Adventure Travel From Your Armchair
Gironimo - by Tim Moore
I’ve come away from this book with mixed feelings. It is a wild adventure travel tale of 2 young women cycling the Silk Road over a period of more than a year. As an avid reader of adventure travel stories it is refreshing to read of women testing the limits of the spirit of adventure.
What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim - by Jane Christmas
The psychic should have told her to stay home. Jane Christmas is an accomplished writer but not a pilgrims bootlace. Having recently walked the complete French Camino, I found her account of this iconic trail misleading, inaccurate and quite strange
Shantaram - by Gregory David Roberts
You’ll either love or hate Shantaram. The tale of an escaped convict from a high-security prison in Australia Lin is on the run in the slums of Mumbai. The tale takes on a rollercoaster ride of friendship, gurus, love, drugs, war and Bollywood. I couldn’t put it down.
Lands of Lost Borders - by Kate Harris
I’ve come away from this book with mixed feelings. It is a wild adventure travel tale of 2 young women cycling the Silk Road over a period of more than a year. As an avid reader of adventure travel stories it is refreshing to read of women testing the limits of the spirit of adventure.
Walking the Nile - by Levison Wood
Levison holds your interest the entire way as he walks the length of the Nile through a vast diversity of landscapes and cultures.
A Time of Gifts - by Patrick Leigh Fermor
An exquisitely beautiful account of Fermor’s walk across Europe in 1933. His crafting of the English language is vividly descriptive. It depicts the pre-war tension in Europe while hiking through striking landscapes.
Sixty - by Ian Brown
If you are striding towards the summit or beyond the big six oh, then be prepared to laugh out loud as the author looks into your mind and articulates your fears. This artfully written journal of the year, Globe & Mail, Canadian journalist, Ian Brown turns 60
Breathing in Love - by Satvi Sharma
Set in the Himalayas, this light love story is about a young woman burned out from her stressful life with an office job and quits to “find herself” on a camp in the wilds of Bhutan
Mountain Lines - by Jonathan Arlan
Mountain Lines is the true story of a self confessed unadventurous guy who decides on a whim to walk the 650 km from Lake Geneva. Like many of us who dream of more than the 9 to 5 existence he is surfing the web and is taken by a map of the trail through the French Alps.