Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands (Lonely Planet)
10 best books like Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands (Lonely Planet) (Tony Wheeler): Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged Peace with North Korea from My BBQ Shack in Hackensack, The Ukimwi Road, Southeast Asia on a Shoestring, I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers, Yemen: The Unknown Arabia, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes, More Sand in My Bra: Funny Women Write from the Road, Again!
Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged Peace with North Korea from My BBQ Shack in Hackensack
| Author | Robert Egan |
| ISBN | 0312571305 |
There was only one chair in the room. Fluorescent tubes on the ceiling hummed with blue light. The woman smiled and explained in a soothing voice that there were some “procedures” they had to go through.
“We’re just going to put you under for a few minutes,” she said. One of the officials...
| Author | Dervla Murphy |
| ISBN | 0006548024 |
The Ukimwi Road is the riveting account of renowned traveler Dervla Murphy's most intrepid journey yet - 3,000 miles by bicycle through the heart of sub-Saharan Africa, a region that has recently drawn the world's attention as an epicenter of the AIDS epidemic (ukimwi is Swahili for AIDS). Along her...
Southeast Asia on a Shoestring
| Author | China Williams |
| ISBN | 1741044448 |
I used this extensively while working in Southeast Asia from 2008 to 2011. Generally useful information about peninsular Southeast Asia and Indonesia, but its reportage on the Philippines leaves much to be desired. The traveling warnings/suggestions in the back section are a little rough and wanting,...
| Author | Roger Rapoport |
| ISBN | 1571430148 |
In this hilarious anthology 50 top travel writers, novelists and journalists, including Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Theroux, Mary Morris, Dominique Lapierre, Eric Hansen, Rick Steves, Tony Wheeler and Helen Gurley Brown, tell the stories of their greatest travel disasters....
Yemen: The Unknown Arabia
| Author | Tim Mackintosh-Smith |
| ISBN | 1585671398 |
Arguably the most fascinating and least understood country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fantastic. A country long regarded by classical geographers as a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves, while...
| 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 | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0679746129 |
I can'ttttt anymore, I'm gonna die of boredom. I was so looking forward to reading this book, but it is SO BLAH! I was expecting more of a travelogue style of writing, not a completely stand-offish overview. The author didn't really get into experiencing these cultures, it seemed. He gave a sentence here...
| Author | Christina Henry De Tessan |
| ISBN | 1580050700 |
For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the reality of...
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service--A Year Spent Riding across America
| Author | James McCommons |
| ISBN | 1603580646 |
During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of...
| Author | Thomas F. Madden |
| ISBN | 0525950745 |
A tale of two superpowers unique in the history of the world, offering a totally original comparison of the United States and ancient Rome: celebrating similarities and delivering urgent insights into America’s current crises.
Does America face the same destiny endured by ancient Rome?...
| Author | Sylvia Jukes Morris |
| ISBN | 0679457119 |
“I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die,” Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. Price of Fame, the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luce’s progress from the early months of World War II, when, as an eye-catching Congresswoman...
| 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...
| Author | Peter Moore |
| ISBN | 0553817000 |
When Peter Moore announced he was going to travel from London to his home in Sydney without boarding an aeroplane he was met with a resounding Why? The answer was perversity and a severe case of hippie envy - hippies had the best music, they had the best drugs, they had the best sex. But most of all, they had...
| Author | Sarah Johnstone |
| ISBN | 1741045916 |
This book has been my friend for all my trips to Europe. I have read every little snipppet, tip and found them to be true. Infact, I have forgone the use of a GPS and turned to this wonder on my drive to Scotland.
All the listed youth hostels offer services as listed and within the range. The nightlife...
| Author | Don George |
| ISBN | 1741045193 |
This book is amazing. You will laugh, you will cry, you will remember your own misadventures. I have been reading lots of short stories lately, but this book is definitely being added to my permanent collection. It's the kind of book that you're reading to your friends and family members over the phone....
The Lonely Planet Guide To Experimental Travel
| Author | Rachael Antony |
| ISBN | 1741044502 |
Forget package holidays and classic travel routes. Wave adieu to predictable journeys and escape the clutches of tourist traps. The time has come for different travel rules and The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel is your passport to a new world.Do you yearn for the glories of yesteryear?...
Beyond the Horizon: The Great Race to Finish the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Planet
| Author | Colin Angus |
| ISBN | 0385661231 |
In June, 2004, Colin Angus left Vancouver on his bicycle. Nearly two years later, he rolled back in, looking like a castaway, and having completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
Angus cycled, skiied, and rowed a route that took him to Alaska, across the Bering Sea and...
| Author | David Brown |
| ISBN | 0753716046 |
Travel to the most spectacular and enigmatic cities across the globe. The book provides the reader with a wealth of interesting and useful information about each city featured. Each entry is beautifully illustrated.
A wide range of cities are covered in this book, crossing continets,...
