Fleeing the increasing pressure to settle down, a restless young man heeds the call of the road and sets out on a meandering four-month bus trip from Dawson, Yukon, to Key West, Florida. Continental Drifter is the record of that journey...
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Author:Cameron, DaveSummary: - Author:Bryan, LizSummary:
In her third book of off-the-beaten-track explorations of western Canada, Liz Bryan travels scenic roads of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. From country routes winding through the Fraser Valley to forest roads on...
- Author:Boudreau, JackSummary:
Long recognized as some of the roughest bush in British Columbia, it was home to many trappers and hunters who travelled the Fraser River and the Grand Trunk Railway to lose themselves in the bush.
- Author:Frolick, LarrySummary:
For over 50,000 years, the Great Hunt has shaped human existence, creating a vital spiritual reality where people, animals, and the land share intimate bonds. In this compelling book, Larry Frolick takes the reader deep into one of the...
- Author:Dubinsky, KarenSummary:
Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets,...
- Author:Dubinsky , KarenSummary:
Havana is Cuba';s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets,...
- Author:Lilwall, Rob.Summary:
The gripping adventure story of one man's epic journey back from Siberia to England by bike. An inspirational spiritual journey reflecting on the state of the world today.
- Author:Enfield, EdwardSummary:
Edward Enfield chronicles his adventures bike-riding through Europe for his voracious and curious fans. Here he takes a jaunt--for the first time--through Germany. With his characteristic wit and charm, Enfield describes the glorious...
- Author:MacKinnon, J.B.Summary:
On June 22, 1965, a soldier in the Dominican Republic reported that he had just shot two policemen and an outspoken Canadian priest. It was the opening scene in a mystery that compels the author to visit the island nation for himself,...
- Author:Buchholz, Sue, Wooldridge, EdnaSummary:
Destination Disneyland Resort with Disabilities is a guidebook which will assist people with disabilities to enjoy their experience to the fullest at Disneyland Resort. Families of children who have disabilities, adults who have...
- Author:Buford, BillSummary:
A hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive account of the author's adventures, in the world of French haute cuisine, for anyone whose ever found joy in cooking and eating food with their family—from the author of the best-...
- Author:Fabijančić, TonySummary:
Since childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father. He spent time with his peasant family in the village of Srebrnjak in the north and escaped to the Adriatic islands in the...
- Author:Di Cintio, MarcelloSummary:
In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. "The taxi," writes Marcello Di Cintio, "is a border."...
- Author:Cooper Jones, ChloéSummary:
"Soul-stretching, breathtaking...A game-changing gift to readers." --Booklist (starred review) From Chloé Cooper Jones--Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient--a...
- Author:Gilbert, ElizabethSummary:
Like many others, around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. Although she had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want, including a husband, a home, and...
- Author:Pickering, SamSummary:
Part travelogue, part psychological self-study, Sam Pickering's Edinburgh Days, or Doing What I Want to Do is an open invitation to be led on a walking tour of Scotland's capital, as well as through the labyrinth of the guide's swerving...
- Author:Hillsbery, KiefSummary:
Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India-a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light In 1841, twenty-year-old Nigel Halleck set out for Calcutta as...
- Author:MacDonald, CameronSummary:
Bill Bryson meets John Vaillant in this life list quest to see the rarest species in North America.
Crammed into a minivan with wife, toddler, infant, and dog, accompanied by mounds of toys, diapers, tent, sleeping bags, and...
- Author:Sheldon, WaltSummary:
This casual Japan travel guide contains a wealth of information for the business traveler or tourist For several years author, Walt Sheldon has been helping visitors and foreign residents to understand and appreciate things Japanese...
- Author:Keith, KatherineSummary:
All her life, Katherine Keith has hungered for remote, wild places. Her travels take her across America, but it is in the vast and rugged landscape of Alaska that she finds her true home. Keith experiences tragic loss and must push on,...
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