by Peter Allison

The lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide who shows the guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest terrain of wild animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists.

916.88 A439 X

917.4 B9161 1999

by Brady Carlson

Carlson takes readers on an epic trip to presidential gravesites, monuments, and memorials from sea to shining sea.

 

973.099 C84

 

302.224 D295

by Tony Horwitz

On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between?

 

970.01 H824

 

by A. J. Jacobs

 Jacobs decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee. The resulting journey takes him across the globe, transforms his life, and reveals secrets about how gratitude can make us all happier, more generous, and more connected.

 

179.9 J17

When J. the narrator, George, Harris - and Montmorency the dog - set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats, and tins of pineapple chunks

FICTION JEROME

by Jack Kerouac

The whole beautiful, groovy deal!  The radically hip novel that many consider the heart of the Beat movement. Poetic, open and raw, Kerouac's prose lays out a cross-country adventure as experienced by Sal Paradise, an autobiographical character.

 

FICTION KEROUAC

 

by Chuck Klosterman

For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. 

.781.66 K66

 

McCarthy takes the reader on an odyssey through Ireland, where he unfailingly obeys his rule: "Never Pass a Bar That Has Your Name On It." 

914.15 M1231 

 

 McMurtry is uninterested in meeting and depicting people in the areas through which he travels. Instead, he tries to "treat the great roads as rivers, floating down this one, struggling up that one, writing about these riverboats as I find them, and now and then, perhaps, venturing a comment about the land beside the road.

917.3 M168

by Tim Moore

Having no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Moore sets out on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela with a donkey named Shinto, armed only with a twelfth-century handbook to the route and expert advice on donkey management from Robert Louis Stevenson. 

 

914.6 M284 

 

 

818.6 O74

by Michael Paterniti

Albert Einstein's brain floats in formaldehyde in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is a young journalist from Maine. Sitting next to him is an 84-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- and simply removed the brain and took it home.

 

616.07 P295

by Brian Thacker

Brian Thacker, bus tour-leader extraordinaire, tells it how it really is, working as a bus tour guide in Europe.  The title is a pretty good indication of what a glamorous career it can be.

 

914 T363

by Hunter S. Thompson

A savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s.  Thompson decided to visit Las Vegas and "check it out". The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force.

 

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by J. Maarten Troost

Troost had never read Robert Louis Stevenson's In the South Seas, the chronicle of his South Pacific voyage to the Marquesas, Tahiti, and Samoa. But, hey, to Troost's nimble, rather offbeat mind, RLS was boring. He was stuffy. He was probably English. So, obviously,  Troost decides to replicate Stevenson's journey.

 

919.5 T855

 

by John Steinbeck

In 1960, Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. He was accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.

 

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by Sarah Vowell

Vowell takes us on a road trip like no other -- a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.

 

973.099X V974

by John Waters

Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash? 

 

791.43 W329

 

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide which takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of un-unhappiness.

910.4 W423