The Best Way: El Camino de Santiago
10 best books like The Best Way: El Camino de Santiago (Bill Walker): Travels with Charley: In Search of America, I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away, In a Sunburned Country, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, Notes from a Small Island, Blue Highways, In Patagonia, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas, The Kingdom by the Sea
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
| Author | John Steinbeck |
| ISBN | 0142000701 |
A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover...
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted...
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0767903862 |
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned...
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics.Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic...
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
| Author | H.G. Bissinger |
| ISBN | 0306814250 |
Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially...
Notes from a Small Island
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0380727501 |
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."
After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson - bestselling author of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently...
| Author | William Least Heat-Moon |
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at...
| Author | Bruce Chatwin |
| ISBN | 0142437190 |
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for...
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0140249796 |
Award-winning travel writer Paul Theroux invites you aboard The Old Patagonian Express by Train through the Americas; packed with powerful descriptions and portraits of the many colours of humanity, The Old Patagonian Express is an unforgettable read.
A witty sharply observed journey...
Oh Paul Theroux, why must you be so grouchy? I mean, you're traveling around England, one of the best countries on earth! Where's the joy? Where's the love? Where's the gratitude?
OK, so I now realize that I had unrealistic expectations for this book. I liked Theroux's memoir of his travels around...
Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.
In...
From the southeast coast of South America through an expanse of Peruvian sands en route to the West Coast, then onward through Central American jungles and rainforest, and finally to New York, Tschiffely's journey was considered impossible and absurd by many newspaper writers in 1925. However, after...
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A real-life adventurer. A gruelling pan-American trek. Will one Englishman dare to face his fears?
Short-listed for Outdoor Book of the Year by The Great Outdoors magazine.
Born traveller Keith...
| Author | Marianne Fredriksson |
| ISBN | 9052265305 |
De tienjarige Sofia Horner en die iets oudere Anders Berglund zijn kinderen met een bijzondere gave. Sofia kan 'om de hoek kijken'. Anders is blind geboren. Maar misschien 'ziet' hij dezelfde dingen als zij.
Op een dag stelt Sofia voor 'samen te dromen'. In hun gezamenlijke droom zweven ze...
Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America
In 1974 a disenfranchised young man from a broken home set out to do the impossible. With a hundred dollars in his pocket, a beat up cavalry saddle, and a faraway look in his eye, John Egenes saddled his horse Gizmo and started down the trail on an adventure across the North American continent. Their seven...
Blanket of Stars: Thru-Hiking the Camino de Santiago (Travel Adventures Book 1)
An unlikely pilgrim battles agoraphobia to reclaim life beyond the sofa. The 800-kilometer journey along the Camino Frances provides a scenic backdrop to ponder midlife crisis and chronic illness, an empty nest and marital woes, military service and posttraumatic stress, rage and grief, heartbreak...
Legends of the West: The Life and Legacy of Kit Carson
| Author | Charles River Editors |
*Includes pictures of important people and places.
*Includes Carson's quotes about events in his life, and Fremont's quotes about him.
*Includes a bibliography for further reading.
*Includes a table of contents.
"His name, in the Rocky Mountains, has been familiarly known...
The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
| Author | David Smart |
| ISBN | 1723785458 |
There’s a saying used by hikers when extraordinary, serendipitous things happen on the trail—the trail provides. David Smart discovered his own first-hand lessons from the trail. Disillusioned by life after college, David resigned from his corporate marketing job and hiked the Pacific Crest...
