Author remembers a 1973 hitchhiking trip from the east coast to west coast while taking another similar journey 25 years later. 2000 Readers accompany Bryson as he tours Australia, detailing the eccentricities of the land and its inhabitants. This four-month journey around the deepest lake on earth is for the dual purposes of adventure and environmental research. 918.27 C493i Chatwin shares observations and stories about the region. 914.538 E26u Nineteenth-century traveler rambles through Italy's Dolomites.
Freelance journalist experiences the chaos and melancholy of the troubled Argentine capital.
G553j Literate, compelling narrative describes a journey to the fabled cities of Tashkent, Samarkand and Khiva. A young woman whose travel style is adventure and cultural immersion takes us to such locales as Fiji, New Zealand, Morocco and the Italian Alps. In 1975 the late author and her husband discover the hill village of Conques, its shrine and its interesting inhabitants. Mother and four daughters set off from England to discover storybook and fairy tale characters such as Heidi, the Pied Piper, Pinocchio and more. Annie Hawes and her sister leave England for the sun-drenched olive groves of a small Italian town in Liguria where they sign up to graft roses because it's a bad year for olives.