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Of Walking in Ice: Munich–Paris, 23 November–14 December 1974
Werner Herzog · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorOne Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
Sam Keith, Richard L. Proenneke · 223 pages
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man; to roam the wilderness through which few other humans have passed; to choose an idyllic site, cut trees, and build a log cabin; to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available; to be not at odds with the world, but content with one's own thoughts and company: thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived t
Carnet de Voyage
Craig Thompson · 224 pages
Presents the illustrated journal of graphic novelist Craig Thompson in which he describes his travels in France, Barcelona, the Alps, and Morocco where he spent three months researching a book.
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Angelina Jolie, Caspian Tredwell-Owen · 243 pages
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Helene Hanff · 137 pages
Latin America Diaries: Otra Vez, or a Second Look at Latin America
Ernesto Che Guevara · 177 pages
Ernesto "Che" Guevara chronicles his second journey through Latin America--after graduation from medical school--with letters, poetry, and journalism, revealing his account of the 1954 coup in Guatemala, encounters with Fidel Castro, and more. Includes photographs.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
At the dawn of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented journey from St. Louis, Missouri to the Pacific Ocean and back again. Their assignment was to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and record the geography, flora, fauna, and people they encountered along the way. The tale of their incredible journey, meticulously recorded in their journals,
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed · 315 pages
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her mot
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir · 225 pages
Presents the journal of naturalist John Muir in which he records his thoughts and experiences in the Sierra Mountains where he went for the first time in 1869 while working as an overseer hired on to help move a band of sheep to summer pasture.
An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant · 275 pages
Karl Pilkington isn't keen on traveling. So what happened when he was convinced to go on an epic adventure to see the Seven Wonders of the World? Travel broadens the mind, right? You'd think so...
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
Jill Fredston · 300 pages
A Little House Traveler: Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Journeys Across America
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Road to Oxiana
Robert Byron · 292 pages
Of the journey by travel writer Robert Byron to the Middle East, this serves as a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now innaccessible to most Western travellers, and a nostalgic look back at a more innocent time.
Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin · 480 pages
"The first fully illustrated edition of Charles Darwin's account of the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, featuring excerpts from related works, letters by Darwin, and other supplementary resources."--
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
Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
Norman Lewis · 192 pages
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
David Sedaris · 576 pages
Skating to Antarctica
Jenny Diski · 253 pages
""The one truly generous act of my mother's that I could really put my finger on: her leaving me alone," writes Jenny Diski of the woman she has neither seen nor heard from - to her great relief - since 1966, the year of her father's death. Both parents were suicidal, absconding hysterics who would return from mysterious stints away to play bizarre sexual games with their daughter. Life with them
The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen · 338 pages
This lovely book (1978) describes a two month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region of Nepal. The book combines the search for the snow leopard with a search for inner meaning (Zen Buddism)
Bicycle Diaries
David Byrne · 303 pages
Since the early 1980s, renowned musician and visual artist David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them with him when traveling around the world. Byrne's choice was initially made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the
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.
Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition
Robert Falcon Scott · 529 pages