gretchen Legler Publisher Comments Travelogue, cultural meditation, and love story, "On the Ice" casts a panoramic view on one of the oddest communities in one of the most extreme places on earth. Sent to Antarctica as an observer by the National Science Foundation, Gretchen Legler... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Angelina Jolie Publisher Comments Three years ago, award-winning actress Angelina Jolie took on a radically different role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Here are her memoirs from her journeys to Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan, Cambodia, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Niall Williams Publisher Comments Niall and Christine left their careers in New York City for a simpler, more authentic life in a cottage outside the tiny village of Kilmihil in County Clare. "Their tale is a delightful romance."-The New York Times Book Review... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Giles Milton Publisher Comments Paperback edition of this account of the adventures of the Englishman who opened the gateway to the mysterious kingdom of Japan in the early seventeenth century. Having sailed to the east in 1598, William Adams was taken with the barbaric splendour of... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tim (edt) Cahill Synopsis Some of the best adventure stories come from misadventures, the pratfalls, faux pas, and cringing embarrassments that accompany life on the road. This collection of tales shares those moments when the best of plans fall by the wayside, replaced by the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ann Jones Publisher Comments The acclaimed adventure writer Ann Jones tells the story of her overland journey, with the British photographer Kevin Muggleton, from one end of Africa to the other. Their purpose: to reach the southernmost tip of the continent and find the Lovedu people,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul Morand Publisher Comments Paul Morand's delightful and typically unconventional autobiography is far from being yet another account of a writer's life and times; instead it is an impressionistic, highly poetic evocation of certain scenes among his rich and varied encounters and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Mcgirr Publisher Comments Things You Get for Free is a travelogue rich with charm and wisdom and sparkling with its author's singular wit. As a priest, Michael McGirr decides to take his charming and inimitable mum on the honeymoon she and her late husband never got around to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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