Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River
10 best books like Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River (Colin Angus): The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong, Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness, Safari Jema: A Journey of Love and Adventure from Casablanca to Cape Town, The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail, The Lost Heart of Asia, Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya, The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest, The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World, Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
| Author | Edward Gargan |
| ISBN | 0375705597 |
Along the Mekong, from northern Tibet to Lijiang, from Luang Prabang to Phnom Penh to Can Lo, I moved from one world to another, among cultural islands often ignorant of each other’s presence. Yet each island, as if built on shifting sands and eroded and reshaped by a universal sea, was re-forming itself,...
| Author | Jeffrey Tayler |
| ISBN | 0609808265 |
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,...
Safari Jema: A Journey of Love and Adventure from Casablanca to Cape Town
| Author | Teresa O'Kane |
| ISBN | 1463741790 |
INDIE BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR BEST MEMOIR OF 2012. Teresa O'Kane had always longed to see the world. She owned scads of travel books and maps to prove it and was about to buy yet another bookcase to hold the many Lonely Planet guides and travel essays that she had accumulated over the years when she turned to...
| Author | Dan White |
| ISBN | 0061376930 |
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...
| Author | Colin Thubron |
| ISBN | 0060926562 |
A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia--the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane, site of the legendary Silk Route and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations--is a remote and fascinating region. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and...
| Author | Britta Das |
| ISBN | 1840244984 |
Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers. Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this beautiful memoir reveals hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by the West. When Britta, a young physiotherapist, goes to work in a...
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest
| Author | Conrad Anker |
| ISBN | 0684871521 |
On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared somewhere near the summit of Mount Everest, leaving open the tantalizing question of whether they had reached the summit of Everest twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered...
| Author | Dan Morrison |
| ISBN | 0670021989 |
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,...
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0679746129 |
I can'ttttt anymore, I'm gonna die of boredom. I was so looking forward to reading this book, but it is SO BLAH! I was expecting more of a travelogue style of writing, not a completely stand-offish overview. The author didn't really get into experiencing these cultures, it seemed. He gave a sentence here...
| Author | Kira Salak |
| ISBN | 0792274571 |
After 37 years of never reading about Mali, I have managed two books about that country in the last month. The previous book (The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts) gave more information about the history of the region, and informed my reading...
| 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 | Mary South |
| ISBN | 0060747021 |
At forty, Mary South seemed to have it all: a beautiful home in Pennsylvania, a group of close friends, the companionship of two loving Jack Russell terriers and a successful career in book publishing. But shuttling between the conference room at work and her couch in front of the TV at home, South couldn't...
| Author | Stanley Stewart |
| ISBN | 1592281060 |
Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly awaited book takes its place among the travel classics. It is a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, and an evocative portrait of a medieval land marooned in the modern world. Eight and a half centuries ago, under Genghis Khan, the Mongols...
Ken Budd’s The Voluntourist is a remarkable memoir about losing your father, accepting your fate, and finding your destiny by volunteering around the world for numerous worthy causes: Hurricane Katrina disaster relief in New Orleans, helping special needs children in China, studying climate...
| Author | Roy Blount Jr. |
| ISBN | 1400046459 |
“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with...
Dangerous Beauty: Life and Death in Africa: True Stories from a Safari Guide
| Author | Mark C. Ross |
| ISBN | 0786890428 |
On March 1, 1999, American safari guide Mark Ross was camping with four clients in Uganda searching for endangered mountain gorillas. By day's end, two of these clients and six other tourists were dead at the hands of Rwandan rebels. As a man who loves East Africa, Ross felt betrayed by this horror, which...
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus.No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s...
Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods
| Author | John McPherson |
| ISBN | 1569756503 |
EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT SURVIVING IN THE WILD
“During my first years of learning survival I took a course in survival and primitive earth skills taught by John and Geri McPherson. I was excited by their unbelievable passion and their intrinsic understanding of survival. Their...
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0375713298 |
In his latest collection of death-defying exploits and far-flung travels, Outside Magazine editor Tim Cahill visits the side of an active volcano in Ecuador, the Saharan salt mines and the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. He also ventures to find a Caspian tiger in Turkey and giant...
Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure
| Author | Cheryl Alters Jamison |
| ISBN | 0060878959 |
Join Cheryl and Bill Jamison, James Beard Award winners of The Big Book of Outdoor Cooking and Entertaining, on a gastronomic tour around the world
After years of writing award-winning cookbooks, renowned culinary experts Cheryl and Bill Jamison were ready to take a break. So in the fall of...
The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet
| Author | Eugene Linden |
| ISBN | 0670022519 |
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...
Lost and Found in Russia: Lives in the Post-Soviet Landscape
| Author | Susan Richards |
| ISBN | 1590513487 |
After the fall of communism, Russia was in a state of shock. The sudden and dramatic change left many people adrift and uncertain—but also full of a tentative but tenacious hope. Returning again and again to the provincial hinterlands of this rapidly evolving country from 1992 to 2008, Susan Richards...
| Author | Hugh Thomson |
| ISBN | 0753813580 |
One man goes in search of the lost cities of the Amazon in the Inca heartland.
The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination. The ruins of the Incas and other pre-Colombian civilisations are scattered over thousands of miles of still largely uncharted...
In Search of Genghis Khan: An Exhilarating Journey on Horseback Across the Steppes of Mongolia
| Author | Tim Severin |
| ISBN | 0815412878 |
Following the collapse of nearly seventy years of Communist rule, veteran writer and traveler Tim Severin went to Mongolia "to see how much of the tradtional way of life survived." He discovered a country in an uncertain state of transition and struggling with its newfound identity. Part travelogue...
