Walking Adventure

Polly Letofsky left her Colorado home and headed west across four continents and over 14,000 miles - by foot - to become the first woman to walk around the world. In a spirit of adventure, along with the goal of raising global awareness for breast cancer, strangers welcomed her into their homes. The world had embraced her. But in the middle of Polly's journey, 9/11 flung us all into a crossroads in world history, and she found herself navigating a vastly changing world.

It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for adventure, Newby sent his friend Hugh Carless the now-famous cable - CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE? - setting in motion a legendary journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan, and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, northeast of Kabul. Inexperienced and ill prepared (their preparations involved nothing more than some tips from a Welsh waitress), the amateurish rogues embarked on a month of adventure and hardship in one of the most beautiful wildernesses on earth.

Torn from his family, Adam lands in a world of giants, wild animals, and marauding mountain people. Unable to find his way home, he discovers an alluring paradise - a golden city where he builds a new life, safe from the terrors outside the walls. But when the city begins to crumble, a chance encounter with a strange little girl changes everything. She claims to know why he was brought into this world and the way back to his family, but insists he leave the doomed city and follow her to the high country to join the mountain people.

From the bestselling author of Walking the Nile, explorer Levison Wood begins his next challenging adventure - walking the length of the Himalayas. Levison Wood's most challenging expedition yet begins along the Silk Road route of Afghanistan and travels through five countries. Following in the footsteps of the great explorers, Levison walks the entire length of the Himalayas in an adventure of survival and endurance.

'The Wide, Wide Sea' is a Chaos Walking short story. Set before the Spackle War in a small fishing village by the sea, this is a heartbreaking tale of love and loyalty in a divided world. Best listened to immediately after The Ask and the Answer, it features familiar characters such as Mistress Coyle but gives a new perspective on the shocking events in the award-winning trilogy.

I'm not in the habit of personally recreating the films of Martin Sheen, but a chance viewing of "The Way" changed all that. Somewhat strangely, the touching tale of a father who treks across Spain in tribute to a son who has passed away on a pilgrimage lit a spark in me that just would not go out. That spark, a desire to follow in his footsteps on the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela, burned ever brighter in my mind until I set aside the last few weeks of my 40s to start my own Camino de Santiago. Of course, I soon discovered that the Hollywood version of The Way of St James was a...

Escape the ordinary and plunge into a prehistoric urban nightmare! The Riftwalker, a being of immense power known to some as Bigfoot, is violently torn from a battle across dimensions and thrust into the bewildering Neon Wilderness of 1980s Earth. But he’s not the only creature to crash this party. A terrifying Tyrannosaurus Rex, ripped from its own time, now rampages through the electric jungle, turning city streets into its personal hunting ground. Hunted by a bewildered and increasingly aggressive 1980s military, and haunted by the echoes of a lost connection to his guide, the Machine ...

Brackett and his most trusted friend, the African Warrior Chula, find themselves on a quest to find Chula’s long estranged wife. The search ends on a more tragic note than either man could ever have guessed. Now, Brackett must take a trip straight into Hell itself in an effort to make things right. Accompany Brackett on his travel down the dark road of destiny, and find out what awaits him at the end of his Gunslinger’s Walk.

It is a gentle art; know how to tramp and you know how to live. Know how to meet your fellow wanderer, how to be passive to the beauty of nature and how to be active to its wildness and its rigour. The adventure is not the getting there, it’s the ‘on-the-way’. It is not the expected, it is the surprise.

His body is healed, his spirit forged in cosmic fire. But the Last Riftwalker’s sanctuary is a gilded cage, and his new enemy wears a human face with an ancient, chilling intellect. Thrust from a restored nexus of ancestral power into the heart of a sprawling, high-tech human metropolis, the Riftwalker finds himself a prisoner of the very species he sought to escape. The enigmatic Archivist, or those who share its cold ambition, now understand the rifts, his heritage, and the power he wields. Their city of shifting steel and oppressive order is not just a prison, but a laboratory, and he ...

In 36 thrilling days, Melanie Radzicki McManus hiked 1,100 miles around Wisconsin, landing her in the elite group of Ice Age Trail thru-hikers known as the Thousand-Milers. In prose that's alternately harrowing and humorous, Thousand-Miler takes you with her through Wisconsin's forests, prairies, wetlands, and farms, past the geologic wonders carved by long-ago glaciers, and into the neighborhood bars and gathering places of far-flung small towns.

The Adventure: A Seabirds-Themed Daily-Devotional is a 35-day study on the goodness of God rooted in the Bible inspired by the beloved characters of the Seabirds Trilogy. Ages 12+ When you board a ship, a plane, a train, or enter a car, odds are you know where you are going. “My ticket says I am going to London.” “I’m flying to visit my sister in Dallas.” “I’m driving to ballet lessons.” However, when you get your ticket to life, rarely is the journey so straightforward. Life is not linear. Rather, it’s a series of ups and downs and one left turn after another. We take ...

Cynical. Subversive. Irreverent. Boyd Wright is not a typical hero. Five-eight, not six-five. Foul-mouthed. Slender, with teen idol looks, he is a confirmed physical coward. Boyd has spent his short life on the urban frontier in 21st Century America. The first eighteen years in an orphanage and the following decade among the occult nutcases in L.A. and Las Vegas. Boyd has little going for him except quick wits, acute paranoia, and a few magic tricks. Fifteen years previously, Boyd, unwanted and the least important resident of the Carruthers Home for Boys, survived among juvenile predators ...

When I decided to walk the Camino de Santiago alone at age 71, it was on a whim. A year and a half earlier, I had had a hip replacement, but felt that I had become complacent in a comfortable retirement and needed to shake up my life. And that’s what I did. I knew walking a Camino wouldn’t be easy or pain-free. Despite months of training and preparation, there was no way I could plan for the unexpected.

Annie Darling, popular proprietress of the Death on Demand bookstore, has done it again! Her murder-mystery cruise in the waters off her not-always-idyllic isle of Broward's Rock is sure to be a roaring success, with every participant dressing up as a favorite fictional sleuth. And sure enough, everything goes swimmingly, until one of the revelers plunges overboard. And despite hubby Max Darling's courageous rescue attempt, faux murder turns all too quickly into real-life death.

Amy and Luke have survived four months in a savage land completely disrupted by the massive power outage, but this last leg of their journey will demand all of their courage as the pair navigate a desperate landscape. Now, new factions begin to take action, and sudden violence signals a change in someone's policies. As they begins this last sprint across a war-torn countryside, Luke will need to reach deep for his last ounce of determination if he intends to ever make it home alive.

"This is one of the best stories I've had the pleasure of reading in a long time. I highly recommend it."—Vigilant Reader Book Reviews A plane crashes in South America, leaving only two survivors. Reclusive author Jonas Drake stumbles from the fiery wreckage of the crashed 747 and meets Jeremy, a young boy struggling to come to grips with the loss of his mother. Hunted by F.A.R.C. insurgents chasing them for ransom, the pair flee into the rainforest with no plan and almost no hope. Desperate to distract Jeremy from the nightmares surrounding them, Jonas tells him stories from his early ...

A revised 10th Anniversary edition of the classic memoir that many say is the best Camino book they ́ve read. Bill Bennett ́s book has now been made into a major movie, and reading it you ́ll see why. Written in a humorous self-deprecating style reminiscent of Bill Bryson, it tells the story of a stubborn self-obsessed and pedantic man who undergoes a fundamental shift in character whilst walking the famous 800km pilgrimage route across Spain. At times laugh-out-loud funny, at other times so deeply personal and emotional you ́ll have a tear in your eye, The Way, My Way is a must read ...

Luke and Amy arrive at the Messner ranch to discover not everything has gone according to plan. Reunited with his family, and bringing new friends into the fold, Luke works hard to forget the horrors of their journey and make a fresh start with Amy. But others have plans as well, and Luke discovers there is no real safety in this new world. When the lights go out, the rats come out to play.

From the author of such travel adventure classics as Jaguars Ripped My Flesh and Road Fever, comes an informative and entertaining travelogue through one of America's favorite destinations: Yellowstone National Park. On his several-hundred-mile trek across the wilderness, the author explores such natural wonders as glaciers and geysers, muses about the microbiology of thermal pools, and witnesses moonbows arcing across waterfalls at midnight.