Dear Exile: The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean
10 best books like Dear Exile: The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean (Hilary Liftin): To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story, Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin, Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend, The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa, Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over, Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village, Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa, Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story
Author | Steven Weinberg |
ISBN | 1596435275 |
Casey and Steven were college students at opposite ends of the country, one in California and one in Maine. Yet, they happened to meet in Morocco during a study abroad trip. And they decided to keep in touch...and then they decided to move to China and teach English and then head out across the world together....
Author | Susana Herrera |
ISBN | 1570625727 |
When the Peace Corps sends Susana Herrera to teach English in Northern Cameroon, she yearns to embrace her adopted village and its people, to drink deep from the spirit of Mother Africa—and to forget a bitter childhood and painful past. To the villagers, however, she's a rich American tourist, a nasara...
Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend
Author | Christo Brand |
ISBN | 1250055261 |
Raised in a multi-ethnic farming community, Afrikaner Christo Brand was confused and saddened when he first confronted the realities of South African apartheid. Conscripted into the military at 18, Brand chose to serve as a prison guard rather than embrace the brutality and danger inherent...
Author | Josh Swiller |
ISBN | 0805082107 |
A young man's quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and violence
These are hearing aids. They take the sounds of the world and amplify them." Josh Swiller recited this speech to himself on the...
Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
Author | Geraldine Brooks |
ISBN | 0385483732 |
As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an...
Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion
Author | Madeleine B. Stern |
ISBN | 0385485158 |
Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg...
Author | Tanya Shaffer |
ISBN | 1400032598 |
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
Author | Sarah Erdman |
ISBN | 0312423128 |
The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasn't yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the social fold of the village as a Peace Corps volunteer, she...
Author | Francesca Marciano |
ISBN | 0375703438 |
A mesmerizing novel of love and nostalgia set in the vast spaces of contemporary East Africa.
Romantic, often resonantly ironic, moving and wise, Rules of the Wild transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a sharp-eyed portrait of a closely knit tribe of cultural...
Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
Author | Fadumo Korn |
ISBN | 1558615318 |
This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting, Fadumo Korn, who once freely roamed the deserts of her native Somalia, is sent to live with a wealthy uncle, brother to the...
Author | Gayle Forman |
ISBN | 1594865515 |
In these eight interconnected travel stories, journalist Gayle Forman traces the trajectory from her relatively comfortable life in New York's Hell's Kitchen to her sometimes extreme--and extremely personal--experiences in some of the most exotic spots on earth
In this extraordinary...
Author | Peter Allison |
ISBN | 1599214695 |
I got a little mixed up and read Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos before Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide. But I get the sense it didn't matter very much which order you read them in, in much...
Author | Ariel Gore |
ISBN | 1580050883 |
Like Jack Kerouac’s intrepid little sister, Ariel Gore spins the spirited story of a vulnerable drifter who takes refuge in the recesses of the human heart. With just a few pennies and her I Ching, a change of clothes and a one-way ticket to Hong Kong, a perceptive, searching Gore makes her way through...
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa
Author | Rick Ridgeway |
ISBN | 0805053905 |
In one of the most acclaimed travel and adventure books of the past year, Rick Ridgeway chronicles his trek from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Indian Ocean, through Kenya's famed Tsavo Park. His tale is, according to The Boston Globe, "a gripping account of how it feels to be charged by an incensed...
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir
As an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some of the world?s most dangerous war zones. As a child, she lived in a war zone of a different kind. Her mother, Dolores, suffered from what is now called manic depression; but when Jacki was growing...
Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure
Author | Julian Smith |
ISBN | 0061873470 |
Here is the amazing true story of Julian Smith, who retraced the journey of legendary British explorer Ewart ''the Leopard'' Grogan, the first man to cross the length of Africa, in hopes of winning the heart of the woman he loved.
In 1898 the dashing young British explorer Ewart ''the Leopard''...
Author | Elliott Hester |
ISBN | 0312310064 |
Make sure your seatbacks and tray tables are in their full upright and locked position for these shocking, bizarre, hilarious, and outrageous stories of airplane travel.
You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's ninety-two degrees in the cabin and someone...
Padre!: A Place Whose Rules Rearrange Your Own
Author | Raven Moore |
ISBN | 0989726606 |
Described as 'that missing voice from Generation X' by Roger Muntu from Voice of America, Raven fashions you front row seats to the ride of a lifetime. She is a cultural, nonfictionist tyrannosaurus rex and her narration of the lives of Ivoiriens during her 2 years living in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa...
Adventures in the Rocky Mountains
Inspired by Penguin's innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the most incredible tours, voyages, treks, expeditions, and travels ever written- from Isabella Bird's exaltation in the dangers of grizzlies, rattlesnakes, and cowboys in the Rocky Mountains to Marco...
Not a Happy Camper: A Memoir
Author | Mindy Schneider |
ISBN | 0802118488 |
Remember those long sultry summer days at camp, the sun setting over the lake as you sang Kumbaya? Well, Mindy Schneider remembers her summer at Camp Kin-A-Hurra in 1974 just a wee bit differently. Not a Happy Camper chronicles a young girl’s adventures at a camp where the sun never shines, the breakfast...
Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things
Author | Ken Wytsma |
ISBN | 0849964660 |
The ONLY way to find abundant life and happiness is to give your life away.
If God designed us to experience true happiness and abundant life, why do so many Christians feel dissatisfied and purposeless? We try to make our lives better by chasing our own dreams, but that only makes the problem...
Author | Wojciech Jagielski |
ISBN | 8374146028 |
Nocni wędrowcy to reporterskie studium jednego z najbardziej niespokojnych państw na Ziemi – Ugandy. Wojciech Jagielski rozpoczyna swoją opowieść w Gulu, gdzie poznaje dzieci-weteranów wojny w kraju Aczolich na prawym brzegu Nilu. Autor przytacza ich wstrząsające opowieści w służbie...
Love in the Elephant Tent: How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me Home
Author | Kathleen Cremonesi |
ISBN | 1770412522 |
NATIONAL GOLD MEDAL WINNER, 2016 IPPY Awards for Memoir
Imagine My Big Fat Greek Wedding crashing into Eat Pray Love on the set of Water for Elephants. This romantic, coming-of-age adventure is an intimate portrayal of young love, where Kathleen and Stefano learn to navigate their cultural...
Present Perfect: Finding God in the Now
Author | Gregory A. Boyd |
ISBN | 0310283841 |
A “Holy Habit” That Will Change Your Life! Experience true spiritual transformation: invite God’s presence into your life! Popular author, theologian, and pastor Gregory Boyd shows you how—simply, practically, and effectively—in this thoughtful and accessible book. Discover: •...
Pitching My Tent: On Marriage, Motherhood, Friendship, and Other Leaps of Faith
Author | Anita Diamant |
ISBN | 0743246179 |
From the bestselling author of The Red Tent and Good Harbor, a collection of intimate, autobiographical reflections on the milestones, revelations, and balancing acts of life as a wife, mother, friend, and member of a religious community.
Before The Red Tent won her international literary...