Travel Adventure Writing

En su segundo viaje al continente africano, Javier Reverte recorrió Sudáfrica, Zimbabue, Tanzania, Ruanda y Congo para dejarnos un nuevo y estremecedor relato sobre el misterio de África y el riesgo de viajar por territorios inseguros.

Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original Model T Ford. Armed only with a fan belt made of cotton, wooden wheels and a trunkload of ‘wise-ass Limey liberal gumption’, his route takes him exclusively through Donald-voting counties, meeting the everyday folks who voted red along the way. He meets a people defined by extraordinary generosity, willing to shift heaven and earth to keep him on the road.

Tony James Slater knew nothing about Australia. Except for the fact that he'd just arrived there. The stage is set for an outrageous adventure: three people, one van, on an epic, 20,000-mile road trip around Australia. They're crisscrossing the continent through some of the most inhospitable land on the planet - the infamous Aussie Outback. Unprepared, underqualified, and hopelessly inept, Tony battles gigantic pumpkins, mechanical mishaps, and suicidal kangaroos, armed only with a thong and a sense of humor.

Al entrar en Abjasia, las autoridades georgianas, corruptas hasta la médula, recluyeron a Jorge durante tres días con sus tres noches, en una inmunda mazmorra de la ciudad de Batumi, sin comer, hasta que no satisfizo una “mordida” de 2,000 €, por medio de un negociador.

This is a collection of short stories that are shocking, exciting, surprising, and at times terrifying moments that I have experienced during my travels around the world. From Easter Island encounters with the Moais, being wounded in Israel, experiencing terror in Beijing at midnight to the challenge of leaving Ethiopia and Italy during the Covid outbreak. These stories and more will introduce you to my not so normal world of travel.

In this captivating book from one of the most influential geochemists in the field, Tamsin Mather takes us along on her globe-spanning excursions from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia and beyond. With warmth and lyricism, she explores the cultural roles volcanoes play throughout history, and the growing and evolving science behind their formation and eruptions.

Charley's passion for travel and adventure continues in his new challenge - By Any Means. Travelling from his home town in Co Wicklow all the way to Sydney, he will use any means he can to reach his destination, via transport as diverse as steam train, horse, boat, kayak, truck, and tuk-tuk. And of course his beloved motorbike!

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed west face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June of 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into base camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead.

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.

Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness of Australia's outback. What follows is a hilarious, hair-raising ride into the hot red center of a continent so desolate that civilization dwindles to a gas pump and a pub. While the outback's terrain is inhospitable, its scattered inhabitants are anything but.

En plena fiebre por los ochomiles y las cimas del mundo, el viajero guipuzcoano Josu Iztueta enroló a un grupo de expedicionarios para recorrer durante nueve meses las depresiones geográficas más profundas de la Tierra. "Nunca he tomado una decisión tan rápida, tan clara, tan feliz", recuerda el autor de este libro, Ander Izagirre, veinte años después de participar en la expedición Pangea.

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.

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.

Spiegel Bestseller! Ein Reise-Enthusiast, ein Motorrad, 30.000 Kilometer, 14 Länder und... eine Katze! Wer hat nicht schon einmal davon geträumt, die alte Routine hinter sich zu lassen und sich auf die Reise seines Lebens zu begeben? Auch Martin sehnte sich lange nach dem großen Abenteuer. Er hat den ersten Schritt am 24. August 2017 gewagt und sich auf den Weg gemacht. Aber nicht alleine, sondern zusammen mit seiner wunderschönen Gefährtin - mit Mogli!

In summer 2006, 20-year-old Gerald Yeung and his childhood friends from Hong Kong travel to South America and Africa on their parents' dime. Confronted by challenges foreign to their privileged upbringing, the "Wannabe Backpackers" persevere in their Christian Dior clothes. They make plans to do it again when they turn 30. The decade that follows doesn’t go exactly to plan.

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.

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.

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.