Essays & Travelogues

She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....

Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...

Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road....

The Old Ways, a major new book from one of Britain’s finest nature writers about landscape and the human heart....

Sie möchten gerne Borkum erkunden und den perfekten Urlaub verbringen? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für Sie! Wenn Sie bereits bis hierhin gekommen sind, ist die Neugier auf die wunderschöne Nordseeinsel Borkum groß und möchte gerne gestillt werden....

Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it....

The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect....

South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

A glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer....

Canada is known all over the world due to its undying commitment to multiculturalism and its social and ethnic diversity....

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed....

In the first of three essays included in this audiobook, Bill Bryson decides to move back to the United States, after nearly two decades in Britain. But not before taking one last trip....

In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup....

Age 28 and fed up with the office job he settled for, Paul Barach decided to travel to Japan to follow a vision he had: to walk the ancient 750-mile Shikoku pilgrimage trail....

Teetering awkwardly on the brink of insanity, unable to handle life in snowy, cold, ultra-conservative North Idaho, Carl and Erin sold their house and set out in search of a new place to call home....

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail...

The Olive Tree charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries....

Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather....

Twenty years ago Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country....

In the spring of 2009, Simon Pridmore and his wife Sofie travelled for 15,000 kilometres overland through Russia, Mongolia, and China. A trip that started off as an adventure ended up being an education. Everywhere they stopped, they found people and cultures on the cusp of change....

I feel it a great honor to be the bearer of this message to the world; but I do not claim any special privilege, nor do I claim any spiritual quality that makes me any different from my fellow men....

As any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank Langfitt wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab - and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change....

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children....

Una mirada fascinante al continente africano para descubrir vidas, culturas, tradiciones, sabores y olores, que invitan al oyente a inventar su propia África....

A food critic chronicles four years spent travelling with René Redzepi, the renowned chef of Noma, in search of the most tantalising flavors the world has to offer....

A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Ben Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years of business success. Unsettled by his insight and determined to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose....

Believing that a good, interesting life is marked by quality, not quantity....