Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa

5 best books like Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa (Richard Grant): Emma's War, Long Way Down, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay, Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story, Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home

Emma's War

Author	Deborah Scroggins
ISBN	0375703772

Tall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil war in Africa. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine-ridden country, but her eventual marriage to...

Long Way Down

Author	Ewan McGregor
ISBN	1847440533

Eighteen countries. Five shock absorbers. Two bikers. One amazing adventure...

After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. And after an inspirational UNICEF visit to Africa, they knew...

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay

Author	John Gimlette
ISBN	1400078520

Haven to Nazis, smugglers’ paradise, home to some of the earth’s oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John Gimlette, at last it has one. With an adventurer’s sang-froid, a historian’s erudition, and a sense of irony...

Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

Author	J. Maarten Troost
ISBN	1592407897

The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals recounts his latest hilarious misadventures in the South Pacific, following in the footsteps of his unlikely idol, Robert Louis Stevenson
 
Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure...

Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home

Author	Matthew Kepnes
ISBN	1250190517

Part memoir and part philosophical look at why we travel, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes' adventures abroad, an exploration of wanderlust and what it truly means to be a nomad.

"Matt is possibly the most well-traveled person I know...His knowledge and passion for understanding the world...