One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
10 best books like One for the Road: An Outback Adventure (Tony Horwitz): Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan, The Body in Question, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, Southern Lady Code, Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon, The Cruise of the Snark, Sick Heart River, What Am I Doing Here?
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
| Author | Will Ferguson |
| ISBN | 1841952885 |
It had never been done before. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and sake, Will Ferguson bet he could do both. The resulting travelogue...
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From the author of Heroic Measures (“Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page” —Ann Patchett), Act of God (“A feat of literary magic”—Booklist) and, with Amy Hempel, The Hand That Feeds You (“An unnerving, elegant page-turner”...
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
| Author | Tony Hawks |
| ISBN | 0312305184 |
It doesn't take much - "£100 is usually sufficient" - to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet. And so it is, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet - that Tony can't beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis....
| Author | Helen Ellis |
| ISBN | 0385543891 |
The bestselling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady.
Helen Ellis has...
| Author | J. Maarten Troost |
| ISBN | 0767921992 |
With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and infectious joy of discovery in a side-splittingly funny account of life in the farthest reaches of the world....
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0486261131 |
"We sai1ed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a dictionary." — Following the Equator
So begins this classic piece...
| Author | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0679727140 |
A mixture of minute, old-fashioned naturalistic observation of plants, mammals, and especially birds in the Amazonian rain forest, and the vicissitudes of traveling with a motley crew of locals along with O'Hanlon's alcoholic English friend Simon, who comes along for a kind of comic counterpoint...
| Author | Jack London |
| ISBN | 0924486465 |
THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK by Jack London
I loved Jack London's life when I was much younger, and well, I still do. I dreamed of sailing the seas as he had. I loved his stone house in Glen Ellen and wished to live there, and I loved and wanted all of his souvenirs from the different islands that he had visited....
Sick Heart River is John Buchan's most powerful novel and his last, completed days before his death. It was published posthumously in 1941. Buchan's rich descriptions of the rugged Canadian Northwest Territories are influenced by his real-life voyage down the Mackenzie River in 1937. At that time,...
| Author | Bruce Chatwin |
| ISBN | 0099769816 |
In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that...
Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0618126937 |
Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparable Paul Theroux as a guide. From the crisp quiet...
Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
| Author | Tim Moore |
| ISBN | 0312320833 |
Having no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Tim Moore, Britain's indefatigable traveling Everyman, sets out on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela with a donkey named Shinto as his companion. Armed only with a twelfth-century handbook to...
| Author | Rex Stout |
| ISBN | 0553277766 |
In the Best Families (1950) tells of Nero Wolfe's battle to the death with Arnold Zeck (his Professor Moriarty) in which the great detective goes underground--leaving Archie in the dark and in the lurch--to prepare for their final confrontation.
This is the third and final volume of the...
