A Bump in the Silk Road by Suzanne M. Miller Introduction by Helena Wahlstrom As any passionate traveler knows, sometimes things go less than smoothly during a journey abroad. For Dr. Suzanne M. Miller, a bump in the road during her travels along the Silk Road in Xinjiang, China, proved…
Larry ‘Jungle’ Shortell describes his traveling adventures in Summers Off: The Worldwide Adventures of a Schoolteacher, this excerpt has him skydiving in New Zealand
Michael Scott Moore takes readers through a history of surfing in his surprising and superbly written travelogue Sweetness and Blood.
The Roads of Man: Walking the Length of Broadway By Helena Wahlstrom In the hands of a masterful writer like Ted Conover, something as seemingly mundane and taken-for-granted as roads becomes lyrically beautiful. In “The Routes of Man,” Conover recounts the stories of six roads—and, most importantly, of the people…
GoNOMAD presents an excerpt from Mary Jo McConahay’s new book Maya Roads: One Woman’s Journey Among the People of the Rainforest.
Drew Knowles’s brilliant, genuinely fond account of Route 66, now in its fourth edition, is sure to make readers long for the good old pre-interstate days.
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven: Insanity and Adventure in the Glory Days of Backpacking By Kathleen Broadhurst Not every story has a happy ending and not every journey goes as planned. Susan Jane Gilman knows this better than most and in Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven…
Facing the Congo in a Dug-Out Canoe: Adventurer Jeffrey Tayler, a white man, navigates the Congo River and meets the residents of the jungle in this exciting book.
Taking Root in Provence by Anne-Marie Simons: Retire to Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, a book about living the good life and moving to France.
Truth and Tall Tales about Fishing, Traveling and Life Batfishing in the Rainforest is a wonderful collection of tales about fishing, traveling and life. By Kathleen Broadhurst Don’t let the title deceive you, Batfishing in the Rainforest is not just about fishing (for bats or otherwise) nor does it take…
Massachusetts locations that were part of rock and roll history including the Harvard Square Theater, Boston Arena and other places music was played.
A CouchSurfer’s Memoir of Venezuela By Elayne Badrigian Hitchhiker, adventurer, and CouchSurfer, Jamie Maslin, set off to Venezuela for what can easily be described as a whirlwind of experiences, some good, others awful, in Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens: A Couchsurfer’s Memoir of Venezuela Almost immediately, he is arrested by…
