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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorInto the Heart of Borneo
Redmond O'Hanlon · 191 pages
Super for experienced travelers, travels to very remote places. Redmond is "The Man".
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
Olivia Laing · 283 pages
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
Tim Butcher · 363 pages
The author recounts his audacious and perilous quest through the Congo as he retraced the 1874 expedition of explorer H. M. Stanley to map the Congo River, traveling alone with an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and dugout canoe, and aided by characters ranging from U.N. aid workers to a pygmy-rights advocate.
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
Jonathan Raban · 409 pages
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau · 338 pages
Thoreau's first book excels at depicting nature around his trip in words.
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
Alice Albinia · 366 pages
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows across northern India and then through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god, for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistan's fractious union. This recounts a journey along the Indus, upstream and backwards in time, through two thousand miles of geograp
Goodbye to a River: A Narrative
John Graves · 313 pages
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time
Simon Winchester · 432 pages
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Peter Hessler · 402 pages
Records the author's experiences as a Peace Corps English teacher in the small Chinese city of Fuling, during which time he witnessed such events as the death of Deng Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainland, and the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.
Slowly Down the Ganges
Eric Newby, Wanda Newby · 326 pages
The author recounts his experiences traveling down the Ganges River in India with his wife, and shares his observations on the country and its people.
The Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles By Canoe To The Legendary City Of Timbuktu
Kira Salak · 309 pages
The Marsh Arabs
Wilfred Thesiger · 237 pages
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein-Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Traveling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicine and treating the sick. In this account of a nearly lost civilization, he pay
The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest
M. Wylie Blanchet · 194 pages
A compendium of a young widow's summer travels among the islands and fjords of British Columbia with her five small children. The family lived and travelled on a small motor launch getting to know that remarkable coast and it's cast of characters starting in 1927. Her enchanting account has become a treasured local classic in B.C.
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain · 462 pages
At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
Jerry Dennis · 308 pages
"If fresh water is a treasure, the Great Lakes are the mother lode. No bodies of water can compare to them. Superior is the largest lake on earth, and the five lakes together contain a fifth of the world's supply of standing fresh water. Their ten thousand miles of shoreline bound seven states and a Canadian province and are longer than the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States;
The Secret Knowledge of Water
Craig Childs · 288 pages
Deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers. Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and his treks through arid lands in search of water reveal the natural world at its most extreme.
Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival
Yossi Ghinsberg · 320 pages
Down the River
Edward Abbey · 242 pages
This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair.
Narrow Margins
Marie Browne
Narrow Margins is the true story of one family's journey from the financial crash of the Rover car company to an alternative and better lifestyle. Faced with the loss of everything, the house, the cars and more importantly their rather lazy and indolent lifestyle, Marie Browne and her family took on the challenge of a whole new way of life. Strapped for cash, the family buy a decrepit 70ft barge c
The Control of Nature
John McPhee · 272 pages
McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann · 339 pages
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker wr
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko · 432 pages
In the winter of 1983, the largest El Niño event on record, a series of "superstorms," battered the West. That spring, a massive snowmelt sent runoff racing down the Colorado River toward the Glen Canyon Dam. As the water filled the dam, worried federal officials desperately scrambled to avoid a dramatic dam failure. In the midst of this crisis, a trio of river guides secretly launched a small, ha