Search Results for ‘United States of America’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 34 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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Independence Day: A Broken Heart's Voyage Around the USA

Niagara Falls is allegedly the Honeymoon Capital of the World. Not a good place, then, for Keeble to be dumped by his beautiful and witty girlfriend shortly after proposing to her. His self-esteem heading...

Made in America

Made in America is Bill Bryson’s discursive look at how the English language has been adopted and changed by the United States. He considers different aspects thematically and continually adds to his...

Notes from a Big Country

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Bill Bryson returns home to America with his wife and children having lived in England for nearly two decades. In a series of columns for The Mail on Sunday’s Night & Day magazine, he...

Old Glory

In which the acclaimed author journeys through the heart of the USA from Minneapolis to New Orleans along the Mississippi, realizing a lifelong dream and producing a masterful insight into contemporary...

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...

Sea of Glory

A fascinating account of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes's 19th Century exploration of vast tracts of the Pacific Ocean, including the new southern continent of Antarctica.
During the voyage they surveyed...

Stranger on a Train

I was going to record that this is two journeys in one, in fact it is more than that, much more. Diski begins by taking a cargo boat across the Atlantic, followed by a train journey in the American...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

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

Travels in a Strange State

By most people's standards, Josie Dew is hugely adventurous. By American standards, she is completely insane. For Americans drive everywhere: they drive through cinemas, restaurants, theatres, banks...

Coffe, Tea or Me?

Americans Trudy Baker & Rachel Jones recount their many anecdotes concerning celebrities, oddballs, stereotypes & misdemeanours arising from their days working as airline stewardesses in the 1960s when...

Only In America

When Matt Frei arrived in America as the BBC’s Washington correspondent in 2002 he thought he had made a terrible mistake. Until then he had reported on the groping hand of the largely benign American...

Riding with Ghosts

This is the first part of a 7,500 mile journey that took her as far as Nicaragua. It finishes with her crossing the border between the USA and Mexico. Leaving her job as an English teacher in Turkey...

Babar's World Tour

The latest from venerable storyteller and brilliant artist Laurent de Brunhoff has Babar's family on a world tour! They visit a number of countries around the globe.
First stop is Italy where they learn...