When Richard Halliburton graduated from college, he chose adventure over a career, traveling the world with almost no money. The Royal Road to Romance chronicles what happened as a result, from a bre
"Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America." Brad Newsham was only 22 when he scribbled this note in his journal with "only an immature sense of the
This feisty, sexy, energetic tale of a young woman's solo journey through Fiji, Bali, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Morocco offers the best of memoir and travel narrative combined. Gough chronicles her e
Our favorite freewheelin' scribe Dan Price's inaugural collection of vagabond musings, HOW TO MAKE A JOURNAL OF YOUR LIFE, was such a hit that we could hardly wait to bring out THE MOONLIGHT CHRONICLE
Maxtone-Graham, a maritime historian specializing in the history of ocean liners and cruise ships, revels in the past glories of the ocean liner and examines with affectionate detail today's best ship
George Forster's A Voyage Round the World presents a wealth of geographic, scientific, and ethnographic knowledge uncovered by Cook's second journey of exploration in the Pacific (1772-1775). Accompan
In June of 1881, on the very night of their wedding in Searsport, Maine, Captain Lincoln Alden Colcord and his new wife, Jane Sweetser Colcord, departed for sea to begin a two-year voyage on the bark
In this charming,thought-provoking sequel to Blown Away , Herb Payson's singular determination and self-effacing humor are irresistible as he and his family make a Pacific Ocean passage in an old wood
The mid-17th century diary of the padre of the Spanish galleon La Capitana was found by the author in a Seville archive. Here Horner recounts its shipwreck and his 1996-97 salvage of this "Queen of
Having raced tides and dared river rapids, crossed a desert and a mountain range, housed a children's television show, and been honored in the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the small sailboat
Explore history through the fascinating lives of real pirates! This kit includes a fully illustrated booklet, a pirate ship model to construct, a museum-quality replica gimbled compass, pirate bounty
From Tanzania to China, Peru to the Arctic Circle, these stories are passports into a world where family travel has become par for the course. You'll discover how travel restores, revitalizes, and rev
Turley (English, U. of Connecticut at Storrs) offers homoerotic readings of several works attributed to Daniel Defoe, including A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Py
A world-class sailor who plans to resume circumnavigation quests relates the story of his other voyages around the world: from becoming in 1973 the first American to round Cape Horn solo, to barely su
Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable - and entertaining - travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard the th
While French sea captain Auguste Duhaut-Cilly may not have become wealthy from his around-the-world travels between 1826 and 1829, his trip has enriched historians interested in early nineteenth-centu
No mythic journey, this tale of adventure on the high seas is completely true, told by a writer who spent World War II in warships of the Royal Navy. The story is based on the real-life adventures of
Laurie Gough boldly embraces the pilgrim's road with wisdom beyond her years. In Fiji, she falls in love with a young islander, meets his Giant Aunts and evil Uncle Vix, eats gargantuan meals, drinks
