Travel, Essays & Travelogues
-
My Oyster
A life of traveling, exploring and becoming by Marilyn Bhadrena Restione
What takes a Depression Era New Jersey girl to an Indian Ashram, a Neolithic village on the edge of the North Sea, an Italian nunnery, to stand in the grotto of an ancient Greek Oracle and walk with Chaucer's bawdy pilgrims on their way to...
-
Free Pilgrim 2
by Pilgrim
In his first book, Free Pilgrim, published in 2016, author Nicholas Fung took his readers on a spiritual, mystical, and physical journey around the world, visiting countless amazing and inspiring sites both modern and ancient. In Free Pilgrim...
-
Boondoggles
Travels of a Restless Professor by G.E. Bentley, Jr
One of Jerry’s greatest talents was creating research pretexts to travel to the far corners of the globe. He explored England and continental Europe, first as a student and later when he returned regularly for research. Once he had settled into...
-
To Each Their Own Camino
One Woman's Walk Along Spain's Camino de Santiago by Roxey Edwards
There I was, an average middle-aged woman living and working on Canada’s west coast. How, then, did I come to be walking this ancient path, family and friends left behind, and everything I owned in a pack on my back? Exchanging my office pumps...
-
Fidler on the River
by Bob Fidler
In the summer of 1972, Bob Fidler and three others embarked on a month-long canoeing odyssey across Northern Ontario, following the Albany River from its source at Osnaburgh Lake all the way to Fort Albany on the doorstep of James Bay. A...
-
Hasten Slowly
Lessons from the Himalaya by Gordon Konantz
Gord and Gail Konantz set off on an odyssey to Asia in January 1987. It was a journey that changed their lives. Nepal was exotic and chaotic and they were to end their adventure with a challenging trek to Kala Pattar, a mountain ridge at 5,500...
-
Around the World in Six Years
My mostly solo circumnavigation in a 35 foot sailboat by Henry Holt
At the age of 67, Henry Holt struck off on a sailing adventure that would become a six-year voyage unlike any other way of seeing the world. The people he met and the challenges he faced along the way – from bureaucratic headaches at ports, to...
-
Buzzards and Bananas
Fragments from my Journals Across South America - Peru, the Amazon, Chile and Bolivia 1977-78 by George L. Ayers
Join George and Mary Ayers in the late seventies when South America was a little rougher and a little wilder, for an incredible journey through Peru, the Amazon, Chile, and Bolivia. Fusing together details scoured from their personal journals,...
-
Dramatically Zen
A Guidebook to Living Your Best Life by Angela Urquhart
It often takes an event beyond our control to take a step back from our lives and re-evaluate. When her world collapsed around her, Angela, a wedding planner in her mid-twenties, decided to take back control of her life and set off on a journey...
