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
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It
Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir
Memoir
Travel
Self Help
Emergency
This Book Will Save Your Life
Survival
Self Help
Travel
American Shaolin
Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Memoir
Martial Arts
China
Between Two Kingdoms
A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Way of the Hermit
My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
Memoir
Nature
Biography
Boomerang
Travels in the New Third World
Economics
Business
Finance
Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Business
History
Aviation
Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
History
Adventure
Biography
Laughing Without an Accent
Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
Memoir
Humor
Iran
Ninety Percent of Everything
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Business
Economics
History
The Paris Novel
Historical Fiction
Food
France
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
Biography
Humor
Travel
Chasing Chaos
My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Memoir
Travel
Africa
Walking With Plato
A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles
Travel
Philosophy
Walking
BOOM
Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline
Travel
Politics
Environment
You Are Here
Romance
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
The Salt Path
Memoir
Travel
Nature
Left for Dead
My Journey Home from Everest
Adventure
Mountaineering
Memoir
Lose Your Mother
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
History
Memoir
Race
Voyage of the Beagle
Science
History
Travel
A Moveable Feast
Memoir
Biography
France
The Climb
Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Mountaineering
Adventure
Memoir
Three Men in a Boat
Classics
Humor
Comedy
Adventure Capitalist
The Ultimate Road Trip
Travel
Business
Finance
Castaway
Travel
Biography
Memoir
The Driver
My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World
Biography
Cars
Racing
Custodians of Wonder
Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
History
Travel
Sociology
I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
Memoir
Travel
France
A Walk in the Park
The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Travel
Memoir
Nature
Man-Eaters of Kumaon
Adventure
India
History
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
Mystery
Travel
Africa
Inside the Apple
A Streetwise History of New York City
History
New York
Travel
The Road to Little Dribbling
Adventures of an American in Britain
Travel
Humor
Memoir
Lagom
The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
Self Help
Philosophy
Sweden
The Great Wall
China Against the World, 1000 BC - AD 2000
History
China
Asia
Sidecountry
Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports
Sports
Adventure
Essays
Trespassing Across America
One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
Travel
Nature
History
On the Road
Travel
Literature
Classics
Tracks
A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
The Sheltering Sky
Classics
Africa
Travel
Evolution's Captain
The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
History
Biography
Science
How to Sail Around the World
Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail
Travel