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10 best books like Miles from Nowhere (Barbara Savage): Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge, I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers, Dove, Eight Feet in the Andes, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents, The Size of the World, It's Not About the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels

Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
AuthorJill Fredston
ISBN0865476551
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland,...
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers
AuthorRoger Rapoport
ISBN1571430148
In this hilarious anthology 50 top travel writers, novelists and journalists, including Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Theroux, Mary Morris, Dominique Lapierre, Eric Hansen, Rick Steves, Tony Wheeler and Helen Gurley Brown, tell the stories of their greatest travel disasters....
Dove
AuthorRobin Lee Graham
ISBN0060920475
I will date myself and say I had a huge crush on this guy as a young girl with a birthday subscription to National Geographic. (He contributed articles for years during his voyage) What adolescent (and I wasn't quite there) doesn't fantasize about quitting school and finding himself by sailing around...
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...
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
AuthorArlene Blum
ISBN0156031167
A legendary trailblazer, Arlene Blum defied the climbing establishment of the 1970s by leading the first all-female teams on successful ascents of Mount McKinley and Annapurna and by being the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest. At the same time, her groundbreaking scientific work challenged...
Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide
AuthorJill Homer
Jill is an unassuming recreational cyclist who has about as much in common with Lance Armstrong as she does with Michael Jordan. But despite her perceived athletic mediocrity, the newspaper editor from Alaska harbors an outlandish ambition: the "world's toughest mountain bike race," a 2,740-mile...
Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
AuthorEric Hansen
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...
Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents
AuthorJim Malusa
With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents, a six-year series of “anti-expeditions” to the “anti-summits.” His journeys took him to Lake Eyre in the arid heart of Australia,...
The Size of the World
AuthorJeff Greenwald
By the time that travel writer Jeff Greenwald hit his late thirties, he had covered more ground than Magellan, Marco Polo, and Columbus combined. But he also came to a sobering conclusion: airplanes had reduced his exotic explorations to a series of long commutes. So he set out to rediscover the mass,...
It's Not About the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels
AuthorPolly Evans
ISBN0385339925
Single, stressed, and living amid the hustle and hurry of modern Hong Kong, Polly Evans had a vision: of mountains and orange groves, matadors and promenades–and of a glorious, hassle-free journey across Spain by bicycle. But like any decent dream, Polly’s came with its own reality: of thighs...
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...
I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail
AuthorGail D. Storey
ISBN1594857458
With comfortable urban lives in Houston, Texas, and career and life goals mostly accomplished, Gail D. Storey and her husband were in their fifties when they decided it was time to test themselves on a new path—a 2,663-mile path known as the Pacific Crest Trail, which stretches from Mexico to Canada....
Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure
AuthorDon Starkell
ISBN0771082568
It was crazy. It was unthinkable. It was the adventure of a lifetime.

When Don and Dana Starkell left Winnipeg in a tiny three-seater canoe, they had no idea of the dangers that lay ahead. Two years and 12,180 miles later, father and son had each paddled nearly twenty million strokes, slept on...
Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent
AuthorJoe Glickman
ISBN0762772875
I devoured this book. There are not enough good published stories of modern women who are truly adventurous - at least not for me. But this is a great one! The German business woman Freya Hoffmeister (among other accomplishments) circumnavigated the entire continent of Australia in her kayak, an incredibly...
The People's Guide to Mexico
AuthorCarl Franz
ISBN1566917115
Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado.

Features include:
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Metal Cowboy: Tales from the Road Less Pedaled
AuthorJoe Kurmaskie
ISBN0609809113
This heartwarming collection of true stories reveals the thrill and the freedom of traveling America's back roads on a bicycle, and the joy of discovering unforgettable characters along the way.From the moment he "borrowed" his big sister's banana-seat bike and careened down the neighborhood hill...
I See by My Outfit
AuthorPeter S. Beagle
ISBN1933572078
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. articulated his dream, JFK was assassinated, and zip codes were first introduced to the US. The world was monumentally changing and changing fast. But in the eyes of future fantasy author Peter Beagle and his best friend Phil, it wasn't changing fast enough. For these...
The Thousand-Mile Summer
AuthorColin Fletcher
ISBN0679723269
At three o'clock one sleepless night, Colin Fletcher decided that what he must do was walk the length of California. He could only fumble with the supporting reasons, but he knew it was a hike he had to make. Fletcher followed lonely stretches of the Colorado, crossed the Mojave, walked the trough of Death...
The Wind in My Wheels
AuthorJosie Dew
ISBN0751502499
As a young girl, Josie Dew developed an overpowering urge to travel. She also fell out of a fast-moving vehicle and, rather inconveniently, developed a lifelong aversion to cars. Along came her first bicycle, and she has never looked back. Four continents, thirty-six countries and eighty thousand...
Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China, & Vietnam
AuthorErika Warmbrunn
ISBN0898866847
A thoroughly enjoyable travel book from the point of view of a woman who is not really soul-seeking, not healing from a tragic life event, not exoticizing the people she encounters or the places she goes.

Erika Warmbrunn is a young woman in the early 1990s who has a lot of world travel under her...
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...
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