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360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World
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Include books by the same authorAre We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8,000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain
Ben Hatch · 345 pages
One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
David Elliot Cohen · 312 pages
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Anthony Doerr · 224 pages
The author describes the year he spent in Rome after winning the Rome Prize, including his adventures around the city, life in a foreign but welcoming country, and parenthood as it applies to his newborn twins.
Toujours Provence
Peter Mayle · 241 pages
Peter Mayle's love affair with the south of France continues and deepens. Now he's got most of the building work organized, he's had time for a few trips - to the Cannes Film Festival, the Menerbes dog show and the wine caves at Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
America Unchained: A Freewheeling Roadtrip In Search Of Non-Corporate USA
Dave Gorman · 381 pages
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
Paul Theroux · 368 pages
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
Anthony Bourdain · 288 pages
A Piano in the Pyrenees
Tony Hawks · 336 pages
Inspired by breathtaking views and romantically dreaming of finding love in the mountains, Tony Hawks impulsively buys an idyllic house in the French Pyrenees. And here, he imagines, he will finally fulfil his childhood fantasy of mastering the piano, all the while overlooking spectacular views as the troubles of the world pass by unnoticed. Tony's hopelessly ill-prepared stumbling into the world
In Arabian Nights
Tahir Shah · 394 pages
Tahir Shah's The Caliph's House, describing his first year in Casablanca, was hailed by critics and compared to such travel classics as A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun. Now Shah takes us deeper into the heart of this exotic and magical land to uncover mysteries that have been hidden from Western eyes for centuries....In this entertaining and penetrating book, Tahir sets out on a bold n
McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
Pete McCarthy · 352 pages
Stephen Fry in America
Stephen Fry · 320 pages
Britain's best-loved comic genius, Stephen Fry, turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his chariot of Englishness, a black London cab.Stephen Fry has always loved America. In fact, he came very close to being born here. His fascination for the country and its people sees him embarking on an epic journey across America, visiting eac
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger · 347 pages
Story of five years of travel with the nomad Arabs in the unknown deserts of Southern Arabia.
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
Pico Iyer · 337 pages
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
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Robert Louis Stevenson · 209 pages
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cevennes of south-central France. A pioneering piece of outdoor literature, it is one of Stevenson's earliest works, and one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping for recreation rather than necessity. Stevenson's route is still po
The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 Miles, 2 Guides, 1 Globe, No Airplanes
Steve Hely, Vali Chandrasekaran · 315 pages
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
Jonathan Raban · 409 pages
Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece
Patricia Storace · 398 pages
"I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint." So begins this astonishing memoir of fantastical peregrinations throughout Greece. Dinner with Persephone is an indelible masterwork about a place and a people whose culture has influenced us all. With great smartness of style, winning detail, and infectious humor, acclaimed poet and essayist Patricia Storace magically conjures
Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story
J. Maarten Troost · 263 pages
" The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals recounts his latest hilarious misadventures in the South Pacific, following in the footsteps of his unlikely idol, Robert Louis Stevenson. Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir. Hailed by Entertainment Weekly as a "funny, candid, and down-to-earth travel companion," Troos
Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World
Lynne Martin · 304 pages
This terrific book gives hope to everyone who desires the fun and freedom of dropping everything and hitting the road to foreign ports.--Jeri Sedlar, co-author of Don't Retire, REWIRE! The Sell-Your-House, See-the-World Life! Reunited after thirty-five years and wrestling a serious case of wanderlust, Lynne and Tim Martin decided to sell their house and possessions and live abroad full-time. They'