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Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea

10 best books like Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea (Kira Salak): Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure, Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness, Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon, Travels into the Interior of Africa, The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics, To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger

Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
AuthorDervla Murphy
ISBN0879512482
There are very few occasions where my enjoyment of a book will depend on liking the protagonist of the story (or, in the case of nonfiction, the way the author portrays him- or herself). "Full Tilt" is such a case.

Dervla Murphy gives an account of her incredible journey, travelling from Ireland...
Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure
AuthorStuart Stevens
Malaria Dreams is a book about the author and his friend's trip from West Africa to the Mediterranean in a questionable car, and it's well written. So why the one star?

I like adventure travel and adventure travel books better than the next guy usually- depending on who the next guy actually is,...
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
AuthorJeffrey Tayler
ISBN0609808265
Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind his mundane existence in Moscow to re-create the legendary British explorer Henry Stanley’s trip down the Congo in a dugout canoe, stocked with food,...
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
AuthorEric Hansen
ISBN0375724958
Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath the rain forest canopy, they trekked through a hauntingly beautiful jungle...
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
AuthorTom Bissell
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a naive Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation...
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
AuthorSara Wheeler
ISBN0375753389
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great...
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon
AuthorRedmond O'Hanlon
ISBN0679727140
A mixture of minute, old-fashioned naturalistic observation of plants, mammals, and especially birds in the Amazonian rain forest, and the vicissitudes of traveling with a motley crew of locals along with O'Hanlon's alcoholic English friend Simon, who comes along for a kind of comic counterpoint...
Travels into the Interior of Africa
AuthorMungo Park
ISBN0907871046
More than a year of traveling, on foot, sometimes on horseback or mule and enduring tropical rain, heat, hunger and thirst, dysentery and all kinds of fever.

There is a plan to this, to get as far up along the River Niger as at all possible, but with no maps and only relying on what you have heard and...
The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics
AuthorRichard Halliburton
ISBN1885211538
When Richard Halliburton graduated from Princeton, he chose adventure over a career, traveling to far away places. This vivid book, one of many he wrote, tells what happened, from a breakthrough Matterhorn ascent to being jailed for taking forbidden pictures on Gibraltar. "One of the most fascinating...
To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger
AuthorMark Jenkins
ISBN0688115853
Twenty years ago, when the author and his best friend, Mike Moe, were eighteen years old, they lit out from Wyoming to explore the world. They washed up in Africa and without forethought or planning set off for the most remote place on earth they could imagine: Timbuktu. Stopped by disease and the desert,...
Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds
AuthorTim Flannery
ISBN0802136656
Flannery travels to the unexplored regions of New Guinea in search of species that science has yet to discover or classify. He finds many -- from a community of giant cave bats that were supposedly extinct to the elusive black-and-white tree-kangaroo -- and along the way has a wealth of unforgettable...
The Size of the World
AuthorJeff Greenwald
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,...
Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, And A Journey To The Ends Of The Earth
AuthorDaniel Glick
ISBN1586482378
After losing his brother to cancer and a painful divorce that left him the sole charge d'affaires of two decidedly spirited children, environmental reporter Daniel Glick knew he and his little family desperately needed some karmic rejuvenation. He opted for an epic adventure. In the summer of 2001,...
Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island
AuthorPeter Rudiak-Gould
ISBN1402766645
Just one month after his 21st birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2,000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching...
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0140255079
A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
 
Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed 20,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests...
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
AuthorGretel Ehrlich
ISBN0679758526
For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In This Cold Heaven she combines the story of her travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of us could otherwise imagine.

Ehrlich...
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
AuthorJohn Gimlette
ISBN0307272532
Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon...
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
AuthorJason Elliot
ISBN0312288468
Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, An Unexpected Light is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people...
Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild
AuthorSusan Fox Rogers
ISBN1580051065
While many dream of solo adventure, these talented and adventurous women show how it’s done. Whether hiking in Nepal, caving, sailing through choppy ocean waters, or discovering Alaska on foot, the women in these essays eloquently convey not only the thrills of the solo adventure, but also examine...
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
AuthorStephanie Elizondo Griest
ISBN0812967607
Desperate to escape South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent. So she headed to Russia looking for some excitement—commencing what would become a four-year, twelve-nation Communist bloc tour that shattered her preconceived notions of the “Evil Empire.”...
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
AuthorRosemary Mahoney
Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided...
A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam
AuthorNorman Lewis
It's easy to see why Graham Greene was lured to Vietnam by Lewis's account. The sense of a country -- indeed, an entire region -- on the verge of revolution, beleaguered colonial officials gamely assisting the author in procuring transport from one crumbling outpost to the next, the documentary feel...
A Winter in Arabia
AuthorFreya Stark
ISBN1585672904
One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels in the Near East, establishing herself as a twentieth century heroine. A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937-8 expedition in what is now Yemen, a journey which helped secure her reputation...
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