Travel Writing & Commentary

In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve....

In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television writer, and producer takes us with him on travels across the globe.

16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman’s solo lap of the planet by bike....

Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile comes a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth.

Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...

The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America - majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes....

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again....

She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....

Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own path....

Boyce Upholt tells the sweeping history of the Mississippi River—and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America.

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history....

A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain....

Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food and spend more time with the people they love....

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail...

The true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a transformative journey walking the South West Coast Path in England, The Salt Path is ultimately a portrayal of home - how it can be lost, rebuilt, and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways....

When you’re a woman of a certain age, you are not promised anything at all other than that everything will get worse. But what if everything you’ve been told is a lie....

Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land....

In less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie.....

This audiobook will change the way we understand ourselves and the great outdoors....

In this inspiring memoir—the antidote to the “just quit your job and ditch all your belongings to backpack the world” mentality—a young woman explores how she took calculated risks to follow her dreams: traveling and living abroad without sacrificing stability and comfort.

Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West....

An intimate, funny, and poignant New York Times bestselling travel memoir follows award-winning author and actor Andrew McCarthy as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam.

Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed....

In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong.

Germany and Austria are treasure troves of European culture, and among the continent’s most enthralling and memorable destinations for travelers. In this enchanting, 24-lecture tour, you’ll immerse yourself in these two outstanding countries, visiting extraordinary sites from Roman fortresses, majestic cathedrals, and medieval cityscapes with resplendent castles and palaces to modern wonders of industry and futuristic urban planning, as well as some of the world’s most beloved cities, which brim with local traditions, iconic beers and foods, and the unique culture of the German-speaking world.

Mark Twain begibt sich auf Weltreise und uns wird das Vergnügen gewährt, mitkommen zu dürfen. In der Ersten Abteilung bilden Australien, Neuseeland, die ozeanischen Inseln und Indien die Kulisse für eine Weltreise der besonderen Art. In spielerischer Leichtigkeit verknüpft Twain historisches Wissen über Länder und Ethnien, naturwissenschaftliche Begebenheiten und Unglaubliches der Tier- und Pflanzenwelt, Besonderheiten regionaler Extravaganzen mit Legenden lokaler Helden und Anekdoten über außergewöhnliche Ereignisse und Personen, die ihm widerfahren bzw. welchen er begegnet.

Forty years ago, the park ranger Jon Waterman took his first journey into the Alaskan Arctic, to the Noatak headwaters. He was astonished by the abundant wildlife, the strange landscape, and its otherworldly light—how the “frequent rain showers glow like lemonade poured out of the sky.” Taken with a new sense of wonder, he began to explore the North on several trips in the 1980s.

“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.” The essays in this year’s Best American Food and Travel Writing circle the world—from Dakar in Senegal, to Michoacán in south-central Mexico, to the Camino de Santiago in Spain—and deepen our understanding of our place in it.

Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. A man who flies to Spain, sees a peasant farm on the wrong side of the river and, with scarcely a second thought, hands over a cash deposit. And then finds he has acquired not just the farm, but the farmer, too, who has no intention of leaving. Not to mention the lack of running water, electricity or even a bridge.

In a series of madcap and hilarious adventures we follow Chris from a shaky start in Chichester harbour to his epic Odyssey to Spetses (a bucket would have been handy), and then on to the journey of a lifetime - battening down the hatches on a trip across the North Atlantic. It's a journey crackling with Chris's zest for life, irresistible humour, and unerring lack of foresight. Dry land never looked more welcoming.

Following his hilarious introduction to Paris in French Like Moi, Midwesterner Scott Dominic Carpenter returns to the scene of the crime with more tales of intrigue. This time, though, the story starts with sorrow as Carpenter's wife struggles with dementia. Humor may be the best medicine, but even the antics of a vandal in their building can’t cement the tiles of her memory for long. Before he expects it, the author finds himself alone in a capital that is also blighted by the pandemic.

This is a rip-roaring story that just so happens to be a Spanish/English bilingual book too!The Road to Morocco is the first in a four-part series of fun stories that document the somewhat troubled and often hilarious adventures of Gordon Smith Durán. Dedicating himself to the world of bras and knickers in the sweated trade of textiles, we follow Gordon as he makes the first of many journeys that will conspire to finally plonk him smack bang in the middle of Spain.We hope that you have as much fun reading this book as we did creating it for you.

Wenn ein Mark Twain auf Reisen geht, dann ist nicht jedem vergönnt, dabei sein zu dürfen – uns schon! Ernest Hemingways berühmtes Zitat „Es gibt eine amerikanische Literatur vor Mark Twain und eine danach, denn nichts was davor da war noch etwas was danach kommt ist damit vergleichbar“ wird durch die Unterwegs und Daheim-Reihe wunderbar bestätigt.

2018 bricht Dr. Thorsten Möll aus seiner Komfortzone aus und lässt sein altes Leben hinter sich. Nach Jahren hinter dem Schreibtisch möchte der promovierte Wirtschaftswissenschaftler die Welt auf eine andere Weise "erfahren". Er kündigt Job und Wohnung, um alleine mit seinem Motorrad namens Suze den Erdball zu umrunden. Dass die grenzenlose Covid‑19‑Pandemie dabei zur größten Herausforderung wird, ahnt er zu diesem Zeitpunkt nicht. Drei Jahre reist er von Europa durch Asien bis nach Australien, wo er die schlechteste Erfahrung seiner Reise macht.