Swahili for the Broken-Hearted
10 best books like Swahili for the Broken-Hearted (Peter Moore): Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair, To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger, Viva South America!: A Journey Through A Restless Continent, Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History, Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos, Kiwis Might Fly, Terug naar Kongo, Extreme Frontiers: Racing Across Canada from Newfoundland to the Rockies, The Panama Hat Trail: A Journey from South America
Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair
| Author | Tim Moore |
| ISBN | 0099433869 |
A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utilities of the Monopoly board. In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost £50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around London with the shake of a dice and even park your car for free.
In...
| 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,...
Viva South America!: A Journey Through A Restless Continent
| Author | Oliver Balch |
| ISBN | 0571237037 |
Simon Bolivar once inspired a continent to rise from its serfdom and throw off the shackles of Spanish rule, setting the course for independence, freedom and equality. "Viva South America!" sets out to discover if that dream lives on. Is it fair to describe a land as 'independent' while poverty still...
| 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 | Stanley Stewart |
| ISBN | 1592281060 |
Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly awaited book takes its place among the travel classics. It is a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, and an evocative portrait of a medieval land marooned in the modern world. Eight and a half centuries ago, under Genghis Khan, the Mongols...
| Author | Peter Allison |
| ISBN | 1599214695 |
I got a little mixed up and read Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos before Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide. But I get the sense it didn't matter very much which order you read them in, in much...
| Author | Polly Evans |
| ISBN | 0385339941 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Polly Evans was a woman with a mission. Before the traditional New Zealand male hung up his sheep shears for good, Polly wanted to see this vanishing species with her own eyes. Venturing into the land of giant kauri trees and smaller kiwi birds, she explores the country...
| Author | Lieve Joris |
| ISBN | 9029021438 |
In 1985 reisde Lieve Joris naar Zaïre, op zoek naar sporen van haar heeroom die missionaris was geweest in de Kongo. Te midden van oud-kolonialen voer zij met de Fabiolaville naar de vroegere Belgische kolonie. In heerooms voetspoor trok zij door de brousse. In deze rimboe riepen oude paters en zusters...
Extreme Frontiers: Racing Across Canada from Newfoundland to the Rockies
| Author | Charley Boorman |
| ISBN | 1847445594 |
EXTREME FRONTIERS: CANADA is Charley Boorman's brand-new adventure/travel book. Travelling mainly on his much-loved bike, Charley will explore the world's second largest country - home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man. Along the way he will work with Alberta's famous...
The Panama Hat Trail: A Journey from South America
| Author | Tom Miller |
| ISBN | 0792263863 |
Next week I leave for a trip to Ecuador, so naturally I wanted to read something to put me in the mindset of a country I've never visited.
This book, while perhaps a bit dated by 2017 (we'll see once I get there), does a great job of exploring every step in the long process of turning Ecuadoran straw...
| Author | Daniel Liebowitz |
| ISBN | 0393059030 |
The trip isn't bad enough - a 3000 mile walk in an equatorial climate with no food - the crew has to put up with Stanley! He is a nightmare of egotism, buck passing, cruel punishment, petty intrigue and verbal abuse. The men starve, yes to death, as he squirrels away food and metes out lashings that could kill...
Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold
| Author | Michael Benanav |
| ISBN | 1592287727 |
This book is amazing! Men of Salt is a role model of what every travel book should be, an exotic fairy tale, but real.
This book is amazing! I know I said it before, but I need to say it again - AMAZING! Men of Salt is informative without being overwhelming, imaginative without being falsifying, descriptive...
Rule No. 5: No Sex on the Bus: Confessions of a Tour Leader
| Author | Brian Thacker |
| ISBN | 1865085537 |
Brian Thacker confesses all as he reveals the best (and worst) of 20 trips as a tour leader around Europe. He tells how he fed passengers horse meat spag bol, hamburgers made from breakfast cereal and roosters' testicles; how he left a passenger standing by the side of a motorway in France for 3 hours in...
God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation
| Author | Joseph Sebarenzi |
| ISBN | 1416575731 |
A harrowing tale of survival and reconciliation by a Rwandan Tutsi who flees his homeland before the 1994 genocide and later returns to be elected speaker of the Rwandan parliament, only to be forced into exile once again
This memoir tells the story of Joseph Sebarenzi, whose parents, seven...
This Is Not A Drill: Just Another Glorious Day In The Oilfield
| Author | Paul Carter |
| ISBN | 1857885007 |
Some poignant writing in Afghanistan (although the reason the author was there remains unclear) got this up to 2 stars from me. Else would have been one.
Not nearly as many spit-your-coffee laugh-out-loud moments as Piano Player in a Whorehouse, this was more akin to a mid-life realisation...
Walk the Lines: The London Underground, Overground
| Author | Mark Mason |
| ISBN | 1847946534 |
As a lifelong fan of London, Mark Mason embarks on a mission to 'conquer' the capital once and for all. The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground - overground - passing every station on the way.
Over...
Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry
| Author | Santo Cilauro |
| ISBN | 1585676195 |
Dreading your upcoming travel for the holidays? Pack along Molvania for when you're stuck in the security line, or hanging around the bus terminal as a sure cure for boredom. True, people will wonder why you're laughing loudly or snickering uncontrollably, but you will be enjoying yourself way too...
Discover Austria
Keep an eye out for marmots on the glorious Alpine trails
Get behind the wheel for breath-taking hairpin bends and blue glaciers on Gossglockner Road
Let your soul soar in the concert hall of Vienna
Indulge in Salzburg's "Sound of Music" kitsch then regain your cool...
Red Tape and White Knuckles: One Woman's Motorcycle Journey Through Africa
Unafraid of a challenge, Lois Pryce began the kind of adventure most of us could only ever dream of. She put on her sparkly crash helmet, armed herself with maps and a baffling array of visas, and got on her bike. Destination: Cape Town - and the small matter of tackling the Sahara, war-torn Angola and the...
Fighting in Spain (Penguin Great Journeys)
| Author | George Orwell |
| ISBN | 0141025530 |
I found this book while visiting the Scottish city of Inverness. I thought it could be nice and kind of funny to read about my country's civil war through the words of an english man. I was not wrong but what I did not expect was to learn so much about the subject.
Orwell narrates in a wonderful clear simple...
