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Blue Highways: A Journey into America Took a tour of America with a chip on his shoulder. Guess it gives you a different perspective. | Marco Polo in China: A Venetian in the Realm of Khubilai Khan (Routledgecurzon Studies on the Early History of Asia) Best Price: $148.74 Marco Polo's famous book about his journey to China, written in 1298, continues to be a subject... | Crossing Borders: An American Woman in the Middle East (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) Best Price: $12.95 Throughout the twenty century, books about the Arab world have been widely written in the... | Romancing Spain Best Price: $6.85 He looks back thirty years to when he first met the woman he married and thinks how romantic he... | My Kind of Place: Unabridged Selections: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere Best Price: $15.17 Don't let the cover of this book fool you. Susan Orlean does NOT travel to the many crevices of... |
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Fraternity: A Journey in Search of Five Presidents Best Price: $6.25 What if you set off on a vacation trip in search of history—and your destination was... | The Natures of John and William Bartram (Pennsylvania Paperbacks) Best Price: $11.36 One wonders if in his collection of seeds and specimens maybe William may have been spreading... | Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo In The Tropics (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography) Best Price: $15.00 Gene Bell-Villada's memoir is a poignant view of a boy growing up in the midst of cultural,... | Two Years in Kingston Town: A Peace Corps Memoir Best Price: $12.47 This memoir captures the typical Peace Corps experience in Jamaica. I thoroughly enjoyed it as I... | Starting Out In the Afternoon Best Price: $4.99 It was the picture on the front cover and then the title that made me want to buy and read this... |
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Riding Into the Wind: On Horseback Out of Patagonia, a Life Journey Best Price: $24.95 I found this book by chance one day when casually meandering through reviews and links at... | Through The Gates of Vishnu: A Journey Down The River Ganges From Source To Sea Best Price: $44.95 When Mike Wardle and Yvette Hassan set out from England to canoe the length of the mighty River... | On the Edge of the Primeval Forest - Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa Best Price: $28.99 Although a great admirer of Dr. Albert Schweitzer for some years, it is only now that the... | Midlife Irish: Discovering My Family and Myself Best Price: $1.95 Why has this author not written any other books? This book is a very good read, full of irish... | Living the Sacred Story: A Journey into the Landscape of the Bible Best Price: $12.47 Bonnie Glassford has written an intriguing travelogue, and has proven to be a fascinating... |
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Our Last Chance: Sixty-Six Deadly Days Adrift My father was friends with the author Bill Butler and this is most definitely a true story. It... | Sobre La Foca Elefante (Ciencia Y Tecnologia) Best Price: $28.23 | Through Central Borneo: an Account of Two Years\' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Best Price: $16.99 Ever since my camping life with the aborigines of Queensland, many years ago, it has been my... | Seeing Arabs Through An American School Best Price: $27.50 This book is chock full of biases from page one. The author asserts that the school is... | Night Watch Best Price: $27.45 This is such a great read! It's laugh-out-loud funny! And I feel as though I am in a... |
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Vienna Voices: A Traveler Listens to the City of Dreams (Writing Travel) Best Price: $15.91 This is a beautifully and sensitively written collection of personal impressions of Vienna... | Experiencia y Pobreza: Walter Benjamin En Ibiza, 1932-1933 Best Price: $30.61 | From Freight Trains to Airplanes Best Price: $3.84 A true story of the great depression. A 13 year old riding the rails for five years trying to... | The Lost Island Best Price: $1.98 I liked the book!
Excellent description of Amsterdam Island. The "sterile man" goes... | Ichthyology and Otoliths Best Price: $15.22 Fascinating--a great read combining adventure with insight into a job, lifestyle, and cultures... |
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The Singing Line: Tracking the Australian Adventures of My Intrepid Victorian Ancestors Best Price: $3.71 This was truly an amazing book. The author involves you in the very foundations that build up... | Rails over the Andes: A Journey through Peru, Colombia and Ecuador Best Price: $5.30 To ride the highest standard gauge railway in the world and explore the rail systems of the... | River Home: Memoir (Ohio Bicentennial) Best Price: $18.97 | We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World Best Price: $4.99 Having read Professor Diawara's "IN SEARCH OF AFRICA" and been struck by his... | Through Five Republics on Horseback Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America Best Price: $28.10 1920. From the Introduction: Through Five Republics on Horseback has all the elements of a great... |
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Back Under Sail: Recovering the Spirit of Adventure Best Price: $2.00 the author had a gift for "Painting with words." I found this to be a wonderful,... | El Enigma de La Gran Piramide Best Price: $31.20 | Finding Henry: A Journey into Eastern Europe I absolutely love travel journal logs, and have read a fair deal. The best are the ones written... | Una Vuelta Por El Hindu Kush | The Summer of a Dormouse Best Price: $1.39 Using this imagined pronouncement from God as an introduction to his third autobiography, author... |
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Footsteps of Our Lord and His Apostles in Syria, Greece and Italy: A Succession of Visits to the Scenes of New Testament Narrative Best Price: $18.66 1851. William Henry Bartlett was trained as an architect, but became a prolific print... | Voyage to America: A Dutch Immigrant Family's Memoir Best Price: $6.22 After years of operating in the Dutch Underground and struggling to stay alive in WWII... | Cuba: The Trip Back: An Exile's Journey Through Today's Cuba Best Price: $8.72 Rafael Lima was my screenwriting teacher in Miami. We never had the opportunity to read what he... | A Gap Year or Two Best Price: $16.60 I was very unsure where this book would take me, and I became so unsure that I couldn't put it... | America One Step at a Time: A 3,400 Mile Walk in Search of America Best Price: $12.46 I think the previous reviewer is rather harsh with this book. My only complaint was that it had... |
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Life on the Mississippi (Bantam Classics) Best Price: $1.86 Twain's account of his years on the Mississippi is part travel book, part memoir, and part... | Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Best Price: $11.99 Since you are to share with me such foot-notes as may be made on the pages of my life during... | Cruising Through Life Best Price: $19.95 This is the book for the serious do-it-yourself sailor. From the drudgery of scraping paint and... | A Good Stick Best Price: $23.77 I had the pleasure of flying with Captain Sulucco,back in the old Mohawk Airlines days. He was a... | Viajes por Rusia Best Price: $10.25 Este libro relata un viaje de Francisco de Miranda por Rusia. Miranda, uno de los l?deres de la... |
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Flight of Passage Interesting and well written story of two kids flying across the country in a Piper Cub. Great... | Greyhound Tales from Route 66 Best Price: $16.04 I bought the book for my dad, a retired Greyhound driver, but of course I read it too. Despite a... | Jun Q'anil: One Who Walks The Way Best Price: $0.77 Jessica Nagler takes the reader on her spiritual journey from Los Angeles, California to the... | Red Sky in Mourning Best Price: $1.75 I did my best with this book but I couldn't finish it. I was underwhelmed by the writing, which... | MIS Tres Adioses a Cuba - Diario de DOS Viajes |
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Nicky Barr, An Australian Air Ace: A Story of Courage and Adventure Best Price: $20.76 Like the previous reviewer, I could hardly put this book down. It is an amazing story told in... | Philip Vickers Fithian, Journal and Letters, 1767-1774, Student at Princeton College, 1770-72, Tutor at Nomini Hall in Virginia, 1773-74 Best Price: $15.70 The life of a young man as he goes to school and becomes a clergyman; centered entirely in the... | Los Viajes de Marco Polo: Relatados Por el Mismo Best Price: $25.28 | Amy Johnson: Enigma in the Sky Best Price: $84.94 Amy Johnson, the young girl who flew solo from England to Australia in a small single-engine... | Viajes al Rio de la Plata y a Potosi (1657-1660) Best Price: $16.35 There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars... |
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Without Stopping: An Autobiography Best Price: $7.00 Reading books like this makes me wonder why I have a day job. Bowles weaves an intricate yet... | Playing Away Best Price: $4.99 Michael Mewshaw's 'Playing Away' is mostly about an American author's living experiences in... | | | |