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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorTime Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
Jeremy Mercer · 262 pages
Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain
Lori L. Tharps · 206 pages
Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest
Bear Grylls · 304 pages
Only one in four people who attempt Everest are successful, and of those few the majority are over 30. Bear Grylls overcame the extreme weather conditions and months of limited sleep, and reached the summit at the age of 23, becoming the youngest British climber to scale Mount Everest.
The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
Josh Swiller · 276 pages
Describes one young man's efforts to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving, hearing world by undertaking a two-year sojourn in a remote village in Zambia as a Peace Corps volunteer, where he finds a remarkable world marked by both beauty and violence.
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen · 389 pages
The author relates her experience in Kenya, describing not only her own youth but also the country's traditions and people.
Foreign Babes In Beijing: Behind The Scenes Of A New China
Rachel DeWoskin · 332 pages
The Mountain: My Time on Everest
Ed Viesturs, David Roberts · 352 pages
The only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's eight-thousand-meter peaks sets his sights on Mount Everest, in a work that combines his own climbs as well as narratives of famous climbs throughout the last century.
Walking Home: My Family and Other Rambles
Clare Balding · 304 pages
In the Balding family, walking just took too long - Clare galloped through the countryside and she galloped through life. Then, starting out in her broadcasting career, she was asked to present a series of walks with interesting people. Some fifteen hundred miles of footpaths later, she's discovered the true glories of Britain and caught the walking bug. Now she wants to get her whole family hooke
Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing
Alan Paul · 262 pages
Based on the Wall Street journal online column, "The expat life", Alan Paul tells his story of moving his family to Beijing and becoming an unlikely success as a blues musician there.
The Gringo
J. Grigsby Crawford · 225 pages
"Within weeks of arriving as a volunteer in a remote corner of South America, Crawford got a lot more than he bargained for: a narrow escape from a kidnapping plot hatched by the people he was sent there to help. Then things only got stranger. In his quest to find adventure, Crawford undertook a savage journey of danger, drugs, sex, and alarming illness. What resulted is The Gringo: one part liter
The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World
Tracy Slater · 323 pages
"In this memoir of travel and love, a fiercely independent American woman finds everything she ever wanted in the most unexpected place. Shufu. In Japanese it means "housewife," and it's the last thing Tracy Slater ever thought she'd call herself. A writer and academic, Tracy had carefully constructed a life she loved in her beloved hometown of Boston. But everything was upended when she fell head
The Road by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure
Jack London · 124 pages
The Corfu Trilogy
Gerald Durrell · 768 pages
Atlas of the Human Heart
Ariel Gore · 319 pages
memoir by young 21st century woman who was very daring.
Castaway
Lucy Irvine · 400 pages
Recounts the adventure of a couple living on an island in the Coral Sea north of Australia. Tells what happened to them emotionally after being forced to marry by the Australian government.
Back from Africa
Corinne Hofmann · 176 pages
In 'The White Masai' Corinne Hofmann told the story of how she fell in love with and married Lketinga, a Masai warrior, and lived with his family in Kenya. Now, in 'Back from Africa' she describes her return to Switzerland, the difficulties she has faced, and how she has built a new life for herself and her daughter.
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
Edmund Hillary · 245 pages
Eastern Approaches
Fitzroy MacLean · 576 pages
Eastern Approaches is Maclean's classic, gripping account of the sybaritic delights of diplomatic life, the thrill of remote travel in the then-forbidden zones of Central Asia, and the violence and adventure of world-changing tours in North Africa and Yugoslavia. Maclean is the original British action hero and this is blistering reading.
Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
Geraldine Brooks · 240 pages
Two in the Far North
Margaret E. Murie · 369 pages
Reminiscences of Alaska told from a woman's angle go back to the steamboat, goldmining days of 1911 when the writers's stepfather became Assistant US Attorney and the family moved from Seattle to Fairbanks. Her childhood's impressions of the social round, whist, sewing and church clubs in an isolated boom town are succeeded by a lyrical account of three expeditions to untouched areas in Alaska on
An Island to Oneself: The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island
Tom Neale · 255 pages
Thomas Francis "Tom" Neale (November 6, 1902 - November 27, 1977)[1] was a New Zealander bushcraft and survival enthusiast who spent much of his life in the Cook Islands and 16 years in three sessions living alone on the island of Anchorage in the Suwarrow atoll, which was the basis of this autobiography.
The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran
Jennifer Klinec · 230 pages
A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn't be, therefore, that their Iranian son could feel desire for someone six years his senior, someone who didn't come to him pure and untouched. I was an amusing visitor from another world and soon enough I should return to
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Matthew Polly · 359 pages
Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies, Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become a fighter like in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. Later, Matthew decided to pursue this quixotic dream: he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism. Expecting to find a
Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
Richard Evelyn Byrd · 309 pages