Zen and Now : on the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Mark Richardson
In 1968, Robert Pirsig and his son rode a motorcycle from Minneapolis to San Francisco in 12 days. Later, he wrote the groundbreaking Zen and the Art of Motorcycle ...
(October 2009)
An Embarrassment of Mangoes : a Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof
This is a delightful travelogue recounting one couple’s adventure when they embarked on a common fantasy to leave the “rat race” behind and set sail for exotic ports. The author and her ...
(July 2004)
Irish Waterways
Entertaining and enchanting three part video series by journalist Dick Warner, who takes a journey of personal discovery by canal boat along the inland waterways of Ireland. Cruising on the 1913 barge ...
(March 2002)
Travel the World: Ireland
Another view of traveling in Ireland is provided by genial Rick Steves, popular host of the Public Television Travel the World series. This practical video visits western Ireland and the cities of ...
(March 2002)
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
Riding the steam-engine trains up and down China for a year, at the onset of a free-market economy in the late eighties, Theroux spent his time talking (in Chinese and English) to ...
(January 2002)
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
West with the Night is impossible to classify. It is part memoir, part adventure, part biography, and part history, and yet the book reads like poetry. Beryl Markham grew up in southern ...
(December 2001)
Touring California and Nevada Hot Springs by Matt C. Bischoff
This is an excellent travel guide to Hot Springs in California and Nevada. The next time you have some extra time on your hands and just want to relax, pick up this ...
(November 2001)
Honeymoon in Purdah: an Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing
Muslim fanatics, black-clad women, American hostages, angry demonstrators -- these are the images we have of today’s Iran. Alison Wearing, in her book Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey, however, brings us ...
(October 2001)
First We Quit Our Jobs: How One Work-Driven Couple Got on the Road to a New Life by Marilyn J. Abraham
Here's a book that's food for thought for those down sized dot-com'ers, as well as anyone who is attracted to the Simplification movement. Ms. Abraham and her husband both left highly successful, ...
(October 2001)
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