Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
By: Kate Harris
3.88
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps y…
Want to Read $ 2.99"I’m not sure where I go when I spin wheels for hours on end like that, except into the rapture of doing nothing deeply—although ‘nothing,’ in this case, involves a tantrum of pedal strokes on a burdened bicycle along a euphemism for a highway through the Himalaya."-Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
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1. Walking the Americas
By: Levison Wood
4.14
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
Walking the Americas chronicles Levison Wood's 1,800 mile trek along the spine of the Americas, thr… read more
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2. The Night Shift: Real Life in the Heart of the E.R.
By: Brian Goldman
4.53
Format: 302 pages,
Dr. Brian Goldman is both an emergency room physician at Mount Sinai and a prominent medical journa… read more
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3. Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Vintage Departures)
By: Robyn Davidson
3.87
Format: 334 pages,
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 m… read more
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4. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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- memoir
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- audiobook
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
5. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more
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- audiobook
6. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
By: Jill Heinerth
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s fin… read more
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7. To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycle… read more
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- audiobook
"When the honeymoon phase is over, what's left is the continuous choosing of the other person."-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"The life before had happened to me as childhood happens to everyone. The mark of adulthood is when we happen to life."-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning. I…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"I was in the zone, each day biking farther than the last, and becoming ever more accustomed to my solitude. An entire day passed without me speaking to a single human. I did speak though, just to the…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
8. Nowhere for Very Long
By: Brianna Madia
4.11
Format: 304 pages, ebook
In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more
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- audiobook
"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long
9. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
By: Lydia Millet
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more
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- audiobook
10. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
By: Caroline Van Hemert
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Paci… read more
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- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- science
"In life, we're always closer to the edge than we like to admit, never guaranteed our next breath, never sure of what will follow this moment. We're human. We're vulnerable. With love comes the risk o…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
"About Northern Wheatears: ...birds from Alaska flew nine thousand miles to Kenya; those from Canada crossed the Atlantic to spend the winter in Mauritania. For young birds, just a few weeks old, this…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
11. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
By: Robert Mack McCormick
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
By: Sara Dykman
3.85
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award Sara Dykman made history when she became the first … read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- science
"If all of us committed to one footprint of land...the world would be a better place."-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
"We call government support to farmers "subsidies." Support for poor people is instead referred to as "welfare."-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
"Monarch Watch estimates that each day, 6,000 acres of Monarch breeding habitat in the United States are converted to something else."-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
"When I was young, I would ride my bike until I was lost...the realization that I could get where I was going on my own, under my own power, unclocked a bigger world for me."-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
13. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
4.32
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more
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- memoir
- canada
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
By: Rebecca Lowe
4.19
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
ONE WOMAN, ONE BIKE AND ONE RICHLY ENTERTAINING, PERCEPTION-ALTERING JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. In 201… read more
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- asia
- nonfiction
15. Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
By: Heather Anish Anderson
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appal… read more
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- audiobook
"At least now I knew that my heart was wedded to the mountains--to the wild places. It was there, and there alone, that I was whole, contented, and blissful. No relationship, career, or wealth could e…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
"I refuse to let this suffering be for nothing. In fact, I refuse to suffer." I whispered to myself as I pushed each tent stake into the ground. "I can adapt. I am adapting." Another long day was done…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
"I want to set a record. Not just any record, but an athletic record. One that everyone will know me for. One that my dad will be proud of. I don't know what it will be, but I will do it. I have a lot…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
"I'd failed to live up to the expectations of my parents. I had not utilized my education in any real way and I'd given up on my marriage. For the first time, I accepted that I could not meet the expe…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
16. Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
By: Kate Harris
3.88
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps y… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- canada
- asia
- nonfiction
- science
"I’m not sure where I go when I spin wheels for hours on end like that, except into the rapture of doing nothing deeply—although ‘nothing,’ in this case, involves a tantrum of pedal strokes on a burde…"-Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
17. Silk: A World History
By: Aarathi Prasad
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the compl… read more
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18. Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men
By: Audrey Murray
3.84
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
By: Dean Jobb
4.02
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
“A master of narrative nonfiction … in this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jo… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street
By: Rick Antonson
3.74
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
“You’ll never understand America until you’ve driven Route 66—that’s old Route 66—all the way,” a t… read more
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21. The Expat
By: Hansen Shi
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and vivid new voice brings a contemporary edge to the classic espionage novel. At 26, Pr… read more
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