It doesn't matter if you travel on foot, by train or with your own wheels, the fact remains a journey can be life changing.
Adventure travel rewards you with new perspective, you never know what incredible challenges lie around the next corner. Your journey may not always be smooth, but more often than not you will discover people are kind and welcoming in any country on the planet. To help you get inspired check out three of the best adventure travel books for 2016 and start planning your own personal odyssey...
Adventure travel rewards you with new perspective, you never know what incredible challenges lie around the next corner. Your journey may not always be smooth, but more often than not you will discover people are kind and welcoming in any country on the planet. To help you get inspired check out three of the best adventure travel books for 2016 and start planning your own personal odyssey...
By Cheryl Strayed
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
Taking a page from Jules Verne's classic tale, Monisha Rajesh embarked on an adventure around India in eighty trains. Indian trains carry over twenty million passengers daily, plowing through cities, crawling past villages, climbing up mountains, and skimming along coasts. Monisha hopes that her journeys across India will lift the veil on a country that had become a stranger to her.
About the Author: Monisha Rajesh was born in King s Lynn in Norfolk and grew up all over England. She read French at the University of Leeds and taught English at a high school in Cannes before studying postgraduate journalism at City University London. She has written for the London Evening Standard, The Guardian, TIME magazine and The New York Times. Monisha now works at The Week magazine and lives in London. This is her first book.
by Chris Raven & Simon Raven
Not being petrol heads and having zero knowledge of the internal combustion engine, brothers Chris Raven and Simon Raven decided in 2003 to fire up their rusty $500 Ford Sierra Sapphire and drive one of the longest highways in the world.
After clocking up over 11,000 miles, quite literally living in the car, they miraculously arrived in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok in Siberia on the Sea of Japan. What they had in fact done was to drive the entire length of the new Amur Highway before it was finished, which crosses Russia and the notorious Zilov Gap in a 6,200 mile swath of cracked tarmac and potholes. Along the way our trusty heroes drink vodka with Chechen criminals, escape highway robbery, trade banana flavoured condoms with Russian cops, meet the eccentric and plain weird at truck stops in darkest Siberia, endure torturous road conditions and have a race to the finish with the Germans. Surviving this insane journey by the skin of their teeth the brothers are forced to confront their worst fears in this toe-curling comedy of extreme road trip adventure.
Priding themselves in going it alone, Simon and Chris have been noted by Lonely Planet for their talent to portray an “accurate view of what to expect”.