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Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers

Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers more books like this

by Jim Rogers

Legendary investor Rogers gives his view of the world on a 24-month, 51-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling adventure book "Investment Biker."

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Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey

Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey more books like this

by V S Naipaul

This account of his travels to four countries of the Islamic world, by a writer who was born in Trinidad and lives in England, is definitely an outsider's view, and aroused immediate controversy upon its publication.

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Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg

Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg more books like this

by James M McPherson

Pulitzer prize-winning historian McPherson offers a walking tour of the historic site that was the turning point of the Civil War. Stopping at key locations and memorials, McPherson explains the battle and provides background and context in a succinct and accessible manner.

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Blue Highways

Blue Highways more books like this

by William Least Heat Moon

William Least Heat Moon is part Sioux (hence the name), part Anglo. Filled with wanderlust after losing both his wife and his job, he took to the road with the goal of traveling to "those little towns that get on the map...only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill." His idiosyncratic, colorful, character-filled journey across the ...

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Slowly Down the Ganges

Slowly Down the Ganges more books like this

by Eric Newby

Newby's tribute to the richness of life along the Ganges River was written after a 1200-mile trip he made in 1961 with his wife, Wanda.

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Drink, Play, F@#k: One Man's Search for Anything Across Ireland, Las Vegas, and Thailand

Drink, Play, F@#k: One Man's Search for Anything Across Ireland, Las Vegas, and Thailand more books like this

by Andrew Gottlieb

In "Drink, Play, F@#k" Bob Sullivan, a jilted husband, sets off to explore the world, experience a meaningful connection with the divine, and rediscover his passion. His travels lead him from his home in New York City to a drinking bender across Ireland, through the glitz and glamour that is Las Vegas, and to the hedonistic pleasure palaces of ...

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River-Horse: A Voyage Across America

River-Horse: A Voyage Across America more books like this

by William Least Heat Moon

The Nikawa, or "river horse," is the boat on which William Least Heat-Moon crossed the United States, from New York to Oregon in 1995. This is his third book on his American travels, following the enormously successful BLUE HIGHWAYS, and PRAIRYERTH.

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Dreaming of Jupiter

Dreaming of Jupiter more books like this

by Ted Simon

Back in the seventies, Ted Simon drove a Triumph motorcycle around the world. His book, Jupiter's Travels, became the acknowledged classic of motorcycle adventure. It inspired thousands, Ewan McGregor included, to roam the globe. Now in his own seventies, thirty years after his epic journey began, Ted has retraced that epic journey, still on a ...

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Sahara

Sahara more books like this

by Michael Palin (Read by)

The Monty Python alumnus and bestselling author takes readers on a journey through Morocco, Gibraltar, Tangier, and Tunisia as he explores the past and present of the Sahara Desert. 175 full-color and B&W photos.

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On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal

On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal more books like this

by Mary Taylor Simeti

Mary Taylor Simeti went to Sicily in 1962 for a visit. She fell in love with a Sicilian, got married, and stayed for over 20 years. This is her magical account of a year in a place she came to love--its sounds, taste, colors and myths, its religious festivals, its foods and its people.

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House in Sicily more books like this

by Daphne Phelps

This is the captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful house in Sicily. " For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne Phelps has extended her English charm and warm hospitality to seasoned travelers and professional escapists as well as to writers and artists like ...

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My Life as an Explorer more books like this

by Sven Anders Hedin

Sven Hedin (1865-1952) spent three decades exploring Central Asia: traveling the Silk Road, discovering long-lost cities, mapping uncharted rivers. This memoir tells the story of his exploits and accomplishments.

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A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal more books like this

by Anthony Bourdain, Lord (Read by)

Anthony Bourdain follows up his best-selling memoir, KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, with this account of a world tour in search of not only the perfect meal but the perfect total food experience. Traveling to Vietnam, Japan, France, Mexico, and other places, he has a series of adventures, both culinary and other, including many wonderful meals.

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Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy more books like this

by Eric Hansen

Eric Hansen writes entertainingly and often hilariously about the sinister world of orchid raising--a $9 billion business worldwide. Specifically, he explores the black market in rare and endangered plants that are smuggled out of ecologically precarious areas and sold to enthusiasts at inflated prices. Hansen's book, full of fascinating stories ...

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Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets and Gatemouth's Gator: Essays more books like this

by Michael Perry

Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perrys essays draw on his rural roots and footloose lifestyle in a perspective that merges the local with the global.

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Travels in West Africa more books like this

by Mary Henrietta Kingsley

Novelist Evan S. Connell writes the introduction to Kingsley's classic travel book.

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Stonehenge decoded more books like this

by Gerald S. Hawkins

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Roots of the Western Tradition: A Short History of the Ancient World more books like this

by C Warren Hollister

"Roots of the Western Tradition" is a brief chronological survey that covers the Ancient world in three parts: Prehistoric Europe and Ancient Near East; Ancient Greece; and Ancient Rome. Succinct enough to be used with supplements, the coverage is carefully balanced between narrative and interpretation, highlighting historians' varying viewpoints ...

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Vanishing Cornwall more books like this

by Daphne du Maurier

There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known. Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone ...I for this, and this for me.' Daphne du Maurier lived ...

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French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France more books like this

by Polly Platt

Polly Platt's title French or Foe? is more timely than ever, as the Franco. American alliance frays a little more with each day, the exchanges more vitriolic than ever before. Her book has long been the reference for what it is about theFrench that rubs Americans the wrong way, why the Franco-American alliance has difficulties, and how to handle ...

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Two Years Before the Mast more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ...

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On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel more books like this

by Tony Cohan

Novelist Tony Cohan and his wife fell for the laid-back pace of life in San Miguel de Allende in Central Mexico. Impulsively, they sold their California house and moved south. This is the chronicle of their move, and of how they managed--gradually, and not without trauma--to become integrated into the life of a Mexican town.

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The saddest pleasure : a journey on two rivers more books like this

by Moritz Thomsen

This is an account, introduced by Paul Therox, of the author's journey as a 63-year-old gringo through Brazil. During the course of this journey he reflects on his escape in middle age from his wealthy Pacific Northwest family to South America, where he became a Peace Corps worker in Ecuador. He then tells of how he bought a farm which he worked ...

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Kon-Tiki more books like this

by Thor Heyerdahl

Photographs illustrate the author's account of his voyage from Peru to Tahiti on a balsa raft to test a theory concerning the origins of the Polynesian race.

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Ripening Sun: One Woman and the Creation of a Vineyard more books like this

by Patricia Atkinson

For most people giving up the day job and moving to a beautiful area of France and living off the vines is an impossible but delicious dream. In 1990, Patricia Atkinson and her husband decided to sell up in Britain and emigrate to the Dordogne. Their idea was to buy a house with a few vines attached and employ someone to tend to the wine while ...

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