In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon
10 best books like In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon (Redmond O'Hanlon): Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan, Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, Blue Highways, Iron and Silk, Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City, Travels into the Interior of Africa
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
| Author | Will Ferguson |
| ISBN | 1841952885 |
It had never been done before. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and sake, Will Ferguson bet he could do both. The resulting travelogue...
| Author | Peter Allison |
| ISBN | 0762745657 |
A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!”
In the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide’s-eye view of living in the bush,...
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
| Author | Tony Hawks |
| ISBN | 0312305184 |
It doesn't take much - "£100 is usually sufficient" - to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet. And so it is, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet - that Tony can't beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis....
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
| Author | Dervla Murphy |
| ISBN | 0879512482 |
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...
| Author | William Least Heat-Moon |
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at...
| Author | Mark Salzman |
| ISBN | 0394755111 |
Salzman is a sweet guy, there's no doubt about it. his tales of his time in china are direct, cleanly written, and rooted in a clear love of the world around him and the people in it. he manages to effortlessly sidestep any potential landmines in terms of race, culture, or class simply by being himself - a...
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
| Author | Eric Hansen |
| ISBN | 0375724958 |
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...
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
| Author | Sara Wheeler |
| ISBN | 0375753389 |
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...
My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
| Author | Alexandra David-Néel |
| ISBN | 0060596554 |
An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city.
In order to penetrate Tibet and reach...
Travels into the Interior of Africa
| Author | Mungo Park |
| ISBN | 0907871046 |
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 voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second. It ended six months and 4,200 miles later, where the Amazon runs gently into the Atlantic. Joe Kane's...
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0679770798 |
An absolutely outstanding book. This is a collection of pieces the author wrote for Outside and some other magazines during the late 70s and early 80s. The book far exceeds the quality of Pecked to Death by Ducks, which is the only other of his collections I have read.
The first half of the book...
In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to visit.
As...
| Author | Kira Salak |
| ISBN | 0792274172 |
A Restless Women Travelers title
Four Corners is Kira Salak's riveting account of her epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea—often called the last frontier of adventure travel. Traveling by dugout canoe and on foot, confronting the dangers and...
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0394758374 |
What a road trip! So much of what Tim Cahill describes involves the preparation -- the paperwork, logistics, and financial backing -- that must be figured out before starting a marathon trip such as the one General Motors bankrolled. I understand he was trying to make a point, but I would've enjoyed the...
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
| Author | Jonathan Raban |
| ISBN | 0375701001 |
The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing. In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river...
