Walking Travel

Accompanied only by three Amazigh Muslim men and their camels, Scottish explorer Alice Morrison set off to find a hidden world. During her journey along the Draa river, she encountered dinosaur footprints and discovered a lost city, as well as what looked like a map of an ancient spaceship, all the while trying to avoid landmines, quicksand and the deadly horned viper.

The Fulani are the largest surviving group of nomads on the planet. In Walking with Abel, Anna Badkhen embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboys - nomadic herders in Mali's Sahel grasslands - as they embark on their annual migration across the savanna.

Gene Meyer has spent decades exploring the state's hidden nooks and crannies, meeting people and finding places not on any traditional tour map. This guide through the state's regions, with side trips to its sporting life, military history, and more, will delight and enthrall you.

Bluewater Walkabout: Into Africa is a memoir about an adventure in the wild bush of Africa and a family sailing journey. But when her sons bring along two friends who upset the family balance, rogue waves and great white sharks threaten the family's safety. Tina begins to deal with a mysterious health problem, and the perils of life at sea become very real.

Steve Hackman, an American expat living in Hong Kong, first stumbles across an article on the Wainwright Coast to Coast hike while reading the travel section of a local newspaper. The piece described the popular long distance walk in North England that starts in the village of St. Bees on the Irish Sea Coast and ends 200 miles east at Robin Hood's Bay on the North Sea. Between the two points lay some of the most majestic and awe inspiring portions of Great Britain.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you. Greater Than a Tourist – Cairo Egypt by Gihan Amin offers the inside scoop on the city of Cairo.

When Susie Kelly decides, on a whim, to trek alone across France from La Rochelle to Lake Geneva, she entrusts her French farmhouse full of assorted animals to a total stranger from San Antonio, Texas. For each of them it is a life-changing experience. Both find their resourcefulness and ingenuity tested to the limit as, in their own ways, they explore and enjoy the culture, cuisine and people of Europe's most fascinating country.

Are you ready for a journey of self-reflection, connection and adventure? Discover the wonders of the Camino de Santiago and prepare for your own journey with Walking the Camino. In Walking the Camino, the author shares her experience on the two most popular routes and offers practical advice for your journey.

This is the story of one man's solo adventure walking the length of Italy. Undertaken in the depths of winter, travelling vast daily distances and camping in a tent, the journey was done in the spirit of a true pilgrimage, with plenty of physical hardships and few creature comforts. Walking on the Via Francigena pilgrim route, the author encounters kind people, beautiful landscapes and the deep history that only Italy can offer. He also shares the personal struggles and failures that led him to the storm-lashed beach in Santa Maria di Leuca in the south of Italy, ready to undertake the ...

This immersive guide draws from first-hand accounts and the expertise of leading church historians to guide you through the rich history of significant locations of the Restoration. For these sacred sites, authors Casey Paul Griffiths and Mary Jane Woodger provide the background knowledge behind each site, the importance each property has in our Church history, and a short devotional that prompts reflection and invites the spirit.

Take a walk in the park. Or explore a forest, gorge, campground, even a historic site. Spend a week or a weekend. Go biking, hiking, fishing, boating, hunting or cross-country skiing. Or just relax and enjoy the most beautiful scenery in the Northeast! This is a guide to the state and national parks throughout Maine, the wildlife refuges, nature and bike trails, historic sites, facilities and activities at each site, and contact information.

Un guide culturel audio pour les curieux, les amateurs d'histoire et les voyageurs. Le parfait kit de découverte d'une région et de sa culture, à écouter depuis votre canapé, en voiture ou à l'hôtel ! Plongez dans le passé de la "vallée des rois" et découvrez les châteaux de la Loire, célèbres dans le monde entier : Chambord, Blois ou encore Chenonceau ne sont que les figures de proue d'une constellation d'édifices remarquables dont même les moins connus réservent leur lot de merveilles.

Joseph Denton was a man happy with his life. Oh sure, he would do a few things a little different if he had the chance. If he could get a do-over, he would be an architect instead of a pharmacist. It's not that he doesn't like being a pharmacist, but he always wanted to design buildings. If he could do it one more time, he would make it so his wife and he could have kids. He was sure he would enjoy being a father, but his wife would have loved being a mother even more. More money would be nice, but do-overs don't exist.

Tom Patey, one of Scotland’s foremost climbers and mountaineers, was legendary for his pioneering ascents and boundless enthusiasm, and his carefree approach and ability to burn the candle at both ends. "A Short Walk With Whillans" was originally published in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal in 1963.

Japan was the beginning of something extraordinary. Much of who I was on that trip has disappeared. Relationships, business, home, beliefs have all gone or changed radically. But Japan was not my trip, this was the escape of a lifetime for a client. I discovered that amazing things don’t just happen when you follow your dreams, they also happen when you help others follow theirs.

A spectacular 80-kilometer (50-mile) track connects Sydney's iconic beaches of Bondi and Manly, and will have you winding through secluded bays, protected bushland, and the glittering harbor city. A must-have for visitors, the guidebook will equally delight the most familiar Sydneysiders, combining fascinating local and natural histories with clear instructions.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Bangor. Greater than a Tourist: Bangor Maine USA by author Tom Kenny offers the inside scoop on the Queen City. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

"In wilderness is the preservation of the world. Life consists with wilderness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him." Philosopher and writer Henry David Thoreau preferred to contemplate the nature of man and his environment while walking.

Tristan Gooley shows how it is possible to achieve a level of outdoors awareness that will enable you to sense direction from stars and plants, forecast weather from woodland sounds and predict the next action of an animal from its body language - instantly. Although once common, this now rare awareness would be labelled by many as a 'sixth sense'.

The ancient Camino de Santiago pilgrimage routes are becoming more popular every year. This is the story of one man's walk, and his incredible adventure over 1200km in seven weeks. The author moves across northern Spain on multiple Camino and mountain routes, and in doing so reveals what an amazing and spiritual experience it can be if you do it in the way of a true pilgrim - by suffering, and keeping an open mind to who you meet and what you are capable of. Moving through different landscapes and meeting extraordinary people, Spain's rich culture and history are revealed in this ...