Search Results for ‘North America’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 41 matches found

1000 Places To See in The USA & Canada Before You Die

From the author of 1,000 Places To See Before You Die, this book provides another 1,000 amazing ‘must see’ places to see in the USA and Canada. The book is filled with factual information from the Appalachian...

A Crack in the Edge of the World - The Great American Earthquake of 1906

A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this...

A Walk in the Woods

SIGNED COPIES! On discovering the Appalachian Trail runs through the New Hampshire community he has settled in, Bill Bryson impulsively decides that he must walk it, all of it -and it’s the longest...

In Bear Country

Bears are a symbol of the health of an ecosystem - and the global population is dwindling to the point where only eight different species remain. These creatures have long fascinated us and their influence...

Passage to Juneau

The Inside Passage to Alaska, with its outer fringes and entailments, is a very complicated sea-route. Parts of it are open ocean, parts of it no wider than a modest river, and it has been in continuous...

The Meaning of Tingo

Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means "to take off your clothes in order to dance"? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or the Dutch word for skimming...

The Snow Geese

SHORTLISTED for the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Award
William Fiennes’ “The Snow Geese” is the profoundly moving account of both a physical and spiritual migration following snow geese in their spring journey...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

The Snows of Kilimanjaro contains some of Ernest Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular early works of fiction. In all these stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live...

Thunder & Sunshine - Around the World by Bike, part 2

“Thunder & Sunshine” tells the second part of Alastair Humphreys’ incredible 40,000-mile journey around the world by bike. The journey was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget and spontaneous...

Voyageur: Across North America in a Birchbark Canoe

Fifteen years before Lewis and Clarke Scotsman, Alexander Mackenzie (looking to open up a trade route) set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie...

Into the Wild (Film tie-in)

In April 1992, Chris McCandless, a young man from a well-to-do family, hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness. He had given all his savings to charity, abandoned his car and possessions...

Almost Heaven

After seven years working in the relative civilisation of Washington Martin Fletcher sets of to investigate the wilder prejudices and paranoias that lie hidden along America's many backroads.

America Unchained

With “America Unchained”, Dave Gorman’s plan was simple. Go to America. Buy a second-hand car. Drive coast-to-coast without giving any money to The Man. What could possibly go wrong?
Dismayed by the...

Facing the Frozen Ocean

In June 2003, Bear Grylls and his team set out from Halifax, Nova Scotia, across the infamous Labrador Sea, one of the most treacherous stretches of water in the world. The team headed for the vast...

Fast Food Nation

Eric Slosser's bestseller is at times funny but most of the time it is a harrowing account of the fast food chain, the influence it has on millions of people's lives all over the world.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas tells the tale of journalist Hunter S Thompson and his ‘attorney’, the Samoan, driving to Las Vegas to find the dark side of the American dream.
Roaring down the desert...

Fugitives and Refugees

Clearly, the first questions any potential visitor to Portland will have are: "Where do Chuck Palahniuk's tonsils currently reside?", "Where can I find a naked mannequin to hide in my kitchen cabinets...

Ghost Riders

The author has himself roamed the USA for several years and here investigates the historical roots of the nomadic impulse, and seeks out the present-day wanderers who are so much a part of the American...

Give Me My Father's Body

In this book the story of arctic exploration is told through the eyes of the Eskimos.
Minik and six other Inuit were taken from Greenland to New York in 1897. There they were put on display like circus...

Have a Nice Day

In Have a Nice Day the BBC’s North America Editor, Justin Webb, travels beyond the lazy clichés that most Europeans like to think of America and plunges into what makes this paradoxical country work...