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Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road is a 2002 philosophical travel memoir by Neil Peart, drummer and main lyricist for the Canadian progressive rock band Rush.It chronicles Peart's long-distance motorcycle riding throughout North and Central America in the late 1990s as he contemplated his life and came to terms with his grief over the deaths of his daughter Selena in August 1997 and his ...
Northern France, from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its Environs, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1889, OCLC 02711578. Norway and Sweden (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1889, OCLC 02383830. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance (11th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1889, OCLC 04250198.
978-0060-9595-55. OCLC. 48168396. A Walk Across America is a nonfiction travel book first published in 1979. It was the first book written by travel author Peter Jenkins, with support from the National Geographic Society. The book depicts his journey from Alfred, New York, to New Orleans, Louisiana. While on his journey of self-discovery, he ...
Mandeville's Travels. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's Travels, is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir of an Englishman named Sir John Mandeville across the Islamic world as far as India and China. The earliest-surviving text is in French, followed by translations into ...
The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. [2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867.
The Broken Road (2013) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor.Published posthumously by John Murray, the book, edited and introduced by his biographer Artemis Cooper and travel writer Colin Thubron, [1] narrates almost all of the final section of the author's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933 and '34.
Riding the Iron Rooster. First edition (publ. Putnam) Riding the Iron Rooster (1988) is a travel book by Paul Theroux primarily about his travels through China in the 1980s. One of his aims is to disprove the Chinese maxim, "you can always fool a foreigner". It won the 1989 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
Dark Star Safari (2002) is a written account of a trip taken by American author Paul Theroux from Cairo, Egypt, to Cape Town, South Africa, via trains, buses, cars, and armed convoy. [2] Theroux had lived in Africa as a young and idealistic early member of the Peace Corps [3] and part of the reason for this trip was to assess the impact on ...