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Adventure & Literary Travel eBooks

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  • One World

    A global anthology of short stories

    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lahiri ...
    This book is made up of twenty-three stories, each from a different author from across the globe. All belong to one world, united in their diversity and ethnicity. And together they have one aim: to involve and move the reader.The range of authors takes in such literary greats as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jhumpa Lahiri, and emerging authors such as Elaine Chiew, Petina Gappah, and Henrietta ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mysteries of the Gobi

    Searching for Wild Camels and Lost Cities in the Heart of Asia

    by John Hare ...
    John Hare is a star author and one of the most well-known explorers of his generation. The Gobi is a perennially fascinating part of the world - a desert that people love to read about. China, the environment/natural world, exploration and discovery: broad and topical appeal.The Gobi is the largest, coldest and driest desert in Asia. Its shifting sands conceal ancient cities, 3,000-year-old ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Hedgehog's Dilemma

    A Tale of Obsession, Nostalgia, and the World's Most Charming Mammal

    by Hugh Warwick ...
    In this wonderfully entertaining, adorable book, Hugh Warwick, an environmental writer and photographer, examines the relationship between the hedgehog and man, and how the hedgehog became so beloved. Traveling the globe in search of his quarry, Warwick eventually discovers a new breed called Hugh's Hedgehog. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Under the Holy Lake

    A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan

    by Ken Haigh ...
    Series series Wayfarer
    Inaccessible for most of its history, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has long fascinated the West. Today, wealthy travelers are admitted in small groups, but in 1987, when Ken Haigh arrived as a volunteer to teach in a small high school, foreign travelers were as hard to find in the kingdom as telephones or toilet paper. Under the Holy Lake describes a two-year sojourn in the valley of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Alaskan Wilderness Adventure

    Book 2

    by Duane Arthur Ose ...
    Homesteading in the wilderness of Alaska…Duane Ose moved to Alaska on a whim nearly thirty years ago, after surviving a gunshot wound to the head. He and his wife Rena were the very last persons to file a claim under the Federal Homestead Act of 1862—for a piece of property Duane describes as “a giant, fertile garden bowl, cupped warmly in God’s loving hands.” His new book, Alaskan Wilderness ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time

    The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change

    by Markus Rex ...
    Translated by Sarah Pybus ...
    For readers of Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Endurance, and other seafaring adventure stories comes a thrilling account of a 21st-century Arctic mission.“ A contemporary classic!”—Ken McGoogan, author of Fatal Passage“Show-stopping.”—Publisher’s Weekly STARRED ReviewThe Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time vividly describes one year aboard the Polarstern,</st... ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Twenty-Ninth Day

    Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra

    by Alex Messenger ...
    A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it’s all about staying alive.This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger’s near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Five Weeks in a Balloon

    by Jules Verne ...
    What would it be like to explore a largely unknown swath of the world -- from the air? That's exactly what the intrepid explorers in Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon set out to do in this novel, an early entrant in the literature describing European exploration of Africa. Like many of Verne's novels, this tale is so richly detailed and historically accurate that you'll feel like you've ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Theory and Practice of Taiji Qigong

    by Chris Jarmey ...
    Taiji Qigong is an easy-to-learn system of energy-enhancing exercises, which coordinates movement with breathing and inner concentration. If practiced regularly, it will give you more energy, improve health and help prevent illness. Taiji Qigong is widely practiced throughout the Far East and increasingly throughout the Western world. This book acts as an in-depth instruction manual for the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither

    by Isabella Bird ...
    The Golden Chersonese is a travel book written by Isabella Bird, the greatest travel writer of the 19th century, and maybe of all time. It recounts her travels in 1883 through southern China and into the interior of the Malay Peninsula- which in the age of Ancient Greece and Rome was known as the Golden Chersonese. It was ground-breaking reportage at the time because many of the places she visited ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Cruising Kid

    by Dominic Goncalves ...
    Dominic Goncalves led a normal life until he was nine then his parents sold their house and business, bought a boat, and set off to sail around the world. So began an epic adventure of sailing aboard their thirty-seven-foot Endurance, Indigo from the tip of Africa across the South Atlantic Ocean to the magical islands of Saint Helena, Ascension, Brazil, French Guiana, and the Caribbean. This book ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Around the World in 80 Trains

    A 45,000-Mile Adventure

    by Monisha Rajesh ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOKSHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'Monisha Rajesh has chosen one of the best ways of seeing the world. Never too fast, never too slow, her journey does what trains do best. Getting to the heart of things. Prepare for a very fine ride' Michael PalinFrom the cloud-skimming heights of Tibet's Qinghai ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Tourist in the Arab Spring

    by Tom Chesshyre ...
    In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, war reporters rushed to publish accounts of the uprising. Tom Chesshyre took a different approach - he jumped on a plane and became the first to return to the region as a tourist. The result is the fascinating, street-level tale of a lay traveller's journey through lands fresh from revolution. Chesshyre heads for tourist sites that few have seen in recent years ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter

    Discovering a Lost Way of Life on a Secluded Japanese Island

    by Amy Chavez ...
    Get to know the inhabitants of a tiny Japanese island--and their unusual stories and secrets--through this fascinating, intimate collection of portraits."This book beautifully describes the residents of tiny Shiraishi Island as well as telling how Amy herself came to be in such a fascinating little corner of Japan…Amy herself, with this book, has shown herself an integral part of this preservation ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • JADOO

    by John A. Keel ...
    The first book by the author of The Mothman Prophecies. This new edition contains material never before published.Someone, we know not who, once called Jadoo "the greatest book ever written on the black magic of the Orient." But we do know that there will never again be another book like it. Jadoo, a Hindi word meaning "Black Magic," captures a world that is now lost to us—the strange, dark, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cool Gray City of Love

    49 Views of San Francisco

    by Gary Kamiya ...
    "A kaleidoscopic homage both personal and historical . . . Kamiya's symphony of San Francisco is a grand pleasure." -New York Times Book ReviewThe bestselling love letter to one of the world's great cities, San Francisco, by a life-long Bay Area resident and co-founder of Salon.Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal history, deeply researched history, in-depth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • This Is Not a Border

    Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

    by J.M. Coetzee, Mr William Sutcliffe, Michael Ondaatje, Teju Cole, Alice Walker, Michael Palin, Deborah Moggach, China Miéville, Jeremy Harding, Henning Mankell, Molly Crabapple, Linda Spalding, Adam Foulds, Gillian Slovo, Geoff Dyer, Chinua Achebe, Mahmoud Darwish, Yasmin El-Rifae, Suheir Hammad, Mercedes Kemp, Najwan Darwish, Susan Abulhawa, Suad Amiry, Ms Sabrina Mahfouz, John Horner, Bridget Keenan, Pankaj Mishra, Kamila Shamsie, Atef Abu Saif, Selma Dabbagh, Jehan Bseiso, Omar El-Khairy, Remi Kanazi, Maath Musleh, Dr. Ghada Karmi, Ed Pavlic, Muiz, Ru Freeman, Nancy Kricorian, Nathalie Handal, Mohammed Hanif, Victoria Brittain, Rachel Holmes, Raja Shehadeh, Claire Messud, Jamal Mahjoub ...
    Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • River Of Time

    by Jon Swain ...
    Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape - the villages along its banks, surrounded by ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • On the Road to Babadag

    Travels in the Other Europe

    Translated by Michael Kandel ...
    by Andrzej Stasiuk ...
    Journey through Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia, and other places neglected by tourists, with “an accomplished stylist with an eye for telling detail” (Irvine Welsh).Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. By car, train, bus, and ferry, he goes from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine—to small towns and villages with strangely ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travels Through a Window

    by Roger D. Taylor ...
    ‘I have travelled more than three hundred miles since finishing my bowl of porridge. I sit at my window, attentive to the journey.’In his sixth book, singlehanded sailor Roger Taylor stays ashore and turns his gaze towards the rugged Scottish landscape and rich wildlife visible through his loch-side window. Written as a kind of cosmic travelogue, the book reconciles the bleakness and beauty of the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Hard Rivers

    The Untold Saga of La Salle: Expedition II

    by Craig P. Howard ...
    In Hard Rivers, author Craig P. Howard recounts the harrowing journey of La Salle: Expedition II, a reenactment of the 1681–82 voyage of La Salle from Montreal to the Gulf of Mexico. The crew, made up of sixteen teenage boys and seven adults led by one charismatic teacher, launched their canoes on August 11, 1976, and arrived at the Gulf on April 9, 1977—3,300 miles later. Lake Michigan and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Square Up

    50,000 Miles in Search of a Way Home

    by Lisa A Dailey ...
    Have you ever wished you could run away and leave your life behind? Born on the "Day of the Wanderer," Lisa Dailey has always been filled with wanderlust. Although she and her husband had planned to take their family on a 'round-the-world adventure, she didn't expect their plans to come together on the heels of grief, after losing seven family members in five years. Square Up shows us that travel ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass

    by Harold Gatty ...
    During his remarkable lifetime, Harold Gatty became one of the world's great navigators (in 1931, he and Wiley Post flew around the world in a record-breaking eight days) and, to the benefit of posterity, recorded in this book much of his accumulated knowledge about pathfinding both on land and at sea.Applying methods used by primitive peoples and early explorers, the author shows how to determine ... Read more

    $10.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Railway Bazaar

    By Train Through Asia

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene).In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus