Travel Adventure Writing

In April 2018, Tennessee writer Mark E. Johnson embarked on an epic, grueling, and often hilarious adventure - the 80-mile trek from Lukla, Nepal, to Mount Everest Base Camp - after launching an improbable trekking company a year earlier in the flatlands of the southeastern United States. This was Johnson's first excursion out of the continental US, and this journey into the exotic country of Nepal was indeed a trial by fire (and ice).

If you're traveling the world - or if you just want to travel the world from your armchair - this audiobook will enlighten and amuse you. It could add a few unusual stops to your itinerary, as well. We suggest some intriguing natural sights, such as the perfectly conical Chocolate Hills, Indian pilgrimage mountains topped by temples, whole forests of identikit crooked trees, and volcanoes inside volcanoes. Perhaps festivals are more to your taste. Would you prefer the anarchic creativity of Burning Man, a Japanese cry-baby competition, or a massive food fight?

Ever heard of a 'travel psychologist?' Michael Brein is the world's first and perhaps only travel psychologist and has created a unique travel audiobook series on the psychology of travel as revealed through the fantastic travel stories of more than 1,600 world travelers and adventurers whom he has interviewed over the last three decades. The first audiobook in the series, Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Top 10, is a collection of Michael's best of the best of his own personal travel tales.

Looking for thrilling Instagram worthy hikes without doing all the research? You’ve seen all those picture-perfect landscapes of Zion National Park and said to yourself, “I will make it there one day". After you've finally booked your trip, you realize you haven’t planned a single thing, nor do you know what to expect except from what you see in photos. Don’t panic. It's never too late. Planning for a hiking trip isn’t easy, but it isn’t as hard as you think either.

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.

Have you ever dreamed of quitting your job, traveling the world, and falling in love in a foreign land? Narrated by the author, Black Gypsy is the true story of Shawna Sharee, a 30-something inner-city black girl that did just that...After quitting her entire life following an ultimate betrayal, she makes her way traveling across three continents and six countries spanning seven months. This sometimes funny, sometimes spiritual, sometimes gritty, but always inspiring memoir is an urban fairytale and worldwide adventure filled with real life characters around every corner.

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.

Nach der Reise zurück in den Alltag: Wenn die Heimkehr die größte Herausforderung ist. Die meisten Reiseberichte enden dort, wo die Reise aufhört. Aber was kommt danach? Wie knüpft man nach den aufregenden Erlebnissen wieder an das Leben "davor" an? Wie macht man weiter, wenn sich das Fernweh nicht abschalten lässt? In diesem Hörbuch berichten 21 Weltenbummler von den Schwierigkeiten ihrer Reiserückkehr. Offen und emotional erzählen sie in ihren Erfahrungsberichten von den Problemen des Ankommens, wie sie sich ihnen stellen und ihren Weg gehen.

If someone called you a "googlewhack", what would you do? Would you end up playing table tennis with a nine year-old boy in Boston? Would you find yourself in Los Angeles wrangling snakes, or would you go to China to be licked by a performance artist? If your name is Dave Gorman, then all of these things could be true.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Culinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world. The contributors argue that the sensory experience of eating provides people with a unique means of communication. Editor Lucy Long contends that although the interest in experiencing "otherness" is strong within American society, total immersion into the unfamiliar is not always welcome.

In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Deng Xiaoping was clamping down on 'Spiritual Pollution'; young people were rebelling. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance. One day he bought a train ticket to the westernmost border of China and set off in search of himself.

The Rio Grande is simultaneously one of the most watched and least understood rivers in the world. Some stretches of the Rio pass for endless miles through remote wilderness, boxed in by canyons hundreds of feet high and inhabited by only the hardiest animals and humans. That's why journalist Keith Bowden decided to become the first person to travel the entire length of the Rio as it forms the border between America and Mexico.

Was ist das für ein Land, in dem so unaussprechliche Namen wie Llywyngwril auf den Ortsschildern stehen? Wo Kekse gereicht werden, die jedes Gebiss bedrohen? Von den Kalkfelsen Dovers bis ins raue schottische Thurso erkundet Bryson die eigentümliche Welt jenseits des Ärmelkanals und kommt zu dem Schluss: England muss man einfach lieben, ganz gleich, wie wunderlich es einem zuweilen erscheinen mag.

Couchsurfer, hitchhiker, and rogue wanderer Jamie Ma"lin embarks on a couchsurfing adventure to the homeland of "firebrand", "populist", "anti-American” president Hugo Chavez: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Alone in the crime capital of the world (with a murder rate higher than Iraq's), Maslin immediately finds himself in trouble - arrested by knife-wielding police officers and inoculated with an unwanted vaccination.

Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks. On the eve of turning 50, and a little burned out, Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks.