America ...And It's Neighbors Europe Africa Asia ...And Everywhere in Between Two-Wheeling It ...And Other Modes of Transportation Pets on the Go Culinary

America

"A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow": An American Hitchhiking Odyssey
Tim Brookes. Adventure, 2000.
20 years after hitchhiking America from coast to coast, a former Oxford student retraces his steps.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson. Broadway, 1998.
Delightful chronicle of two middle-aged adventurers determined to walk the entire 2,100 mile trail from Georgia to Maine's Mount Katahdin. By the same author: Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe (1992); Notes from a Small Island (1996).

The Sylvan Path: A Journey Through America's Forests
Gary Ferguson. St. M., 1997.
A celebration of America's forest lands and the people whose lives are still firmly tied to them.

Way Off the Road: Discovering teh Peculiar Charms of Small-town America
William Geist. Broadway, 2007.
Roving correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and bestselling author Bill Geist serves up a rollicking look at some small-town Americans and their offbeat ways of life.

Blue Highways: A Journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon. LB, 1982.
After losing both his job and his wife on the same day, Heat-Moon heads on a 13,000 cross-country tour of America's back roads in a van named Ghost Dancing. By the same author: River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America (1999).

Four Quarters of Light: A Journey throughb Alaska
Brian Keenan. Boradway, 2006.
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The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family
Mike Leonard. Ballantine, 2006.
NBC journalist Mike Leonard goes on a month-long cross-country odyssey with his eccentric parents, three grown children, and a daughter-in-law.

The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family
Mike Leonard. Ballantine, 2006.
NBC journalist Mike Leonard goes on a month-long cross-country odyssey with his eccentric parents, three grown children, and a daughter-in-law.

Chasing Spring: An American Journey through a Changing Season
Bruce Stutz. Scribner, 2006.
While recovering from heart surgery, Stutz seeks physical and emotional renewal by setting out on a three-month car trip across the country following Spring as it unfolds in all its glory.

...And It's Neighbors

O Canada: Travels in an Unknown Country.
Jan Morris. HarCol., 1992, 1990.

Europe

Summer at Little Lava: A Season at the Edge of the World.
Charles Fergus. North Point, 1998.
How Fergus fixed up an abandoned farm on the west coast of Iceland and spent a summer there with his family.

Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month is Enchanted
Annie Hawes. HarCol, 2001.
Two sisters escape cold, foggy London to graft roses in Italy.

The Seasons of Rome: A Journal
Paul Hoffman. Holt, 1997.
Travel writer Hoffman, a resident of Rome for 30 years, details the daily life of the city he loves.

Under The Tuscan Sun : At home in Italy
Frances Mayes. Broadway, 1996.
The author buys & restores a villa in the Tuscan countryside and explores the Italian landscape. The author's love affair with Tuscany continues with: Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy (1999); and In Tuscany (2000).

Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France
Peter Mayle. Knopf, 1999.
Mayle is back in Provence with a whole new feast of adventures, discoveries, hilarities & culinary treats. By the same author: A Year in Provence (1990); Toujours Provence (1991) and French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew. (2001).

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in the West of Ireland
Pete McCarthy. St. M., 2000.
BBC personality McCarthy explores the rural areas from Cork to Donegal in search of his Irish roots and usually finds himself in the local pub.

Paris Discovered: Explorations in the City of Light
Mary McAuliffe. Elysian, 2006.
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No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
Judith Martin. Norton, 2007.
The author, a slef-proclaimed Venetophile, shares her love for the delights, unique character, landmarks, and waterways of Venice.

Travels as a Brussels Scout
Nick Middleton. W&N, 1997.
A modern rendition of the "Grand Tour" of Europe.

England's Green & Pleasant Land
Kate Simon. Knopf, 1974.
Travel England to find a Roman fort near Chollerford and King John's castle in Bere Regis.

Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine & Love
Michael Tucker. Atlantic Monthly, 2007.
For Tucker and his wife, Jill Eikenberry (who both appeared in the TV series L.A. Law), it was love at first sight when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside while travleing through Italy. It becomes a life-altering experience for them as they embrace the simple life.

French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
Harriet Welty Rochefort. St. M, 1999.
The almost always humorous adventures of an Iowan in the City of Light.

The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain.
Paul Theroux. HM, 1983.

Africa

From Cape to Cairo: An African Odyssey
David Ewing Duncan. W&N, 1989.
A 6,000 mile trek through 8 former British colonies.

Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari
Betty Levitov. Univ. of Bebraska, 2007.
A teacher from a small midwestern liberal arts college takes thirteen students on a three-month trek across Africa.

South from the Limpopo: Travels through South Africa.
Dervia Murphy. Overlook, 1999.

Journey to the Source of the Nile
Christopher Ondaatje. Firefly, 1998.
In 1856 Richard Frances Burton led an expedition to fine the mysterious source of the Nile. In 1996 Ondaatje followed the Victorian explorers route across the Serengeti Plains to Oldrivai Gorge.

The Caliph's House
Thair Shah. Bantam, 2006.
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Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel
Jeffrey Taylor. HM, 2005.
In 2002, travel writer Tayler journeyed through the Sahel--the predominantly Muslim Saharan borderlands of Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Mali. Arduous and occasinally dangerous, Taylor's trek provided him with insight into religious fundamentalism, how American Foreign Policy is viewed by the people he met, and how these people survive in one of the poorest and most desolate areas on Earth.

Asia  

Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment.
Richard Bernstein. Knopf, 2001.
A story of cultural discovery and spiritual quest.

City of Djinns: A Year of Delhi.
William Dalrymple. HarCol, 1993.

Footloose in the Himalaya
Mike Harding. M. Joseph, 1989.
The adventures and misadventures of a documentary film crew in the mountains of northern India & Nepal.

The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto.
Pico Iyer. Knopf, 1991.

Empire of the Soul: Some Journeys in India
Paul William Roberts. Riverhead, 1996, 1994.
India, from the crumbling palaces of the maharajas to the slums of Calcutta.

Among Warriors: A Martial Artist in Tibet, by Pamela Logan. Overlook, 1996.

Middle East  

Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran
Christiane Bird. Pocket, 2001.
Depicts Iran today, in all its beauty, ferocity, and contradiction -- from the modern bustling capital of Tehran to the medieval holy city of Qom.

On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World
Jason Burke. St. Martin's, 2007.
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
William Dalrymple. Holt, 1997.
View of a vanishing way of life.

Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran
Jason Elliot. St. Martin's, 2006.
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
Bruce S. Feiler. Morrow, 2001.
A 10,000 mile trek from Mount Ararat to Mount Nebo.

...And Everywhere in Between  

Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands
Thurston Clarke. Ballantine, 2001.
A leisurely survey of islands that have inspired famous stories like Robinson Crusoe and Tales of the South Pacific.

Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
Rita Golden Gelman. Crown, 2001.
After the failure of her marriage the 48-year-old author sold all her possessions and set off to see the world. Fifteen years later, she still has no permanent address.

Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
Alexander Frater. Knopf, 2007.
Part memoir, part travelogue, Frater shares his keen observations as he spans the warmer regions of the globe from Fiji to Laos, Mexico to Peru, Senegal to Uganda, Taiwan to Indonesia..

Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle
Mike Horn. St. Martin's, 2007.
An extreme adventurer takes a death-defying solo journey to travel the entire perimeter of the Arctic Circle.

Falling Off the Map
Pico Iyer. Knopf, 1993.
Visiting North Korea, Argentina, Cuba, Iceland, Bhutan, Vietnam, Paraguay & Australia.

A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
Frances Mayes. Broadway, 2007.
Mayes deatils her travels to Spain, France, Turkey, Greece and other places.

Getitng Stoned with Savages: A Trip through the Islands of Fiji & Vanuatu
J. Maarten Troost. Broadway, 2006.
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Two-Wheeling It

Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books
Edward Bishop. Norton, 2006.
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Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
Ewan McGregor & Charlie Boorman. Atria, 2004.
From London to New York, actors and best friends McGregor (Star Wars) and Boorman climbed aboard a pair of BMW motorbikes and headed east--through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and the U.S.

Full Tilt
Dervla Murphy. Overlook, 1986, 1965.
A bicycle odyssey across two continents, Iceland to India.

Two Wheels in the Dust: From Kathmandu to Kandy
Anne Mustoe. Virgin, 2001.
An amazing cultural & spiritual journey by bicycle across the Indian subcontinent.

Round Ireland in Low Gear
Eric Newby. Viking, 1988.
The author and his wife explore the Emerald Isle by mountain bike.

A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River
Dan O'Neill. Counterpoint, 2006 .
As he chronicles his journey in a canoe down the Yukon from Dawson to Circle City, an Alsakan outdoorsman relates plenty of history and colorful tales of colorful people, while ruminating on the fragile bond between man and nature.

Lois on the Loose: One Woman, One Motorcylce, 20,000 Miles across the Americas
Lois Pryce. T. Dunne, 2007 .
A closet biker-babe working for the BBC abandons her desk for a Yamaha and travles from Alaska to Argentina.

Catfish and Mandala
Andrew X. Pham. FSG, 1999.
A Vietnamese-American's solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and forsaken fatherland.

...And Other Interesting Modes of Transportation

The Cannibal Queen: An Aerial Odyssey Across America
Stephen Coonts. Pocket, 1992.
Coonts, the author of Flight of the Intruder, and his 14-year-old son spend three months exploring America in a 1942 Stearman open cockpit biplane.

My River Home: A Journey from the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico
Marcus Erikson. Beacon, 2007.
An angry and disillusioned Gulf War veteran fulfills a long-time dream by journeying down the entire length of the great Mississippi River on a homemade raft kept afloat by 232 empty soda bottles and a paddle wheel powered by a 10-speed bicycle.

Zero Three Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane
Mariana Gosnell. Knopf, 1993.
Three months of adventure flying a single-engine tailwind airplane across country and back.

Through the Dragon's Mouth: Journeys into the Yangzi Gorges
Ben Thomson Cowles. Fithian, 1998.
Cowles, along with a Chinese professor and an army pilot, engineer experience a 150-mile stretch of shoals & chasms aboard a 95 foot junk.

Homelands: Kayaking the Inside Passage
Byron Ricks. Avon, 1999.
A five-month trip from Alaska's Glacier Bay to Puget Sound.

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia.
Paul Theroux. HM, 1975.

Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train through China.
Paul Theroux. Putnam's , 1988.

The Old Pantagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas.
Paul Theroux. HM, 1979.

Pets on the Go

Ella in Europe: An American Dog's Internaitonal Adventures
Michael Konik. Delacorte, 2005.
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Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey
Alistair Scott. AM Press, 1990.
Scottish adventure satisfies his wanderlust by dog-sledding his way across the Final Frontier.

Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck. Viking, 1962.
At the age of 58, the Nobel Prize-winning author and his faithful standard poodle set out on a 3-month journey across America in a camper.

Other books by Bill Bryson:

I'm a Stranger Here Myself. Broadway, 1999.
In a Sunburned Country. Broadway, 2000.

Equator: A Journey.
Thurston Clarke. Morrow, c1988.

A Journey North
Adrienne Hall. Appalachian Mt. Club, 2001.
What starts out as a date becomes the experience of a lifetime.

The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home.
Pico Iyer. Knopf, 2000.

Running the Amazon
Joe Kane. Knopf, 1989.
Travel the full 4,200 mile Amazon River with 10 explorers.

By the same author:

The Demonic Comedy: Some Detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein. FSG, 1997.
In Search of the Birth of Jesus: The Real Journey of the Magi. Riverhead, 1995.

The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Paul Theroux. Putnam's Sons, 1992.
The author travels from the Fiordland wilderness in New Zealand to Tahiti to Easter Island to Hawaii.

More books by Paul Theroux:

The Imperial Way. HM, 1985.
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries, 1964-1984. HM, 1985.
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean. HM, 1995.
Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings, 1985-2000. HM, 2000.

--Compiled by Linda Bova & Lynne Kennedy

Created and maintained by: Lynne M. Kennedy.

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