Bestsellers

A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster,survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller....

For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's account of the race to the South Pole in their own words....

Very few individuals can truthfully say that their work impacts every person on Earth. Forrest Galante is one of them. As a wildlife biologist and conservationist, Galante devotes his life to studying, rediscovering, and protecting our planet’s amazing life-forms....

The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell. Take a fascinating journey through strange and exotic countries...

An entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of Indonesia: a rich, dynamic, and often maddening nation awash with contradictions....

In this inspiring memoir—the antidote to the “just quit your job and ditch all your belongings to backpack the world” mentality—a young woman explores how she took calculated risks to follow her dreams: traveling and living abroad without sacrificing stability and comfort.

In search of adventure, 29-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a trip around the globe, a journey that began with a stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children's Home....

This gripping story of courage and achievement is the account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard....

A celebration of 25 years of Provençal living - of lessons learned and changes observed - with his final book, Peter Mayle has crafted a lasting love letter to his adopted home, marked by his signature warmth, wit, and humor....

Following the Equator is an evocative and highly unique American portrait of 19-century travel and customs....

Go with Mike on foot accros Basutoland; by motorbike from Cape Town to Cairo; to sea in a 36-foot ketch; into the Kalahari desert - and more....

When Adam Shoalts ventured into the largest unexplored wilderness on the planet, he hoped to set foot where no one had ever gone before. What he discovered surprised even him....

Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to....

A former American president nearly dies during an ill-planned exploration through the Brazilian Wilderness and down the River of Doubt....

Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, Silver PEN Award, 1987.The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe....

My own long experience of African hunting told me at once that every word in this thrilling narrative was true. I knew that the author had told his story in a most modest manner, laying little stress on the dangers he had run when trying to compass the death of the terrible man-eaters....

A.J. Jacobs discovers that his coffee - and every other item in our lives - wouldn't be possible without people we usually take for granted. By thanking these people face-to-face, Jacobs finds some much-needed brightness in his life, and he sets off on the journey on a dare from his son....

The Animal Dialogues tells of Craig Childs' own chilling experiences among the grizzlies of the Arctic, sharks off the coast of British Columbia and in the turquoise waters of Central America, jaguars in the bush of northern Mexico, mountain lions, elk, Bighorn Sheep, and others....

Have you ever wanted to take a year off from your life? A meandering, serendipitous journey around the world with your family? It sounds impossible....

The story of S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, during the great age of Arctic endeavor, left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon....