Adventure Writing

Acompañada de Aristóteles, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Darwin, Jane Austen y tantos otros escritores, pintores o aventureros, la autora nos invita a realizar una travesía por la costa vasca.

In 2015, 36-year-old Chicago resident David King finds himself at a personal and professional crossroads. Feeling bored and restless, he longs to strike out on a crazy journey in a quest for beauty, kindness, and inspiration as to where his life should go from here. Having taken up biking as a hobby, he consults a map of the United States and, in a spur-of-the-moment decision, vows to ride across the country—from San Diego to Miami. Part travelogue, part memoir, part spiritual journey, America on Two Wheels is an ode to pursuing the open road with an open heart.

De niño huyó del seminario y diez años después de la Academia Naval. En ese momento se embarca como polizonte en Marsella y viaja al Extremo Oriente, para iniciar una vuelta al mundo y una vida irrepetible en el siglo XXI. Fue asistente de un arqueólogo alemán en el Cuzco; persiguió el tesoro de los Khmer en Angkor Wat, Cambodia; extrajo perlas en zonas prohibidas de Sarawak del Borneo; trabajó en el negocio del tungsteno en la bahía de Hudson; y finalmente al final de los años 40 del siglo pasado, buscó diamantes en la Amazonía venezolana.

Can you combine wanderlust and motherhood? Margo Weinstein did. For decades, Margo Weinstein escaped her demanding legal practice by kayaking, whitewater rafting, trekking, and climbing in remote regions. Then she had a son and found herself in the kiddie pool on a Disney cruise.

Originally pursuing a circumnavigation, the journey took the author and his vessel on a 7,000-mile voyage to Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, and finally, to New Caledonia, where Salt Peter met her end. It was a journey of discovery, both physically and spiritually, with a range of experience to last a lifetime. I invite you to join me on this year-long adventure and experience with me an honest, uncomplicated, and enriching interaction with the seemingly endless ocean and volatile sky and discover with me the rewards of taking a chance.

Deep Water Dreams picks up with Hank and Julie as they, after sailing briefly in the Caribbean, prepare their boat for an Atlantic crossing with the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, or ARC.

Named one of Time Magazine International's 30 most important people of 2005, Maud Fontenoy presents us with a terrific, entertaining adventure story on the high seas as she challenges the Pacific Ocean - a feat no woman before her ever accomplished. Already the first woman to row alone across the North Atlantic, Maud raised the bar to defy the elements, the daunting solitude, and the circling sharks of the South Pacific on her second solo voyage.

Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to 15 countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself.

Ein Jahrzehnt des Weltreisens hat aus Nick einen neuen Menschen gemacht: aufgeschlossen, abenteuerhungrig, aber auch nachdenklich. Und wer von ihm wissen will, ob seine Reisen wirklich immer geil waren, bekommt die ehrliche Antwort: "Nope." Ob auf selbst gebastelten Krücken, während einer nächtlichen Schießerei oder ausgeraubt bis aufs letzte Hemd - Nick hat mehr als einmal erlebt, dass Fehltritte und Grenzerfahrungen zum Reisealltag dazugehören.

In 1834, the British Lord Chancellor, Lord Henry Brougham, was on his way to Nice, still part of Italy and already a popular winter resort with English aristocrats. Because of a cholera epidemic in Provence, the governor of Nice had closed the border so Brougham and his daughter Eleanore were turned back. On their way to Grasse, they stopped for the night at an inn on what is today the Rue du Port in Cannes.

Was passiert, nachdem du dir einen Lebenstraum erfüllt hast? 2015 wagte Gesa Neitzel den Schritt vom Berliner Großstadtdschungel in den afrikanischen Busch, um sich zur Rangerin ausbilden zu lassen. Der Startschuss für ein völlig neues Leben und der Beginn einer großen Liebe - nicht nur zu Ranger Frank, sondern auch zum afrikanischen Kontinent, mit all seinen Facetten, Farben und Herausforderungen. Doch hat die Liebe auch Bestand? Das frisch gebackene Ranger-Paar begibt sich auf einem faszinierenden wie waghalsigen Roadtrip quer durchs südliche Afrika: Botswana, Namibia, Sambia und Simbabwe.

For more than twenty years, The Amazing Race has introduced viewers to unique travel destinations in ninety-two countries across the globe. Pairing challenges with cultural touchpoints of the locations visited, The Amazing Race averages 10 million viewers per season.

Geordie Stewart left his home and his job in the army to cycle across Europe and Asia. Alone on a bike, he experienced freedom and isolation travelling across open deserts and through a vicious Siberian winter. His journey took him 13,000 miles, but this isn’t a story of the number of miles ridden. It's about choosing an unfamiliar path which led him to discover and confront previously unknown truths.

Außergewöhnliche Radtouren durch Deutschland, Polen, Weißrussland, Italien, Frankreich, Griechenland und die Türkei. Spannende Erlebnisse, lustige Geschichten und Tipps von jemandem, der sein ganzes Leben auf den unterschiedlichsten Fahrrädern unterwegs war. Ganz spezielle Urlaubsreisen mit dem Tandem, dem Liegerad von der Grafschaft Bentheim bis nach Jerusalem. Aber auch das kleine Radrennen mit dem Klapprad auf dem Weg zur Arbeit werden humorvoll beschrieben und sollen sogar zum Nachmachen anregen. Durch das Radfahren in Etappen kann jedermann auch weite Ziele erreichen!

Sin pasajes de avión, tren, barco o autobús, Enrique Córdoba nos lleva a recorrer gran parte del planeta, comenzando por los dos extremos de la tierra, el polo norte, donde se inició la fiebre del oro; y en el otro fin del mundo, el polo sur, la tierra del fuego. De una manera maravillosa lleva al oyente a recorrer Oceanía, Asia, Europa y América; internándolo en la cultura de diferentes países, su gastronomía; modo de vida y hasta secretos para tomar en cuenta al momento de idear una guía de viaje.

Un libro imprescindible para todos los aficionados al True Crime, a los misterios sin resolver y al lado más oscuro del crímen en España. La periodista Cruz Morcillo recopila testimonios y experiencias de policías y guardias civiles a través de los crímenes más truculentos ocurridos en España. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.

Brian has a million vague life plans but zero sense of direction. So when he meets Rachel, a self-possessed woman who daydreams of bicycling across the States, he decides to follow her wherever she’ll take him. Brian and Rachel soon embark on a ride from northern Wisconsin to Somewhere West, infatuated with the promise of adventure and each other. But as the pair progress from the Northwoods into the bleak western plains, they begin to discover the messy realities of life on the road.

Durante siglos, los europeos situaron la legendaria ciudad de El Dorado en la selva más grande y densa del mundo: la del Amazonas. La obsesión por encontrar ese paraíso dejó la jungla impenetrable sembrada de cadáveres, lo que no fue impedimento para el explorador británico Percy Fawcett. Después de emprender una expedición tras otra sin éxito, en 1925 desapareció sin dejar rastro. En 2005, David Grann se adentró en el «infierno verde» para averiguar qué había ocurrido allí. El resultado es una reconstrucción magistral dela aventura de Percy Fawcett.

Search for the Golden Moon Bear recounts Montgomery's quest--fraught with danger and mayhem--to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her little known subject. This beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka! It is also a powerful symbol of conservation. Search for the Golden Moon Bear is a field report from the frontiers of science and the ends of the earth, seamlessly weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary research into a fantastic travelogue.

The story of a trip around the world, visiting 24 countries in 33 days...beating out Around the World in 80 Days! LOL! Observations of people - rich and poor - going about their daily lives in so many different - yet sometimes similar - environments. The journey is sprinkled with humor, philosophical, and political comments.