Travel Memoir

TRAVEL MEMOIRS WITH PICTURES: EXPLORING THE WORLD is a Dreamy Coffee Table Book to Inspire Your Summer Travels. ‘To where should we travel?’ is the number one question on everyone’s mind. After many long months of lockdown without the opportunity to discover and explore new places, this book written by Author Brenda Mohammed can help you decide on destinations both near and far. Travel Memoirs with Pictures: Exploring the World is a beautifully illustrated picture book filled with reflections of the author's travels around the world. In this pictorial travel book of the author's ...

Another Slice of Paradise is my second book portraying life on our rustic riverside farm in the Portuguese mountains. Join us as we start offering riding holidays and begin to realise the traumas involved in trying to accomodate guests with a variety of different riding levels and dietary expectations! I promise that you will meet some very colourful characters! Our amazing horses, dogs, cats, ducks and chickens entwine themselves into our story, and our bemused Portuguese neighbours continue to try to educate us into the ways of local village life as we aim to become more self sufficient. ...

What happened when a young man ditched the office and headed to the outback of Australia for the adventure of a lifetime? In 2002, a young Englishman left London behind to try something new on a working holiday. One year; 2,000 sheep: 4,000 km travelled. Horses and quad bikes; two light aircraft; one Ford station wagon. He uncovered real life far from the hustle and bustle of the beaches and coffee shops of the East coast. There were "Skimpies", surly farmers, tough miners, vets and call-girls. How did he go learning to fly, and getting behind the wheel of a ten-tonne truck? A must-read for...

Travel writer Steve Malins spent time as a young man challenging himself and learning about the world around him. He qualified as a military parachutist by the age of 19, sailed across the Atlantic and worked in the heart of Luxembourg. After a sabbatical “Down Under” in Australia learning to fly, farm and dive the Great Southern Land, he and his fiancée sold up in London and moved to Melbourne to start a family, embracing the climate, opportunities and offer of new life on an acre of land. There was lots to do—train as a firefighter, farm; fish the bay, camp and ski the Alpine, and ...

A big trip as a catalyst for personal growth is a familiar story. But what happens when travel becomes a way of life rather than a one-time escape? Tim Mathis, author of the independent hit The Dirtbag’s Guide to Life, has spent decades exploring this question. A seasoned interpreter of adventure, culture, and life’s absurdities, he shares 15 true tales from a lifetime of travel, disruption, and transformation in What Happens If You Keep Going? Among these stories, you’ll find: A teenage clown evangelist in Peru facing a reality check. A pilgrimage in Spain achieving the opposite of ...

This vivacious personal story captures the heart and soul of modern Iceland. Born in Reykjavik on the eve of the Second World War, Sverrir Sigurdsson watched Allied troops invade his country and turn it into a bulwark against Hitler’s advance toward North America. The country’s post-war transformation from an obscure, dirt-poor nation to a prosperous one became every Icelander’s success. Spurred by this favorable wind, Sverrir answered the call of his Viking forefathers, setting off on a voyage that took him around the world. Join him on his roaring adventures!

Craig Carlson set out to do the impossible: open the first American diner in Paris. Despite never having owned his own business before - let alone a restaurant, the riskiest business of all - Craig chose to open his diner in a foreign country, with a foreign language that also happens to be the culinary capital of the world. While facing enormous obstacles, Craig and his diner, Breakfast in America, went on to be a great success - especially with the French.

Bestselling Author Ivanka Di Felice serves up a fresh batch of adventures in her cherished Tuscany. With a sprinkle of wit and a lot of affection, she introduces us to a vibrant array of characters, including her spirited elderly father who adds his own unique flavor to the mix. From amusing encounters with locals to humorous mishaps in everyday life, Di Felice's tales whisk us away to the very essence of Italian charm. Come along on the escapades as we venture inside Tuscan villas, lend a hand in olive-picking, and luxuriate in the revitalizing waters of thermal baths. Journey through the ...

A dream fulfilled Traveling overseas and backpacking around Europe seemed like an out-of-reach dream for John Clark, until he learned of the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a 500-mile pilgrimage across the country that dates back more than 1,200 years. With encouragement from family and friends, never having traveled outside the United States, the self-proclaimed homebody from Texas hopped on a plane at age 53 alone and headed for the Iberian Peninsula. It wasn’t just the beginning of a month-long journey, but also, as he would discover, the beginning of a new life. Facing fear, regret and ...

"PAM, I JUST BOUGHT OUR PLANE TICKETS, WE'RE GOING TO EGYPT!” My dream to backpack into three countries with my daughter was coming true. It was no longer a pipe dream. I was excited, and scared.

Shifting into High Gear charts the course of Kyle Bryant's transformation as he journeys on a recumbent tricycle across the United States in the throes of Friedreich's ataxia, a life-shortening and disabling disease. Full of humor and reflection, it's a heroic journey of a man driven to reframe the language of disease through action and service.

*All three books in the series are now available in an omnibus edition under the title THREE MEN IN SPAIN* ONE MAN IN A VAN is much more than a sequel to the mildly successful travel book THREE MEN IN A VAN, a swiftly penned account of the trip which the author of this present volume, GEOFF CORLESS, took his elderly friends on in the late spring of 2016. After conveying his bumbling pals back to Britain in one piece, Geoff follows up a seemingly innocent business proposition made by Hugo the Belgian and returns to Gibraltar to collect his faithful camper van Bambi. Thus begins a bizarre ...

In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world”. She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch - first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her 23rd birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival.

In 2006, Kit DesLauriers made history by becoming the first person to climb - and then ski - from the summit of each continent's highest mountain, the famed Seven Summits. Centered on this quest, Higher Love represents a hero's journey, rich with personal insights, life-threatening consequences, and a thrilling crescendo. Spanning seven continents in just two years, this deeply personal memoir recounts Kit's initially secret journey that would change her life forever.

"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti-for man and beast alike.

An old-fashioned quest by a modern-day adventurer. When A. J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the well at the world’s end, a mysterious pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth.

Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their 30 boisterous camels, 500 sheep, and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter.

Two Wheels in the Sun: Adventures and Reflections of a Mexican Motorcycle Odyssey Embark on an exhilarating journey through the heart of Mexico with "Two Wheels in the Sun." This captivating memoir chronicles the adventures, challenges, and cultural discoveries experienced by a passionate motorcyclist navigating the diverse landscapes of Mexico. From the sun-soaked beaches to the rugged mountains, and from bustling cities to tranquil villages, every page is a testament to the thrill of exploration and the joy of the open road. Join the author as they delve into Mexico's rich history, ...

Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter - and many places beyond. In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives listeners an introduction to some of his favorite places - in his own words.

Fueled by a powerful curiosity - and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up - Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling - swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels - an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world.