Travel
Whether scaling Everest's deadly peaks or navigating the cultural maze of foreign streets, these adventurous books transport you into transformative journeys around the globe. Each narrative weaves practical insights with personal revelations, exploring both the physical territories crossed and the interior landscapes changed by travel.
Travel Book Summaries
The Return of Marco Polo's World
War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
History
Politics
International Relations
Kabul Beauty School
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Memoir
Biography
Womens
My Grape Year
Memoir
Travel
France
The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Travel
History
Politics
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
Biography
Humor
Travel
My Invented Country
A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Memoir
Biography
Travel
Ghost Rider
Travels on the Healing Road
Travel
Music
Biography
Third Culture Kids
Growing Up Among Worlds
Parenting
Psychology
Education
Vagabonding
An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Travel
Philosophy
Self Help
A Bull in China
Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market
Finance
Business
Economics
Rowing the Atlantic
Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
Travel
Memoir
Sports
Lost on Planet China
Travel
China
Humor
Eat, Pray, Love
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Spirit Run
A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
Memoir
Travel
Indigenous
Papa Hemingway
Biography
History
Memoir
Fluent in 3 Months
How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
Language
Self Help
Linguistics
Geography for Dummies
Reference
Geography
Travel
How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need
Survival Tricks for Hacking, Hurricanes, and Hazards Life Might Throw at You
Self Help
Travel
Survival
A Search in Secret India
Spirituality
India
Travel
Mobile Home
A Memoir in Essays
Essays
Memoir
Travel
Packing Light
Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage
Memoir
Self Help
Travel
Walking to Listen
4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Mile Marker Zero
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Travel
History
Blind Curves
A Woman, a Motorcycle, and a Journey to Reinvent Herself
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
Africa Is Not a Country
Notes on a Bright Continent
History
Africa
Politics
The Monks and Me
How 40 Days in Thich Nhat Hanh's French Monastery Guided Me Home
Buddhism
Memoir
Religion
Solitude
Memories, People, Places
Travel
Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know
Tea
Food
Cookbooks
American Story
A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
Journalism
Travel
In The Land Of Israel
Israel
History
Jewish
The Best Strangers in the World
Stories from a Life Spent Listening
Memoir
Essays
LGBT
Portugal - Culture Smart!
A quick guide to customs & etiquette
Travel
Portugal
Life Lessons From the Amazon
A Guide to Life From One Epic Jungle Adventure
Travel
Adventure
Nature
Seven Letters from Paris
Memoir
Romance
France
Abroad in Japan
Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
Travel
Japan
Memoir
The Sunset Route
Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Step by Step
The Life In My Journeys
Travel
Biography
Autobiography
Eat, Pray, Love
Memoir
Travel
Biography
English Journey
Travel
History
British Literature
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Psychology
Contemporary
Philosophy
A House in the Sky
Memoir
Biography
Travel
Vienna
How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
History
Politics
Travel
Never Leave the Dogs Behind
A Memoir
Memoir
Dogs
Travel
Japonisme
Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi and more
Japan
Self Help
Japanese Literature
The Art of Travel
Travel
Philosophy
Essays
Overbooked
The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism
Travel
Economics
Business
Shantaram
Travel
Adventure
Historical Fiction
The Hidden School
Return of the Peaceful Warrior
Spirituality
Self Help
Philosophy
Silence
In the Age of Noise
Philosophy
Psychology
Essays
Around the World in Eighty Days
Classics
Adventure
Science Fiction