Travel, Essays & Travelogues
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Memoirs of a Free Pilgrim
by Pilgrim
In this book, Nicholas Fung, who has authored several travel books (the Free Pilgrim series), talks about his life, from its humble beginnings in Borneo to his education in England, his professional successes in both law and banking, and his...
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Out for a Rip
A Bike Ride Across Canada by Aidan Garcia Sadler, Zachary Rohland and Jeremy Mercado
Blood-sucking mosquitos, dark tunnels, heart-pumping mountain roads (and the occasional run-in with police) are just some of the challenges a trio of friends encounter on their cross-Canada adventure. After completing high school, Aidan Garcia...
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Dispatches from the Doghouse
RVing through North America by Dina Kalns
How much would you be willing to spend on a doghouse? Is $350,000.00 too much? Not for this adventurous couple. Why? Because when you plan to spend 3 years travelling full-time throughout North America with a dog, everyone has to be comfortable....
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Twenty Years at Sea
The World as my Classroom by Laura Goor
Do you know, deep in your heart, that there’s more to life — but you don’t know what to make of that feeling? Why not travel the world, and learn just how right you are. Laura Goor believed that there were dreams, and there was reality, and the...
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Tales of the Globe Trot
by Marilyn Gladu
Crickets. Self-defense. Exotic destinations. Tales of the Globetrot is a collection of experiences from a 36 year journey of a tall blond chemical engineer travelling alone. Marilyn Gladu is a federal Member of Parliament who has been a...
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Suitcase Letters
A Memoir of Travel, Adventure and New Beginnings by John Howse
Suitcase Letters is a collection of letters written by the author, John Howse then 19 years old, to his Mother and family. Howse left Cootamundra, his small town in New South Wales, Australia, boarding a ship bound for Europe. His letters home...
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African Journey
A Voyage on the Sea of Humanity by Tony Gaston
Fresh out of university in 1968, Tony Gaston set out to explore for birds in the Ahaggar Mountains of the central Sahara. Without a map or compass, he continued south to Niger and westwards to Liberia and Sierra Leone, traveling on trucks and...
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The Road to India
My Fourteen Months Traveling Overland in Asia by Henry Holt
The year is 1961. After five months touring Greece, Egypt, and the Middle East, Henry Holt's next five months traveling through the heart of India led him to amazing adventures: two weeks in the jungle hunting a man-eating tiger, a hike through...
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Diary of a Mad Travel Writer
Discovery and Misadventure on the Path Less Taken by Carolyn Walton
When Carolyn Walton, journalist and mother of four, pitched her first travel story to the Ottawa Citizen in 1984, recounting her adventures in Rio de Janeiro, little did she realize that she was about to embark on a remarkable career that would...
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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...
