Travel - General

Description In 1987, a few months before I left home to hobo around Europe, Guns N' Roses released Appetite for Destruction. The band and album seemed a complete fit with my mind, beliefs, personality, life and ambitions: the songs told a tale of travelling...

For three years, Auguste Guinnard was a captive and slave of the native Indians in Patagonia. His account of his time there is a thrilling tale of endurance and perseverance, and provides a rare insight into a culture as alien to the author as...

Looking for fun to visit when you are in Nashville? How about New York? This book will provide you with attractions to visit in case you decide to travel to Nashville or even New YorkAuthor: Deon McAdooISBN-10: 1733203052ISBN-13: 9781733203050Publisher: McAdoo PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2019Pages: 46Format:...

Festivals across the world represent the joy, recreation, and traditions of their different societies and cultures. There is a plethora of reasons to commemorate and organize such events. Every festival has its own distinct personality, charms, appeal, and experiences that are closely linked to...

"One thing you must remember. If you are running. Buffalo, do not be afraid of them. Ride your horse close up to the buffalo, as close as you can, and then let fly the arrow with all your force. If the buffalo turns to...

My best buddy Dale persuaded me to travel with him, although it didn't take too much persuasion. We would be backpacking for 6 months through New Zealand and Australia, followed by several countries through South East Asia. This book is in a diary format...

Stephan Howard Hammond knew he could count on his children to squander the fortune he would leave them in his will. His anguish over their future left him no choice but to find someone dependable to provide for them when the money ran out....

Word Play is witty poetry that is fun to read about love, romance, Christianity, travel, bodily parts and functions, and other poets.Author: Keith DickISBN-10: 1591096030ISBN-13: 9781591096030Publisher: Booksurge PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2003Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.42d

The author and his wife realized their dream of retiring early and travelling the world. Humorous anecdotes are incorporated to illustrate the experiences of living and travelling in third world countries.Author: Newton HockeyISBN-10: 1552128199ISBN-13: 9781552128190Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2001Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x...

I looked through many events of my oceangoing past and sorted out these seven survival scenarios, in which the main characters ventured into the boundless scene of nature that to see and feel what one great man, Ernest Shacklton, confessed a long time ago:...

Glasgow to Heathrow by B&B and Car: With the Untethered Tourist is the sharing of Lynne's first visit to her ancestral homeland. Being a McEwan, she wanted to tread the sod of her forefathers, to see a loch, to hear a bagpipe. Her son,...

My name is Chris McKenzie Kiely. This material is my book. I am very fortunate to have spent most of my working career in Silicon Valley. I have written about my work experience as well as my experience in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. I...

We wrote about our travels throughout the world. Recently, we went to Australia and Japan. We spoke two times in Japan. As usual, we returned from our journeys with fresh memories, and we sat down and wrote our books.Author: Barbara Margaret Wolf AndersonISBN-10: 1546254293ISBN-13:...

After a personal and professional life that led him across three continents - from Germany to Albert Schweitzer's hospital in Africa, to medical training at the Mayo Clinic in the USA, Hans was on the verge of retirement from a satisfying but demanding career...

Experience some of the dangers, and the humour found when travelling to parts that are often well off the beaten track followed by most tourists. The reader can thus feel that they have shared and participated in each of our travels, all from the...

Crazy Is Forever Following Me is the true story of one woman who picked up and moved her life (literally) to the other side of the world for four years. Some of her life and the adventures she encountered are shared in her first...

The Maya Routes Travel Book Series is a compilation of the tourist routes of the countries of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador taken from the book Maya Latin and Caribbean Routes published in 2006 and edited in English, Spanish, and French. Its contents...

See her travel images through her eyes. Appreciate her poetic words as she combined them with and find out her real thoughts behind each image and poem. The truth just might shock you.Author: L. ValentineISBN-10: 1543407994ISBN-13: 9781543407990Publisher: Xlibris AuLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2018Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize:...

Minneapolis-St. Paul's most comprehensive directory of all the fun things you can do in and around the Twin Cities area.Author: Megan MeuliISBN-10: 1540503585ISBN-13: 9781540503589Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/04/2016Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.15d

Author: Bahramjii Mehrbanji MalabariISBN-10: 1535805587ISBN-13: 9781535805582Publisher: Gale and the British LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1895Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.62d

This book narrates the story of a young family that, in the year 1975, made the bold decision to leave the United Kingdom and seek a new life in South Africa. Although intending to stay for just a few years, they only returned some...

What is it about that word? Aroostook. "The County," they call it in Maine. She sat in the Ohio kitchen with books spread out, having just read a word. She said the word aloud. Someone little called. A door slammed. She stood automatically, walked...

If you and someone you love are going to be apart for a day, a week, a month or a year, you think about each other and you wonder what the other one is doing. You hope the other is safe and happy and...

It was 1987 when the idea of sailing away into the sunset became a lot more than just a dream. I had spent my whole career enjoying my work as a TV cameraman, lighting director, and technical coordinator with BBC. During that time, I...

Life experiences and learning with a "hop" from education to his first real job, including traveling around the world for Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, the "skip" to other corporate hospitality businesses, and the "jump" into the entrepreneurial world. This included a successful hotel management buy-in...

Yet I knew even then that this whole Melbourne to London thing was over the top. It was quite outrageous. Utterly preposterous. But I was a goner--totally, hopelessly bitten. Having an adventure is easy. Step 1--drive down one's street. Step 2--keep driving. Step 3--stop...

The book Why Did You Come If You Leave Again? is an ethnographer's personal account of the five years he spent in one of the remotest parts of Africa. In the author's comprehensive monograph (eight volumes published by Schwabe) about the Anyuak, a little-known...

The tourism industry is the largest service industry and the largest employment generator in the world. This was made possible by increasing globalization and disposable income, with the labor force playing an important role. Factors such as quality of services and business performance depend...

The era of globalization allows for more connectivity between nations and cultures. This increase in international association gives citizens the ability to take advantage of opportunities in other nations, such as medical assistance and accompanying services. Medical Tourism: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice is...

Place branding has made it possible for international destinations to be able to compete within the global economy. Through the promotion of different cities, natural beauty, and local culture or heritage, many regions have been able to increase their revenue and international appeal by...

Exploring the Heart: Life, Romance and Central Australia in Art and Poetry. This book is the fourth in a series on Travel in Art and Poetry. Having explored the depths of emotions in Travels Within, Fabulous Adventures in Europe and America in Travels Without,...

"Padmashree" is about a woman from Garhwal, a village at the base of the Himalayan Mountains. She faced many challenges from her childhood. In want of a normal life of a simple girl, she encounters an unpredicted incident that ultimately changes her life completely....

AUTHOR REVEALS A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN COMFORT FOR THE MIND, BODY & SOUL A survey of diverse soul food, blues and jazz establishments throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southern United States. A book like no other, "American Blues, Jazz and Soul Food," by Ron Rudison,...

Kazakhstan - a country of extremes, of both culture and weather. This is an account of one person's experience, coping with living and working in a strange environment where normal, day to day activities can turn out to be monumental in their execution and...

No doubt there will be saints and sages in our time; Masters of Wisdom and great Elders. There seems to be an endless stream of quotes from the sages of the past but where shall we find our great ones? Indeed, in this world...

This is a highly entertaining memoir of a somewhat colourful character dispatching husbands, lovers, murderers, and maniacs in various ways and shooting a rapist in the groin, surviving to the age of ninety-one to write the story of her familys arrival in Rhodesia and...

Having completed their overland journey of twenty thousand kilometers (twelve thousand miles) from Cardiff to Singapore, Shaun and his daughter, Hayley, have now flown over to India, to meet up with her two brothers, and also Hayley's boyfriend, for a ten-day exploratory tour of...

After living apart for over 18 years, Shaun Donovan and his teenage daughter, Hayley, decide to make-up for lost time, by embarking on a 60,000km voyage of discovery: a journey that would inevitably take them half-way around the world. 'Asia -Me & My Girl'...

This is the story of a Turkish traveler's solo journey across Africa, from Cape Town in the south to Cairo in the north. In his second book, a follow-up to Nine Gates of Asia, Faruk Budak tells of his eight-month adventure. Sometimes he rides...

this is the story, in her own words, of an adventurous young woman. Coming from divorced grandparents and parents, she struck out from Akron, Ohio, after high school, modeling shoes in St. Louis and performing in a show on a boat on the Ohio...

This is the story of a nineteenth century American girl who moved with her husband to the jungles of Central America in 1898. There she helped to manage mahogany and banana plantations, hunted, fished, kept a small jungle zoo, and cared for the sick...

This is a true story of travel with my indelicate progeny-two daughters of vastly different temperaments. And I, a shallow person, bitter and envious of all I see, lacking in courage but with delusions of grandeur, reluctantly agree to go along. Follow the drama...

This book is a short collection of vignettes about my year s leave of absence which extended to twenty-five years. Life on St John was like an endearing living theater to me. These are just a few of the wonderful memories that I remember....

Have you ever found yourself steaming on public transit because of someone's total disregard for others? Wondering why their parents/guardians never taught them the day-to-day social etiquette that once was? Finally, the unwritten social rules regarding public transit have been written! Project e: Etiquette...

I do not remember when I first sailed out of Arklow, but I do remember when I almost drowned in the dock at the age of three. I was brought up in a fishing community, and in our street of fourteen houses, every one...

Imbued with patriotic feeling, it is my utmost perseverance to awake Nepali and to discover the unparallel natural beauty of Nepal. This is meant for those who have stared Mt. Fishtail but not seen yet; lived in Nepal but not seen the real Nepal....

Dr. Kuhn has written a book about her life and travels as a foreign language teacher. In essence, it is a book of memories, autobiographical in nature. She describes many of the 45 trips in detail, but she also groups many of the trips...

Author Phyllis Karsnia was not bitten by the travel bug until after she turned forty. But ever since she was coaxed away from her job, husband, three children, and Minnesota home by a coworker who invited her along on a vacation with her to...

Reflections is broken into three basic parts. First, reflections on things I have experienced in life. Mostly life in the 50'as and 60's. Many baby boomer writers have done the same thing, but this is my reflections. Then a look at my grandfather, Oscar...

My Love is the embodiment of the love the author received from his wife Amie on earth or in the heavens. The author tarried in 46 countries and composed poems to find a hope that people could embrace with love the differences of the...