Travel Writing & Commentary

The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....

Eat, Pray, Love is a journey around the world, a quest for spiritual enlightenment, and a story for anyone who has battled with divorce, depression, and heartbreak....

Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....

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....

After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest races....

A Nepalese Sherpa with five others are at the center of a rescue mission for climbers who had become trapped in the Death Zone, unable to escape its clutches....

With wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure....

In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

Filled with compelling true stories bursting with real-life charismatic dramatis personae, this beautiful, imaginative book is entirely fresh and genuinely thrilling....

Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two years - to discover and experience the world on your own terms....

Long renowned as one of the smartest writers on the loose, David Foster Wallace reveals himself in Consider the Lobster to be also one of the funniest....

On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp - the dogs were gone....

Australia's best-selling nonfiction author of all time. Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer....

Christian Beamish, a notable writer for The Surfer's Journal, has done what every guy since Huck Finn has dreamed of doing: making his own boat and sailing it to paradise, with adventures along the way....

If you enjoy a fast-paced, true story, Five Weeks in the Amazon is the book for you. It's an honest story filled with peaks of humor and valleys of despair....

In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around Heathrow, one of the world’s biggest airports, having been appointed its Writer-in-Residence....

This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world....

Author Mark Plotkin, chief ethnobotanist for Conservation International, has spent much of the past 15 years tracking the shamans of the northeast Amazon....

It's 1989, and Emma and her best friend, Dee, head to the USA to make their fortune....

Reluctant adventurer Bryson recounts his gruelling hike along the longest continuous footpath in the world....

Robert G. Barrrett's latest Les Norton adventure, The Wind and the Monkey, set in Port Stephens, NSW, is a romance as well as an adventure....

Propelled by a series of curious coincidences, an overcommitted mother leaves behind her busy professional life, her cell phone, and her family to escape the tyranny of time and walk 500 miles across Northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela....

In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt - or, in this case, the dirty water - on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea....

A liberating motorcycle journey through Africa with descriptions of the amazing people and places, the joy of big skies and the open road, and the sometimes harrowing events that would shape destiny.....

Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did....

Islands, Oceans, and Dreams is a true story of a man who, at the age of 33, began dreaming of voyaging with his wife to the South Pacific....

An enthralling journey, showcasing Watson's trademark literary gift and sardonic wit, through the Australian landscape and character....