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“john e burbidge”

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  • More Than Halfway to Somewhere

    Collected Gems of a World Traveler

    by John E Burbidge ...
    Whether in a train derailment in the Australian Outback, flying on the world's least customer-friendly airline, or riding shotgun in a massive Scania truck down the Zambezi escarpment, John Burbidge's peripatetic life has been marked by adventure, serendipity and a deep sense of gratitude.Join John as he finagles a press pass to an international cricket match in Jamaica, narrowly escapes being ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Dreaming Of Jupiter

    by Ted Simon ...
    Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book JUPITER'S TRAVELS. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, South and North America, and Asia. A number one bestseller in the late 1970s, it is still regarded as one of the greatest motorcycle books - indeed, one of the greatest travel books - ever written.In 2001, at the age of 69, Ted ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Last Resort

    A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

    by Sarah Stodola ...
    A captivating exploration of beach resort culture—from its roots in fashionable society to its undervalued role in today’s world economy—as the travel industry approaches a climate reckoningWith its promise of escape from the strains of everyday life, the beach has a hold on the popular imagination as the ultimate paradise. In The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2016

    Edited by Bill Bryson ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    This collection gathers the best travel essays from The New Yorker, Harpers, GQ and more—featuring Paul Theroux, Alice Gregory, Dave Eggers and others.Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, "I wasn't at all sure I knew the answer," these questions start us on the path of ... Read more

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  • Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux

    The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The international bestselling author records his many insights and adventures traversing the world by train in these 3 classic travel memoirs.The Great Railway BazaarIn 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on his now-legendary journey from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden ... Read more

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  • The Best American Travel Writing 2020

    by Jason Wilson ...
    Series series Best American
    The year’s best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane.Writing, reading, and dreaming about travel have surged, writes Robert MacFarlane in his introduction to the Best American Travel Writing 2020. From an existential reckoning in avalanche school, to an act of kindness at the Mexican-American border, to a moral dilemma at a Kenyan orphanage, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Voyager

    Travel Writings

    by Russell Banks ...
    “Banks’s narrative seductively juxtaposes rambles through lush volcanic mountains, white sand beaches and coral reefs with a barrage of memories of the hash he’s made of his private life.” —The New York Times Book ReviewRussell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. This longing for escape has taken him from the “bright green islands and turquoise seas” of the Caribbean ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Wanderlust

    Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance

    by Don George ...
    Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance includes these forty-one scintillating and sizzling tales of serendipity:“On the Amazon” by Isabel Allende“Once Upon a Time in Italy” by Bill Barich“Naxos Nights” by Laurie Gough“Passionate and Penniless in Paris” by Maxine Rose Schur“Sleeping with Elephants” by Don Meredith“Romance in Romania” by Simon Winchester“Looking for Abdelati” by Tanya ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2021

    by Jason Wilson ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    Adventurous essays by Meghan Daum, Paul Theroux, Sarah Moss, and many more, selected by New York Times–bestselling author Padma Lakshmi."The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person's experience in some other physical place and culture," writes Padma Lakshmi in her introduction, "and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time ... Read more

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  • Marco Polo Didn't Go There

    Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer

    by Rolf Potts ...
    Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The New York Times Magazine. This book ... Read more

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  • Irresponsible Traveller: Tales of scrapes and narrow escapes

    by Ben Fogle, Michael Palin, Jonathan Scott, Hilary Bradt, Simon King, Simon Calder ...
    Publishing to coincide with Bradt's 40th anniversary, The Irresponsible Traveller is a light but edgy collection of travellers' tales. Travel writers and celebrities alike recount their exciting, and often dangerous, adventures which include being chased by a sea lion, accosted by Brazilian kidnappers and a midnight raid to free turtles on the Amazon. Over 40 years Bradt has built a reputation for ... Read more

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  • Nick Sanders: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man

    Vol 1

    by Nick Sanders ...
    In this first volume of his no-holds-barred autobiography, Sanders starts to take us on the journey of his life. Interspersed with tales of the great explorers and authors in whose footsteps he sought to follow, he recounts the story of his boyhood and formative years through to his cycling career and the beginning of his love of motorcycles. He reveals the inspiration for his record-breaking ... Read more

    $5.99 USD