The Voluntourist: A Six-Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem
10 best books like The Voluntourist: A Six-Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem (Ken Budd): By Any Means: His Brand New Adventure from Wicklow to Wollongong, Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness, Safari Jema: A Journey of Love and Adventure from Casablanca to Cape Town, Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer, An African in Greenland, Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu, Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River, The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground, Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith
By Any Means: His Brand New Adventure from Wicklow to Wollongong
| Author | Charley Boorman |
| ISBN | 1847442463 |
Charley Boorman has arranged himself a new challenge: he must travel from his home town in England all the way to Sydney, Australia, and he must use any means available to reach his destination, including steam train, horse, boat, kayak, motorcycle, and tuk-tuk. Whether crossing the Black Sea, trekking...
| Author | Jeffrey Tayler |
| ISBN | 0609808265 |
Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind his mundane existence in Moscow to re-create the legendary British explorer Henry Stanley’s trip down the Congo in a dugout canoe, stocked with food,...
Safari Jema: A Journey of Love and Adventure from Casablanca to Cape Town
| Author | Teresa O'Kane |
| ISBN | 1463741790 |
INDIE BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR BEST MEMOIR OF 2012. Teresa O'Kane had always longed to see the world. She owned scads of travel books and maps to prove it and was about to buy yet another bookcase to hold the many Lonely Planet guides and travel essays that she had accumulated over the years when she turned to...
| Author | Bill Streever |
| ISBN | 0316042919 |
From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree...
| 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...
| Author | Tété-Michel Kpomassie |
| ISBN | 0940322889 |
Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland—and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures...
| 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 | Colin Angus |
| ISBN | 0767912802 |
From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it.
Exploration is...
| Author | Rosemary Mahoney |
| ISBN | 0618446656 |
The Singular Pilgrim is a riveting account of one woman's personal quest to find the root of belief among modern religious pilgrims. The intrepid Rosemary Mahoney undertakes six extraordinary journeys: visiting an Anglican shrine to Saint Mary in Walsingham, England; walking the five-hundred-mile...
| Author | Suzanne Strempek Shea |
| ISBN | 0807072249 |
When Pope John Paul II died, Suzanne Strempek Shea, who had not been an active member of a church community for some years, recognized in his mourners a faith-filled passion that she longed to recapture in her own life. Shea, never one to do things in a conventional manner or by halves, set out on a pilgrimage...
| Author | Janice Holly Booth |
| ISBN | 1426207336 |
Magnetically written by former CEO of a North Carolina Girl Scout Council and award winning CEO for the Western New York chapter of a national arts-in-education organization, this uniquely engaging travel journal describes four keys to unlocking personal and spiritual fulfillment: solitude,...
| Author | Peter Allison |
| ISBN | 0762777567 |
On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted to explore before he died. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to much acclaim in Whatever You Do, Don’t Run and Don’t Look Behind You....
| Author | Jennifer Bove |
| ISBN | 1932361375 |
The stories in this remarkable collection detail the experiences of women who work in a variety of outdoor professions including smoke jumping, river running, professional falconry, and horse packing. A celebration of women making their way in the wild, the stories in these pages include rescuing...
| Author | Paolo Rumiz |
| ISBN | 0847845427 |
An award-winning writer travels the eastern front of Europe, where the push/pull between old empires and new possibilities has never been more evident. Paolo Rumiz traces the path that has twice cut Europe in two--first by the Iron Curtain and then by the artificial scaffolding of the EU--moving through...
Zen Under Fire: How I Found Peace in the Midst of War
| Author | Marianne Elliott |
| ISBN | 1402281110 |
I am about to be left in charge of the office.
I'm not sure I'm ready for the responsibility, so I double-check with my boss. He reassures me.
"You'll be fine, Marianne. As long as no one kills Amanullah Khan, you'll be fine."
By midday, Amanullah Khan is dead.
Marianne Elliot is a...
Volunteer Vacations: Short-Term Adventures That Will Benefit You and Others
| Author | Bill McMillon |
| ISBN | 1556525826 |
For those looking for a way to make a difference while on vacation--simultaneously getting away and using their talents to improve the world--this guide shows you how a short-term volunteer stint can transform your life as much as the people, animals, and ecology you choose to help. This fully updated...
| Author | Freya Stark |
| ISBN | 0375757546 |
In 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her most unforgettable adventure: Following the ancient frankincense routes of the Hadhramaut Valley,...
| Author | Jason Webster |
| ISBN | 0552771244 |
As Islam and the West prepare to clash once again, Jason Webster embarks on a quest to discover Spain's hidden Moorish legacy and lift the lid on a country once forged by both Muslims and Christians. He meets Zine, a young illegal immigrant from Morocco, a twenty-first century Moor, lured over with the...
Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure
| Author | Cheryl Alters Jamison |
| ISBN | 0060878959 |
Join Cheryl and Bill Jamison, James Beard Award winners of The Big Book of Outdoor Cooking and Entertaining, on a gastronomic tour around the world
After years of writing award-winning cookbooks, renowned culinary experts Cheryl and Bill Jamison were ready to take a break. So in the fall of...
Billy Connolly's Route 66
| Author | Billy Connolly |
| ISBN | 1847445217 |
The best-loved comedian in Britain heads off on the most famous highway in the world for an unforgettable journey through America. Having always dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66, Billy Connolly is finally heading off on the ride of a lifetime. Traveling all 2,488 miles of this epic...
Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James
| Author | David Downie |
| ISBN | 1605984329 |
Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees. Starting on the Rue Saint-Jacques then trekking 750 miles south to Roncesvalles, Spain, their eccentric route takes 72 days on Roman roads and pilgrimage paths—a...
Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure
| Author | Julian Smith |
| ISBN | 0061873470 |
Here is the amazing true story of Julian Smith, who retraced the journey of legendary British explorer Ewart ''the Leopard'' Grogan, the first man to cross the length of Africa, in hopes of winning the heart of the woman he loved.
In 1898 the dashing young British explorer Ewart ''the Leopard''...
Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler
| Author | Lavinia Spalding |
| ISBN | 1932361677 |
Two major trends have recently swept the travel world: the first, an overwhelming desire (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love) to write one’s own memoir; the second, an explosion of social media, blogs, twitter and texts, which allow travelers to document and share their...
Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
| Author | Andrew Blackwell |
| ISBN | 1605294454 |
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world....
Into Africa (Bluewater Walkabout Book 2)
| Author | Tina Dreffin |
| ISBN | 0997999608 |
"Into Africa (Bluewater Walkabout Book 2)" is the hilarious and honest account of one woman's quest to better herself. Whether jumping overboard to retrieve a wayward hat, chasing down a missing son in the diamond fields of Namibia, or warding off great white sharks with a camera, Tina's misadventures...
