Adventure Travel Memoirs

Updated June 6, 2026
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The sun is a compass : my 4,000-mile journey into the Alaskan wilds
Van Hemert, Caroline
Paper Book
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the...
Blue highways : a journey into America
Heat Moon, William Least.
Paper Book
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Davidson, Robyn
Paper Book
The account of Robyn Davidson's epic journey across 1,700 miles of Australian desert and bush with four camels and a dog.
Lands of lost borders : out of bounds on the Silk Road
Harris, Kate
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE WINNER OF THE EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION "Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by...
Hudson Bay Bound Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic
Warren, Natalie.
Ebook
The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay Unrelenting winds, carnivorous polar bears, snake nests, sweltering heat, and constant hunger. Paddling from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay, following the 2,000-mile...
Eat, sleep, ride how I braved bears, badlands and big breakfasts in my quest to cycle the Tour Divide
Howard, Paul
Ebook
For Paul Howard, who has ridden the entire Tour de France route during the race itself--setting off at 4 am each day to avoid being caught by the pros--riding a small mountain-bike race should hold no fear. Still, this isn't just any mountain-bike race. This is the Tour Divide.
Before they're gone : a family's year-long quest to explore America's most endangered national parks
Lanza, Michael.
Paper Book
A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to share these special places with his two young children. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and understands what lies ahead: Alaska's...
No horizon is so far : two women and their historic journey across Antarctica
Arnesen, Liv
Ebook
The extraordinary story of the first two women to cross Antarctica The fascinating chronicle of Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft's dramatic journey as the first two women to cross Antarctica, No Horizon Is So Far follows the explorers from the planning of their...
Fast into the night : a woman, her dogs, and their journey north on the Iditarod Trail
Moderow, Debbie Clarke
Paper Book
A captivating memoir of one woman's attempt to finish the Iditarod, led by her team of spunky huskies with whom she shares a fascinating and inextricable bond At age forty-seven, a mother of two, Debbie Moderow was not your average musher in the Iditarod, but...
Portage A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life
Leaf, Sue
Ebook
When as a child she first saw a canoe gliding on Lake Alexander in central Minnesota, Sue Leaf was mesmerized. The enchantment stayed with her and shimmers throughout this book as we join Leaf and her family in canoeing the waterways of North America, always on the lookout for the good life...
Halfway to Heaven : my white-knuckled--and knuckle-headed--quest for the Rocky Mountain high
Obmascik, Mark.
Paper Book
Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high...
River of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey
Millard, Candice.
Paper Book
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, "The River of Doubt" is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt-- it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes...
Notes from a small island
Bryson, Bill.
Paper Book
After almost two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a while, but before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain - a farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home...
In Patagonia
Chatwin, Bruce
Paper Book
“The book that redefined travel writing.”–Guardian In Patagoniais a quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, in the course of his travels, describes his encounters with the people whose...
Without reservations : the travels of an independent woman
Steinbach, Alice
Paper Book
"In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbach. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow." But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. "I had fallen into the habit of defining myself in terms of...
Ghost rider travels on the healing road
Peart, Neil.
Ebook
In less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of loss and directionlessness that led him on a 55...

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