Corinne HofmannThe runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior...

Mary H KingsleyUpon her sudden freedom from family obligations, a sheltered Victorian spinster traded her stifling middle-class existence for an incredible expedition in the Congo. Mary Kingsley traversed uncharted regions...

Bex BandIn 2016, desperate for a drastic change, Bex Band decided to walk the length of Israel with her husband: a 1000km trek including a dangerous crossing through the vast...

Cea Sunrise PersonNorth of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Counterculture Family, and How I Survived BothIn the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s...

Robyn DavidonNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURERobyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a...

Graham GreeneWith superb skill and feeling, Graham greene retraces the experiences and encounters of a long and extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; he has travelled like an explorer seeking...

Lori Nelson SpielmanThree women. One family curse. The summer of a lifetime.For generations, no second-born daughter in the Fontana family has married. Lucy desperately wants to find love, but for...

William Finnegan“Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age...

Bob Aylwin

Maureen JohnsonInside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket.In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat.The note in envelope 3 tells Ginny:...

Eric HansenAn adventure into the world of the orchid and the array of international characters who dedicate their lives to it.The orchid is used for everything from medicine for elephants...

Lucy EdgeLucy Edge tells the story of a quest for life's deeper meaning through the yoga schools, ashrams and villages of India.After a decade spent working and drinking too much...