If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World

Bella Tuscany

Frances Mayes · 304 pages

Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites us back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.A companion volume to Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany is Frances Mayes's passionate and lyrical account of her continuing love affair with Italy. Now truly at home t

Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted

Annie Hawes · 345 pages

A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian Riviera but find naturally that it's an offer they can't refuse. The laugh is on the Foreign Females who discover that here amongst the hardcore olive farming folk their incompetence is positiv

To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek through the Heart of Africa

Nina Sovich · 314 pages

Catching her reflection in a window, Sovich no longer saw the fearless woman who spent her youth traveling staring back at her. She packed her bags and hopped on the next plane to Africa in search of adventure. In this book, Sovich takes readers on a fast-paced trek through Western Sahara, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, bringing their textures and flavors into vivid relief. Her journey reveals that

Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents

Elisabeth Eaves

What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago

Jane Christmas · 288 pages

All Over the Map

Laura Fraser · 279 pages

Celebrating her fortieth birthday, Laura Fraser confronts the trajectory of her life. Divorced and childless in her thirties, she found solace in the wanderlust that had always directed her heart, but now she wonders if her passion for travel (and for short-lived romantic rendezvous) has deprived her of what she secretly wants most: a husband, a family, a home. How to reconcile what seem to be two

The Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles By Canoe To The Legendary City Of Timbuktu

Kira Salak · 309 pages

Scribbling the Cat

Alexandra Fuller · 271 pages

With the same disarmingly unguarded prose that won her critical acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller tells of her unusual friendship with "K"—a white African and veteran of the brutal, racially divided Rhodesian War. An engrossing and haunting tale of love, godliness, hate, war, and survival, Scribbling the Cat recounts the journey she makes with K into the lands that h

Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Dervla Murphy · 271 pages

Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador

Angelina Jolie, Caspian Tredwell-Owen · 243 pages

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library Series)

Isabella L. Bird, Daniel J. Boorstin · 276 pages

Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland

Sarah Moss · 358 pages

Novelist Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a whim, despite having two young children and a comfortable life in an English cathedral city. The resulting adventure was shaped by Iceland's economic collapse, which halved the value of her

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea · 346 pages

Autobiographical account of two year's spent in a village of southern Iraq. The author accompanied her husband, who was doing anthropological research in the area.

A Thousand Days In Venice

Marlena de Blasi · 272 pages

Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure

Sarah Macdonald · 297 pages

French Milk

Lucy Knisley · 190 pages

Graphic memoir/travelogue of the author visiting Paris with her mother.

No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering

Clara Bensen · 320 pages

To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story

Casey Scieszka · 478 pages

Casey and Steven met in Morocco, moved to China then went all the way to Timbuktu. This illustrated travel memoir tells the story of their first two years out of college spent teaching English, making friends across language barriers, researching, painting, and learning to be themselves wherever they are.

Not Without My Father: One Woman's 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace

Andra Watkins · 222 pages

Can an epic adventure succeed without a hero? Andra Watkins needed a wingman to help her become the first living person to walk the historic 444-mile Natchez Trace as the pioneers did. She planned to walk fifteen miles a day. For thirty-four days. After striking-out with everyone in her life, she was left with her disinterested eighty-year-old father. And his gas. The sleep apnea machine and self-

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson · 304 pages

Bill Bryson describes his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend "Stephen Katz". The book is written in a humorous style, interspersed with more serious discussions of matters relating to the trail's history, and the surrounding sociology, ecology, trees, plants, animals and people.

A Year in Provence

Peter Mayle · 207 pages

In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glo

The Curse of Lono

Hunter S. Thompson · 205 pages

Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson travels to Hawaii to cover the 1980 Honolulu Marathon.

The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese

Michael Paterniti · 349 pages

In the picturesque village of Guzma n, Spain, in a cave on the edge of town, there is a cramped limestone chamber known as "the telling room." This is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets--usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a Spanish cheesemaker as he spun an

I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago

Hape Kerkeling · 333 pages

Kein Witz: Hape Kerkeling, Deutschlands vielseitigster TV-Entertainer, geht zum Grab des heiligen Jakob: 600 Kilometer durch Frankreich und Spanien bis nach Santiago de Compostela, und erlebt die außergewöhnliche Kraft einer Pilgerreise.Es ist ein sonniger Junimorgen, als Hape Kerkeling, bekennende couch potato, endgültig seinen inneren Schweinehund besiegt und in St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port aufbricht.