Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island
10 best books like Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island (Peter Rudiak-Gould): The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca, The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade, Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared, The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion, An Island to Oneself: The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island, Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer
| Author | Tahir Shah |
| ISBN | 0553383108 |
In the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family’s move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched...
The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade
| Author | Sheila Jeffreys |
| ISBN | 0415412331 |
The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.
The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects...
| Author | Christopher Robbins |
| ISBN | 0977743381 |
Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world, a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few would guess that Kazakhstan—a blank in Westerners' collective geography—turns out to be diverse, tolerant, and surprisingly...
| Author | Stephanie Saldana |
| ISBN | 0385522002 |
A riveting memoir about one woman's journey into Syria under the Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers searching for meaning.
When Stephanie Saldana arrives in Damascus, she is running away from a broken heart and a haunted family history that she has crossed...
| Author | Eve Brown-Waite |
| ISBN | 0767929357 |
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...
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
| Author | Sara Wheeler |
| ISBN | 0375753389 |
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great...
| Author | Michael Levy |
| ISBN | 0805091963 |
An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in flux
In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of...
| Author | Tom Neale |
| ISBN | 0918024765 |
What we have all now and then dreamed of doing, Tom Neale did: go and live alone on a desert island. For years while storekeeping in the South Pacific, he planned, read and talked until the great day when he was landed on his little kingdom, aware of (but undismayed by) the fact that he would have to struggle...
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 | Mireya Mayor |
| ISBN | 1426207212 |
A quick examination of her roots, and one may never have guessed that Mireya Mayor would become the woman she is today. Yet, against all odds, this self-professed former "girly girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants blossomed from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist...
When Charles Montgomery was ten years old, he stumbled upon the memoirs of his great-grandfather, a seafaring missionary in the South Pacific. Poring over the faint text and faded pictures, he was entranced by the world of black magic and savagery the bishop described, and couldn't help but wonder...
| Author | Mark Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0688115853 |
Twenty years ago, when the author and his best friend, Mike Moe, were eighteen years old, they lit out from Wyoming to explore the world. They washed up in Africa and without forethought or planning set off for the most remote place on earth they could imagine: Timbuktu. Stopped by disease and the desert,...
HEARING BIRDS FLY is Louisa Waugh's passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator, she yearned for the real Mongolia and got the chance when she was summoned by the village head to go to Tsengel...
| Author | Robert Klitgaard |
| ISBN | 0465087604 |
I'm not really sure why I enjoyed this book so much; the author talked a lot about economic restructuring/ governmental organization/ etc (snore). But, every time it threatened to get bogged down, he redirected his focus to the people, culture, and natural beauty of the country. He came away from his...
| Author | Carl Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0767929802 |
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...
| Author | Kira Salak |
| ISBN | 0792274172 |
A Restless Women Travelers title
Four Corners is Kira Salak's riveting account of her epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea—often called the last frontier of adventure travel. Traveling by dugout canoe and on foot, confronting the dangers and...
| Author | Barbara Sjoholm |
| ISBN | 1593761597 |
A Frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her.
Sjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to see the Ice Hotel under construction and to meet the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the...
The Ringtone and the Drum: Travels in the World's Poorest Countries
| Author | Mark Weston |
| ISBN | 1780995865 |
Laced with danger, packed with novel insights and told with a humane voice, The Ringtone and the Drum relates the fascinating tale of Mark Weston’s travels in West Africa. His journey through Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso touches a dizzying array of subjects, including the consequences...
One of the recurring revelations on my literary journey around the world ìs the pleasant discovery of how easy it actually is to relate to stories about and wtitten by people living on the other side of the Earth from me under apparently totally different material, geographical, political, social,...
| Author | Zvezdana Rashkovich |
| ISBN | 1456772325 |
Dubai Wives weaves a complex multicultural tale of unraveling secrets and diverse, flawed characters. The lives of eight women collide in this opulent, culturally vibrant city on a journey of sisterhood, friendship, love, betrayal and the heartbreaking choices of its residents. We see Jewel, a...
Bright Lights, No City: An African Adventure on Bad Roads with a Brother and a Very Weird Business Plan
| Author | Max Alexander |
| ISBN | 1401324177 |
The hilarious story of two brothers, a truckload of batteries, and a brilliant plan to bring light--and new business opportunities--to Ghana
At age 47, Whit Alexander, the American co-founder of the Cranium board game, decided to start a new business selling affordable goods and services...
Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation
| Author | Martin Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0312534817 |
From the much lauded author of Breaking News comes a version of Walking the Bible just for Israel. With its dense history of endless conflict and biblical events, Israel's coastline is by far the most interesting hundred miles in the world. As longtime chief of NBC’s Tel Aviv news bureau, Martin...
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
| Author | John Gimlette |
| ISBN | 1400078520 |
Haven to Nazis, smugglers’ paradise, home to some of the earth’s oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John Gimlette, at last it has one. With an adventurer’s sang-froid, a historian’s erudition, and a sense of irony...
Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War
| Author | Bill Sloan |
| ISBN | 0743260104 |
This Band of Brothers for the Pacific is the gut-wrenching and ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious—yet largely forgotten—battle of World War II.
Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than 6,500 casualties fighting...
Simpsons Comics Belly Buster
| Author | Matt Groening |
| ISBN | 0060587504 |
There will be standing room only for Matt Groening's newest Simpsons Comics collection of comedy classics.
This big, bulky, boffo book will have you bemused, boggled, and beside yourself with belly laughs. Join 'Our Favourite Family' as: Lisa joins a babysitter's union only to uncover an...
