Only Pack What You Can Carry: My Path to Inner Strength, Confidence, and True Self-Knowledge
10 best books like Only Pack What You Can Carry: My Path to Inner Strength, Confidence, and True Self-Knowledge (Janice Holly Booth): Running with the Pack, The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu, Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers, In Search of King Solomon's Mines, All Over the Map, Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World
| Author | Mark Rowlands |
| ISBN | 1847082025 |
'Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.' Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. And for him the two - running and philosophising - are inextricably connected.
In Running with the Pack he...
The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe
| Author | Tony Perrottet |
| ISBN | 0307592189 |
Sex and travel have always been intertwined, and never more so than on the classic Grand Tour of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today the Continent is still littered with salacious remnants of that golden age, where secret boudoirs, notorious dungeons, and forbidden artifacts...
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
| Author | Sunaura Taylor |
| ISBN | 1620971283 |
A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation—and the debut of an important new social critic
How much of what we understand of ourselves as “human” depends on our physical and mental abilities—how we move (or cannot...
| Author | Tanya Shaffer |
| ISBN | 1400032598 |
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
| 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...
| Author | Nancy Pearl |
| ISBN | 1570616507 |
Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops...
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 | Laura Fraser |
| ISBN | 0307450635 |
What's a wise, witty travel writer to do when she reaches forty and is still single? Wander the globe searching for romance and adventure, of course.
On a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, to celebrate her fortieth birthday, Laura Fraser confronts the unique trajectory of her life. Divorced and childless...
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 1932361448 |
Yikes, just when I had read one in this series that rated average, it slipped back down to below average again. And to add insult to injury, this book shared some stories with some of their other books that I've read (Whose Panties are These, Sand in my Bra, and more). I mean, if you don't have time enough to...
| Author | Rita Golden Gelman |
| ISBN | 0307588017 |
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She has...
| Author | Peter Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0449214567 |
It's truly a rare thing for an American during that time period to have been able to traverse the width and breadth of China--and especially handy to have had an interpreter with him the whole time. I appreciate the insight into far-flung regions of China, and am frankly in awe and envious of the author's...
| Author | Marybeth Bond |
| ISBN | 1885211155 |
This is an indispensable handbook full of information that can save you time, trouble and maybe even your life. Women make up the largest segment of the traveling population and many of them are choosing to travel alone. When I was a student for a summer session in England I walked the streets of London...
| Author | Jennifer L. Leo |
| ISBN | 1932361111 |
Following on the heels of the successful Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road comes another collection of hilarious travel stories by women. From America to Australia to everywhere in between, the true stories in Whose Panties are These? will have you shaking your...
| Author | Klara Glowczewska |
| ISBN | 0143112619 |
From the #1 travel magazine in the country, a collection of travel tales from some of today's finest writers
Travel writing maintains its seemingly endless popularity, and this volume offers a particularly transporting body of work, pairing exotic locales with writers of the highest caliber:...
| Author | John Kretschmer |
| ISBN | 1574091646 |
Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching...
| Author | Jennifer Bove |
| ISBN | 1932361375 |
The stories in this remarkable collection detail the experiences of women who work in a variety of outdoor professions including smoke jumping, river running, professional falconry, and horse packing. A celebration of women making their way in the wild, the stories in these pages include rescuing...
Ken Budd’s The Voluntourist is a remarkable memoir about losing your father, accepting your fate, and finding your destiny by volunteering around the world for numerous worthy causes: Hurricane Katrina disaster relief in New Orleans, helping special needs children in China, studying climate...
| Author | Philip Schultz |
| ISBN | 0393079643 |
An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner's triumph over disability.
Despite winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the "dummy class" in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected...
| Author | Elizabeth Best |
| ISBN | 1742372953 |
The utterly compelling and inspirational account of how two very different writers tackle their demons walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the legendary medieval pilgrimage across Spain
Elizabeth Best had always wanted to go on a pilgrimage. Colin Bowles had never given it...
Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild
| Author | Susan Fox Rogers |
| ISBN | 1580051065 |
While many dream of solo adventure, these talented and adventurous women show how it’s done. Whether hiking in Nepal, caving, sailing through choppy ocean waters, or discovering Alaska on foot, the women in these essays eloquently convey not only the thrills of the solo adventure, but also examine...
Cell 2455, Death Row: A Condemned Man's Own Story
| Author | Caryl Chessman |
| ISBN | 0786718153 |
In June 1948, 27-year-old petty criminal Caryl Chessman was sentenced in California on two counts of sexual assault, receiving two death sentences as punishment in a case that remains one of the most baffling episodes in American legal history. Maintaining his innocence of these crimes, Chessman...
| Author | Isabella Lucy Bird |
| ISBN | 1438508883 |
Isabella Bird writes of her adventures in a manner that captivates her readers Isabella L Bird (1831 - 1904) was a 19th century British traveler and writer. Since her father was a Church of England priest the family moved many times during her childhood. Bird traveled to Colorado when she heard the air...
Revolutionary Ride: On the Road in Search of the Real Iran
| Author | Lois Pryce |
| ISBN | 1857886577 |
"A proper travelogue - a joyful, moving and stereotype-busting ride." - National Geographic Traveller, Book of the YearIn 2011, at the height of tension between the British and Iranian governments, travel writer Lois Pryce found a note left on her motorcycle outside the Iranian Embassy in London:
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Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages
| Author | Elizabeth Little |
| ISBN | 1596916567 |
Though we're known as a nation of English speakers, the linguistic map of the United States is hardly monochromatic. While much ado has been made about the role that Spanish may play in our national future, it would be a gross misrepresentation to label America a bilingual country. On the contrary,...
| Author | Carolyn Cooke |
| ISBN | 0307594742 |
From the author of Daughters of the Revolution and The Bostons (winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for fiction) come eleven stories about sex and death, violence and desire, love and madness, set in a vast American landscape that ranges from the largest private residence in Manhattan to the lush...
