The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
10 best books like The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule (Joanna Kavenna): Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion, A Visit to Don Otavio, The Magnetic North: Notes From The Arctic Circle, What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story, The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics, The Fellowship of Ghosts: A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway, Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's, The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, The Scent Trail: A Journey of the Senses, Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic
Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion
| Author | Judy Corbett |
| ISBN | 0091897319 |
When Judy Corbett caught sight of a great stone mansion in the craggy wilds of north Wales, she had little idea of the adventure on which she was about to embark. She and her husband, Peter, had long dreamed of buying an old ruin and escaping the pace and excesses of modern life. But it was only when they had...
Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. I had a great longing to move, she said, to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible. And so she set out...
The Magnetic North: Notes From The Arctic Circle
| Author | Sara Wheeler |
| ISBN | 0224082213 |
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's...
| Author | P.L. Travers |
| ISBN | 0850307864 |
Years ago, when I was in my own dark wood wandering and could not find my way, serendipity sent What the Bee Knows: Reflections On Myth, Symbol and Story my way. I immersed myself in P.L. Travers feminine-centered retelling of Greek myths, her essays, poems and interviews. Her essay titled, Re-Stroying...
The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics
| Author | Richard Halliburton |
| ISBN | 1885211538 |
When Richard Halliburton graduated from Princeton, he chose adventure over a career, traveling to far away places. This vivid book, one of many he wrote, tells what happened, from a breakthrough Matterhorn ascent to being jailed for taking forbidden pictures on Gibraltar. "One of the most fascinating...
The Fellowship of Ghosts: A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway
| Author | Paul Watkins |
| ISBN | 0792267990 |
Acclaimed writer Paul Watkins describes his spellbinding solo trek through the wilds of Norway's Rondane and Jutunheimen mountains—grand but harsh landscapes where myth and reality meet. His adventure takes him through valleys bordered by thousand-foot cliffs, roaring waterfalls wreathed...
| Author | Thomas DeBaggio |
| ISBN | 0743205669 |
"We are foolish, those of us who think we can escape the traps of aging," writes Tom DeBaggio. "I was one of them, dreaming of a perfect and healthy old age....Now, at fifty-eight, I realize the foolishness of my dreams as I watch my brain self-destruct from Alzheimer's." Losing My Mind is DeBaggio's extraordinary...
| Author | Ian Baker |
| ISBN | 1594200270 |
The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities. Ancient Tibetan prophecies declare that the...
| Author | Celia Lyttelton |
| ISBN | 0593051149 |
When Celia Lyttelton visited a bespoke perfumers, she realized a long-held ambition: to have a scent created solely for her. Entering this heady, exotic world of oils and essences, she was transported from a leafy London square to a place of long-forgotten memories and sensory experiences. And once...
Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic
| Author | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 1400078105 |
Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, the indefatigable Redmond O’Hanlon sets off on his next adventure: his own perfect storm, in the wild waters off the northern tip of Scotland. Equipped with a fancy Nikon, an excessive supply of socks, and no seamanship whatsoever, O’Hanlon joins...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 1580511430 |
Called to Question is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Centered around a series of conversations with spiritual writers featured in her private journal, Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives-not answers as we've...
| Author | Dervla Murphy |
| ISBN | 1906011354 |
Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba in the company of Dervla Murphy, her daughter, and three young granddaughters as they trek into the hills and along the coast as a family, camping out on empty beaches beneath the stars and relishing the ubiquitous Cuban hospitality. But this is no more...
| 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...
| Author | Claire Scobie |
| ISBN | 1846040051 |
Some go to Tibet seeking inspiration, others for adventure. The award-winning journalist, Claire Scobie, found both when she left her ordinary life in London and went to the Himalayas in search of a rare red lily. Her journey took her to Pemako, where few Westerners have set foot and where the myth of...
| Author | Thomas Graboys |
| ISBN | 1402753411 |
At the age of 49, Dr. Thomas Graboys had reached the pinnacle of his career and was leading a charmed life. A nationally renowned Boston cardiologist popular for his attention to the hearts and souls of his patients, Graboys was part of “The Cardiology Dream Team” summoned to treat Boston Celtics...
| Author | Connie Rice |
| ISBN | 1416575006 |
From one of the nation’s most influential civil rights attorneys—second cousin of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—a noble, hard-hitting memoir chronicling the life of a fiercely powerful woman dedicated to public service.
Connie Rice has taken on the bus system, the...
| Author | Julia Fox Garrison |
| ISBN | 0061120618 |
Just an ordinary day . . .
You get up, fix breakfast for your three-year-old son, drive yourself to work -- a day like any other. You're running late for a meeting, and as you hurry down the hall, the light is getting brighter and brighter, and suddenly your vision explodes and . . . you're gone.
When...
| Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0156671409 |
Until I saw a Smithsonian exhibit a few years ago, I never realized that Anne Morrow Lindbergh flew with her husband on various trips, acting as his radio operator, navigator, & general Jack (or Jill) of all trades.
This is her account of their trip of trying to map new routes to Asia by flying...
| Author | Paul Fussell |
| ISBN | 0195030680 |
The kind of felicity to which the Blue Train conveyed you, as it let you off at Marseilles or Toulon or Cannes or Nice or Monte Carlo, whence you could go on to the Italian Riviera, to Rapallo and all the way down to the Amalfi Coast, seemed novel in the 20’s. It seems novel no longer because those places have...
From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a source of scandal and a cause célèbre among geographers in the following centuries.
This delightful...
| Author | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| ISBN | 1590173805 |
In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree,...
| Author | Hugh Thomson |
| ISBN | 0753826941 |
'Try this tequila oil, Hugito. Just as the alcohol hits your stomach, the chilli will as well and blow it back into your brain. It will take your head off.' Explorer Hugh Thomson takes on Mexico.
It's 1979, Hugh Thomson is eighteen, far from home, with time to kill - and on his way to Mexico. When...
On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
| Author | Andrzej Stasiuk |
| ISBN | 0151012717 |
Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangely evocative names. “The...
Granite Island: Portrait of Corsica
| Author | Dorothy Carrington |
| ISBN | 0141442271 |
'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. "Granite Island", much more than a travel book, grew out of years spent in Corsica and is an incomparably...
| Author | Elizabeth Arthur |
| ISBN | 0747571724 |
The dazzling landscape central to this multifaceted tale of adventure and aspiration is the white Antarctic vastness known as the Ice. The story told is of an expedition to the South Pole, led by a young, ardent American woman, Morgan Lamont - an expedition inspired and haunted by the tragic journey,...
