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
Vienna
How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
History
Politics
Travel
Geography for Dummies
Reference
Geography
Travel
Yoga Bitch
One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment
Memoir
Travel
Humor
The Road to Mecca
Islam
Religion
Biography
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It
Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir
Memoir
Travel
Self Help
Lost on Planet China
Travel
China
Humor
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
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
Biography
Humor
Travel
I Stand Corrected
How Teaching Western Manners in China Became Its Own Unforgettable Lesson
Memoir
China
Biography
Never Leave the Dogs Behind
A Memoir
Memoir
Dogs
Animals
Happier Than A Billionaire
Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, and Living the Zero Hour Work Week
Travel
Memoir
Humor
The Sheltering Sky
Classics
Africa
Travel
Mobile Home
A Memoir in Essays
Essays
Memoir
Travel
The Sunset Route
Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know
Tea
Food
Cookbooks
Vanishing Frontiers
The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
Politics
Business
History
Walking With Plato
A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles
Travel
Philosophy
Walking
Greek to Me
Adventures of the Comma Queen
Travel
Memoir
Greece
The Lost City of the Monkey God
History
Adventure
Travel
Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Business
History
Aviation
Seven Letters from Paris
Memoir
Romance
France
Castaway
Travel
Biography
Memoir
Travels with Epicurus
A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
Philosophy
Travel
Greece
Rowing the Atlantic
Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
Travel
Memoir
Sports
Adventure Capitalist
The Ultimate Road Trip
Travel
Business
Finance
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 Bull in China
Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market
Business
Finance
Economics
Forgotten Continent
The Battle for Latin America's Soul
History
Politics
Latin American History
Lagom
The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
Self Help
Philosophy
Sweden
Sidecountry
Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports
Sports
Adventure
Essays
Marco Polo
From Venice to Xanadu
History
Biography
Travel
Step by Step
The Life In My Journeys
Travel
Biography
Autobiography
Waking Up in Paris
Overcoming Darkness in the City of Light
Memoir
France
Travel
The Songlines
Travel
Australia
History
Inside the Apple
A Streetwise History of New York City
History
New York
Travel
Dreaming in Chinese
Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
China
Language
Travel
Sovietistan
Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
Travel
History
Asia
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
The Long Walk
The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
History
Adventure
Biography
Jerusalem
The Biography
History
Religion
Biography
The Monks and Me
How 40 Days in Thich Nhat Hanh's French Monastery Guided Me Home
Buddhism
Memoir
Religion
The Ends of the Earth
From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
Travel
History
Politics
How to Sail Around the World
Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail
Travel
Packing Light
Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage
Memoir
Self Help
Travel
The Road to Little Dribbling
Adventures of an American in Britain
Travel
Humor
Memoir
Beyond Possible
One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
Biography
Adventure
Mountaineering
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
Travel
Nature
History
Eastward to Tartary
Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
Travel
History
Politics
Evolution's Captain
The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
History
Biography
Science
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
Biography
Humor
Travel
