True Adventure Stories

Gironimo - by Tim Moore

I’ve come away from this book with mixed feelings. It is a wild adventure travel tale of 2 young women cycling the Silk Road over a period of more than a year. As an avid reader of adventure travel stories it is refreshing to read of women testing the limits of the spirit of adventure.
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What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim - by Jane Christmas

The psychic should have told her to stay home. Jane Christmas is an accomplished writer but not a pilgrims bootlace. Having recently walked the complete French Camino, I found her account of this iconic trail misleading, inaccurate and quite strange
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Lands of Lost Borders - by Kate Harris

I’ve come away from this book with mixed feelings. It is a wild adventure travel tale of 2 young women cycling the Silk Road over a period of more than a year. As an avid reader of adventure travel stories it is refreshing to read of women testing the limits of the spirit of adventure.
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True Adventure Stories

Walking the Nile - by Levison Wood

Levison holds your interest the entire way as he walks the length of the Nile through a vast diversity of landscapes and cultures.
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Travel Novels, True Adventure Stories

A Time of Gifts - by Patrick Leigh Fermor

An exquisitely beautiful account of Fermor's walk across Europe in 1933. His crafting of the English language is vividly descriptive. It depicts the pre-war tension in Europe while hiking through striking landscapes.
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Mountain Lines - by Jonathan Arlan

Mountain Lines is the true story of a self confessed unadventurous guy who decides on a whim to walk the 650 km from Lake Geneva. Like many of us who dream of more than the 9 to 5 existence he is surfing the web and is taken by a map of the trail through the French Alps.
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