Product Description: Travel-hardened businessman Peter Biddlecombe presents a seventh collection of travel tales. He meets the world's greatest dodgers in Guyana, visits Paramaribo—swapped for New York in one of the greatest cons in history, and sips champagne with a Buddhist monk in Luang Prabang...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In an illustrated travel journal, the host of the popular Travel Channel series No Reservations provides a behind-the-scenes account of his global culinary adventures, from New Jersey to New Zealand, offering a host of full-color photographs, mementos, and often outrageous commentary on food in every corner of the globe.

Becoming tour guides, ten writers recreate the journeys that forever changed their lives, from a boarding school in England to a tiny shop in Japan, interweaving two powerful themes--where we come from and how we become who we are--throughout this inspirational collection.

Women tell their stories of trouble on the road in this collection of travel stories about misadventures that takes readers topless bathing, honeymooning in Maui, and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, among other scenarios fraught with disaster. Original.

A collection of humorous tales of travel adventures and misadventures by twenty-five contributors--including Anne Lamott, Ellen Degeneres, Sandra Tsing Loh, Sarah Vowell, and Cynthia Kaplan--ranges from being chased by a herd of African elephants to getting bitten by a goddess-possessd healer in Kathmandu. Original.

Funny, insightful stories by women travelers include contributions by Jill Connor Browne, Ayun Halliday, Sarah MacDonald, Laurie Notaro, and Wanda Sykes writing about various misadventures and experiences all over the world. Original.

Product Description: Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*Greedy Lords, dubious heroes, wicked relations and innocents in peril - today's world sounds like a grim fairytale!Travelling along the infamous 'Axis of Evil' led to Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands - now he's going deeper into the world's darkest corners to explore a rogue's gallery of troubled nations...read more

Twenty-eight bitingly funny responses to the question: "What happens when trips go wrong?" Women travel for myriad reasons. They venture out to escape the routine of daily existence; to encounter fascinating new people and places and facets of themselves; to enrich their lives, explore, wander. But sometimes none of this works out. The Unsavvy Traveler collects the hilarious and cathartic misadventure tales of over twenty-five women: Alice Evans, a journalist and environmentalist, battles a bear deep in the Tennessee woods, armed only with a bag of peanut M&Ms. Amateur shutterbug Nancy Cooper Frank is attacked by a furious nude model in Germany. Poet Ingrid Wendt unwittingly spews obscenities for a gathering of the Italian literati. Laid low by a foot injury, Alle Hall crawls on hands and knees around the temples of Angkor Wat, garnering curious stares from locals and tourists alike. In her first months as a teacher in picturesque Matsumoto, Japan, Marilyn Abildskov wrangles with curious forms of bathroom etiquette. These writers are the comedic casualties of the tourism industry--the breezy, insouciant trekkers who discover the necessity of preparation far too late, the nervous new expatriates navigating the confusing twists of a new cultural environment or the irreproachable, unflappable travelers suddenly beset by the devilish whims of destiny. With wry humor and unabashed honesty, these stories convey the merriest spirit of the intrepid adventurer. Other contributors include Caryn Bark, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Ayun Halliday and Novella Carpenter.

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A high-energy, humorous collection of true travel disaster tales recounts a wide range of plans gone awry, from a visitor who discovered someone else's gum in their underwear to a Mexican wedding that was upended by a party crasher who became a drunken guest of honor. Original.

Humorous and insightful, this collection of travel writing by very funny women includes hilarious stories from around the world, with tales of fighting ticks in Ozark Mountains, ducking the Turkish mafia, and searching for straight men in the gay section of London. Original.

Presents a collection of travel tales by women traveling alone.

Collects global voyage testimonies by women adventurers who engaged in a range of specific activities including silver smithing in Niger, flamenco dance lessons in Spain, and an audience with the queen in Nepal. Original.

A collection of inspirational accounts by women travelers demonstrates how women are more open to personal contacts with other cultures and encounter the world from a different perspective and includes contributions from Gretel Ehrlich, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Helen Thayer, Mary Morris, and other notable authors. Reprint.

While cycling through the western states, a disillusioned American questions the meaning of existence after confronting the ghost of his former, uninstitutionalized self

This lyrical, evocative, thought-provoking journal of a man's quest for truth -- and for himself -- has touched and changed an entire generation. At its heart, the story is all too simple: a man and his son take a lengthy motorcycle trip through America. But this is not a simple trip at all, for around every corner, through mountain and desert, wind and rain, and searing heat and biting cold, their pilgrimage leads them to new vistas of self-discovery and renewal.Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an elemental work that had helped to shape and define the past twenty-five years of American culture. This special audio edition presents this adventure in an exciting new way -- for the millions who have already taken this journey and want to travel these roads again, and for the many more who will discover for the first time the wonders and challenges of a journey that will change the way they think and feel about their lives.