Atlas of the Human Heart

Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

Suzanne Roberts · 262 pages

It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account

Going Somewhere: A Bicycle Journey Across America

Brian Benson · 277 pages

"Brian Benson has a million life plans but no sense of direction. So when he meets and falls for Rachel, he's ready to go wherever she'll take him. In a whirlwind of new love, they embark on a bicycle trip from northern Wisconsin to western Oregon. As the pair progress through stunning landscapes, they contend with merciless winds, vivid characters, broken bikes and bodies--and the looming questio

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Robert M. Pirsig · 418 pages

"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young

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.

Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents

Elisabeth Eaves

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.

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.

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.

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

Travels

Michael Crichton · 377 pages

Here is a record of Michael Crichton's astonishing adventures. It is a vision of travel not as escape but as exhilaration, as a testing of self, and as spiritual education. Crichton shows us travel as turmoil and as peace. All of this voyages, outward and inward, from his twenties to his mid-forties, have been journeys into awareness--leading him to the excitement and benison of direct expeirence

Meetings With Remarkable Men

G.I. Gurdjieff

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.

Double Cup Love

Eddie Huang · 218 pages

"As he entered adulthood (of sorts), Huang began to wonder just how authentic his Chinese identity really was, a dilemma that grew more acute as he contemplated proposing marriage to his all-American (well, all-Italian-American) girlfriend. So he enlisted his brothers Emery and Evan and returned to the land his ancestors had abandoned. His immediate goal was to sample the best food in China, from

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

Susan Jane Gilman · 313 pages

They were young, brilliant, and bold. They set out to conquer the world. But the world had other plans for them. Bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's new memoir is a hilarious and harrowing journey, a modern heart of darkness filled with Communist operatives, backpackers, and pancakes. In 1986, fresh out of college, Gilman and her friend Claire yearned to do something daring and original that d

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami · 179 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.

Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

Jeremy Mercer · 262 pages

My Grape Escape

Laura Bradbury · 286 pages

French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley (Book 1)

Linda Kovic-Skow · 266 pages

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

Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain

Lori L. Tharps · 206 pages

Tramp for the Lord

Corrie ten Boom · 202 pages

For the past twenty years Corrie ten Boom has crisscrossed the globe, slept in more than a thousand different beds, and lived out of suitcases...all to fulfill her God-given mission to tell people everywhere that Jesus Christ is reality, that He Lives, that He is Victor. This remarkable woman of eighty-one years served time in a German concentration camp during World War II for the "crime" of h

Foreign Babes In Beijing: Behind The Scenes Of A New China

Rachel DeWoskin · 332 pages

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