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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.Carnet d'une flâneuse à New York: mes meilleures adresses
Par Esther Bégin. 2012
Esther Bégin aime New York! Journaliste, elle a vécu plus de deux ans dans la Grosse Pomme. Le temps qu’il…
faut pour remplir son carnet des meilleures adresses new-yorkaises pour manger, magasiner, se dorloter, se balader, prendre le thé, et se cultiver. Flâneuse experte et dénicheuse de bonnes adresses, l’auteure nous fait découvrir son New York, celui qu’elle a connu et apprivoisé au fil de ses pérégrinations urbaines et de ses rencontres. 2012.Paddle to the Amazon: the ultimate 12,000-mile canoe adventure
Par Charles Wilkins, Don Starkell. 1987
A father and his two teenaged sons left Winnipeg in a 21-foot canoe and 23 months later, after travelling 12,000…
miles, arrived in Belam, Brazil. They had paddled amidst storms, pirates and drug smugglers down the Mississippi River, along the Gulf of Mexico to Venezuela and down the Amazon River to its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean. c1987.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.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.On Celtic tides: one man's journey around Ireland by sea kayak
Par Chris Duff. 1999
Kayaker Chris Duff, on his slow boat around Ireland, spends equal time on land and sea. He brings us an…
old-fashioned travelogue of excitement on the waves, unhurried explorations of monasteries and ruins, and conversations in pubs. 1999.Old Patagonian Express: by train through the Americas
Par Paul Theroux. 1979
The way from Boston to Patagonia, Paul Theroux discovered, was one of great contrasts - contrasts in people, in temperature,…
in scenery, in altitude, in attitude. Some of the trains were superb, most were deplorable. Parochialism and xenophobia were coupled with some of the most staggeringly beautiful sights in the world, and some of the most squalid. Throughout, he observed and experienced with a sharp eye, an unbiased mind, and ultimately, a vivid pen. 1979.L'homme qui marche
Par Jean Béliveau, Géraldine Woessner. 2013
Après la faillite de son entreprise d'enseignes lumineuses, Jean Béliveau est parti sur un coup de têtele jour de ses…
quarante-cinq ans, le 18 août 2000, de Montréal. Il est rentré chez lui le 16 octobre 2011 après avoir parcouru 75 543 km à travers 64 pays. Il a réussi sans préparation à effectuer la plus longue marche ininterrompue autour du monde et celle-ci a été reconnue par l'Unesco dans le cadre de la décennie internationale dédiée à la paix pour les enfants. Durant ces onze années, le marcheur porte turban et grande barbe au Soudan, mange des insectes en Afrique, du chien en Corée et du serpent en Chine. Il dort sous les ponts, dans des foyers pour sans-abri, voire dans des prisons, mais la plupart du temps chez des gens séduits par son aventure. 2013.Notes from a big country
Par Bill Bryson. 1998
This book contains eighteen months worth of the author's popular columns about the strangest of phenomena - the American way…
of life. The text discusses the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, the jaw-slacking direness of American TV, and the smug pleasure of being able to eat beef without having to wonder if when you rise from the table you will walk sideways into the wall. 1998.North to danger
Par Walt Morey, Virgil Burford. 1969
Nine lives: death and life in New Orleans
Par Dan Baum. 2009
A multivoiced biography of a dazzling, imperiled city, told through the lives of nine characters and bracketed by two epic…
storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Baum shows us what was lost in the storm and what remains to be saved. Explicit strong language, descriptions of violence and explicit descriptions of sex. c2009.New Europe
Par Michael Palin. 2007
Palin's New Europe takes the form of a journey through countries which have rich and complex cultures. Few have survived…
intact, as the ebb and flow of warring armies has continually changed the map of Europe. Starting in the mountains of Slovenia he travels down through Croatia and the former Yugoslavia to Albania before turning northwards to embrace Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, The Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former East Germany, Poland, the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, opening up a new and undiscovered world to millions of viewers and readers. 2007.Muddling through in Madagascar
Par Dervla Murphy. 1985
Dervla Murphy and her 14-year-old daughter, Rachel, make their most accident-prone journey amongst "the most lovable people". The travellers set…
out on foot to Antsirable through the Ankaratra Mountains, then on by bush taxi and truck to discover that in Madagascar motoring is much more gruelling than walking. 1985.Mon coeur s'appelle Amazonie (Collection "Vécu")
Par Anne-Sophie Tiberghien. 1983
Mornings in Mexico
Par D. H Lawrence. 2009
In the 1920s, Lawrence travelled several times to Mexico, where he was fascinated by the clash of beauty and brutality,…
purity and darkness that he observed there. The diverse and evocative essays that make up "Mornings in Mexico" - "Market Day", "Dance of the Sprouting Corn", "The Hopi Snake Dance" - bring to life the elemental simplicity of the Zapotec Indians in Mexico. The intense, dark rhythms of the Indians in the American South West are brightly adorned with simple and evocative details sharply observed: piles of fruit in a village market, strolls in a courtyard filled with hibiscus and roses, the play of light on an adobe wall. 2009.Mississippi solo: a river quest
Par Eddy L Harris. 1988
A travelogue about the author's canoe trip down the Mississippi River, from its headwaters in Minnesota's Land of 10,000 Lakes…
to New Orleans. Includes the author's impressions, philosophical reflections, and personal recollections of a St. Louis childhood. Strong language. 1988.Mountain year
Par Michael Joseph Murphy. 1964
The account of the year in an Irish mountain district, divided into twelve essays, describes the attitudes and characters of…
some of the people who live there. All his life Michael J. Murphy has lived within sight of Slieve Gullion. To him it does not represent just a large outcrop of rock, but a way of life. In his opening essay he shows how the personality of a mountain can dominate and influence the lives and living of everyone within its shadow, even the very fields. 1964.