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Unpacked: Travel Disaster Stories by Tony Wheeler and Other Lonely Planet Authors

10 best books like Unpacked: Travel Disaster Stories by Tony Wheeler and Other Lonely Planet Authors (Tony Wheeler): The Road Less Travelled: 1,000 Amazing Places off the Tourist Trail, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World, Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust, Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives, The Smart Traveler's Passport, The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World, The Best American Travel Writing 2007, Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas, Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness

The Road Less Travelled: 1,000 Amazing Places off the Tourist Trail
AuthorBill Bryson
The Road Less Travelled is a guide to the world's unspoilt sights and experiences. Presenting 1,000 fresh and fascinating alternatives to hundreds of well-known tourist destinations and sights; including alternatives to the Carnival in Rio and the beaches of Thailand, the most-visited national...
Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
AuthorHolly Morris
ISBN0375760636
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...
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
AuthorTim Cahill
ISBN1932361448
Yikes, just when I had read one in this series that rated average, it slipped back down to below average again. And to add insult to injury, this book shared some stories with some of their other books that I've read (Whose Panties are These, Sand in my Bra, and more). I mean, if you don't have time enough to...
A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust
AuthorMarybeth Bond
ISBN1932361146
"Passion: any kind of feeling or emotion—hope, fear, joy, grief, anger, love, desire—when vehement, overwhelming or of compelling force."

In this followup to the award-winning A Woman's World, meet women from all stages of life—college students and grandmothers, old friends and...
Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives
AuthorSadie Smith
ISBN0756653991
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,...
The Smart Traveler's Passport
AuthorErik Torkells
ISBN1594741778
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...
The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World
AuthorEdward Hasbrouck
ISBN1566914337
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...
The Best American Travel Writing 2007
AuthorSusan Orlean
ISBN0618582177
“Travel is not about finding something. It’s about getting lost -- that is, it is about losing yourself in a place and a moment. The little things that tether you to what’s familiar are gone, and you become a conduit through which the sensation of the place is felt.” -- from the introduction by...
Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas
AuthorSpike Walker
ISBN0312089244
No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and super-human stretches...
Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness
AuthorWilliam L. Sullivan
ISBN0870715267
I picked up this book as I started to day dream about my own adventures across Oregon this summer. I have a mind to backpack through the Three Sisters Wilderness and The Wallowas if I can get enough time off. So of course I picked up this book knowing that William Sullivan is the greatest author of Oregon adventure....
The Best American Travel Writing 2011
AuthorSloane Crosley
ISBN0547333366
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special...
A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations
AuthorCintra Wilson
Whether you lust after it, loathe it, or feign apathy toward it, fame is in your face. Cintra Wilson gets to the heart of our humiliating fascinating with celebrity and all its preposterous trappings in these hilarious, whip-smart, and subversive essays. Often radical and always a scream, Wilson takes...
My 'Dam Life: Three Years in Holland
AuthorSean Condon
ISBN0864427816
I really wanted to like this book-- a lay-about ex-pat trying to make a go of it in Amsterdam? What's not to like? (It bears some resemblance to my life, after all!) But the stream of consciousness writing kept getting worse, more random and detached the longer it kept going. And by the end I was just relieved...
Signspotting: Absurd and Amusing Signs from Around the World
AuthorDoug Lansky
ISBN1741044898
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*

Anyone who has spent time on the road knows that you often have to depend on signs...to navigate the town, locate your hotel, and even obey the law. A scary thought if you've ever come across any of the publicly posted absurdities that...
Work Your Way Around the World
AuthorSusan Griffith
ISBN1854583298
The thirteenth edition of the unique and acclaimed guide for the working traveller, which explains how to find temporary work around the world, not only in advance, but also when on the spot while travelling. It incorporates hundreds of first-hand accounts from people who have actually done the jobs,...
Danziger’s Travels
AuthorNick Danziger
ISBN0586087060
This account describes the author's adventures during an 18-month journey "beyond forbidden frontiers" in Asia. With minimal equipment and disguised as an itinerant Muslim, he hitch-hiked and walked through southern Turkey, and the Iran of the Ayatollahs, entering Afghanistan illegally in the...
A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad (Lonely Planet Journeys)
AuthorDon George
ISBN1740594193
We've all dreamt of escaping to a House Somewhere. In this collection some of the finest names in contemporary travel writing reveal the perils and pleasures of exchanging the familiar for the foreign.
Isabel Allende discovers love and paradise in California, Pico Iyer finds home in Japan amidst...
Delaying the Real World
AuthorColleen Kinder
ISBN0762421894
Alright, it's been three years since this puppy showed up in my life : what results?

--Done the Ironman
--Bought the map to bike across the USA, and the bike and the bike trailer, didnt yet do the bike
--Joined Peace Corps 2x


Still left to do:
--WWOOFing in Italy/Switzerland/Germany...
Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients
AuthorSimon Quellen Field
ISBN1556526970
A Selection of the Scientific American Book Club


Explaining why antifreeze is a component of toothpaste and how salt works in shampoo, this fascinating handbook delves into the chemistry of everyday household products. Decoding more than 150 cryptic ingredients, the guide explains...
Thank You and Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan
AuthorDavid Chadwick
ISBN1590304705
David Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts...
Europe on a Shoestring
AuthorSarah Johnstone
ISBN1741045916
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...
Lonely Planet Mexico
AuthorLonely Planet
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Mexico is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the ancient Maya world, go horse-riding through fragrant pine forest, and experience Mexico...
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