Travel Writing & Commentary

Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile comes a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth.

Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...

The River of Doubt brings alive extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived....

The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America - majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes....

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again....

She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....

Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own path....

In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television writer, and producer takes us with him on travels across the globe.

Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West....

Bestselling author Jen Ruiz takes listeners on a trip around the globe in 12 Trips in 12 Months, defying societal expectations of what a woman is supposed to be—and empowering others to do the same.

A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain....

In less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie.....

When you’re a woman of a certain age, you are not promised anything at all other than that everything will get worse. But what if everything you’ve been told is a lie....

More than 20 years ago, Frances Mayes introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys....

In the first of three essays included in this audiobook, Bill Bryson decides to move back to the United States, after nearly two decades in Britain. But not before taking one last trip....

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history....

In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong.

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail...

Peter Mayle personally recounts the pleasures and frustrations of Provençal life--sharing in a way no one else can, the unique and endearing culture that is Provence....

Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency....

In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

Steven Callahan's Adrift chronicles one of the most astounding voyages of the century and one of the great sea adventures of all time....

In the best-selling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail is a major work of participatory history....

Experience the true “great outdoors” through the stories of the men who lived it.....

When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of a sobering truth: Our parents won’t live forever. For years, he and Barbara have talked about taking a trip together, just the two of them....

A year into his marriage and having never driven an RV, Frank and his wife Laurel set out from New York City in a Winnebago to drive the nation's first transcontinental route, the Lincoln Highway, which zigzags through small towns and big cities from Times Square to San Francisco. Using the spirit of Abraham Lincoln to guide them across the land, they hope to see more clearly what holds the country together-and how we can keep it together, even amidst political divisions that have grown increasingly rancorous, bitter, and exhausting.

So, you’re curious about living the dream as a nude digital nomad, huh? Well, buckle up (or should I say unbuckle?) because you’re in for the adventure of a lifetime! Let me tell you, there’s nothing quite like the freedom of working remotely with your bare butt out and about while exploring the world. Picture this: you’re lounging on a secluded beach in Greece, laptop in hand, the sun warming every inch of your skin without a pesky waistband digging into your stomach. That’s right, not a single piece of clothing to hold you back or cramp your style. Sounds pretty fabulous, right?...

At the end of summer 1839, the light changing and autumn in the air, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John clambered into their 15-foot-long homemade boat on an adventure north. They traveled the rivers from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. Henry was two years out of Harvard, and his brother John was a few years older. They wound their way up the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by day and camped along the shores at night.

Now on the race’s centennial, award-winning author David K. Randall tells the story of this riveting, long-forgotten race. Through larger-than-life characters, treacherous landings, disease, and ultimately triumph, Into Unknown Skies demonstrates how one race returned America to aviation greatness. A story of underdog teammates, bold exploration, and American ingenuity, Into Unknown Skies is an untold adventure tale showing the power of flight to bring the world together.

When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where the couple first met, he expected to easily rekindle his love of the region. Instead, he found a housing market gone haywire, rampant election conspiracies, and right-wing political violence alarmingly close to his home and family. In A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Grant mixes memoir, research, and reporting in a quest to understand what makes Arizona such a confounding and irresistible place

The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums BC. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them.

In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to "read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content," but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive.

Written with Muir’s characteristic enthusiasm and keen eye for detail, this updated version not only revives Muir's adventures in the breathtaking wilderness of Alaska but also shares his experiences and reflections on finding beauty in a sometimes harsh and unforgiving environment.

This is not a cookbook. This is something more: a travelogue, a patient investigation of Italy’s cuisine, a loving profile of the everyday heroes who bring Italy to the table. Pasta, Pane, Vino is the latest edition of the genre-bending Roads & Kingdoms style pioneered under Anthony Bourdain’s imprint in Rice, Noodle, Fish (2016 Travel Book of the Year, Society of American Travel Writers) and Grape, Olive, Pig (2017 IACP Award, Literary Food Writing).

In her honest and heart-warming memoir, writer and adventurer Niamh McAnally shares the story of her liberating journey from being unemployed, homeless, and divorced in her fifties, to embarking on a global quest to find purpose through volunteering and ultimately finding a profound love that changed her life. From volunteering for marine conservation projects on remote islands in Belize, Vanuatu, and Tonga, to exploring exotic destinations like Bora Bora, Palau, Fiji, and St Barths, Niamh takes listeners on a captivating journey where each destination unveils a layer of her self-discovery.

Wenn ein Mark Twain auf Reisen geht, dann ist nicht jedem vergönnt, dabei sein zu dürfen – uns schon! Ernest Hemingways berühmtes Zitat „Es gibt eine amerikanische Literatur vor Mark Twain und eine danach, denn nichts was davor da war noch etwas was danach kommt ist damit vergleichbar“ wird durch die Unterwegs und Daheim-Reihe wunderbar bestätigt.

My wife and I both had health issues and injuries that we were told here in the US would require surgeries to successfully recover from. Not pleased or satisfied with that answer we immediately set out to try and discover what other possible alternatives there might be out there to help us. Where will this journey take us? Will we get the treatment we desperately needed? Will the results even be what we wanted? You will find the answers to these questions and much more in this book.

Otto Julius Bierbaum, der als erster Mensch den Brenner mit einem Automobil überquert hat (zusammen mit seiner Frau und Chauffeur) bekommt von seinem Hausarzt eine Seereise empfohlen und so unternimmt das Ehepaar Bierbaum auf dem Ozeanriesen „Yankeedoodle“ einen Urlaub der besonderen Art. Als Gentleman der alten Schule ist Otto zwar jederzeit Herr jeglicher Situation, aber letztendlich doch froh von seiner besseren Seite begleitet zu werden, da das emotionale Pulverfass seiner äußerst feinsinnigen Persönlichkeit jederzeit explodieren kann, aber man letztendlich doch Rücksicht auf die Ehegattin nehmen muss.

Wenn Sie ein Leben voller Freiheit und Abenteuer wollen, dann hören Sie dieses Buch noch heute. Entdecken Sie, wie Sie mit Lars Hartmanns „Ratgeber Wohnmobil“ Ihren Traum vom Reisen und Leben im Wohnmobil verwirklichen können. Treten Sie in die Fußstapfen eines Experten und machen Sie Ihre Wohnmobilreise zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis.

Tales from the road, told by full-time traveler Colin Wright.

Eigentlich wollte Ricarda Peter nur nach Kanada auswandern, um dort ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Aber plötzlich fand sie sich im Dschungel von Panama wieder. Auf der Flucht vor Drogendealern in den Bahamas, In der Wüste von Oman. Im Outback von Australien, im Mopedchaos in Asien, auf Safari in Afrika und bevor sie wusste, was überhaupt los ist, hatte sie die Welt bereist!

Allowing enthusiasm to get the better of him, a knucklehead opts to disembark from the Trans Siberian Express in Ulan Batar, Mongolia, in the middle of the Cold War, without a visa. Barely managing to evade imprisonment and extortion from the local officials, a series of unusual adventures unfold, which climax in an unexpected Mongolian Soirée on the eve of his departure.

Orths Reise macht das Leben vor Ort greifbarer. Bestsellerautor Stephan Orth hat den Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine von Anbeginn intensiv miterlebt. Durch seine ukrainische Freundin Julija verbindet ihn ein besonderes Band mit dem Land. Wie geht es den Menschen, die geblieben sind? Wie sieht ihr Alltag aus, was gibt ihnen Hoffnung? Und was hat das alles mit uns zu tun? Mit diesen Fragen reist er nach Kyjiw und Odesa, nach Charkiw und in die Karpaten. Er wohnt bei Einheimischen, hört ihre Geschichten, ist beeindruckt von ihrem Mut und Lebenswillen – und packt selbst beim Wiederaufbau mit an.

Best Places to See Land-Based Wildlife in the United States by author Laura Gray offers an inside approach to locate fantastic wildlife throughout the United States. Animals can tell you a story of the destination, the surrounding landscape, and the climate.

15 years ago, I quit my job, sold my car, packed my suitcase, and went on a world tour. Since then, I've been traversing the globe for a decade, continuously. This journey has left lasting impressions. To be frank, it has messed up my life. I had to endure a hurricane, narrowly escaped falling off a cliff, and came perilously close to being consumed by crocodiles. Traveling the world exacted a toll on me and corrupted me in various ways, and this book reveals the details. You'll discover the unfiltered reality of what it's like to be on the road for such a long time.