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This road I ride: sometimes it takes losing everything to find yourself
Par Juliana Buhring. 2016
After the death of the man she loved, a woman with almost no previous cycling experience decides to circumnavigate the…
globe on a bicycle. She cycles over eighteen thousand miles, across nineteen countries and four continents, over a span of 144 days. Some strong language. 2016The city at three p.m.: writing, reading, and traveling
Par Peter LaSalle. 2015
Collection of nine essays on the intersection of travel, writing, and reading, from the author of Hockey sur Glace (DB…
47546). In "Plasticize Your Documents," he explores Flaubert while visiting Tunisia; and in "The Other Life of Any Book," he considers the meaning of individual copies of books. 2015No baggage: a minimalist tale of love & wandering
Par Clara Bensen. 2016
Woman chronicles a three-week trip through Europe and Turkey with a man she had met on a dating site only…
a few weeks earlier. They traveled with no luggage and no set agenda or reservations. Discusses their adventures, the philosophy of minimalism, and the development of their relationship. 2016Once upon a Yugoslavia: when the American way met Tito's third way : a personal journey
Par Surya Green. 2015
Journalist recounts a summer internship with Zagreb Film in 1968. Discusses the mentors she encountered at the studio, reconnecting with…
the history of her family--many of whom had died in the Holocaust--and reevaluating what it meant to be American when living in a culture markedly different from her own. 2015Deep South: four seasons on back roads
Par Paul Theroux, Steve Mccurry. 2015
Author of The Last Train to Zona Verde (DB 76902) and The Lower River (DB 75221) explores life in America's…
Deep South as he travels across the region over the course of a year. Describes interactions with residents, events he attended, and cultural mores. Some strong language. 2015Writing across the landscape: travel journals 1960-2010
Par Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Giada Diano. 2015
Poet and author of These Are My Rivers (DB 64517) describes his travels over a period of fifty years. These…
include witnessing the Cuban Revolution, a dysfunctional trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway, tracking down his father's birthplace in Italy, and exploring countries in the South Pacific with his son. 2015The trip: Andy Warhol's plastic fantastic cross-country adventure
Par Deborah Davis. 2015
Profile of artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and an account of the road trip he took from New York to California.…
Describes artistic and business influences of Warhol, his personal relationships, and the works he accomplished. Argues that this trip was a pivotal point in his career progression. 2015The invention of nature: Alexander von Humboldt's new world
Par Andrea Wulf. 2015
Historian examines the life of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). Discusses his expeditions through the Americas and Russia; his friendships…
and interactions with luminaries of his day, including Goethe, Thomas Jefferson, and Simón Bolívar; and the influence of his writings on Charles Darwin and John Muir. 2015The Oregon Trail: a new American journey
Par Rinker Buck. 2015
Journalist and travel writer Rinker Buck not only describes the historical Oregon Trail but also recreates the westward journey himself.…
Over the course of four months, Buck and his brother travel the route by wagon, and Buck recounts their adventure. Strong language. 2015Around the world in 50 years: my adventure to every country on earth
Par Albert Podell. 2015
Journalist describes his travels to every country on Earth, including seven that no longer exist, since he began in 1962…
with a trip to Canada. Describes personal relationships with his family and girlfriends, coleading the Trans World Record Expedition, and ways he entered countries closed to tourists. 2015The wild truth
Par Carine McCandless. 2014
The author, whose brother Chris was the subject of Jon Krakauer's bestselling Into the Wild (DB 41823) and a movie…
directed by Sean Penn, now describes the dysfunctional family dynamics behind Chris's rejection of conventional life and ill-fated Alaskan journey. Strong language and some violence. 2014Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
Par John Waters. 2014
Film director and author of Role Models (DB 71591) chronicles his trip hitchhiking across America from his home in Baltimore…
to his co-op in San Francisco in 2012. Details what it took to find rides and the people he met in his travels. Strong language. Bestseller. 2014The other side of paradise: life in the new Cuba
Par Julia Cooke. 2014
Stories of regular Cuban people encountered by journalist Julia Cook over a period of five years of exploring Havana. These…
vignettes capture the daily life and future prospects of twenty-first century Cuba. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2014The aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic age of flight
Par Winston Groom. 2013
Author of Shiloh 1862 (DB 74383) and Vicksburg 1863 (DB 68947) profiles three celebrated aviation pioneers and recounts their service…
during World War II: World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, Charles Lindbergh, and Jimmy Doolittle--who in 1929 was the first to fly using instruments only. 2013Eighty days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world
Par Matthew Goodman. 2013
Chronicles the historic 1889 around-the-world journeys of New York World reporter Nellie Bly and her rival Elizabeth Bisland at the…
Cosmopolitan magazine, as the women attempted to break the record of Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days (DB 53171). 2013The last train to Zona Verde: my ultimate African safari
Par Paul Theroux. 2013
Author of Dark Star Safari (DB 63045) and The Lower River (DB 75221) chronicles his final journey across the African…
continent in 2011. Shares his observations on being an older traveler, the state of modern African life, and traveling alone. 2013Here, there, elsewhere: stories from the road
Par William Least Heat-Moon, William Least Heat Moon. 2013
Author of Roads to Quoz (DB 68364) compiles fifty-six short works on his travels all over the world. In "Crossing…
Kansas" the native Missourian pokes fun at just-passing-through vacationers' misconceptions about that state. "Into the Antipodes" relates a journey to New Zealand. 2013American notes: Revised Edition (Penguin classics)
Par Charles Dickens, Patricia Ingham. 2004
Acclaimed British novelist chronicles his 1842 trip to the United States and offers observations about North American society. Includes Dickens's…
celebrated visit with Laura Bridgman at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind. Introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham. 2004Castles, follies & four-leaf clovers: adventures along Ireland's St Declan's way
Par Rosamund Burton. 2011
Journalist recounts her walk along St. Declan's Way, from the Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary to Ardmore in County…
Waterford, as she sought to reconnect with her Irish heritage. Describes local scenery and life. Explores Christian and pagan tales related to sites along the ancient road. 2011Visit sunny Chernobyl: and other adventures in the world's most polluted places
Par Andrew Blackwell. 2012
Journalist/filmmaker vacations in seven polluted places, including Chernobyl, site of the 1986 Ukrainian nuclear disaster; Alberta, home of Canada's oil-sand…
mines; and India, where the Yamuna river is full of sewage and industrial runoff. Describes the environmental devastation and discusses the motivations of polluters and activists. Some strong language. 2012