Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat
10 best books like Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat (Chris Stewart): The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief, The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life, The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River, Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism, Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic, Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River, The Size of the World, The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover's Caribbean Adventure
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
| Author | V.S. Naipaul |
| ISBN | 0307270734 |
Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization.
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| Author | Dan White |
| ISBN | 0061376930 |
The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, a distance of 2,650 grueling, sun-scorched, bear-infested miles. When Dan White and his girlfriend announced their intention to hike it, Dan's parents—among others—thought they were nuts. How could two people who'd never even shared...
| Author | Eve Brown-Waite |
| ISBN | 0767929357 |
In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him —literally–to the ends of the earth.
Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without...
| 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,...
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
| Author | Simon Winchester |
| ISBN | 0060598611 |
Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth, from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from the Mediterranean...
| 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...
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 | 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...
By the time that travel writer Jeff Greenwald hit his late thirties, he had covered more ground than Magellan, Marco Polo, and Columbus combined. But he also came to a sobering conclusion: airplanes had reduced his exotic explorations to a series of long commutes. So he set out to rediscover the mass,...
| Author | Ann Vanderhoof |
| ISBN | 0385663366 |
A follow-up to the national bestseller An Embarrassment of Mangoes, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband navigate the Caribbean on a sailboat, discovering local culture in each tiny port, and collecting sumptuous original recipes along the way.
Spices and herbs are the heart and soul of Caribbean...
| Author | Janna Cawrse Esarey |
| ISBN | 1416589082 |
The humorous true story of a woman who abandons her tidy life to honeymoon across the Pacific on a leaky, old boat—only to find that sailing 17,000 miles is easier than keeping her relationship off the rocks.
“Somewhere fifty miles off the coast of Oregon I realize the skipper of this very...
| Author | Carl Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0767929802 |
Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So...
Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son
| Author | Kevin Cook |
| ISBN | 1592402976 |
In the tradition of Seabiscuit, the riveting tale of twoproud Scotsmen who beat all comers to become the heroesof a golden age—the dawn of professional golf
Bringing to life golf’s founding father and son, Tommy’s Honor is a stirring tribute to two legendary players and a vivid evocation...
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...
The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal?
| Author | Sean Deveney |
| ISBN | 0071629971 |
IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF EIGHT MEN OUT . . .
the untold story of baseball's ORIGINAL SCANDAL
Did the Chicago Cubs throw the World Series in 1918--and get away with it?
Who were the players involved--and why did they do it?
Were gambling and corruption more widespread across...
The Game On! Diet: Kick Your Friend's Butt While Shrinking Your Own
| Author | Krista Vernoff |
| ISBN | 0061718890 |
The Game On! Diet is not a diet. It's a bold new approach to fitness that turns the latest, smartest, most successful health science into a fun, fierce, and exhilarating game. Developed by Az Ferguson, to help Grey's Anatomy writer Krista Vernoff shed forty pounds of postpregnancy weight, it is the ideal...
Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods
| Author | John McPherson |
| ISBN | 1569756503 |
EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT SURVIVING IN THE WILD
“During my first years of learning survival I took a course in survival and primitive earth skills taught by John and Geri McPherson. I was excited by their unbelievable passion and their intrinsic understanding of survival. Their...
Ripe for the Picking (Italy series, #2)
| Author | Annie Hawes |
| ISBN | 0141008903 |
During the course of Annie Hawes' new book, local culinary superstar, Ciccio, gradually takes over as Annie's constant companion. How irresistible is a man who first demonstrates his affection and esteem by inviting her into his vineyard to help himmix up cow manure, which she spends the afternoon...
Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey
| Author | Brad Herzog |
| ISBN | 0806532025 |
"Turn Left at the Trojan Horse had me howling with laughter and nodding at the razor-sharp observation." --Tahir Shah, author of The Caliph's House
"Go away. Figure it out," she was saying. "Don't come back until you do." She looked at the calendar. "You have thirty-one days."
With...
Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown
| Author | Michael Cunningham |
| ISBN | 0609609076 |
In this celebration of one of America's oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hours, brings us Provincetown, one of the most idiosyncratic and extraordinary towns in the United States, perched on the sandy tip at the...
98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive
| Author | Cody Lundin |
| ISBN | 1586852345 |
If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book.
Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard,...
Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks
| Author | James P. Delgado |
| ISBN | 1553650719 |
Leading archaeologist and consummate storyteller James Delgado takes readers on a rollicking deep-sea dive into his highly unusual life's work: locating and exploring the world's most famous shipwrecks. Colorful characters, near misses, and the thrill of standing — or floating — in history's...
Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive
| Author | Les Stroud |
| ISBN | 0061373516 |
From the creator of the hit show Survivorman, the classic guide to surviving in the wild
From the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the harshest—and most remote—regions on Earth.
Now, the...
| Author | David Byrne |
| ISBN | 0670021148 |
A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-the-handlebars view of the world's cities. Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them...
Along the Edge of America
| Author | Peter Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0395877377 |
The best-selling author and walker Peter Jenkins, landlubber par excellence, now takes to the waves and explores, as only he can, a part of America rich in history, mystery, and lore: from the Florida Keys to the Mexican border, by way of the Everglades, the treacherous "jungle woods," genteel southern...
