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Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents

10 best books like Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents (Jim Malusa): Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness, The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, Eight Feet in the Andes, The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics, The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism, Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile, To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger

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,...
The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail
AuthorDan White
ISBN0061376930
The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, a distance of 2,650 grueling, sun-scorched, bear-infested miles. When Dan White and his girlfriend announced their intention to hike it, Dan's parents—among others—thought they were nuts. How could two people who'd never even shared...
Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa
AuthorTanya Shaffer
ISBN1400032598
“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....
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
AuthorTim Mackintosh-Smith
ISBN0330491148
Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for 29 years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey, from Tangier to Constantinople. Destinations include and Islamic Butlin's...
Eight Feet in the Andes
AuthorDervla Murphy
ISBN0006547974
The eight feet belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel and Juana, an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca on the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital, over 1300 miles to the south. With only the most basic necessities to sustain...
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...
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
AuthorDan Morrison
ISBN0670021989
A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea

With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who'd never been off American soil and set out from Uganda,...
To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism
AuthorChuck Thompson
ISBN0805087885
The guru of extreme tourism sets out to face his worst fears in Africa, India, Mexico City, and—most terrifying of all—at Disney World

In the widely-acclaimed Smile When You're Lying, Chuck Thompson laid bare the travel industry's dirtiest secrets. Now he's out to discover if some of...
Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile
AuthorSara Wheeler
ISBN0375753656
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral...
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,...
In Search of King Solomon's Mines
AuthorTahir Shah
ISBN1559707240
King Solomon, the Bible's wisest king, also possessed extraordinary wealth. He built a temple at Jerusalem that was said to be more fabulous than any other landmark in the ancient world, heavily adorned with gold from Ophir. The precise location of this legendary land has been one of history's great...
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...
A Bike Ride: 12,000 Miles Around the World
AuthorAnne Mustoe
ISBN0863696503
When ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe gave up her job, bought a bike and took to the road, she couldn't even mend a puncture. 12,000 miles and 15 months later, she was home.

Her epic solo journey took her around the world, through Europe, India, the Far East and the United States. From Thessaloniki...
Miles from Nowhere
AuthorBarbara Savage
ISBN0898861098
A well-loved, classic tale of adventure, a book you'll find yourself recommending again and again

This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000 miles global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years....
Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa
AuthorRichard Grant
ISBN1439154147
NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God's Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico's lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make...
Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180
AuthorMike Magnuson
ISBN1400052416
Take one very large guy. Add booze, cigarettes, and an extreme amount of junk food. Mix in a wry, self-effacing wit. Throw in a bike. The result? Heft on Wheels, a potently funny look at turning your life around, one insanely unrealistic goal at a time.

Not that long ago, Mike Magnuson was a self-described...
The Lost Cyclist
AuthorDavid V. Herlihy
ISBN0547195575
In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling around the world. He finally got his chance by recasting himself as a champion of the downsized “safety-bicycle†with inflatable tires, the forerunner of the modern...
Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World
AuthorSeth Stevenson
ISBN1594484422
An eye-opening and fascinating slow travel journey from an acclaimed writer who circled the globe without ever leaving the ground.

In this age of globalism and high-speed travel, Seth Stevenson, the witty, thoughtful Slate columnist, takes us back to a time when travel meant putting one...
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...
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...
The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet
AuthorEugene Linden
ISBN0670022519
A noted environmental writer relives his experiences of how earth's far corners have yielded to or resisted modernity.

For forty years Eugene Linden has explored global environmental issues in books and for publications ranging from National Geographic and Time to Foreign Affairs. Linden's...
Eat, Sleep, Ride
AuthorPaul Howard
ISBN1553658175
Armed with wit and humour, an internationally acclaimed cycling writer tackles the longest mountain bike race in the world.

For Paul Howard, who has ridden the entire Tour de France route during the race itself--setting off at 4 am each day to avoid being caught by the pros--riding an adventure...
Moods Of Future Joys
AuthorAlastair Humphreys
ISBN1897312229
Harbouring a desire to ride round the world Alastair Humphreys had saved and planned it for ages, and at the age of 24 he was ready to leave. Or was he? Huge doubts had set in and he was worrying about all sorts of things, but he took the plunge and set off to the continent. As the days passed through Europe, confidence...
Beyond the Horizon: The Great Race to Finish the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Planet
AuthorColin Angus
ISBN0385661231
In June, 2004, Colin Angus left Vancouver on his bicycle. Nearly two years later, he rolled back in, looking like a castaway, and having completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

Angus cycled, skiied, and rowed a route that took him to Alaska, across the Bering Sea and...
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