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A reading list of travel themed books to take with you on your travels
As a regular traveller, I find plenty of downtime to fill, especially as we move ...
Book Review – We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the ...
Book Review – The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure
In The Last Wild Men of Borneo, author Carl Hoffman tells the stories of two ...
Book Review – The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
A young teenage boy in 1920s New York is determined to set out on the adventure of ...
Book Review – Tracks by Robyn Davidson
When Robyn Davidson arrived in Alice Springs in 1975 she had a crazy plan to ...
A reading list of Adventure Books to take with you on your travels
If you like reading books about travel and adventure here is my list of ...
Book Review – Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
The famous Norweigan explorer Thor Heyerdahl has a theory that the islands of the ...
Book Review – No picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb by Felice Benuzzi
Confined to an endless cycle of boredom and frustration, one prisoner, Felice ...
Film Review: The Bikes of Wrath
The Bikes of Wrath follows five Australian friends as they attempt to cycle 2,600 ...
Book Review – Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by John Krakauer
In the 1990s John Krakauer was a contributor to Outside Magazine, a renown ...
Book Review – Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
This is the incredible story of a group of mostly young and inexperienced men who ...
Book Review – Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
This book captures a remarkable story of bravery, grit and determination. In August ...
Book Review: Blood River by Tim Butcher – Following in the footsteps of Henry Stanley
In 1874 the journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley navigated the River Congo ...
Book Review: Touching the Void by Joe Simpson – An inspiring story of survial
I have never even been tempted to climb mountains. I am not a thrill-seeker, at ...
Book Review: Running the Amazon by Joe Kane – A crazy journey along the World’s longest river
Despite his lack of experience of water adventure, in 1995 Joe Kane joined a group ...
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