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The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri La
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Hide books by the same authorDo Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism
Thomas Kohnstamm · 288 pages
For those who think that travel guidebooks are the gospel truth.The waitress suggests that I come back after she closes down the restaurant, around midnight. We end up having sex in a chair and then on one of the tables in the back corner. I pen a note in my Moleskine that I will later recount in the guidebook review, saying that the restaurant "is a pleasant surprise . . . and the table service i
How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom
Franz Wisner · 308 pages
Two Old Fools - Olé: Another Slice of Andalucian Life
Victoria Twead · 314 pages
A Pirate Looks at Fifty
Jimmy Buffett · 420 pages
The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail
Dan White · 384 pages
The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, a distance of 2,650 grueling, sun-scorched, bear-infested miles. When Dan White and his girlfriend announced their intention to hike it, Dan's parents—among others—thought they were nuts. How could two people who'd never even shared an apartment together survive six months in the desert with little more than a two-person tent and some trail
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.
Seriously Mum, Where's that Donkey?
Alan Parks · 160 pages
More Ketchup Than Salsa - Confessions of a Tenerife Barman
Joe Cawley · 320 pages
Around The World In 80 Dates
Jennifer Cox · 416 pages
I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany
Mark Greenside · 244 pages
Author and teacher Mark Greenside recounts his struggles to fit into the life of a small Celtic village in Brittany.
Karma Gone Bad: How I Learned to Love Mangos, Bollywood and Water Buffalo
Jenny Feldon · 321 pages
When Jenny's husband gets transferred to India for work, she looks forward to a new life filled with glamorous expat friends and exciting adventures. What she doesn't expect is endless bouts of food poisoning, buffalo in the streets, and crippling loneliness in one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Ten thousand miles away from home, Jenny struggles to fight off depression and a
The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian
Phil Doran · 306 pages
A Book Sense Pick for May 2005, this is the humorous tale of how the author moved— against his will and his better judgment—to Italy with his wife, only to rediscover himself, his marriage, and the importance of getting in touch with his inner Italian.After years of working on a string of sitcoms, Phil Doran found himself on the outside looking in. Just as he and his peers had replaced the older g
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
What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago
Jane Christmas · 288 pages
How to Walk a Puma: My (mis)adventures in South America
Peter Allison · 228 pages
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
Tahir Shah · 362 pages
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
Michael Levy · 242 pages
An irreverent account of the author's experiences as a Jewish-American Peace Corps volunteer serving in rural China describes his observations about the lives of China's interior populations and their complex relationships with local traditions and the rapid changes of modernization.
Backpacked: A Reluctant Trip Across Central America
Catherine Ryan Howard · 278 pages
For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan
Sam Baldwin · 210 pages
Uganda Be Kidding Me
Chelsea Handler · 257 pages
In this uproarious collection, the author answers the most frequently asked traveler's questions, hot travel trips, and travel etiquette, none of which should be believed. Wherever she travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stori
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
Last Days of the Bus Club
Chris Stewart · 270 pages
It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chloe is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this latest, typically hilarious dispatch from El Valero we find Chris, now a local literary celebrity, using his fame to help his old sheep-shearing partner find work on a raucous road trip; cooking a TV lunch