Walking the Gobi: A 1,600-Mile Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair
10 best books like Walking the Gobi: A 1,600-Mile Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair (Helen Thayer): Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road, 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan, Walking Home: A Woman's Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West, Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu, Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest, Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River, A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe, Madame de Stäel
| Author | Stuart Stevens |
| ISBN | 0871131900 |
"Chop Stuart"
Travellers come in many flavors, just like ice cream. Some try to "get in" with the natives of the places they go in order to learn more about foreign ways and perceptions. Others prefer to challenge themselves with tests of strength and endurance, paddling up jungle rivers or...
36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
| Author | Cathy N. Davidson |
| ISBN | 0822339137 |
In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women’s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make...
| Author | Kelly Winters |
| ISBN | 1555836585 |
It was hard not to make comparisons between Wild (Cheryl Strayed) and this book, although this one was published in 2001, well before Wild (2012). Both women are somewhat broken, which is the impetus for them to commit to a long-distance hike. Both have important relationships with a parent.
Winters,...
| Author | Arlene Blum |
| ISBN | 0156031167 |
A legendary trailblazer, Arlene Blum defied the climbing establishment of the 1970s by leading the first all-female teams on successful ascents of Mount McKinley and Annapurna and by being the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest. At the same time, her groundbreaking scientific work challenged...
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West
| Author | Deanne Stillman |
| ISBN | 0618454454 |
An epic story that restores the horse to its rightful place in the history of the American West
Mustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse from its evolutionary origins on this continent to its...
| 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 | Sandra Day O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0679643443 |
Now, for the first time in paperback, here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today—the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women...
| 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...
The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian...
In her lifetime it was widely said that there were three political powers in Europe—Britain, Russia, and Madame de Stäel. Byron described her as "the first female writer of this, perhaps of any age," Germaine de Stäel was certainly the most remarkable woman of her time and she remains unique—both...
| Author | Sabina Flanagan |
| ISBN | 0415185513 |
Until recently, Hildegard of Bingen has been known only to a handful of scholars. Now available in a paperback edition, Sabina Flanagan's book makes her remarkable life accessible to the general reader. Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance...
A Woman's World: True Stories of Life on the Road
| Author | Marybeth Bond |
| ISBN | 1885211066 |
DNF
I was excited to read a travel book focused completely on women travelers. It's not rocket science to know that solo travel for a woman is different than it is for a man. Here's a direct quote from the book about this: "As I became aware of other women's travel experiences. I also became aware that...
Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
| Author | Mark Obmascik |
| ISBN | 1416566996 |
Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high-altitude...
Breaking Up With God: A Love Story
| Author | Sarah Sentilles |
| ISBN | 0061946869 |
"Honest,like down-to-the-core honest, beyond what most people are capable of,especially in public on the topic of faith." —Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author of The Middle Place
Inthe tradition of Barbara Brown Taylor and Sue Monk Kidd, Sarah Sentilles offers a poignant,...
Breaking in: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
| Author | Joan Biskupic |
| ISBN | 0374535663 |
"I knew she'd be trouble."
So quipped Antonin Scalia about Sonia Sotomayor at the Supreme Court's annual end-of-term party in 2010. It's usually the sort of event one would expect from such a grand institution, with gentle parodies of the justices performed by their law clerks, but this year...
No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the Century
Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a Chinese...
Small Feet, Big Land: Adventure, Home, and Family on the Edge of Alaska
| Author | Erin McKittrick |
| ISBN | 1594857369 |
Small Feet, Big Land follows the expeditions and daily life of a family of four: Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, lifelong adventure trekkers, set out to explore the vast and remote wild corners of Alaska with their two young children in tow.
After trekking thousands of miles through harsh...
Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
Evolution's Captain is the story of a visionary but now forgotten English naval officer but for whom the "Darwinian Revolution" would never have occurred. When Captain Robert FitzRoy, the twenty-six-year-old captain of the H.M.S. Beagle, set out for Tierra del Fuego in the fall of 1831, he invited...
Loving and Leaving the Good Life
| Author | Helen Nearing |
| ISBN | 0930031636 |
Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other bestselling books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is Helen's testimonial to their life together and to what they stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice,...
Taste of Home: Simple & Delicious Cookbook
| Author | Jean Steiner |
| ISBN | 0898215153 |
My boss gave me a gift cert for Barnes and Noble one Christmas and this is the book that I bought. It's not bad, but I don't use it to the extent that I thought I would.
I tried the recipe for Salsa Fish with mozzarella cheese. We decided salsa did not go with fish but we were amazed at how good the cheese...
A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa
In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His five-and-a-half-year, 10,000-mile adventure ranks among the...
My Year of Living Fearlessly
| Author | Amber Karlins |
| ISBN | 0914839845 |
In compliance with FTC guidelines, I am disclosing in this review that I received the book for free through Goodreads First Reads.
I applaud Ms. Karlins for her year of living fearlessly and moreso for writing and publishing a book about it. That being said at times I was personally a little disappointed...
Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog
| Author | Steph Davis |
| ISBN | 1451652054 |
When professional rock climber Steph Davis started skydiving, she discovered new love, hope, and joy in letting go.
“It’s not so surprising that on the day of my fifth wedding anniversary I would be crouched in the open door of an airplane, thirteen thousand feet above the Colorado plains,...
3mph:The Adventures of One Woman's Walk Around the World
Pursuing the spirit of adventure and the goal of raising global awareness and funds for breast caner, Polly Letofsky broke down barriers and walked across four continents, 22 countries and covered over 14,000 miles in five years to be the first American woman to successfully walk around the world....
