To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism
10 best books like To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism (Chuck Thompson): Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat, Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure, The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia, In the Shadow of the Volcano: One Ex-Intelligence Official's Journey through Slums, Prisons, and Leper Colonies to the Heart of Latin America, Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World, Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives, The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers, The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes, Whose Panties Are These?: More Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road
| 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...
Malaria Dreams is a book about the author and his friend's trip from West Africa to the Mediterranean in a questionable car, and it's well written. So why the one star?
I like adventure travel and adventure travel books better than the next guy usually- depending on who the next guy actually is,...
| Author | Alden Jones |
| ISBN | 0299295702 |
Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of the unfamiliar. By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experience...
In the Shadow of the Volcano: One Ex-Intelligence Official's Journey through Slums, Prisons, and Leper Colonies to the Heart of Latin America
In a memoir that is at once heart-breaking and hilarious, former U.S. intelligence analyst Maureen Klovers embarks on a year-long quest to understand why so many Latin Americans are willing to risk their lives to come to America. She moves into a convent with a rogue American priest, two nuns, and dormitory...
With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents, a six-year series of “anti-expeditions” to the “anti-summits.” His journeys took him to Lake Eyre in the arid heart of Australia,...
| Author | Holly Morris |
| ISBN | 0375760636 |
After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited...
| Author | Sadie Smith |
| ISBN | 0756653991 |
Off the Tourist Trail is a guide to the world's unspoiled sights and experiences. It takes a hundred clichéd tourist destinations - everything from over-visited national parks to overrated museums - and reveal 1,000 fresh and fascinating alternative options. Written by a team of travel experts,...
| Author | Eric Hansen |
| ISBN | 0679771824 |
Eric Hansen survives a cyclone on a boat off the Australian coast, cradles a dying man in Calcutta, and drinks mind-altering kava in Vanuatu. He helps a widower search for his wife's wedding ring amid plane-crash wreckage in Borneo and accompanies topless dancers on a bird-watching expedition in California....
| 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...
| Author | Jennifer L. Leo |
| ISBN | 1932361111 |
Following on the heels of the successful Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road comes another collection of hilarious travel stories by women. From America to Australia to everywhere in between, the true stories in Whose Panties are These? will have you shaking your...
| Author | Julia Weiler |
| ISBN | 1932361502 |
Following on the heels of the best-selling Sand in My Bra, this sequel is a collection of hilarious women's travel stories. From Australia to Zambia and everywhere in between, these true stories are full of bust-a-gut laughter. Nothing helps a travel story more than something going wrong — the frustration,...
| Author | Doug Lansky |
| ISBN | 1932361278 |
The perfect trip, where nothing goes wrong, is surely not the memorable trip, which is where everything goes wrong and one lives to tell the tale — and laugh about it. This collection captures the wackiest and most bizarre experiences of well-known writers whose travels have taken a detour. Stories...
| Author | Erik Torkells |
| ISBN | 1594741778 |
Travel Smart!
The Smart Traveler’s Passport is a collection of 399 of the best travel tips you’ll ever read, compiled from the pages of Budget Travel magazine. You’ll learn:
• 13 different uses for Ziploc bags
• How dental floss can...
| 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...
| Author | Richard Grant |
| ISBN | 1439154147 |
NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God's Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico's lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make...
Adventures of a Continental Drifter
| Author | Elliott Hester |
| ISBN | 0312312423 |
One year. Six continents. Twenty-two countries. Endless stories to tell.
In October 2002, Elliott Hester sold his car, abandoned his apartment, and took off alone on a trip around the world, during which he drifted to more than fifty destinations. Elliott's tales about his travels range...
Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist
| Author | Cash Peters |
| ISBN | 0762727144 |
One of the funniest travel books ever written. British radio journalist makes his final journey around America, visitng the tackiest and kitchiest tours and theme parks, desperate to leave this part of his life behind before he becomes jaded.
Places visited include the Museum of Feet, the...
My Mercedes is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...An Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara
| Author | Jeroen van Bergeijk |
| ISBN | 0767928695 |
“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?”
—Janis Joplin
A journalist’s intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa.
“Look, there’s my car,” I say, pointing at my Mercedes in the parking lot.
“Where?”...
Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism
| Author | Thomas Kohnstamm |
| ISBN | 0307394654 |
For those who think that travel guidebooks are the gospel truth.
WANTED: Travel Writer for Brazil
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
Decisiveness: the ability to desert your entire previous life–including well-salaried office job, attractive girlfriend, and basic sanity for less...
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0375713298 |
In his latest collection of death-defying exploits and far-flung travels, Outside Magazine editor Tim Cahill visits the side of an active volcano in Ecuador, the Saharan salt mines and the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. He also ventures to find a Caspian tiger in Turkey and giant...
The Wander Year: One Couple's Journey Around the World
A collection of humorous and moving encounters with a sublime world and the extraordinary souls who fill it.
Bestselling author Mike McIntyre (The Kindness of Strangers) and his longtime girlfriend, Andrea, are itching for a break from their routines. So they rent out their California home--dog...
