Biography--Travellers
A seventeenth-century mariner
Captain A. G. Course
Biography--Travellers Barlow, Edward (Mariner, 1642-1706) Naval operations--History
Adventures by sea
of Edward Coxere; ed. by E. H. W. Meyerstein
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Coxere, Edward (Merchant, 1633-1694) Humorous stories Seafaring life Travel--Oceans--Atlantic Travel--Historical accounts
Adventures of a young naturalist
the zoo quest expeditions
David Attenborough
Memoirs Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Biography--Travellers Attenborough, David (Engl. naturalist, 1926-) Travel--Guyana Travel--Paraguay Travel--Indonesia Nature conservation Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation
Albert Schweitzer
the man and his mind
by George Seaver
Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)
Albert Schweitzer
1875-1965. Eine Biographie
Nils Ole Oermann
Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)
Alexandra David-Néel
portrait of an adventurer
Ruth Middleton
Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Biography--Explorers Biography--Religion--Buddhism David-Neél, Alexandra (Belgian explorer, 1868-1969)
Amelia Earhart
a biography
Doris L. Rich
Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Biography--Aviators Aviators--Women Earhart, Amelia (Aviator, 1897-1937)
Amelia Earhart
a life in flight
Victoria Garrett Jones
Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Biography--Aviators Aviators--Women Earhart, Amelia (Aviator, 1897-1937) Age group--Youth (10-18)
Annie's box
Charles Darwin, his daughter and human evolution
Randal Keynes
Biography--Science Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Biography--Travellers Darwin, Charles (Engl. naturalist, 1809-1882)
Appointment at the ends of the world
memoirs of a wildlife veterinarian
William B. Karesh
Wildlife veterinarian Animal husbandry Travel--World Travel--Tropics Memoirs Karesh, William B. Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine
Aventuriers du monde
sous la dir. scientif. de Pierre Fournié & la dir. ed. de Sophie de Sivry
Discoveries in geography / Exploration Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers
Bitter lemons
Lawrence Durrell
Travel--Cyprus Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Literature--Britain Durrell, Lawrence George (1912-1990)
Bligh of the Bounty
being the narrative of the mutiny of the Bounty and the voyage in the open boat
Adml. William Bligh; ed. by E. A. Hughes
Travel--Oceans--Pacific Travel--Historical accounts Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Military Bligh, William (1754-1817)
Bombay, London, New York
a literary journey
Amitava Kumar
Indian essays--English Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Literature--India Kumar, Amitava (Indian writer, 1963-) Biography--India Books and reading
Bruce Chatwin
Nicholas Shakespeare
Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Travellers Chatwin, Bruce (1942-1989)
Caliph's house
Tahir Shah
Biography--Travellers Shah, Tahir (1966-) Travel writers Travel--Morocco
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
the secret agent who made the pilgrimage to Mekka, discovered the Kama Sutra, and brought the Arabian Nights to the West
Edward Rice
Biography--Travellers Biography--Military Biography--Explorers Biography--Literature--Britain Orientalists Cartographers Ethnology--History Burton, Richard Francis (Explorer, 1821-1890)
Castaway
Lucy Irvine
Travel--Australia Islands Survival--Islands Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Books adapted into a film or play
Cautiva en Arabia
Cristina Morató
d'Andurain, Marga (1893-1948) Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Travel--Mediterranean Travel--Near & Middle East
Charles Darwin
a biography
John Bowlby
Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Biography--Travellers Naturalists Darwin, Charles (Engl. naturalist, 1809-1882)
Cherry
a life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Sara Wheeler
Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Cherry-Garrard, Apsley (Brit.Antarctica explorer, 1886-1959) Antarctica--Discovery and exploration Discoveries in geography / Exploration
Christophe Colomb
Georges Berton; ill. de Dominique Fages
Biography--Travellers Biography--Explorers Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) Age group--Youth (10-18)
Darwin's armada
Iain McCalman
Biography--Travellers Biography--Science Biography--Collective
Das Ende ist mein Anfang
ein Vater, ein Sohn und die große Reise des Lebens
Tiziano Terzani ;Hrsg. von Folco Terzani. Aus dem Ital. von Christiane Rhein.
Biography--Travellers Terzani, Tiziano (Ital.journ. 1938-2004) Memoirs Biography--Journalists
Der Schwindel
Dörte Stähler
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Africa, West--Social conditions Stähler, Dörte (German writer, 1954-) Developing countries--Social conditions
Dias y Viajes
Paul Bowles
Memoirs Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Music Biography--Travellers Bowles, Paul (1910-1999)
Die rote Olivetti
mein ziemlich wildes Leben zwischen Bielefeld, Havanna und dem Himalaja
Helge Timmerberg
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Journalists Timmerberg, Helge (German travel writer, 1952-)
Dix ans avec Alexandra David-Néel
Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet
Memoirs Peyronnet, Marie-Madeleine (1930-) Biography--Women Biography--Travellers David-Neél, Alexandra (Belgian explorer, 1868-1969) Travel--Tibet
Dschungelkind
Sabine Kuegler
Jungles--Indonesia Fayu (Indonesian people) Papua (Indonesia)--Social life and customs Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Kuegler, Sabine (German author, 1972-) Books adapted into a film or play
Eat, pray, love
oder eine Frau auf der Suche nach allem quer durch Italien, Indien und Indonesien
Elizabeth Gilbert; a.d.Amerik.v. Maria Mill
Travel writers Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers
Eat, pray, love
one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
Travel writers Gilbert, Elizabeth (1969-) Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Women American fiction--Autobiographical American fiction--Travel Books adapted into a film or play
Elles ont conquis le monde
les grandes aventurières, 1850-1950
prés.p. Alexandra Lapierre
Discoveries in geography / Exploration Biography--Collective--19th century Biography--Collective--20th century Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Women--Travel
Esprit de corps
sketches from diplomatic life
by Lawrence Durrell; ill. by V. H. Drummond
Memoirs Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Travellers Diplomats English fiction--Humorous Travel--World
Eten, bidden, beminnen
de zoektocht van een vrouw in Italië, India en Indonesië
Elizabeth Gilbert; vert.Martine Jellema
Travel writers Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers
In Arabian nights
a search of Morocco, through its stories and storytellers.
a caravan of Moroccan dreams
Tahir Shah
Biography--Travellers Travel--Morocco
Into the wild
Jon Krakauer
Biography--Travellers Travel--United States--Alaska McCandless, Christopher Johnson (1968-1992) Adventure and adventurers
Jean Louis Burckhardt
a biography
Katharine Sim
Biography--Travellers Biography--Explorers Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig (Swiss orientalist, 1784-1817) Orientalists
L'avorton de Dieu
une vie de Saint Paul
Alain Decaux
Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity Paul (Saul of Tarsus, Apostle, 5-67 AD) Biography--Travellers
Later Days
by W. H. Davies
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Literature--Britain Davies, William Henry (Welsh poet, 1871-1940)
Le pianiste nomade
récit autobiographique
Marc Vella
Memoirs Biography--Music Biography--Travellers Concertos Vella, Marc (French musician, 1961-)
Left for dead in the Outback
how I survived 71 days lost in a desert hell
Ricky Megee with Greg McLean
Survival--Desert Travel--Australia--Northern Territory Memoirs Biography--Travellers Megee, Ricky (Australian, 1970-)
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
Biography--Travellers Bryson, Bill (1951-) Travel writers
Life of Apollonius
Philostratus; transl. by C. P. Jones; ed., abridged & introd. by G. W. Bowersock
Biography--Philosophy Apollonius of Tyane (Greek philos., 15-100) Biography--Travellers
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain; w an introd. by Harold Beaver
Memoirs Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Travellers Twain, Mark (US author, 1835-1910) Travel--Historical accounts Travel--United States--Mississippi River Boat living
Livingstone the liberator
a study of a dynamic personality
James I. MacNair
Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Livingstone, David (Brit.explorer, 1813-1873)
Marco Polo
The boy who travelled the medieval world
Nick McCarty
Biography--Travellers
Mehr Mut als Kleider im Gepäck
Frauen reisen im 19. Jahrhundert durch die Welt
Julia Keay; a.d.Engl.v. Ulrike Budde
Biography--Collective--19th century Biography--Women Biography--Travellers
Memoirs of Sergeant de Bourgogne
Memoirs Biography--Military Biography--Travellers Bourgogne, Adrien (French soldier, 1785-1867) France--History--1804-1815 (1st empire) Russia--History--1796-1855 Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns--Russia Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Personal narratives Soldiers
Memorias de Africa
Isak Dinesen
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Biography--Farmers Blixen, Tania (aka Isak Dinesen, Danish writer, 1885-1962)
Mud, sweat and tears
Bear Grylls
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Journalists Grylls, Bear (Brit. adventurer, 1974-) Adventure and adventurers
My god of surprises
a memoir of my personal journey in faith
Maria Estefania Fernandes
Spiritual memoirs Biography--Travellers Fernandes, Maria Estefania Biography--Women
My life & thought
an autobiography
Albert Schweitzer; transl. by C. T. Campion
Memoirs Biography--Medicine Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Philosophy Biography--Travellers Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)
Nelle terre estreme
Jon Krakauer; traduzione dall'americano di Laura Ferrari e Sabrina Zung
Biography--Travellers Travel--United States--Alaska McCandless, Christopher Johnson (1968-1992) Adventure and adventurers
Noch eine Runde auf dem Karussell
vom Leben und Sterben
Tiziano Terzan ; a.d.Ital.v. Bruno Genzler
Travel--Asia Cancer--Patients Spiritual life--Literary works Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Journalists Biography--Spiritual persons Biography--Literature--Italy Terzani, Tiziano (Ital.journ. 1938-2004)
Nothing to Declare
memoirs of a woman traveling alone
Mary Morris
Travel--Central America Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers
Part of the wonderful scene
an autobiography
Stephen Graham
Biography--Travellers Memoirs Graham, Stephen (1884-1975)
Passionate nomad
the life of Freya Stark
Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Stark, Freya (Explorer, 1893-1993)
Rabbit stew and a penny or two
Maggie Smith-Bendell
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Families Gypsies--Romanies
Radio Shangri-La
What I learned in Bhutan, the happiest kingdom on Earth
Lisa Napoli
Bhutan--History Travel--Bhutan Memoirs Biography--Travellers Asia Himalaya Mountains
Road fever :
a high-speed travelogue /
Tim Cahill
Biography--Travellers Adventure and adventurers Travel--United States Cahill, Tim (US adventure traveller, 1944-)
Room to fly
a transcultural memoir
Padma Hejmadi
Travel--World Travel--Philosophy Memoirs Biography--Women--India Biography--Travellers Spiritual memoirs
Sail ho!
my early years at sea
by Sir James Bisset
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Bisset, James (Brit.commodore, 1883-1967) Seafaring life Travel--Oceans Travel--Historical accounts
Shackleton
Margery & James Fisher; drawings by W. E. How who served with the Endurance expedition
Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Shackleton, Ernest Henry (1874-1922)
Shadows on the grass
Isak Dinesen
Travel--Kenya Memoirs Biography--Travellers Blixen, Tania (aka Isak Dinesen, Danish writer, 1885-1962)
Short nights of the shadow catcher
the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis
Timothy Egan
Biography--Arts Biography--Travellers Photographers Curtis, Edward Sheriff (Photographer, 1868-1952) Awards--Chautauqua Prize Awards--Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
South
the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition
by Sir Ernest Shackleton
Travel--Oceans--Atlantic Travel--Historical accounts Travel--Antarctica Discoveries in geography / Exploration Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Explorers Shackleton, Ernest Henry (1874-1922) Antarctica--Discovery and exploration
South America called them
explorations of great naturalists: Charles-Marie de la Condamine, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Richard Spruce
Victor W. von Hagen
Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Biography--Collective Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers de la Condamine, Charles-Marie (1701-1774) von Humboldt, Alexander (1769-1859) Darwin, Charles (Engl. naturalist, 1809-1882) Spruce, Richard (1817-1893) Travel--South America Discoveries in geography / Exploration
Survive!
John Man
Biography--Travellers Travel--South America Survival--Wilderness
T. H. Huxley's diary of the voyage of the H.M.S. Rattlesnake
ed. from the unpublished Ms. by Julian Huxley
Travel--Oceans--Pacific Travel--Historical accounts Diaries and journals Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895) Biography--Travellers Biography--Biologists and Naturalists
Taking on the world
Ellen MacArthur
Biography--Sports Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Memoirs MacArthur, Ellen (British sailor, 1976-) Travel--Oceans
Tamata et l'alliance
Bernard Moitessier
Biography--Travellers Moitessier, Bernard
The Asian journal of Thomas Merton
ed. from his orig. notebooks
by Naomi Burton [et al.]
Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Travellers Diaries and journals Merton, Thomas (Catholic mystic, 1915-1968)
The autobiography
of Leigh Hunt; ed. by J. E. Morpurgo
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Literature--Britain Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)
The autobiography of a super-tramp
by W. H. Davies; w. a preface by G. Bernard Shaw
Memoirs Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Travellers Travel--North America Travel--Great Britain Davies, William Henry (Welsh poet, 1871-1940)
The autobiography of Arthur Ransome
ed., w. prologue & epilogue, by Rupert Hart-Davis
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Journalists Ransome, Arthur (Travel author, 1884-1967)
The duke of deception
memories of my father
Geoffrey Wolff
Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Travellers Memoirs Wolff, Geoffrey (1937-)
The Grand Peregrination
being the life and adventures of Fernão Mendes Pinto
by Maurice Collins
Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Pinto, Fernão Mendes (Portug. explorer, 1509-1583)
The life and works of Alfred Aloysius Horn, an old visiter
The Ivory Coast in the Earlies
the works written by himself; taken down and here ed. by Ethelreda Lewis
Memoirs Biography--Business, economy, finance Biography--Travellers Horn, Alfred Aloysius (English adventurer, 1861-1931) Travel--Africa
The life and works of Alfred Aloysius Horn, an old visiter
Harold the Webbed, or, The young Vykings
the works written by himself; taken down and here ed. by Ethelreda Lewis
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Business, economy, finance Horn, Alfred Aloysius (English adventurer, 1861-1931) Travel--Africa
The life and works of Alfred Aloysius Horn, an old visiter
The waters of Africa
the works written by himself; taken down and here ed. by Ethelreda Lewis
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Business, economy, finance Horn, Alfred Aloysius (English adventurer, 1861-1931) Travel--Africa
The life of Captain James Cook
by J. C. Beaglehole
Biography--Travellers Biography--Explorers Cook, James (1728-1779)
The life of Nelson
by Geoffrey Callender
Biography--Military Biography--Travellers Nelson, Horation (Vice admiral, 1758-1805) Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
The lonely sea and the sky
[the autobiography]
by Francis Chichester
Seafaring life Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Aviators Chichester, Francis (Pilot, sailor, 1901-1972)
The man who loved China
the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
Simon Winchester
Needham, Joseph (F.R.S., 1900-1995) Biography--Travellers Biography--Science Civilization--China
The mutiny on board H.M.S. Bounty
by William Bligh; adapted by Deborah Kestel; ill. by Brendan Lynch
Biography--Travellers Biography--Military Memoirs Bligh, William (1754-1817) Travel--Oceans Travel--Historical accounts Travel--Pacific islands
The recollections of rifleman Harris
as told to Henry Curling; ed. & introd. by Christopher Hibbert
Memoirs Biography--Military Biography--Travellers Harris, Benjamin Randell (Engl. soldier, 1781-) Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Personal narratives Soldiers Armed forces--Infantry
The riddle and the knight
in search of Sir John Mandeville
Giles Milton
Biography--Travellers Riddles de Mandeville, Jean (Travel writer-1378)
The Robert Louis Stevenson originals
by E. Blantyre Simpson
Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Travellers English literature--History and criticism Stevenson, Robert Louis (1855-1920)
The wheel of life
the autobiography of a Western Buddhist
John Blofeld
Memoirs Spiritual memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Religion--Buddhism Blofeld, John (Writer, 1913-1987) Travel--China Buddhism--Zen--China Buddhism--Mahayana--Kagyu school
Tramps and ladies
my early years with steamers
by Sir James Bisset; with a foreword by Walter Lord
Travel--Oceans--Arctic Travel--Historical accounts Memoirs Biography--Travellers Bisset, James (Brit.commodore, 1883-1967) Shipwrecks Titanic (RMS)
Trelawny
the incurable romancer
William St. Clair
Biography--Historians Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Travellers Trelawny, Edward John (Engl. writer, 1792-1881) Romanticism in literature Romanticism--Great Britain
Ulysses found
by Ernle Bradford; chapter deco by Marie Blanche
Odysseus (Greek mythology)--Historicity Mediterranean Region--History Greece--History--To 775 BC (Mythical age) Historical geography Biography--Travellers
Und nirgends eine Karawane
die Weltreisen der Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858)
Eka Donner
Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Ida Pfeiffer (Austrian traveller, 1797-1858)
Voyage au bout de la solitude
recit
Jon Krakauer; traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Christian Molinier
Biography--Travellers Travel--United States--Alaska McCandless, Christopher Johnson (1968-1992) Adventure and adventurers
Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus
by Washington Irving
Travel--Historical accounts Travel--Oceans Biography--Collective Biography--Travellers
Where memories gather
chuckles & wisdom
Hilary Lyons
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine Biography--Religion--Christianity Travel--Sierra Leone Anecdotes Missions--Africa Missions--Christian
White gold
the extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and Africa's one million European slaves
Giles Milton
Mediterranean Region--History Africa--History Slave-trade--Africa Slavery and emancipation Pellow, Thomas (1704-?) Biography--Travellers Morocco--History-- 647-1830
Wild
from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
Travel--By hiking Travel--United States--West Women--Travel Books adapted into a film or play Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Strayed, Cheryl (US memoirist, 1968-) Spiritual memoirs Awards--Oregon Book Award
Wild
מסע רגלי לגילוי עצמי
שריל סטרייד
Travel--By hiking Travel--United States--West Women--Travel Books adapted into a film or play Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Strayed, Cheryl (US memoirist, 1968-) Spiritual memoirs Awards--Oregon Book Award
Yet being someone other
Laurens van der Post
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Literature--Africa
Younghusband
the last great imperial adventurer
Patrick French
Biography--Travellers Biography--Explorers Younghusband, Francis (Brit. explorer, 1863-1942)