Just three months after his wife’s death to breast cancer, Jon packs up his infant son, Myles, and they set off on a six-week “Healing Tour” through Canada and the United States. Their journey, set to the soundtrack of the music Jon...
Travel writing
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Author:Magidsohn, JonSummary: - Author:Ekelund, Torbjørn, Crook, BeckySummary:
An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by a gifted writer who stopped driving and rediscovered the joys of traveling by foot. Torbjørn Ekelund started to walk-everywhere-after an epilepsy diagnosis affected his...
- Author:Fergusson, JamesSummary:
A writer's travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River-exploring the long conflict over water supply Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has diverted the River Jordan via...
- Author:Kay, TarzanSummary:
At first you will think this book is a travel memoir about Australia, and so it may surprise you when it reveals itself as a tale of self-discovery and personal awakening. These twists are revealed when the subject turns to dropping out...
- Author:Vitale, TomSummary:
Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend. In the...
- Author:Christmas, JaneSummary:
In this travelogue of self-discovery, Jane Christmas brings her wickedly irreverent style to a new mother-daughter experience. Since the beginning of time, mothers and daughters have had notoriously fraught relationships. "Show me a...
- Author:Fetherling, GeorgeSummary:
Follow George Fetherling as he travels through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia looking for any remaining traces of the Indochina that was. In Indochina Now and Then, George Fetherling recounts multiple journeys through Vietnam, Laos, and...
- Author:Lovell, HenriettaSummary:
Henrietta Lovell is on a mission to revolutionize the way we drink tea by replacing industrially produced teabags with the highest quality tea leaves. Her quest has seen her travel to the Shire Highlands of Malawi, across the foothills...
- Author:De Villiers, MarqSummary:
Recounts a modern trip through Africa, discussing its history, people, languages, governments, cultures, art, music, and wildlife, along the way.
- Author:Jarman, MarkSummary:
On August 22, 1922, near Macroom, County Cork, a single bullet from an unknown gunman killed Michael Collins, the Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army. The day Collins was buried, businesses across Dublin shut down as...
- Author:Salzman, MarkSummary:
Mark Salzman was graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1982. With his degree in his pocket, he and his cello took to China for a two-year stint teaching English.
- Author:Pelley, Rhonda, O'Leary, SheilaghSummary:
Sheilagh O’Leary and Rhonda Pelley spent two summers travelling from Bonavista Bay to the Great Northern Peninsula and to the communities of the south coast. The women they interviewed shared unique life stories filled with hard work,...
- Author:Pamuk, OrhanSummary:
From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. "Delightful, profound,...
- Author:Heavey, BillSummary:
"Mr. Heavey takes us back to the joys-and occasional pitfalls-of the humble edibles around us, and his conclusions ring true."-Wall Street Journal Longtime Field & Stream contributor Bill Heavey has become the magazine...
- Author:Bedford, S.Summary:
A laugh-out-loud travel memoir that reveals backpacking’s awkward side. Sue, a disenchanted waitress, embarks upon a year-long quest around the world with her friend, Sara—who’s exasperatingly perfect. Expecting a whimsical jaunt of...
- Author:Foran, CharlesSummary:
In Join the Revolution, Comrade, Charles Foran brings to the essay form the same restlessness and originality that mark his novels and non-fiction. Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been 'colonized' by western war films, talks to...
- Author:Russell, OsborneSummary:
In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the lucrative salmon and fur trade. Beginning at the age of twenty, he detailed the life of a trapper in his journal and...
- Author:Williams, GlyndwrSummary:
In this course, University of London history professor Glyndwr Williams will discuss one of the most dramatic periods in world history, the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century...
- Author:Jason, VictoriaSummary:
During the summers of 1991 through 1994 Victoria Jason and two companions--Fred Reffler and Don Starkell--set out to kayak from Churchill, Manitoba to Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea. When she set out in 1991, Victoria, already a...
- Author:Klosterman, ChuckSummary:
The author recounts his more than 6,500-mile journey across America, during which he visited the sites of famous rock star deaths and experienced philosophical changes of perspective.
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