Travel Writing & Commentary

Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...

For anyone uncertain about the direction of their life or unsure of how to move forward after a loss, Look for Me There is a poignant reflection that offers encouragement to examine our choices, take risks, and discover our truest selves....

The River of Doubt brings alive extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived....

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again....

The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America - majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes....

The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect....

One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance tells the iconic story of a father and son's motorcycle trip across America in the 1960s....

Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scenes, Anna felt invisible in her own life....

She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....

Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own path....

In her inimitably funny and feel-good way, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad in You Deserve Good Gelato, covering everything from travel fails and homesickness to the joy of culture shocks and the power of doing the s*** that scares you.

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail...

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history....

In this follow-up to Clanlands Sam & Graham document their journey across New Zealand, a country Graham calls home and that Sam has longed to visit since learning it was a popular destination for Scottish immigrants to settle back in the 19th century....

From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new collection of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour....

In the first of three essays included in this audiobook, Bill Bryson decides to move back to the United States, after nearly two decades in Britain. But not before taking one last trip....

Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two years - to discover and experience the world on your own terms....

Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....

In less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie.....

David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the best-selling Infinite Jest....

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads....

More than 20 years ago, Frances Mayes introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys....

The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated Viking captain and his useless navigator ran aground in the middle of the North Atlantic. Suddenly, the island was no longer just a layover for the Arctic tern....

This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits....

Come aboard with Heyward and Charlotte as they transform a worn-out hull into a first-class blue water cruiser. Then take off and cross oceans with them, feeling their desperation when equipment failures force ingenious workarounds in the middle of the Pacific Ocean....

Why We Travel is a smart-thinking travel book, which uses travel as a window into human motivations. It explores what we can gain from venturing out into the world. It threads together reflective memoir, evocative travelogue, research, conversation, advice and big ideas. Some of the travels are epic adventures; others are closer to home; and some are journeys of internal exploration.

Extend your stay and make Portugal your new home with this definitive guide on relocating to this beautiful country. Home to colorful metropolitan cities, picturesque villages, lush forests, and the world’s leading beaches, Portugal is one of the most rewarding travel destinations in Europe. But have you ever wondered if it’s also perfect for relocating?

Travelogues, professional adventures, offbeat stories, and other musings by a lifelong lover of science and exploration.

In 1961, an adventurous law student gets a passport and picks up where Jack Kerouac left off, undertaking an unparalleled trip, pre-drug cartel, hitchhiking solo from Wisconsin through middle America to Texas, then thousands of miles down the Pan-American Highway through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama to the Panama Canal – likely the first time, and maybe the only time, such a journey has been done, particularly alone.

QUARTZSITE STORIES features 13 stories about Quartzsite, Arizona from Gypsy Jane Finley’s now discontinued website Wanderings: Living the Ordinary Extraordinarily (Stories from the Road). Her Quartzsite stories are based on both her travels to Quartzsite in a Mazda Pickup truck with a tiny box-shaped Stubby camper on the back during five years of full-time RVing that started in the year 2000 – on what she calls FREEDOM DAY – and starting in 2005 on her half-time RVing and half-time living in a mobile home in Quartzsite, Arizona at the Desert Gardens RV Park every year up to the ...

HER LIFE AND WANDERINGS FROM 2010 TO 2017 is from Gypsy Jane Finley’s now discontinued website Wanderings: Living the Ordinary Extraordinarily (Stories from the Road). This book covers the final seven years of her life. She lived life to the fullest, dancing and RVing up to six months before she passed away at age 80. The life and wanderings of Gypsy Jane Finley live on in her writings. The travel descriptions were all written by Gypsy Jane Finley while she was living her wandering life. The compiling, editing, and background writing is by Jack Wiley.

PEOPLE ON THE ROAD features 29 selected stories and essays about people on the road from Gypsy Jane Finley’s now discontinued website Wanderings: Living the Ordinary Extraordinarily (Stories from the Road). Her stories and essays are based on both her travels in a Mazda Pickup truck with a tiny box-shaped Stubby camper on the back during five years of full-time RVing that started in the year 2000 – on what she calls FREEDOM DAY – and starting in 2005 on her half-time RVing and half-time living in a mobile home in Quartzsite, Arizona at the Desert Gardens RV Park every year up to the ...

ANIMAL STORIES features 14 selected stories from Gypsy Jane Finley’s now discontinued website Wanderings: Living the Ordinary Extraordinarily (Stories from the Road). Her animal stories were written during five years of full-time RVing in a Mazda Pickup truck with a tiny box-shaped Stubby camper on the that started in the year 2000 – on what she calls FREEDOM DAY – and starting in 2005 while she was half-time RVing and half-time living in a mobile home in Quartzsite, Arizona at the Desert Gardens RV Park every year up to the present time. The stories in this book were all written by ...

RVING TIPS & MISCELLANEA is from Gypsy Jane Finley’s now discontinued website Wanderings: Living the Ordinary Extraordinarily (Stories from the Road). This book covers Comments from Others; Travel Tips; Food; Exercising; Healthy Living; Happiness; Places; Restaurants; Serendipity; Haiku; Books; Movies; and Music. This book is based on Gypsy Jane Finley’s over 17 years of RVing, five of which were full-time. The RVing tips and miscellanea were all written by Gypsy Jane Finley while she was living her wandering life. The compiling, editing, and background writing is by Jack Wiley.

DANCE & MUSIC STORIES features 12 selected stories from Gypsy Jane Finley’s now discontinued website Wanderings: Living the Ordinary Extraordinarily (Stories from the Road). Her dance and music stories were written during five years of full-time RVing in a Mazda Pickup truck with a tiny box-shaped Stubby camper on the back that started in the year 2000 – on what she calls FREEDOM DAY – and starting in 2005 while she was half-time RVing and half-time living in a mobile home in Quartzsite, Arizona at the Desert Gardens RV Park every year up to the present time. The stories in this book ...

This memoir presents one human story, crafted into art by the power of words. Elisha's carefully planned life collapses with the breakup of a relationship she had built her life around, sending her on a journey into the depths of the global sexy Tantra scene. Wild Thing in Captivity is Eat, Pray, Love for Tantra. It's a coming-of-middle-age tale for Generation X.

Ellen Barone and her husband, Hank, are living a comfortable, creative life when they learn their rented house has sold. With no immediate solution, they hatch a plan to live in Mexico for the length of a visitor visa. They then move to Nicaragua. Then Ecuador...I Could Live Here is an intrepid woman's open-hearted chronicle of change and adaptation and joys and discoveries that come with seeking one's place in the world and what it means to be home.

Embark on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery with Mia, a first-generation Asian-American navigating the bustling streets of New York City in "Crossroads of Heritage." Mia's world takes an unexpected turn when the opportunity arises to explore her roots in Korea, her parents' homeland. This captivating novel, filled with powerful emotions and a gripping conflict, unfolds a tale of identity, heritage, and the pursuit of self-understanding. Mia's story is a poignant exploration of the clash between two cultures and the powerful yearning to bridge the gap between them. As she stands at ...

Danny Wallace, million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me, has fallen down the modern rabbit hole of lies, conspiracies and disinformation. Along the way, he encounters families torn apart by accusations and fake news, journalists putting themselves on the frontline of the disinformation war, reformed conspiracy theorists, influencers who see profit in stoking paranoia, and the shadowy nameless, faceless trolls on the other side of our screens.

You will find a bothy in the mountains or the wilderness, remote huts you can’t reserve, usually without electricity or other mod-cons, running water or a marker on the map. And it’s there that you’ll meet Kat Hill – kettle on, feet up and pen out. Leading us on a gorgeous journey around the UK, Kat reveals the history of these wild mountain shelters and the people who visit them. With an historian’s insight and a rambler’s imagination, Kat lends fresh consideration to the concepts of nature, wilderness and escape.