Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional travel & adventure books
Travel & Adventure
Recommended books found: 125
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Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
by Christian Cooper
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
by Candice Millard
Hardcover: May 2022
Paperback: May 2023
The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy - from the New York Times bestselling author of River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic.
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The Amur River: Between Russia and China
by Colin Thubron
Hardcover: Sep 2021
Paperback: Sep 2022
The most admired travel writer of our time - author of Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet - recounts an eye-opening, often perilous journey along a little known Far East Asian river that for over a thousand miles forms the highly ...
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Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya
by Bruce Kirkby
Hardcover: Oct 2020
Paperback: Jul 2022
A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new understandings.
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The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
by Richard Grant
Hardcover: Sep 2020
Paperback: Aug 2021
Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other.
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Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia
by Wade Davis
Hardcover: Sep 2020
Paperback: Jun 2021
A captivating new book from Wade Davis--award-winning, best-selling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade--that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex ...
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Dark, Salt, Clear: The Life of a Fishing Town
by Lamorna Ash
Hardcover: Dec 2020
Paperback: Apr 2021
From an adventurous and discerning new voice reminiscent of Robert Macfarlane, a captivating portrait of a community eking out its living in a coastal landscape as stark and storied as it is beautiful.
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The Seine: The River that Made Paris
by Elaine Sciolino
Hardcover: Oct 2019
Paperback: Oct 2020
A vibrant, enchanting tour of the Seine from longtime New York Times foreign correspondent and best-selling author Elaine Sciolino.
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
by Robert Macfarlane
Hardcover: Jun 2019
Paperback: Aug 2020
From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.
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Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World
by Jeff Gordinier
Hardcover: Jul 2019
Paperback: Jul 2020
A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with renowned chef René Redzepi in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer.
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The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums
by Kendra Greene
Hardcover: May 2020
Mythic creatures, natural wonders, and the mysterious human impulse to collect are on beguiling display in this poetic tribute to the museums of an otherworldly island nation.
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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
by Mary Norris
Hardcover: Apr 2019
Paperback: Apr 2020
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
by Christina Thompson
Hardcover: Mar 2019
Paperback: Mar 2020
A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they ...
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The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
by Caroline Van Hemert
Hardcover: Mar 2019
Paperback: Feb 2020
The gripping story of a biologist's journey from Washington State to high above the Arctic Circle - traveling across remote and rugged terrain solely by human power - to rediscover birds, the natural world, and her own love of science.
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Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road
by Kate Harris
Hardcover: Aug 2018
Paperback: Jun 2019
A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road—an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to ...
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Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
by Mark Adams
Hardcover: May 2018
Paperback: May 2019
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journey into Alaska, America's last frontier, retracing the historic 1899 Harriman Expedition.
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The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
by Tessa Fontaine
Hardcover: May 2018
Paperback: May 2019
Tessa Fontaine's astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery - through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with...
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Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea
by Anna Badkhen
Hardcover: Mar 2018
Paperback: Mar 2019
An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed.
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The Monk of Mokha
by Dave Eggers
Hardcover: Jan 2018
Paperback: Jan 2019
From the best-selling author of The Circle and What Is the What, a heart-pounding true story that weaves together the history of coffee, the struggles of everyday Yemenis living through civil war and the courageous journey of a young man - a Muslim ...
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Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying YES to Living
by Tim Bauerschmidt, Ramie Liddle
Hardcover: May 2017
Paperback: May 2018
Infused with this irrepressible nonagenarian's wisdom, courage, and generous spirit, and filled with sixteen pages of color photographs, Driving Miss Norma reminds us that life is beautiful and precious, and that family, fun, and self-discovery can ...
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