| Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika JaouadWhat happened: recent college grad Suleika Jaouad moved to Paris to start a dream job -- but a leukemia diagnosis soon sent her home to the U.S., where she spent years recovering. Once cancer-free, she took a 33-state road trip with her dog, visiting friends she'd made while documenting her illness and treatment for The New York Times.
Read this next: for other moving, acclaimed books that ponder life and death and feature solo women travelers, try Maggie Downs' Braver Than You Think or Shannon Leone Fowler's Traveling with Ghosts. |
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Clanlands : whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other by Sam HeughanWhat it is: from their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. What happens: in this story of friendship, finding themselves, and whisky, they discover the complexity, rich history and culture of their native country from heart of Scotland at Glencoe to Inverness and Culloden battlefield experiencing adventure and a cast of highland characters.
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| Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life by Jess PhoenixStarring: Jess Phoenix, a geologist, volcanologist, Explorers Club Fellow, and co-founder of a nonprofit that produces research and works with students in hopes of bringing more diversity to scientific fields.
What it's about: Phoenix discusses her winding path to a science career, the barriers she's faced in a male-dominated field, her eye-opening time shooting a TV segment, and her adventures in California, Hawaii, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, and New York City. |
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| We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year by Charles WheelanWhat it's about: In 2016, college professor Charles Wheelan, his math teacher wife, 18-year-old daughter, 16-year-old daughter, and 13-year-old son left their New Hampshire home to spend nine months visiting six continents on a budget.
What happened: They visited Colombia, Australia, the Republic of Georgia, India, and other locales while seeing amazing sights, large spiders, and not always getting along with each other. |
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What you'll find: losses, pain, fear, and fatigue accompany the rambunctious athlete as she finds her way through athletic training, school, and dealing with social gender expectations as she realizes she's gay.
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| The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John BaxterWhat it is: a delightful, evocative memoir about expat life in the City of Light by Australian John Baxter, who's married to a French woman.
What's inside: recollections of Baxter's city walks and musings on Parisians' penchant for strolling; anecdotes about family life; fascinating history, including about other expat writers such as Ernest Hemingway.
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| The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert MacfarlaneWhat it is: a poetic meditation on walking by acclaimed British author Robert Macfarlane, who recounts his own journeys and ponders people (he meets a lot of them) and the paths they tread.
What it's about: Macfarlane explores ancient footpaths, roads, and sea paths across a variety of areas, including chalk downs in England, the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, occupied territory in Palestine, the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and sacred regions of the Himalayas. |
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Enjoy it for: exploring all the sites in the National Park System, enjoying the history and nature, roasting marshmallows under the stars, and sleeping soundly each night in a two-person tent.
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Read it for: encounters with residents, border guards, Indian activists, and militia leaders to give a dynamic portrait of the northland today, wracked by climate change, water wars, oil booms, and border security.
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