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 Great Wall
China Against the World, 1000 BC - AD 2000
History
China
Asia
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
Travel
Nature
History
Nala's World
One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe
Travel
Animals
Memoir
Eastward to Tartary
Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
Travel
History
Politics
The Road to Little Dribbling
Adventures of an American in Britain
Travel
Humor
Memoir
How to Sail Around the World
Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail
Travel
Evolution's Captain
The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
History
Biography
Science
A Brief History of Indonesia
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
History
Asia
Travel
The Finnish Way
Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
Self Help
Travel
Memoir
The Monks and Me
How 40 Days in Thich Nhat Hanh's French Monastery Guided Me Home
Buddhism
Memoir
Religion
Packing Light
Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage
Memoir
Self Help
Travel
Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life
Memoir
Biography
Travel
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
Mystery
Travel
Book Club
Moby-Duck
The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
Science
Travel
Environment
Mexico
Historical Fiction
Historical
Travel
Iberia
Historical Fiction
Travel
Spain
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
Biography
Humor
Travel
Hotel Babylon
Inside the Extravagance and Mayhem of a Luxury Five-Star Hotel
Travel
Memoir
Humor
Beyond the Sky and the Earth
A Journey into Bhutan
Travel
Memoir
Asia
Trespassing Across America
One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
Over the Edge of the World
Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
History
Biography
Adventure
Black Garden
Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War
History
Politics
War
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Travel
History
Memoir
The Mexico Reader
History, Culture, Politics
History
Politics
Latin American History
Coming Into the Country
Travel
Nature
History
Halt Station India
History
India
Travel
Monsoon
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
History
Politics
Asia
London
History
Travel
Biography
Venice
Travel
Italy
History
Over the Edge
The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia
Adventure
Climbing
Travel
The Nepali Flat
Travel
Humor
The Klondike Fever
The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
History
Canada
American History
Mile Marker Zero
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Travel
History
Tupaia
Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
History
Biography
Travel
The Driver
My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World
Biography
Cars
Racing
Two O'Clock on a Tuesday at Trevi Fountain
A Search for an Unconventional Life Abroad
Travel
Memoir
Biography Memoir
On the Trail of Genghis Khan
An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
Travel
History
Adventure
In the Land of Invisible Women
A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
Memoir
Biography
Religion
Bangkok Days
Travel
Asia
Memoir
Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan
Travel
Reference
Taste of Persia
A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan
Cookbooks
Food
Cooking
Back on the Road (Otra Vez)
A Journey Through Latin America
History
Travel
Politics
Come Fly with Me
Historical Fiction
Romance
Historical
Pok Pok
Food and Stories from the Streets, Homes and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand
Cookbooks
Cooking
Food
Madam Ambassador
Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest
Biography
Memoir
Travel
The Anglo Files
A Field Guide to the British
Travel
Humor
British Literature
Surrender or Starve
Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Africa
History
Travel
There Was and There Was Not
A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
History
Memoir
Travel
Fire and Blood
A History of Mexico
History
Religion
Travel
