Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
10 best books like Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (Michael Palin): Race to Dakar, Long Way Down, Three Singles to Adventure, The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: Unseen Images from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition, Hemingway on Fishing, Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure, The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic, Roads to Santiago, The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler, Road Fever
| Author | Charley Boorman |
| ISBN | 0316731927 |
In January 2006, 230 people raced in trucks, cars, and motorbikes from Lisbon to Dakar in the 28th annual Dakar rally—the most challenging race in existence. Taking part was a team of three bikers—Matt Hall, Simon Pavey, and actor and bike nut Charley Boorman. After his celebrated trip round the...
| Author | Ewan McGregor |
| ISBN | 1847440533 |
Eighteen countries. Five shock absorbers. Two bikers. One amazing adventure...
After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. And after an inspirational UNICEF visit to Africa, they knew...
| Author | Gerald Durrell |
| ISBN | 0140020829 |
Three Singles to Adventure is about Gerald Durrell's travels in search of exotic animals in South America.
"Adventure" is the name of a small village near Georgetown, the capital of Guyana. This early book by Gerald Durrell chronicles his 1950 expedition to what was then called British Guiana,...
The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: Unseen Images from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition
| Author | David M. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0316178500 |
The myth of Scott of the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, icon of fortitude and courage who perished with his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole on March 29th, 1912, is an enduring one, elevated, dismantled and restored during the turbulence of the succeeding century. Until...
From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family's summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and reportages were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of his great writings...
Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure
In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the “first real outstanding adventure” of his life, taking a berth as ship’s surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the Hope. The voyage took him to unknown regions, showered him with dramatic and unexpected experiences, and plunged...
| Author | Edward Beauclerk Maurice |
| ISBN | 0618773584 |
At sixteen, Edward Beauclerk Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company -- the company of Gentleman Adventurers -- and ended up at an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where there was no communication with the outside world and only one ship arrived each year. But he was...
| Author | Cees Nooteboom |
| ISBN | 0156011581 |
Roads to Santiago is an evocative travelogue through the sights, sounds, and smells of a little known Spain-its architecture, art, history, landscapes, villages, and people. And as much as it is the story of his travels, it is an elegant and detailed chronicle of Cees Nooteboom's thirty-five-year...
Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and the Knight, is a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was once the most famous writer in medieval Europe. Mandeville wrote a book about his voyage around the world that became a beacon that lit the way for the great...
| 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...
Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal
| Author | Jeff Greenwald |
| ISBN | 1609520947 |
Jeff Greenwald's classic travelogue takes the reader on a journey across the Himalayan peaks and through the rustic lanes of Kathmandu in search of the "perfect" Buddha statue. At turns hilarious and moving, his quest features a cast of amazing characters—from a passionate palmist to a flying lama...
Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary
| Author | Alberto Granado |
| ISBN | 1557046395 |
Published for the first time in the U.S.—one of the two diaries on which the movie The Motorcycle Diaries is based—the moving and at times hilarious account of Che Guevara and Alberto Granado's eight-month tour of South America in 1952.
In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend...
Billy Connolly's Route 66
| Author | Billy Connolly |
| ISBN | 1847445217 |
The best-loved comedian in Britain heads off on the most famous highway in the world for an unforgettable journey through America. Having always dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66, Billy Connolly is finally heading off on the ride of a lifetime. Traveling all 2,488 miles of this epic...
| Author | Michael Wood |
| ISBN | 0563487062 |
The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century was one of the most cataclysmic events in history. Spanish expeditions had to endure the most unbelievable hardships to open up the lands of the New World. Few stories, if any, in history match these for sheer drama, endurance and distances...
Rescuing the Spectacled Bear
| Author | Stephen Fry |
| ISBN | 0091795230 |
Both wildly funny and moving -- a journal of Stephen Fry’s bid to rescue Peru’s endangered spectacled bears.
Spectacled Bear: The spectacled bear is small and dark, ranging in colour from black to brown, and a few have a reddish tinge. It has distinctive circular or semicircular creamy...
Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram
| Author | Iain Banks |
| ISBN | 1844131955 |
A tour of Scottish distilleries explores the history, personality and mystery of the water of life.
As a native of Scotland, bestselling author Ian Banks has decided to undertake a tour of the distilleries of his homeland in a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt.
Visiting...
The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America
| Author | Eric Idle |
| ISBN | 0060758643 |
The man who brought you the anthems "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" and "Sit on My Face and Tell Me That You Love Me" shows his naughty bits -- and so much more
A stunningly witty exploration of the American landscape -- not to mention a brilliant comic's mind -- this diary is chock-full of...
The Xenophobe's Guide to the English
| Author | Antony Miall |
| ISBN | 1902825268 |
After reading The Xenophobe's guide to the Germans, where I've worked and lived the past twenty odd years, decided to read the book about my nation. Again I found it amusing and contains many truths. Only after working and living in a foreign country can we really appreciate who we are and see our own culture...
Tired of London, Tired of Life: One Thing A Day To Do in London
| Author | Tom Jones |
| ISBN | 0753540320 |
As the late great Samuel Johnson sagely observed, 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.'
When author Tom Jones found himself doing the same things week in, week out while living in England's treasured capital, he decided to heed Johnson's words and seek out a thing to do each day...
North Star Over My Shoulder: A Flying Life
| Author | Bob Buck |
| ISBN | 0743219643 |
It is rare to find one person whose life embodies the history of an industry the way Bob Buck's life encompasses the history of commercial aviation in America. Buck first flew in the 1920s, inspired by the exploits of Charles Lindbergh. In 1930, at age sixteen, he flew solo from coast to coast, breaking...
