Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

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

Kira Salak · 309 pages

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

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

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

A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

Frances Mayes · 420 pages

The author who captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany expands her horizons to immerse herself--and her readers--in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. This book is a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. She rents houses among ordinar

Around India in 80 Trains

Monisha Rajesh · 264 pages

In 1991 Monisha and her family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home again. But fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads, paying bribes, and the creepy colonel across the road, they soon returned to England, determined never to go back again. But twenty years later, Monisha takes a page out of Jules Verne's classic tale, turns to a map of the Indian rail

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

Kristine K. Stevens · 267 pages

Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure

Sarah Macdonald · 297 pages

An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude

Ann Vanderhoof · 320 pages

Under the Tuscan Sun meets the wide-open sea . . . An Embarrassment of Mangoes is a delicious chronicle of leaving the type-A lifestyle behind -- and discovering the seductive secrets of life in the Caribbean.Who hasn't fantasized about chucking the job, saying goodbye to the rat race, and escaping to some exotic destination in search of sun, sand, and a different way of life? Canadians Ann Vander

Almost French: A New Life In Paris

Sarah Turnbull · 320 pages

A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frederic together in Bucharest, and on impulse she decides to take him up on his offer to visit him in the world's most romantic city. Sacrificing Vegemite f

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

Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents

Elisabeth Eaves

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

Angelina Jolie, Caspian Tredwell-Owen · 243 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

Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan

Jamie Zeppa · 320 pages

In this memoir, a young Canadian woman decides to take her first trip outside of North America before she is to be married. After accepting a teaching post in Bhutan, a tiny kingdom in the Himalayas bordering China and India, she eventually breaks off her engagement and falls in love with another man.

Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World

Rita Golden Gelman · 320 pages

The true story of an ordinary woman living an extraordinary existence all over the world. “Gelman doesn’t just observe the cultures she visits, she participates in them, becoming emotionally involved in the people’s lives. This is an amazing travelogue.” —Booklist At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita Golden Gelman left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of trav

Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

Alice Steinbach · 278 pages

"In the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea and Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, in Without Reservations we take time off with Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach as she explores the world and rediscovers what it means to be a woman on her own."--BOOK JACKET.

The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

Helene Hanff · 137 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

A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan

Gertrude Adams Fisher · 486 pages

A Thousand Days In Venice

Marlena de Blasi · 272 pages

No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering

Clara Bensen · 320 pages

French Milk

Lucy Knisley · 190 pages

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

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.