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Stealing from a deep place: travels in southeastern Europe
Par Brian Hall. 1988
Spring jaunts: some walks, excursions & personal explorations of town, country & seashore
Par Anthony Bailey. 1986
The author's jaunts take him round the Isle of Wight, along the Massachusetts to Maine coastline, into the bizarre and…
hilarious history of Nice's Promenade des Anglais, and down the Severn River. A world of friendly conversation, tranquil landscapes, antique churches and country pubs. 1986.Slow boats to China
Par Gavin Young. 1981
The author's love of the sea, inspired by Conrad, led him to set off on a voyage that was to…
take him halfway round the world on small, local boats of every kind. 1981.Section lines: a Manitoba anthology
Par Mark Duncan. 1988
Seraffyn's Mediterranean adventure
Par Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey. 1981
Account of the authors' journey along the south coast of Spain and Malta, crossing over to Tunisia, then moving on…
to Italy and Yugoslavia. Intersperses tales of unwitting smuggling, military arrests, a collision and a hurricane. 1981.Salut au grand Sud (Documents)
Par Isabelle Autissier, Erik Orsenna. 2007
Sans bagage: un conte d'amour et de voyage : roman
Par Clara Bensen, Fabienne Gondrand. 2016
" Après avoir traversé une phase difficile, Clara Bensen, vingt-cinq ans, décide de s'inscrire sur un site de rencontre. Elle…
y fait la connaissance de Jeff, un professeur d'université débordant d'énergie et réputé pour son rejet des conventions - tout son opposé. À peine se connaissent-ils qu'ils se lancent dans une expérience de voyage unique. La règle du jeu ? Pas de réservation d'hôtel ni de programme, juste les billets aller-retour et, surtout, aucun bagage, rien à part les vêtements qu'ils portent. Comment trouver le courage de sortir de sa zone de confort ? Peut-on aimer en délaissant les schémas habituels ? " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: No baggage : a minimalist tale of love & wandering.Sailing through China
Par Paul Theroux. 1983
American novelist and travel writer sails down the Yangtze River in China along with thirty-three Americans, mostly millionaires, on an…
exclusive Lindblad tour. Theroux offers prose pictures of the river's industry-fouled cities and villages, the countless junks and sampans, the spectacular gorges, the endless views of Chinese people tilling the half-dead fields, plus acerbic sketches of his rich companions. Some strong language. 1984, c1983.Rowed trip: from Scotland to Syria by oar
Par Colin Angus, Julie Angus. 2009
2006. Adventurers Julie and Colin Angus were checking a map of Europe when Julie noticed an interconnected water route from…
Colin's parents' homeland of Scotland past her mother's homeland, Germany, and on to her father's, Syria. What started as a funny idea of rowing to visit relatives resulted in an odyssey by oar (and bike) where Julie and Colin tested their relationship while exploring their roots. Some strong language. 2010, c2009.Reflections in a writer's eye: travel pieces
Par Angus Wilson. 1986
A collection of the author's travel writings dating from 1957 to 1984. Whether visiting South Africa and observing apartheid, or…
glimpsing Khrushchev in the Soviet Union, Wilson reveals his intense pleasure in travel. 1986.Pole to pole: With Michael Palin
Par Michael Palin. 1992
The second of Michael Palin's Great Twentieth Century Adventures. He and his team set out to travel from one end…
of the earth to another, following the 30 degree east line of longitude, using aircraft only as a last resort and enduring extremes of heat and cold as they crossed 17 countries on trains, trucks, ships, rafts, ski-doos, buses, barges, bicycles and balloons. 1992.Poems and sketches of E.B. White
Par E. B White. 1981
Collection of poems, essays, satires, and other occasional short pieces which display the author's characteristic wit, craft, and whim, most…
originally published in such magazines as the "New Yorker", "Harper's", and the "Atlantic". Several of the works have never been published before. 1981.Petits agacements en tout genre
Par Constance Chaillet. 1998
Pilgrimage on a steelride: a memoir about men and motorcycles
Par Gary Paulsen. 1997
In contemplating the facts of his life on his fifty-seventh birthday, Paulsen decides that having heart disease is no reason…
to stop having adventures. He fulfills a longtime dream to own a Harley and take to the road. He describes his reflections on his round-trip from New Mexico to Alaska. Some strong language. 1997.Nul ne revient du pays qui n'existe pas
Par Catherine-Lune Grayson. 2010
Une voyageuse, partie à la recherche d'autre chose sans trop savoir quoi, livre le fruit de ses déambulations : des…
images rapportées d'ailleurs, des impressions, des rêveries et des désillusions en vrac. Des histoires aussi. Tchad, Burundi, Somalie, Kenya, Yémen se remet-on jamais de n'être rien d'autre que soi? Quelques descriptions de violence. 2010.Oscariana: the wit & maxims of Oscar Wilde
Par Oscar Wilde, Stephen Calloway, David Colvin. 1997
A collection which showcases Wilde's fabulous verbal dexterity. Based on two books published during his lifetime, The Maxims of Oscar…
Wilde and Oscariana, and organized by subject. Includes many epigrams and sayings which ridiculed the conventional wisdom of Wilde's day and skewered its hypocrisies. 1997.One year off: leaving it all behind for a round-the-world journey with our children
Par David Elliot Cohen. 1999
Travelogue of a forty-year-old suburbanite who sold his house and possessions, closed his thriving business, and set out in 1996…
with his wife, three children, and a baby sitter on a thirteen-month, sixteen-country trip. This is a compilation of the lengthy descriptive e-mails he sent to friends while on the road. c1999.On the road again: thirty years on the traveller's train to India
Par Simon Dring. 1995
Over thirty years after his first trip, the author retraces his route to India - through Europe, the Middle East…
and Asia - documenting the changes and meeting a new generation of nineties' travellers. What are they looking for? Do they like it? Is it the same thing that the travellers of the sixties were in search of? Do freedom and friendship, curiosity and an overwhelming desire to survive, learn and grow still fire the imagination and challenge us to seek new horizons? 1995.On the shores of the Mediterranean
Par Eric Newby. 1984
The author and his wife set out from Tuscany to investigate the Mediterranean as it was and as it is…
now. They travel via tough Naples with its Camorra murders and eight-horse hearses to Venice, Yugoslavia and a dull bus tour of Albania. He climbs Mount Olympus in a cloud, takes a Turkish bath in Istanbul and is fined for climbing the Great Pyramid. Includes strong language. 1984.On a shoestring to Coorg: an experience of South India
Par Dervla Murphy. 1976
Returning to India in an attempt to improve her feelings about the country, the author arrived with her small daughter,…
in the tiny province of Coorg. Here they settled down happily to learn something about its customs, ceremonies and attitudes. 1976.