Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer: 0 (Travelers' Tales Guides)
10 best books like Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer: 0 (Travelers' Tales Guides) (Rolf Potts): By Any Means: His Brand New Adventure from Wicklow to Wollongong, A Man's Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River, The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home, The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes, Whose Panties Are These?: More Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road, Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands (Lonely Planet), Man, Oh Man! Writing M/M Fiction for Kinks & Cash
By Any Means: His Brand New Adventure from Wicklow to Wollongong
| Author | Charley Boorman |
| ISBN | 1847442463 |
Charley Boorman has arranged himself a new challenge: he must travel from his home town in England all the way to Sydney, Australia, and he must use any means available to reach his destination, including steam train, horse, boat, kayak, motorcycle, and tuk-tuk. Whether crossing the Black Sea, trekking...
A Man's Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places
| Author | Mark Jenkins |
| ISBN | 1594867070 |
"Brought to life by a poetic and muscular style, Jenkins’s writing is a brew of history, philosophy, and raw emotion. His journeys are as intellectual and spiritual as they are physical, and we are by his side, in his head." So wrote Robin Russin for the LA Times about Mark Jenkins’s last book, The...
| Author | Tanya Shaffer |
| ISBN | 1400032598 |
“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....
| Author | Colin Angus |
| ISBN | 0767912802 |
From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it.
Exploration is...
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0679776117 |
From the acclaimed author of Video Night in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the cultural ramifications of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement.
Beginning in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life-shops, services, sociability-is...
| Author | Carl Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0767929802 |
Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So...
| Author | Jennifer L. Leo |
| ISBN | 1932361111 |
Following on the heels of the successful Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road comes another collection of hilarious travel stories by women. From America to Australia to everywhere in between, the true stories in Whose Panties are These? will have you shaking your...
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0547336918 |
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags”...
| Author | Tony Wheeler |
| ISBN | 1741791863 |
'You guys really are the axis of evil', our guide splutters over his stein of beer in the Pyongyang duck restaurant. 'You're always leaning out of the windows and taking photographs when I tell you not to.'
In an age of plastic knives on planes, Tony Wheeler can make the extraordinary claim of...
| Author | Josh Lanyon |
| ISBN | 1934531308 |
It can be more than just a dream... To write the kind of stories that you love to read - that's what you really want. If only you knew how to get started. *Help from someone who knows...* What you need is professional advice, help from someone who's been there, who can support you through the creative process,...
| Author | Eric Newby |
| ISBN | 0864426275 |
Having decided to explore Ireland by bicycle, Eric and Wanda Newby set out one December - not the best time to ride a bike around the highways and by-ways of the Emerald Isle, even when protected by thermal underwear. From the Cliffs of Moher to St Brigid's Vat, Dublin, the Aran Islands, the Ring of Kerry...
For the Love of Letters: A 21st-Century Guide to the Art of Letter Writing
| Author | Samara O'Shea |
| ISBN | 0061215309 |
The author takes readers step-by-step through the entire process of writing a letter, from how to start and what to say to knowing when e-mail is appropriate.
Have you ever wanted to write a thank-you note and suffered writer's block? Considered penning a passionate letter to your beloved,...
101 Places Not to See Before You Die
| Author | Catherine Price |
| ISBN | 0061787760 |
Irreverent and compulsively readable, 101 Places Not to See Before You Die highlights desitinations we can all live without - like Jupiter's Worst Moon, an Outdoor Wedding During the 2021 Reemergence of the Great Eastern Cicada Brood, and fan hours at the Las Vegas Porn Convention - while reminding...
| 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...
Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler
| Author | Lavinia Spalding |
| ISBN | 1932361677 |
Two major trends have recently swept the travel world: the first, an overwhelming desire (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love) to write one’s own memoir; the second, an explosion of social media, blogs, twitter and texts, which allow travelers to document and share their...
A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration
| Author | Michael Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1932361081 |
In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book...
The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred
| Author | Phil Cousineau |
| ISBN | 1573245097 |
For the intrepid traveler, there are more resources than ever before. But what about the traveler who is at a crossroads in life, longing for something else, neither diversion nor distraction, beyond escape and mere entertainment? What about those eager for a journey that is personally meaningful?...
Life Nomadic: How to Travel the World for Less Than You Pay in Rent
Life Nomadic is a book that will change the way you think about travel. Rather than think of it as an expensive luxury, you will understand it for what it is: a surprisingly affordable necessity for fully experiencing life.
In 2007 I sold everything I owned and began traveling the world. I became...
The Well Spoken Thesaurus: The Most Powerful Ways To Say Everyday Words And Phrases
| Author | Tom Heehler |
| ISBN | 1402243057 |
The Ultimate Guide to Powerful Language
If you’ve ever fumbled while trying to use a big word* to impress a crowd, you know what it’s like to* be poorly spoken. The fear of mispronouncing or misusing complex words is real and leaves many of us consigned to the lower levels* of the English Language....
The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
| Author | Nicholas Clapp |
| ISBN | 0395957869 |
No one thought that Ubar, the most fabled city of ancient Arabia, would ever be found-if it even existed. Buried in the desert without a trace, it had become known as "the Altantis of the Sands." Many had searched for Ubar, including Lawrence of Arabia. Then in the 1980s, Nicholas Clapp, a documentary...
Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers
| Author | Ambrose Bierce |
| ISBN | 0802717683 |
One of America's foremost language experts presents an annotated edition of A mbrose Bierce's classic catalog of correct speech.
Ambrose Bierce is best known for The Devil's Dictionary, but the prolific journalist, satirist, and fabulist was also a usage maven. In 1909, he published...
