Armchair Travel

Explore the world without physically leaving home.

Updated September 16, 2025
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100 places to see after you die : a travel guide to the afterlife
Jennings, Ken
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes a hilarious travel guide to the afterlife, exploring to die for destinations from literature, mythology, and pop culture. Ever wonder which circles of Dante's...

202.3 Jennings 2023

Is a river alive?
Macfarlane, Robert
Paper Book
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an...

577.64 Macfarlane 2025

An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
Woods, Stuart
Audiobook
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the story of his own life from childhood to the present, and chronicles the journey that made him the writer he is today. Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety...

813 Woods Woods 2022

Ends of the Earth : journeys to the Polar Regions in search of life, the cosmos, and our future
Shubin, Neil
Paper Book
**Shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize** The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet's future. ...

910.911 Shubin 2025

Wanderlust : an eccentric explorer, an epic journey, a lost age
Mitenbuler, Reid
Paper Book
"If you're interested in how to live a life without regret, you will not want to miss Wanderlust." -- Jon Gertner, author of The Ice at the End of the World The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the...

910.92 Freuchen 2023

On the hippie trail : Istanbul to Kathmandu and the making of a travel writer
Steves, Rick
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Stow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and memories of his 1978 journey on the legendary Hippie Trail. In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any...

910.92 Steves Steves 2025

Driving the Green Book : a road trip through the living history of Black resistance
Hall, Alvin
Paper Book
Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers experienced...

917.304 Hall 2023

America the beautiful? : one woman in a borrowed Prius on the road most traveled
Roberson, Blythe
Audiobook

917.304 Roberson 2023

Never leave the dogs behind : a memoir
Madia, Brianna
Ebook

917.804 Madia Madia 2024

The impossible first : from fire to ice--crossing Antarctica alone
O'Brady, Colin
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir spans his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica. Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica alone,...

919.89 O’Brady O’Brady 2020

What really happens in Vegas : true stories of the people who make Vegas, Vegas
Patterson, James
Paper Book
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through "lively tales of those who labor and dream in Sin City" (Kirkus). "Wild and wonderful...The magic of Sin City doesn't just happen....

979.3135 Patterson 2023


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