The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
10 best books like The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes (Carl Hoffman): Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat, Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer: 0 (Travelers' Tales Guides), Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River, Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism, Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu, Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island, The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World, Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands (Lonely Planet)
| Author | Chris Stewart |
| ISBN | 0956003834 |
If you're wondering what Chris Stewart did before he and Ana moved to El Valero, their Spanish farm, here's one of the answers. He took to the sea, landing a job as skipper for the summer, sailing a Cornish Crabber around the Greek islands. It was his dream job - and there was just one tiny problem. He hadn't...
| Author | Rolf Potts |
| ISBN | 1932361618 |
Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called “Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications...
In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to visit.
As...
| Author | Dan Morrison |
| ISBN | 0670021989 |
A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea
With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who'd never been off American soil and set out from Uganda,...
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism
Eclectic thinkers, brought together by the bestselling author of "City of Quartz," meditate on future worlds being created by unfettered capitalism.
"Not content with existing offshore tax shelters, multi-millionaires and property developers have aspired to build their own....To...
| Author | Chuck Thompson |
| ISBN | 0805087885 |
The guru of extreme tourism sets out to face his worst fears in Africa, India, Mexico City, and—most terrifying of all—at Disney World
In the widely-acclaimed Smile When You're Lying, Chuck Thompson laid bare the travel industry's dirtiest secrets. Now he's out to discover if some of...
| 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 | Peter Rudiak-Gould |
| ISBN | 1402766645 |
Just one month after his 21st birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2,000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching...
| Author | Edward Hasbrouck |
| ISBN | 1566914337 |
Invaluable tips and information make taking the plunge towards an extended vacation easier. Edward Hasbrouck, the Internet's best-known authority on international airfares and travel planning, provides guidance and advice for independent travel anywhere in the world. Get helpful information...
| Author | Tony Wheeler |
| ISBN | 1741791863 |
'You guys really are the axis of evil', our guide splutters over his stein of beer in the Pyongyang duck restaurant. 'You're always leaning out of the windows and taking photographs when I tell you not to.'
In an age of plastic knives on planes, Tony Wheeler can make the extraordinary claim of...
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus.No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s...
| Author | Tahir Shah |
| ISBN | 1559706775 |
A shrunken head from Peru and a feather with traces of blood are the clues that launch Tahir Shah on his latest journey. Fascinated by the recurring theme of flight in Peruvian folklore, Shah sets out to discover whether the Incas really were able to "fly like birds" over the jungle, as a Spanish monk reported....
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0394758374 |
What a road trip! So much of what Tim Cahill describes involves the preparation -- the paperwork, logistics, and financial backing -- that must be figured out before starting a marathon trip such as the one General Motors bankrolled. I understand he was trying to make a point, but I would've enjoyed the...
Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World
| Author | Seth Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1594484422 |
An eye-opening and fascinating slow travel journey from an acclaimed writer who circled the globe without ever leaving the ground.
In this age of globalism and high-speed travel, Seth Stevenson, the witty, thoughtful Slate columnist, takes us back to a time when travel meant putting one...
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...
Hidden Cities: My Journey into the Secret World of Urban Exploration
| Author | Moses Gates |
| ISBN | 1585429341 |
In this fascinating glimpse into the world of urban exploration, Moses Gates describes his trespasses in some of the most illustrious cities in the world from Paris to Cairo to Moscow. Gates is a new breed of adventurer for the 21st century. He thrives on the thrill of seeing what others do not see, let...
The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today
| Author | Ted Conover |
| ISBN | 1400042445 |
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack," " an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world.
Roads bind our world--metaphorically and literally--transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them....
Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism
| Author | Elizabeth Becker |
| ISBN | 1439160996 |
The largest global business in the world today is tourism. Employing one out of twelve people in the world and producing $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy, it is the main source of income for many countries. Elizabeth Becker describes the dimensions of this industry and its huge effect on the world...
The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 Miles, 2 Guides, 1 Globe, No Airplanes
| Author | Steve Hely |
| ISBN | 0805087400 |
The most absurd, hilarious, and ridiculous travelogue ever told, by two hit-TV comedy writers who raced each other around the world—for bragging rights and a very expensive bottle of Scotch
It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from The Harvard Lampoon, now hotshot Hollywood scribes,...
Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
| Author | Doug Saunders |
| ISBN | 0307396894 |
From one of Canada's leading journalists comes a major book about how the movement of populations from rural to urban areas on the margins is reshaping our world. These transitional spaces are where the next great economic and cultural boom will be born, or where the great explosion of violence will...
An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town
| Author | David Farley |
| ISBN | 1592404545 |
A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ. In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared shocking news with his congregation: The pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen....
