Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, And A Journey To The Ends Of The Earth
10 best books like Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, And A Journey To The Ends Of The Earth (Daniel Glick): One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children, Travels in West Africa, Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure, The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics, Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents, Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu, In Search of King Solomon's Mines, The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers, The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule, The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa
| Author | David Elliot Cohen |
| ISBN | 1885211651 |
A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to make it a reality. With his wife and three children,...
| Author | Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
| ISBN | 0792266382 |
In 1893, defying every convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone for West Africa to collect botanical specimens. Unaccompanied except for native guides, she plunged boldly into forbidding jungles, often the first European--and almost always the first white woman--ever to...
Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure
| Author | Patricia Ellis Herr |
When Trish Herr became pregnant with her first daughter, Alex, she and her husband, Hugh, vowed to instill a bond with nature in their children. By the time Alex was five, her over-the-top energy levels led Trish to believe that her very young daughter might be capable of hiking adult-sized mountains.
In...
The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics
| Author | Richard Halliburton |
| ISBN | 1885211538 |
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...
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,...
| 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...
In Search of King Solomon's Mines
| Author | Tahir Shah |
| ISBN | 1559707240 |
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...
| Author | Eric Hansen |
| ISBN | 0679771824 |
Eric Hansen survives a cyclone on a boat off the Australian coast, cradles a dying man in Calcutta, and drinks mind-altering kava in Vanuatu. He helps a widower search for his wife's wedding ring amid plane-crash wreckage in Borneo and accompanies topless dancers on a bird-watching expedition in California....
A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic “purity.” In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna Kavenna wanders in search of Thule, to Shetland, Iceland,...
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa
| Author | Rick Ridgeway |
| ISBN | 0805053905 |
In one of the most acclaimed travel and adventure books of the past year, Rick Ridgeway chronicles his trek from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Indian Ocean, through Kenya's famed Tsavo Park. His tale is, according to The Boston Globe, "a gripping account of how it feels to be charged by an incensed...
Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North
| Author | Peter Freuchen |
| ISBN | 1585745820 |
In 1910, Freuchen and his close friend, the famed arctic explorer Knud Rasmussen, founded a settlement and trading post among the Greenland Inuit at Thule, only 800 miles from the North Pole. Freuchen lived there for fifteen years, adopting native ways of life, and married an Inuit woman and had two...
May Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. But, she writes, "When there is personal darkness, when there is a pain to be overcome, when we are forced to renew ourselves against all the odds,...
Adventures of a Continental Drifter
| Author | Elliott Hester |
| ISBN | 0312312423 |
One year. Six continents. Twenty-two countries. Endless stories to tell.
In October 2002, Elliott Hester sold his car, abandoned his apartment, and took off alone on a trip around the world, during which he drifted to more than fifty destinations. Elliott's tales about his travels range...
The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
| Author | Philip Caputo |
| ISBN | 0805094466 |
In The Longest Road, one of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large.
Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled...
Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
| Author | Roz Savage |
| ISBN | 1416583289 |
I am happy to be an armchair adventurer.
At the age of 30 something, Roz Savage decides to pull the plug on her ordinary, ho-hum, comfortable and secure life. She's got a great job - sure, she hates the job, but it pays well. She's got a great husband, great in that he takes good care of her, and after...
Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place
| Author | Mary Lee Settle |
| ISBN | 0671779974 |
Mary Settle offers us an intimate portrait of a Turkey rarely seen-a land where the cutting of a tree is a crime, where goats are sacrificed to launch state-of-the-art ships, and where whole towns emerge at dusk to stroll in the streets. She finds ancient monasteries converted into discos, underground...
Cross Country: Fifteen Years and Ninety Thousand Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-In-Law, Two Kids and Enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant
| Author | Robert Sullivan |
| ISBN | 1582345279 |
From the bestselling author of Rats, a personal and national history of one of America's favorite pastimes: driving across the country.
The cross-country trip is the trip that often whizzes past us on our way to quaint back roads and scenic parks; it's an America of long, looping highways,...
Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe
| Author | Todd Wilson |
| ISBN | 1933858141 |
Your house is a disaster, your kids seem out of control, and you wonder how you'll ever make it through another day of school. Your 'get up and go' has 'gotten up and went'. You used to think homeschooling was the best thing since sliced bread, but now you're feeling like burnt toast. Take heart-- you're...
Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist
| Author | Ellen Gilchrist |
| ISBN | 1578062918 |
Ellen Gilchrist has amassed a nationwide following, and her readers eagerly anticipate each new short story collection and novel. The sassy and moving commentaries she recorded for National Public Radio were a large part of the original kindling for this intense interest.
In Falling Through...
The Road Headed West: America Coast to Coast: A Cycling Odyssey
IT SEEMED A TERRIBLE SHAME TO MEET MY END IN IOWA; I couldn’t imagine anywhere more disappointing to die. If I were a betting man I’d have reckoned on the most dangerous thing in this state being sheer boredom. The scenery hadn’t changed for weeks and I was slowly dissolving into stimulation-deprived...
Practically Perfect in Every Way
| Author | Jennifer Niesslein |
| ISBN | 0399153918 |
A wry, perceptive, and witty examination of our relentless need for self-improvement by the admittedly imperfect founding coeditor of the award-winning quarterly Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers.
Jennifer Niesslein-writer, editor, mother, and flawed human being-spent...
Naked in Dangerous Places: The Chronicles of a Hungry, Scared, Lost, Homesick, but Otherwise Perfectly Happy Traveler
| Author | Cash Peters |
| ISBN | 0307396355 |
Finally, after years as a struggling radio host, Cash Peters has been given his own TV adventure show on a big-time travel network. The idea is simple: “Let’s dump him in an unfamiliar culture in a faraway land with no money and no place to stay, and see what happens.”
Unfortunately, there...
War Within & Without: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944
| Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
I got this book from the library after reading The Aviator's Wife hoping to get some insights into Anne Morrow Lindbergh. I surely did, but I'm not sure they were ones that make the character more sympathetic.
Her diary & letters from 1939 - 1944 cover the period of Charles Lindbergh's unfortunate...
Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay
| Author | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| ISBN | 0837164826 |
The rating is more for Millay's funny, sad, clever writing than for anything attributable to the editor. I would have preferred him to do less cutting-down of letters and more foot-noting. Often a single line explaining who a person was or what event/conversation/problem was being referenced would...
