Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. For Fun.
Mark Thomas
Ebury Press, PB, 9780091927813
'Good fences make good neighbours, but what about bad ones?' The Israeli barrier is probably the most iconic divider of land since the Berlin Wall. It has been declared illegal under international law and its impact on life in the West Bank has been enormous. Mark Thomas - as only he could - decided the only way to really get to ... More/Buy
Finding the Arctic: History and Culture Along a 2,500-Mile Snowmobile Journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay
Matthew Sturm
University of Alaska Press, PB, 9781602231634
The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with fascinating and heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. In Finding the Arctic, the accomplished arctic researcher Matthew Sturm collects some of the most memorable and moving of these stories and weaves them around his own story of a 2,500-mile snowmobile expedition across arctic Alaska ... More/Buy
How To Get To The North Pole and Other Iconic Adventures
Tim Moss
How To Books, PB, 9781845284909
Written by seasoned adventurer Tim Moss, comprehensive chapters take you through the details of each challenge or journey. If you're rowing an ocean where do you sleep at night? How do you go to the loo at sea? If you're cycling round the world precisely what difficulties will you face and how will you overcome them? From armchair adventurer to those ... More/Buy
A Journey to Nowhere: Detours & Riddles in the Lands & History of Courland
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Maclehose Press, HB, 9780857050366
Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was by occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991. Once ruled by descendants of the Teutonic ... More/Buy
Paris in Love
Eloisa James
Harper Collins, PB, 9780732292584
After years of living vicariously for years through her romantic heroines, bestselling novelist Eloisa James takes a leap that most of us can only daydream about. She sells her house, leaves her job as a Shakespeare professor behind, and packs her husband and two protesting children off to the city of her dreams. Grand plans are abandoned as she falls under ... More/Buy
Seven League Boots: Adventures Across the World from Arabia to Abyssinia
Richard Halliburton
I B Tauris, PB, 9781780761381
Richard Halliburton is America's greatest adventurer, a household name and bestselling author with a considerable fan base. This is a first accessibly-priced and attractively packaged paperback edition. It offers adventurous travel writing at its best - broadly appealing. 'Let those who wish have their respectability - I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search ... More/Buy
This Love Is Not for Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juarez
Robert Andrew Powell
Bloomsbury, HB, 9781608197163
More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juarez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border city of Juarez has been hit hardest of all. And yet, more ... More/Buy
Ticket to Paradise: A Journey to Find the Australian Colony in Paraguay - Among Nazis, Mennonites and Japanese Beekeepers
Ben Stubbs
Harper Collins, PB, 9780733329173
In 1893, Australian journalist William Lane dreamed of creating a utopia where his socialist ideals could flourish, far away from his home in Queensland. He enlisted 238 followers and convinced them to sail across the Pacific with him to Paraguay, where he intended to create a paradise where brotherhood would be the order of the day and where hard work would ... More/Buy
You Can't Hide the Sun: A Journey through Palestine
John McCarthy
Bantam, PB, 9780593059470
The ancient places and stories of the Holy Land are so etched into our cultural and mental landscapes that it is hard to separate ancient tales from modern realities. Of course, this is part of the potency of the place, but also part of the illusion.In captivity for many years, John McCarthy had only the Bible to read. While many of ... More/Buy