Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales
10 best books like Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales (Jake Halpern): Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands: Hawaii in the 1860s, I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers, Going to Extremes, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go, The Size of the World, Gutsy Women: Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road, Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals: Adventures in Love and Danger, A Bike Ride: 12,000 Miles Around the World, The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey, Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island
Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands: Hawaii in the 1860s
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0935180931 |
At 31 years old and in the employ if the Sacramento Union, Mark Twain took his first trip away from the North American continent onboard the steamer Ajax bound for a four month tour of the Sandwich Islands, On Sunday, March 18, 1866, he arrived in Honolulu and fell in love with the islands that were to...
| Author | Roger Rapoport |
| ISBN | 1571430148 |
In this hilarious anthology 50 top travel writers, novelists and journalists, including Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Theroux, Mary Morris, Dominique Lapierre, Eric Hansen, Rick Steves, Tony Wheeler and Helen Gurley Brown, tell the stories of their greatest travel disasters....
| Author | Joe McGinniss |
| ISBN | 0452263018 |
This is the fourth edition of a work that always has been controversial in Alaska. Yet, it is an important and highly readable classic work that captures a portrait frozen in time of a raw state in turmoil during the oil boom. McGinnis went north to find out if there was anything left of the "last frontier."...
| Author | Stephanie Elizondo Griest |
| ISBN | 1932361472 |
With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go encourages women of any age to see the world — in a group, with a friend, or solo — and inspires them to create their own list of dreams. Based on her own explorations of many countries, states, and regions, and on interviews...
By the time that travel writer Jeff Greenwald hit his late thirties, he had covered more ground than Magellan, Marco Polo, and Columbus combined. But he also came to a sobering conclusion: airplanes had reduced his exotic explorations to a series of long commutes. So he set out to rediscover the mass,...
| Author | Marybeth Bond |
| ISBN | 1885211155 |
This is an indispensable handbook full of information that can save you time, trouble and maybe even your life. Women make up the largest segment of the traveling population and many of them are choosing to travel alone. When I was a student for a summer session in England I walked the streets of London...
| Author | Wendy Dale |
| ISBN | 0609809830 |
From salsa dancing in a rum-induced haze and struggling to exercise in Colombia (the guerillas were using the track again today), to crossing international borders unconventionally and dodging bombs in Lebanon (the good news was that they were small bombs), Wendy somehow manages to find herself...
| Author | Anne Mustoe |
| ISBN | 0863696503 |
When ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe gave up her job, bought a bike and took to the road, she couldn't even mend a puncture. 12,000 miles and 15 months later, she was home.
Her epic solo journey took her around the world, through Europe, India, the Far East and the United States. From Thessaloniki...
| Author | Douglas Brinkley |
| ISBN | 1560254963 |
An absolute must-read! Brinkley's "American Odyssey" was a unprecedented class at Hofstra University that allowed a small group of incredibly fortunate students to spend the semester traversing the American landscape to study the history and pop culture of the United States. While studying our...
Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island
| Author | Lucinda Fleeson |
| ISBN | 1565124863 |
Like so many of us, Lucinda Fleeson wanted to escape what had become a routine life. So, she quit her big-city job, sold her suburban house, and moved halfway across the world to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Imagine a one-hundred-acre garden estate nestled amid...
Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through India
| Author | Jonah Blank |
| ISBN | 0802137334 |
The three-thousand-year-old epic Ramayana chronicles Lord Rama's physical voyage from one end of the Indian subcontinent to the other and his spiritual voyage from Man to God. In Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, anthropologist and journalist Jonah Blank gives a new perspective to this Hindu classic...
The People's Guide to Mexico
| Author | Carl Franz |
| ISBN | 1566917115 |
Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado.
Features include:
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Travelers' Tales India: True Stories
| Author | James O'Reilly |
| ISBN | 1932361014 |
India is among the most difficult—and most rewarding—of places to travel. Some have said India stands for "I’ll Never Do It Again." Many more are drawn back time after time because India is the best show on earth, the best bazaar of human experiences that can be visited in a lifetime. India dissolves...
| Author | Peter S. Beagle |
| ISBN | 1933572078 |
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. articulated his dream, JFK was assassinated, and zip codes were first introduced to the US. The world was monumentally changing and changing fast. But in the eyes of future fantasy author Peter Beagle and his best friend Phil, it wasn't changing fast enough. For these...
An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future
| Author | Robert D. Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0679776877 |
"Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands."--Chicago Tribune
"[Kaplan is] tireless, curious, and smart. . . . I cannot imagine anyone will concoct a more convincing scenario for the American future." --Thurston Clarke, ...
| Author | Colin Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0679723269 |
At three o'clock one sleepless night, Colin Fletcher decided that what he must do was walk the length of California. He could only fumble with the supporting reasons, but he knew it was a hike he had to make. Fletcher followed lonely stretches of the Colorado, crossed the Mojave, walked the trough of Death...
Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney's Brave New Town
| Author | Douglas Frantz |
| ISBN | 0805055614 |
What is it like to start a new community-not a suburb or a subdivision, but a town, intended to be a self-supporting community that combines the best of the new technological innovations and the most cherished nostalgic elements of American towns? In 1997, six months after the first residents relocated...
Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S.
| Author | Beppe Severgnini |
| ISBN | 0767912365 |
In the wry but affectionate tradition of Bill Bryson, Ciao, America! is a delightful look at America through the eyes of a fiercely funny guest — one of Italy’s favorite authors who spent a year in Washington, D.C.
When Beppe Severgnini and his wife rented a creaky house in Georgetown they...
Along the Edge of America
| Author | Peter Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0395877377 |
The best-selling author and walker Peter Jenkins, landlubber par excellence, now takes to the waves and explores, as only he can, a part of America rich in history, mystery, and lore: from the Florida Keys to the Mexican border, by way of the Everglades, the treacherous "jungle woods," genteel southern...
Rule No. 5: No Sex on the Bus: Confessions of a Tour Leader
| Author | Brian Thacker |
| ISBN | 1865085537 |
Brian Thacker confesses all as he reveals the best (and worst) of 20 trips as a tour leader around Europe. He tells how he fed passengers horse meat spag bol, hamburgers made from breakfast cereal and roosters' testicles; how he left a passenger standing by the side of a motorway in France for 3 hours in...
| Author | Reader's Digest Association |
| ISBN | 0762104244 |
Off the Beaten Path – Newly Revised & Updated: A Travel Guide to More Than 1000 Scenic and Interesting Places Still Uncrowded and Inviting ( ISBN: 978-0762107940, Reader’s Digest) by the Editors of Reader’s Digest is a visual vacation all by itself. This gorgeous illustrated guide to some...
| Author | Charles Kuralt |
| ISBN | 0345484843 |
"A professional memoir of a gifted, good-humored and gracious man...The book has the feel of good conversation on a long trip."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
John Charles Kuralt on the journey of his life. From a southern boy bitten by wanderlust and wonder, to a curious rover writing for newspapers,...
Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands
| Author | Gavan Daws |
| ISBN | 0824803248 |
This book is widely considered to be the definitive text when it comes to the modern history of Hawai'i. Certainly, no other text attempts to take on such a broad swathe of history in such detail. If you're interested in the history of Hawai'i and/or the imperialist history of the U.S. in the Pacific, Shoal...
The San Francisco Earthquake
The authors use never-before-published eyewitness reports and previously ignored documents of the insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross to tear away myths surrounding the holocaust. They expose the real villains and heroes, show how the political powers tried to conceal the amount...
Oahu Revealed: The Ultimate Guide to Honolulu, Waikiki & Beyond
The most comprehensive yet easy-to-use guidebook series to Hawaii brings you the second edition of Oahu Revealed. Written by the author of the best-selling guides, Maui Revealed, Hawaii The Big Island Revealed and The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook. He actually hikes all the trails, rides the boats, scuba...
