Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional travel & adventure books
Travel & Adventure
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Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World
by Jeff Gordinier
Hardcover: Jul 2019
Paperback: Jul 2020
A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with renowned chef René Redzepi in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer.
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The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums
by Kendra Greene
Hardcover: May 2020
Mythic creatures, natural wonders, and the mysterious human impulse to collect are on beguiling display in this poetic tribute to the museums of an otherworldly island nation.
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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
by Mary Norris
Hardcover: Apr 2019
Paperback: Apr 2020
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
by Christina Thompson
Hardcover: Mar 2019
Paperback: Mar 2020
A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they ...
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The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
by Caroline Van Hemert
Hardcover: Mar 2019
Paperback: Feb 2020
The gripping story of a biologist's journey from Washington State to high above the Arctic Circle - traveling across remote and rugged terrain solely by human power - to rediscover birds, the natural world, and her own love of science.
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Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road
by Kate Harris
Hardcover: Aug 2018
Paperback: Jun 2019
A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Roadan illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to ...
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Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
by Mark Adams
Hardcover: May 2018
Paperback: May 2019
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journey into Alaska, America's last frontier, retracing the historic 1899 Harriman Expedition.
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The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
by Tessa Fontaine
Hardcover: May 2018
Paperback: May 2019
Tessa Fontaine's astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery - through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with...
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