For Sarah, a young surgical resident - the decision to go to Tanzania for a year becomes a life changer - both professionally and personally. Working in a small and remote village she discovers, that despite being against the law, a still high rate of female genital mutilation occurring around the country. And learning about the high rate of maternal mortality - she decides to fight both and begins an experimental program providing training to … [Read more...]
Riding Raw by Sue Hollis
High powered and very successful business woman, Sue Hollis boasts a list of achievements including running a multi-million dollar company and along the way being voted one of Australia's Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs. Finding her self soulless, feeling empty and enduring physical ailments because of her significant workload - she seeks an escape. Walking away from her old life, she plans an epic road trip on the other side of the world - in North … [Read more...]
10,000 Miles with my Dead Father’s Ashes
As real as it gets - author Devin Galaudet (also known for attempting to marry his wife 100x in 100 different countries) has written a fast read and engrossing memoir about the realities of growing up in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s centered around his chain smoking father. Full of family stories, sometimes family secrets and growing pains this story is woven around Devin's at times on and off again relationship with his father. … [Read more...]
Cuba Cars by Harri Morick & Rainer Floer
This colorful photo rich coffee table book on the cars of Cuba should be in the hands of any classic car enthusiast. Havana is a city known for featuring thousands of cars dating from prior to 1959. Locals continue to use these old cars (although there are newer cars are on the Cuban roads these days, it is currently prohibitively expensive to import new cars because of the high luxury tax) and perhaps a disappointment to collectors, there is a … [Read more...]
Smithsonian Journey – An Illustrated History of Travel
This epic travel tome captures thousands of years of human travel. Set in chronological order, one doesn't necessarily need to start in the beginning. Simply randomly open a page and you will be hooked. Names such as Christopher Columbus, Magellan, Amelia Earhart, Roald Amundsen and many others leap from the pages - great explorers in their own rights. Accompanying every great explorer comes some sort of transportation - ships, trains, planes, … [Read more...]
Traveling with Baggage: A Guide for the Hesitant Hiker – by Sarah D. Tiedemann
Author Sarah D. Tiedemann has pulled from her years of experience traveling, packing and hiking to create this 'A to Z' list describing numerous valuable items that hikers need to be aware of. Covers preparation, departure and arrival information and a wide variety of potential dangers on the trail. Her experience is varied from hiking next to cliffs in Kauai, to reaching the windswept summit of a mountain the middle of winter to braving … [Read more...]
Epic Bike Rides of the World by Lonely Planet
A book for cycling enthusiasts, a book for recreational riders and a book to inspire those to travel and combine the trip with some time on a bike. This book highlights some of the world's great rides from the seat of a bicycle - with first hand written experiences covering rides from Africa to Asia and points in between. We have been biking most of our life - and in urban settings often are able to take advantage of bike sharing programs. … [Read more...]
Life’s a Beach and THEN … by Julia Roberts
This is the first book in the Liberty Sands trilogy by UK based Julia Roberts. It centers on a secret travel blogger Holly who finds her life changed by the individuals she meets during a week in Mauritius where she is reviewing a resort under the cloak of a manufactured story to conceal her true identity. She falls in love with a handsome writer - a holiday romance that digs into the depths of her soul. But she guards secrets just as her … [Read more...]
Ride of Your Life by Ran Zilca
Author Ran Zilca sets out on a journey, not a long one but a journey nonetheless. A journey doesn't need to involve months or years but it should involve elements of being able to revitalize oneself and see things from a new perspective. This book is both a travel memoir based on the experiences and people that Ran meets as he makes his way from New York to California solo on the back of a Yamaha V-Star 950. Remarkably Ran had never owned a … [Read more...]
The Lost Girls
The Lost Girls by Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett and Amanda Pressner The odds that these three girls would all meet and then decide they would travel together for a year in 2006 (by the way, they were still friends at the end of the trip), all while busy building careers in New York - and then write a book about their adventures is slim to none! But this is exactly what Jennifer, Holly and Amanda accomplished with the release of this book … [Read more...]