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In A Motor Flight through France, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton invites listeners on an extraordinary journey through the French countryside at the dawn of the motor age. Based on her 1906 road trip—an ambitious endeavor at a time when automobiles were still a novelty—Wharton’s account captures the thrill of early travel by car and the unparalleled freedom it offered to the adventurous traveler.

ひとり旅を経験せずして、人生を終えてはいけない。ひとり旅歴40年の著者が、えりすぐりの場所、一生使える旅の知恵を初披露。

The Travelling Ape is an award-winning book that explores what travelling the world taught him about life, humanity, and the geopolitical turmoil that so defines us. And how exploring the world changed him as a person, too. A journey infused with sharp insights and equally entertaining anecdotes of personal humiliation from when travel goes wrong.

Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. In Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching ancient Mayan mariners, lands in Aden at the outbreak of civil war, and endures a North Atlantic crossing during which he discovers the existence of Force 13 winds.

Funkelnder Sternenhimmel und feurige Sonnenuntergänge, reiches Tierleben und karge Wüstenlandschaften, koloniales Trauma und nationales Selbstbewusstsein: Namibia ist rätselhaft und voll unterschiedlicher Facetten.

1976. The ass end of the hippie era. Adrift in college, Mark Orwoll drops out in favor of the hitchhiker's road through Europe, the U. K., and Morocco. Along the way, he hangs out with Beat Generation poets, gets dosed on acid at an illegal rock festival, loses everything he owns to thieves, and decidedly does NOT learn how to ride a camel. He would also find his calling in life—at 4 p.m. on July 17, 1976, over a beer on the terrace of the Café Select in Montparnasse. Harps, trumpets, and cathedralesque sunbeams may have been involved.

Esta apasionante historia comienza con un niño cuyo amor por la aviación se fue acentuando a medida que crecía. Todos los días insistía en visitar el viejo aeropuerto y pasarse horas viendo despegar y aterrizar aviones. Esos momentos eran lo más especial de su día, y cuando volvía a casa, contaba cada detalle de lo que había presenciado con una emoción desbordante. A medida que crecía, también lo hacía su pasión por volar. Su fascinación por la aviación lo llevó a perseguir su sueño de convertirse en piloto.

Un viaje sensorial en el que encontrarás regalos escondidos bajo capas de incertidumbre, visualizarás el amor invisible o volverás a creer en lo que ya no creías, mientras saboreas un café... o la propia vida.

Jessica’s Jamaica is a heartfelt memoir by Jessica Haughton, chronicling her bold journey of self-discovery, resilience, and love in the vibrant landscapes of Jamaica. After uprooting her life in the United States and moving to Negril, Jessica finds herself navigating the challenges of adapting to a new culture while battling feelings of displacement and loneliness.

The wonder of the night train: headlamps ablaze, passengers boarding after sunset and leaving before sunrise, slipping in and out of compartments unseen. For Monisha Rajesh, the singular thrill of sleeper trains inspired a new journey around the world – one filled with moonlit landscapes, cosy compartments and quirky companions. From Austria’s Nightjet to Scotland’s Caledonian Sleeper and Finland’s Santa Claus Express, Rajesh invites us on a multi-year adventure aboard the world’s most wondrous night trains.

What does retirement mean to you? Do you feel you’ve seen enough of the world? As you approach this later stage in life, the thought of travel can feel beyond intimidating—especially for those of us handling chronic medical conditions. In What If . . . ?, author Roberta Sawatzky highlights the importance of seizing the day when it comes to seeing the world, even and especially as one approaches retirement age.

In this gripping short story, Jason Kearney takes us on a single day’s journey that will linger in your memory long after the final word. Set against the backdrop of Eastern Europe, this is more than just a tale of travel—it’s an odyssey through the raw, unfiltered challenges of life on the road.

Brought to you by Penguin. The wonderful new book from Britain's best-loved travel writer. In February 2025, Michael Palin travelled to Venezuela to get a sense of what life is like in one of South America's most culturally rich, vibrant but also troubled nations. In the journal he kept during...

A highly entertaining anecdotal collection of humorous life observations during a trip around the world. Travelling by bus to Kathmandu, the author experiences hair-raising misadventures: a chase through Jerusalem, a gun battle in Jordan, a pummelling by a gargantuan masseur in Istanbul, a python in India, and the terrifying James Bond encounter in Australia. His portrait of an Afghani shopkeeper has a bizarre twist. Time-travelling detours punctuate interesting stories about the Taj Mahal, Sydney Opera House, Tahiti, Easter Island statues and Christ in Rio.

Light-hearted, anecdotal true stories as the author shares his wide-ranging experiences as a mischievous art student, bemused psychiatric nurse, reluctant parachutist, harassed teacher, American counsellor and time-traveller. Follow his hilarious escapades with a human skeleton, nude model and a lion, and witness incidents of mistaken identity that create comic situations in a psychiatric ward. Touring America by Greyhound Bus he encounters interesting characters and uncovers some intriguing stories.

Francisco und Antje standen am Rand des Abgrunds, als ihr Traum vom Eigenheim durch eine Baukatastrophe fast zerstört wurde. In einem Augenblick kippte ihre Welt aus den Fugen, und sie standen vor den Trümmern ihrer Hoffnungen - finanziell am Rande des Ruins und emotional zutiefst erschüttert. Träume am Wendepunkt - ist die ehrliche und ergreifende Erzählung ihrer Reise aus dieser Lebenskrise. Die Reise startet in Lübeck und endet in München, aber die eigentliche Reise ist die Innere.

Let us speak of the physics of time and space and the metaphysics of travel and meaning and the writing of it all. Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But our mind has changed, and that changes everything. Real journeys continue long after movement in time and space has ceased.

Robert Finch arrived in Newfoundland in the summer of 1995 heartsick, directionless, his old life on Cape Cod in tatters. Burnside, located in Newfoundland's rugged northeast, seemed like a good place to heal. Eventually Finch became a summer resident, buying a house, playing organ for the church, and fishing the area's waters. Offering a portrait of the Newfoundland character and culture, Summers in Squid Tickle explores how three generations of the village have grappled with the changes of the past century.

Edward Abbey, who never much liked Alaska, called it "our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state." To others, it has been a cure for despair. When Michael Engelhard moved to Fairbanks more than three decades ago, he was a cheechako, a subarctic tenderfoot. Gathering skills and experiences the hard way, he attained "Sourdough" status while realizing there would always be more to learn, see, and do in the land of midnight sun and auroras.

One backpack. One decade. One full moon at a time. Kenny had a dream: to live out of a backpack indefinitely and explore the world with no strings attached. For over a decade, he’s hitchhiked, couchsurfed, camped and embraced the freedoms of life on the go around the world. But this is not your typical travel memoir. Kenny shares his journey one full moon at a time, taking you to different destinations and adventures with each turn of the page.