Going Postal: The Ups and Downs of Travelling the World on a Postie Bike
10 best books like Going Postal: The Ups and Downs of Travelling the World on a Postie Bike (Nathan Millward): Castaway, Jupiter's Travels, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada, Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, Off The Rails, The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature, Through Siberia by Accident, Why We March: Signs of Protest and Hope, Araki: Tokyo Lucky Hole, Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
| Author | Lucy Irvine |
| ISBN | 0394535421 |
'Writer seeks "wife" for a year on tropical island.'
The opportunity to escape from it all was irresistible. Lucy Irvine answered the advertisement -- and found herself alone on a remote desert island with a 'husband' she hardly knew.
Lucy Irvine fell in love with the seductive, if...
| Author | Ted Simon |
| ISBN | 0965478521 |
Simon rode a motorcycle around the world in the seventies, when such a thing was unheard of. In four years he covered 78,000 miles through 45 countries, living with peasants and presidents, in prisons and palaces, through wars and revolutions. What distinguishes this book is that Simon was already...
Canada's number one humorist, routinely compared to our own Bill Bryson, has written a funny, idiosyncratic, and warmly humane book full of sly observations and witty stories culled from his travels among the people and places of our neighbors up north.
Will Ferguson spent the past three years...
Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus
| Author | Aaron Cometbus |
| ISBN | 0867195614 |
aaron cometbus is a punk's punk. he scrounges for food in dumpsters, scams his way around the US on greyhound, slips in and out of punkhouses and seems to live off nothing more than coffee and cigarettes. he has the eye of a sociologist and the soul of a poet and the haircut of a fool. inside this book you will...
| Author | Tim Cope |
| ISBN | 1840243988 |
It was one of those moments when you become so deeply involved with the experience that you begin to blend with the dirt.
This is the story of two twenty year old boys who travel on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia, the Gobi Desert, Mongolia to Beijing, in China. The journey takes...
| Author | Anthony O'Hear |
| ISBN | 1933859784 |
The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. The eminent British philosopher Anthony O’Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as powerful, thrilling, erotic, politically astute,...
| Author | Dervla Murphy |
| ISBN | 0719566649 |
Through Siberia by Accident is an account of a journey that didn’t happen—and what happened instead. While still thousands of miles from her original destination, Ussuriland in the Russian Far East, Dervla Murphy found herself stymied by multiple minor injuries. This book is an extraordinary...
| Author | Artisan Press |
| ISBN | 1579658288 |
On January 21, 2017, over 5 million people in 673 cities around the globe gathered in solidarity for the Women’s March, carrying signs that shone with unwavering hope and determination and demanded the protection of women’s rights, opposed the newly inaugurated U.S. president, and championed...
| Author | Nobuyoshi Araki |
| ISBN | 3836536722 |
Tokyo "entertainment centers" in the early 1980s photographed by Araki
It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto whose waitresses famously wore no panties under their miniskirts and see-through pantyhose. As word began to spread, similar establishments popped up across...
Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
| Author | Patrick Symmes |
| ISBN | 0375702652 |
Intrepid journalist Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places in Ernesto "Che" Guevara's classic Motorcycle Diaries, seeking out his own adventure as well as the legacy of the icon Che would become, Symmes retraces the future revolutionary's path. And on the way...
1000 Ultimate Experiences
| Author | Andrew Bain |
| ISBN | 1741799457 |
Travel Guides: 1000 Ultimate Experiences Travel Guide. 1000 Ultimate Experiences brings together 1,000 ideas, places and activities sure to inspire and entertain. Want to know where to discover a spectacular tropical paradise How about journeying to the worlds greatest natural wonders, or taking...
True Spirit: The Aussie Girl Who Took On The World
| Author | Jessica Watson |
| ISBN | 0733624979 |
True Spirit: The Aussie Girl Who Took on the World by Jessica Watson
Reviewed by: Kimberly Reikow
Have you ever dreamed of going on an adventure to a far off land all by yourself? What if that adventure took you throughout the major oceans in the world? From October of 2009 to May of 2010, 16 year...
The Lonely Planet Story: Once While Travelling
| Author | Tony Wheeler |
| ISBN | 0670028479 |
The highly readable Lonely Planet Story: Once While Travelling is a unique mix of autobiography, business history and travel book. It traces founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler’s personal story as well as the often-bumpy evolution of their travel guide business into the world’s largest independent...
Only 2 Seats Left: The Incredible Contiki Story
| Author | John Anderson |
| ISBN | 0646515888 |
In 1962 a young New Zealander left home for a one year trip to Europe. He returned some 20 years later with a wife, four children and the internationally renowned tour company - Contiki Holidays.Written by the founder of Contiki, Only Two Seats Left is the incredible story of how a simple idea with a starting...
Thirty-One Nil: The Amazing Story of World Cup Qualification
| Author | James Montague |
| ISBN | 1408158841 |
From the Palestinian team in the West Bank to the Serbia vs Croatia rivalry; from American Samoa, a team that once lost a match by 31 goals, to the reclusive and well-guarded Eritrea team, from Afghanistan to Haiti, Rwanda to Egypt, this book explores many questions which all have a common theme: football.
What...
Through Dust and Darkness: A Motorcycle Journey of Fear and Faith in the Middle East
| Author | Jeremy Kroeker |
| ISBN | 1927330742 |
Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. When his seemingly unflinching faith in a Christian worldview begins to shift, Kroeker hops on his bike to seek answers from another perspective. After shipping his ride to Europe, Kroeker discovers that the machine wobbles back and forth worse than...
Lois on the Loose: One Woman, One Motorcycle, 20,000 Miles Across the Americas
| Author | Lois Pryce |
| ISBN | 0312352212 |
Lois Pryce was working at the BBC in London, firmly set on the career track. But unbeknownst to her coworkers, Lois was leading a parallel life as well, that of a biker babe with an overwhelming case of wanderlust, one that couldn't be satisfied by a weekend holiday. Her days in a cubicle were numbered,...
Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World
In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6.
Reeling from a recent breakup and with only limited savings from her pub...
Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story Of Our World War 1 Nurses
By the end of World War 1, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service, and over 200 decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance, but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. Their strength...
Uneasy Rider: Travels Through a Mid-Life Crisis
| Author | Mike Carter |
| ISBN | 0091922682 |
A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspires middle-aged, and typically rather cautious, journalist Mike Carter to take off on a life-changing six month motorcycle trip around Europe. Never mind that he hadn't been on two wheels since an inglorious three-month teenage chapter involving...
The Book of (Holiday) Awesome
| Author | Neil Pasricha |
| ISBN | 0399158596 |
There's nothing like the holidays. They bring out the best, and sometimes the worst, in everyone. Luckily, Neil Pasricha is here to remind us that not only are the holidays great but there's actually even more to celebrate than we realize. From Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa to such holidays as Mother's...
Is That Thing Diesel?: One Man, One Bike and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil
| Author | Paul Carter |
| ISBN | 1741757029 |
The formative idea of this book is that 40-something Paul Carter, having recently attained the status of fatherhood, is not ready to settle down into suburban life in Perth just yet. After spending an interesting two decades flitting around the world working on various oil rigs, he wants one last big...
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow: A Mirror Odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea
| Author | A.J. Mackinnon |
| ISBN | 1574091522 |
This is the true story (give or take some artistic licence) of an impossible trip which is radically under-planned and supremely under-resourced in a totally inadequate piece of equipment, beginning on a river in North Shropshire England, and ending at the blunt end of Bulgaria on the Black Sea. The...
A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Adventures Around the World
| Author | Don George |
| ISBN | 1742202292 |
From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartland, from mutton in Mongolia to couscous in Morocco to tacos in Tijuana - on the road, food nourishes us not only physically, but intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually too. It can be a gift that enables...
Probability: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | John Haigh |
| ISBN | 0199588481 |
Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. It requires, in short, an understanding of probability. In this Very Short Introduction, John Haigh introduces the ideas of probability--and the different philosophical approaches...
