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One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children

10 best books like One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children (David Elliot Cohen): Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass, Honeymoon with My Brother, I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life, 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism, Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe, A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go

Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass
AuthorMelanie Neale
"Boat Girl" is the heart-breaking memoir of growing up aboard a sailboat. Throughout the 1980's and 90's, Melanie's family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summers along the US East Coast and their winters in the Bahamas. But the cruising life was not all fun in the sun. The family had...
Honeymoon with My Brother
AuthorFranz Wisner
ISBN0312340842
This is the true story of Franz Wisner, a man who thought he had it all- a high profile career and the fiancée of his dreams- when suddenly, his life turned upside down. Just days before they were to be married, his fiancée called off the wedding. Luckily, his large support network of family and friends...
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....
First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
AuthorEve Brown-Waite
ISBN0767929357
In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him —literally–to the ends of the earth.
Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without...
360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World
AuthorJohn Higham
ISBN1593501080
Much more than a travel narrative 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World is a glimpse at what it means to be a “global citizen”—a progressively changing view of the world as seen through the eyes of an American family of four.

After more than a decade of planning,...
To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism
AuthorChuck Thompson
ISBN0805087885
The guru of extreme tourism sets out to face his worst fears in Africa, India, Mexico City, and—most terrifying of all—at Disney World

In the widely-acclaimed Smile When You're Lying, Chuck Thompson laid bare the travel industry's dirtiest secrets. Now he's out to discover if some of...
Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
AuthorMary Morris
ISBN0312199414
Traveling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras, from the seashore of the Caribbean to the exquisite highlands of Guatemala, Mary Morris, a celebrated writer of both fiction and nonfiction, confronts the realities of place, poverty, machismo, and selfhood....
A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe
AuthorFaith Conlon
The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian...
A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust
AuthorMarybeth Bond
ISBN1932361146
"Passion: any kind of feeling or emotion—hope, fear, joy, grief, anger, love, desire—when vehement, overwhelming or of compelling force."

In this followup to the award-winning A Woman's World, meet women from all stages of life—college students and grandmothers, old friends and...
100 Places Every Woman Should Go
AuthorStephanie Elizondo Griest
ISBN1932361472
With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go encourages women of any age to see the world — in a group, with a friend, or solo — and inspires them to create their own list of dreams. Based on her own explorations of many countries, states, and regions, and on interviews...
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,...
Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives
AuthorSadie Smith
ISBN0756653991
Off the Tourist Trail is a guide to the world's unspoiled sights and experiences. It takes a hundred clichéd tourist destinations - everything from over-visited national parks to overrated museums - and reveal 1,000 fresh and fascinating alternative options. Written by a team of travel experts,...
Make the Most of Your Time on Earth
AuthorPhil Stanton
Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: A Rough Guide to the World with 1000 must-do experiences from around the world.

Make the Most of Your Time on Earth is a book that will inspire everyone. Perfect for both the seasoned traveller and the armchair dreamer, it brings you the very best travel experiences...
Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, And A Journey To The Ends Of The Earth
AuthorDaniel Glick
ISBN1586482378
After losing his brother to cancer and a painful divorce that left him the sole charge d'affaires of two decidedly spirited children, environmental reporter Daniel Glick knew he and his little family desperately needed some karmic rejuvenation. He opted for an epic adventure. In the summer of 2001,...
The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
AuthorCarl Hoffman
ISBN0767929802
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...
The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education
AuthorMaya Frost
ISBN0307450627
Good-bye, Old School. Hello, Bold School!

In 2005, Maya Frost and her husband sold everything and left their suburban American lifestyle behind in order to have an adventure abroad. The tricky part: they had to shepherd their four teenage daughters through high school and into college. This...
The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World
AuthorEdward Hasbrouck
ISBN1566914337
Invaluable tips and information make taking the plunge towards an extended vacation easier. Edward Hasbrouck, the Internet's best-known authority on international airfares and travel planning, provides guidance and advice for independent travel anywhere in the world. Get helpful information...
The Rough Guide First-Time Around the World: A Trip Planner for the Ultimate Journey
AuthorDoug Lansky
ISBN1843536617
Planning a trip around the world? Let First-Time Around the World get you started. Loaded with the very latest travel information, including all you need to know about round-the-world tickets, this pre-departure guide will help get your ultimate journey under way. The guide begins with a 16-page,...
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...
AA Gill is Away
AuthorA.A. Gill
ISBN0743276671
A. A. Gill is one of the most feared writers in London, noted--according to the New York Times--for his "rapier wit." Some even consider the mere assignment of a subject to Gill a hostile act. But when the notice "AA GILL IS AWAY" runs in the Sunday Times of London, the city can rest peacefully in the knowledge...
Serpent in Paradise
AuthorDea Birkett
ISBN0385488718
Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock. Home to thirty-eight islanders--descendants of the Bounty mutineers--Pitcairn has no cars, no crime, no doctor, and no regular contact with the outside world. For two centuries, "Fletcher Christian's children," whose culture and...
The Glorious Adventure
AuthorRichard Halliburton
ISBN1590480848
Richard Halliburton was quite the character. I've read some of his letters to his parents in the Princeton University Archives regarding his travels to Greece to research this book, and so I have an idea of when his narrative departs from the truth. That it occasionally does, but most of his adventures...
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors
AuthorEdward E. Leslie
ISBN0395911508
This book includes a lot of well-researched stories, but it's hindered by inconsistent writing and an annoyingly broad focus. The writing is actively confusing at times, sometimes enough to send me running to other sources for clarification.

There are a lot of dry recitations of fact mixed...
Miles from Nowhere
AuthorBarbara Savage
ISBN0898861098
A well-loved, classic tale of adventure, a book you'll find yourself recommending again and again

This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000 miles global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years....
Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways
AuthorJamie Jensen
ISBN1566917662
Now in its 10th anniversary edition, the best-selling Road Trip USA is better than ever. Inside you'll find cross-country routes and road-tested advice for adventurers who want to see part of America that the interstates have left behind. Mile-by-mile highlights celebrate major cities, obscure...
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