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Marianne, Your synopsis entices me to read the book. Taking your mother along on such a journey, and on your anniversary make you a brave person in my eyes.
Marianne, your synopsis entices me to read your book. How brave you were to take your mother on such a journey! And on your anniversary, no less.
Well... I am a travel writer (features) but not too sure if I'd be classed as a travel author, even though my previous publisher classified my book More Ketchup than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman as 'Travel'. I personally see it as humour set in a foreign land, but there you go.Having said that, it was also voted 'Best Travel Narrative 2007' by the British Guild of Travel Writers, so I guess it does fit that shelf too.
Anyways, enough waffling, read it yourself and see if it's travel or humour, or a Frankenstein of both.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0...
Thanks for creating a travel reading/writing folder. That's where my heart is. Some readers may enjoy Right Now Is Perfect: A Romance, An Adventure, The Unexpected Thereafter. It's for anyone who has dreamed of finding a soul mate, ditching a career, and sailing into the sunset. It is also for those more practical types who would rather read about it. While vicariously sailing aboard a 36 foot yacht, the reader discovers some of the most isolated and beautiful islands on earth—the Marquesas, the Tuamotos, Tahiti, Moorea, Huahine, Bora Bora, the Cook Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Fiji, and New Zealand are the landfalls. The narrator and her free-spirited lover must adapt to living on land when the sailing adventure ends. Just when it seems they will live ‘happily ever after’ an unexpected development throws everything into question. http://www.amazon.com/Right-Now-Perfe...
Lubna wrote: "@Carol- Congratulations"Thanks Lubna!
Greetings everyone,I'm an author new to goodreads and I'd love some reviews for my debut novel 'The Liar's Guide to South America.' It's a backpacking yarn about an awkward young Brit who flies to Rio in search of the love of his life.
It's available on Amazon Kindle, so if you like the description please read the sample and see if you want more.
I'm happy to send a free review copy to anyone of a benevolent disposition ;)
Thanks and good reading,
Mike
Hi folks! I'm also new to Goodreads (isn't everybody? Seems so!)I'm actually reading Michael's 'Liars Guide to South America' at the moment, and I can recommend it - he has a really engaging writing style.
My own offering, in case anyone is looking for a giggle, is 'That Bear Ate My Pants!'
It's a crazy travel comedy, following my adventures whilst volunteering in an animal refuge in Ecuador. It's been quite well received - I haven't had any death threats yet - and it spent 2 days atop the Amazon UK charts. Of course, that was before '50 Shades of Copyright Infringement' came along... :0)
Anyhoo, here's the blurb:
There comes a time in every man's life when he says to himself, "Holy Sh*t! I'm about to be eaten by a bear!"
Tony James Slater went to Ecuador, determined to become a man.
It never occurred to him that 'or die trying' might be an option...
The trouble with volunteering in a South American animal refuge is that everything wants a piece of you. And the trouble with being Tony, is that most of them got one.
Just how do you 'look after' something that's trying it's damnedest to kill you and eat you?
And how do you find love when you a) don't speak the language, and b) are constantly covered in excrement and entrails?
If only he'd had some relevant experience. Other than owning a pet rabbit when he was nine. And if only he'd bought some travel insurance...
That Bear Ate My Pants is the hilarious tale of one man's quest to better himself. Whether losing a machete fight with a tree, picking dead tarantulas out of a tank of live ones or sewing the head back on to a partially decapitated crocodile, Tony's misadventures are ridiculous, unbelievable and always entertaining.
Long before Sky One got involved, there were already plenty of Idiots Abroad. This is the story of one of them...
Here it is on Goodreads:
Tony
That Bear Ate My Pants!
Thanks folks!
Enjoy!
Tony
I'm a newbie too, very impressed to see the calibre of authors posting on this thread! All of these books are gems from what I've heard (and I have read / will be reading them all soon). To ride the wave of success that's already here, here's a link to my new book on Amazon Kindle: Nowhere Like Home
It's been very well received so far, although it's very early days. Anyway, here's the blurb:
What kind of student would go halfway across the world to stir up a tribal independence movement in his summer break?
At nineteen, Jamie was nicely on track to becoming one of the most boring people in England, but an impulse trip to the jungles of Kalimantan changed all that. Spurred on by what he encountered among the Dayak tribespeople of the Krayan, he made a decision to discover the truth of the world around him, however uncomfortable that truth would turn out to be.
From the killing fields of Indonesia to the refugee camps of Palestine, this is the remarkable true story of how this decision came to define his life, seeing him visit some of the least accessible and most volatile places on earth, often armed with little more than a set of disarmingly rosy cheeks and a quirky sense of humour.
Exciting, throughout-provoking, and occasionally disturbing, Nowhere Like Home forces us to question not only the reasons people travel, but also the very foundations of modern society.
If anyone would be willing to review it, get in touch and I will happily send out a free copy!
Cheers,
Jamie
My books are both travel and autobiography. Vic's Big Walk is about my 2,000 kms trek, at the age of 70, over 70 days, from my home in the French Pyrenees to the house of my birth in Blackpool, Northern England.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
Living In The Real Cyprus is about the 8 years my wife and I lived there, and about how different it is in many respects from what the tourist sees.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
Both excellent reads, and what Vic very modestly hasn't mentioned is that every single penny goes to Pancreatic Cancer Research. Please help him in his fundraising efforts.
I know, it takes a woman to keep a man organised lol!
Hi,I haven't written a travel book, but I do post a lot of travel and Life in Mexico bits on my blog. http://emandyves.wordpress.com
On my blogsite, INDIETRIBE, I will showcase your book for free. Effectively, you review it yourself, 'selling' it to potential readers and take advantage of what is actually a free advertorial.Check out the latest INDIETRIBE SHOWCASE http://theindietribe.wordpress.com/20...
I am looking for more reviews of several of my books. A couple are travel books (sort of -- everything write is "sort of" in a genre and sort of in others). One is "Journey to Chernobyl: Encounters in a Radioactive Zone," which is half about Chernobyl, half about me stumbling around Ukraine and Russia just as the USSR was breaking up. The other is 'Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil." The Estrada Real is a road the Portuguese built in 1697 to bring the gold and diamonds down from Minas Gerais. It's still there.So I've set up a little website where Goodreads readers can get this book (and several others) at my cost plus a dollar for shipping. All I ask is that anyone who buys a book there write a review for Goodreads.
The webpage is http://cheneybooks.com/reviewers . There's a link to a different page where you can read free excerpts.
The books there are about the Pilgrims, Abraham Lincoln, Swaziland, a novel about a dude named Frankenstein, and of course Chernobyl and the Estrada Real.
Thanks for your interest in my books. I hope they bring you some contentment in this new year we have ahead of us.
Sincerely,
Glenn Alan Cheney
Hanover, Conn.
I've written a series of mystery novels set in South America, where I've lived previously. The most recent entry, a novella, is The Body in the Bed set in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Surreal Killer takes you to Northern Chile and Peru, including Machu Picchu, while The Ambivalent Corpse will take you to Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. This is a great way to visit South America while enjoying a good mystery story.
I too only write travel fiction. Sounds interesting Jerold.
My website, The Writer's Drawer,http://www.thewritersdrawer.net/index...,
has a new section, called Travel and Travelogs,
http://www.thewritersdrawer.net/trave..., to which you are invited to contribute.
I also support authors by promoting their books. All I ask is that you contribute a piece of you creative writing to one of the other sections of the site (poetry, short stories, essays, book reviews...).
Contact me at: writersdrawer@gmail.com.
Hi Folks, just a quick bit about my book..."Screaming in Paris" is a crazed little travelogue about a generally-responsible family that abruptly forgets how to behave in public the very second that their plane touches down in a foreign land. Before you can ask “did everyone take their medication?”, the various family members are tromping about the city, knocking over landmarks, destroying the subway system, having multiple encounters with The Rental Van from Hell, and managing to offend most of the population.
And this was just the first day.
Snippet from an Amazon review: “Even if you don't travel, you should read the book for Brian's hysterical take on family dynamics. I definitely saw my family on page after page. If you're a reader, a traveler, a family member, or just want to experience a humorous trip to Paris with minimal cost and no passport, start "Screaming!"
Available on Amazon: http://amzn.to/19QW0FK
Hi everybody,I’m not sure if my book would fall under travel or not so to the moderators if you feel this is misplaced please delete it and no hard feelings. It is largely set in a place I have visited often and it involves travel thus I think it may fit.
In Worlds Apart Markus a wizard from a parallel Earth travels to the nine ladies stone circle in Derbyshire England in a bid to stop a blight that is destroying his world. Here he meets Alcina, a Wiccan Priestess, who happens to live in Bakewell in the Peak Park district of Derbyshire. Alcina is in a custody battle over her son, Tim, against Carl, the boy’s sire, who abandoned her when she was pregnant eight years before. Carl has the backing of a dangerous religious cult in his bid to take custody.
Can Alcina save Tim, even with the help of her bizarre, intriguing visitor? Can Markus save his world with the aid of this alien enchantress and what of the bond that grows between them? Can even love triumph when you are Worlds Apart?
I use actual locations around Derbyshire and in Bakewell in the book and touch on local flavour. I also visit the Nine Ladies, Aveburyn and Arbor Low stone circles. I’ll include a link to the trailer in case anyone wants to see a bit of Bakewell which is quite charming.
Link: http://youtu.be/D9UXfgwIhV4
Worlds Apart
"This novel captures the magic of Sinai; it becomes alive." Gabriele Mahler.
"The plot is moving and the first person perspective is used in the best fluid sense. Beautifully written in its own flowing, nomadic lifestyle…"
C.J. Michael
A novel for travellers: This novel has received all 5 star reviews on Amazon!
Just drop me a line..... most welcome!
While the Sands Whisper, a novelThe sensitive, abstract wisdom of a magnificent culture of a Nomadic society, struggling to survive within the torn walls of Egypt's unknown tonights & tomorrows.
Through the impersonal eye of her camera, the Israeli-American photographer, Ayishah, enters the intimate world of the Bedouin women. Free to enter their tent; to see their worlds unlock before the eye of her lens.
She is permitted into the private circles of the men. Her naïvity leads her into a passionate, taboo relationship with her Bedouin guide, Hakim, and into the highly-guarded secrets of their underworld Mafia. 'While the Sands Whisper' exposes unexplored facts of sex trafficking and drug smuggling through Egypt's Sinai Desert
Ayishah's story reveals the sensitive, abstract wisdom of a magnificent culture of a struggling Nomadic society.
www.facebook.com/whilethesandswhisper
Hello, I mostly read and write travel memoirs and would love to add my memoir to this site. I am also an overseas educator and my memoir is about my family's first 10 years of living and working overseas in four different countries and our crazy and unique adventures. I also write about the reverse culture shock that we experience as we return to the U.S. It is a book that experienced, new, or travelers with or without kids, as well as stay-at-home armchair travelers, will enjoy. Also, anyone thinking of living or working overseas will also get a taste of what it is like to deal with language issues, crazy driving, and power and water shortages. It is a unique travel memoir written with humor and honesty!Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/Here-We-Are-The...
Find romance on the Greek island of Santorini in the pages of "Sunsets in Oia."Share this story with the people you love this holiday season. After all, that time will soon be upon us yet again. A copy of my debut novel will make a perfect gift!
Give it to your sister, mother, cousin, girlfriend, wife, lover, and anyone else who's interested in adventure, romance, travel and/or music. And for the reader in your life, this suggestion makes perfect sense!
"Sunsets in Oia" can be purchased in paperback and hardcover forms directly from the publisher at http://www.friesenpress.com/bookstore.... Alternatively, you can also visit www.sheilabusteed.com for links to other retailers.
Thanks for your support. Happy holidays and happy reading!
Sunsets in Oia
Two Are Better: Midlife Newlyweds Bicycle Coast to Coast
An inspirational travel adventure memoir by Tim and Debbie Bishop.
Are you looking for adventure? Want to simplify your life? Break free? Go for it!
I read a really nice book, which is one of my favourites now, a few weeks ago. The book is called "13 Little Blue Envelopes" by Maureen Johnson. GREAT, GREAT BOOK!It's about a girl whose aunt left her 13 letters that will embark her on a very significant, important and unconventional trip around Europe; all Ginny has to do is to follow the instructions written by her aunt on those letters.
Everything about Ginny will change that summer just because of those envelopes. She will discover love, learn new things about life and understand some issues about her family that she didn't get before.
Do you guys know or read any travel book that takes place in NYC or London?? Because I was looking for a kind of romantic book which was set in NYC or London or maybe one in which the character travels.
If you know one, please tell me!!!
THANKS A LOT!
Tony wrote: "Hi folks! I'm also new to Goodreads (isn't everybody? Seems so!)I'm actually reading Michael's 'Liars Guide to South America' at the moment, and I can recommend it - he has a really engaging writi..."
Tony wrote: "Hi folks! I'm also new to Goodreads (isn't everybody? Seems so!)
I'm actually reading Michael's 'Liars Guide to South America' at the moment, and I can recommend it - he has a really engaging writi..."
This looks enormous fun. I've travelled quite a bit in Ecuador myself but I didn't get eaten! On my want-to-read list and I'll try and get roun d to it soon.
Thousands of volunteers have travelled abroad with the Peace Corps and its British equivalent, VSO, but very few seem to have written about their experiences. I did, in a book called Even the Dead are Coming. Here is the blurb: "In 1987 Mike Robbins, a 30-year-old London journalist, decided on a change of lifestyle and signed up for two years as an overseas volunteer. Some weeks later he found himself standing with his luggage in the middle of a featureless baked-earth plain in Eastern Sudan. It was over 100 deg F in the shade. And there was no shade. This is Robbins's account of the two years that followed, working with the Sudan Government in the last months of a failed democratic experiment, as the country coped with hundreds of thousands of refugees in the aftermath of the 1980s famine. But it is also a personal account of life as a development volunteer in a surprising, sometimes inspiring, country."
http://www.amazon.com/Even-Dead-Comin...
I write fiction and non-fiction. I have written many travel articles, but this is my first ebook on travel - Magic Land of Zanzibar. This short book is about my journey to Zanzibar. There are some tips which may be useful to others. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008WNTB5W
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008WNTB5W
PLEASE HOLD THUMBS: A NOT SO ROUND TRIP TO SOUTH AFRICAwritten by Scott Cherney celebrates a turbulent but ultimately triumphant trip from the Pacific Northwest to the other side of the world. As it has been said, "It's all about the journey" and what a ride it certainly was.
PLEASE HOLD THUMBS is free on Amazon Kindle March 14 & 15
http://www.amazon.com/Please-Hold-Thu...
Attending their daughter's wedding in South Africa promised to be the vacation of a lifetime. But first, they had to face the treacherous gauntlet known as modern day travel. Join this hapless, sometimes helpless couple as they brave their way through a never-ending obstacle course filled with such hazards as flight delays, the purgatory of layovers and an incompetent, uncaring air carrier that treats its passengers worse than their luggage. Waiting for them on the other side of the world are an honest-to-goodness safari with amorous lions and elephants with anger issues, a life-affirming visit to a South African school and an anxious bride and groom, standing patiently at the airport with a sign that reads: "WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG? "
Please Hold Thumbs: A Not-So-Round Trip to South Africa
Hi. I'm Wes, and I'm a writer. At age 63, I've just published my first book. City Sketches: 40 Years of Travel Through Centuries of History, and a Memoir (non-fiction, travel, memoir) - so I'm living proof that there is life after 50, and a pretty darn good one at that. Never give up on your dream!
Hi, I recently dropped by my local community radio station, Branch FM, in the UK for a chat about books, Albania, the church, football hooliganism and my thriller ‘The Silencer’. Just click the link to listen if you’re interested. http://www.mixcloud.com/Branchfm/paul...
Bye,
Paul.
I am from Trinidad in the Caribbean and just published a new book. The name is "Travel Memoirs with pictures: Exploring the world."It is available on Amazon in Kindle Edition.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listin...
Hi guys!Are you interested in writing a review of the highly entertaining, but thought-provoking Romance with Time-Traveling and Metaphysics ? See details:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LZ7PCVY
If YES, please don't hesitate to send me a request for the review e-copy to: info@frg-oy.com
Subject: Request for the review copy. Redemption by Jacklyn
Please specify which reading format you would prefer: pdf, mobi or epub
and estimated time for the reading. Many thanks!
BE amazing!
Sincerely
Jacky
Please forward the message to anyone interested in the theme.
Many thanks!
Come, Let Us Walk with Vigorous StridesHi all,
"Come, Let Us Walk with Vigorous Strides" is the story of the year we spent on an island in South Korea with our two pre-school aged children. 99 cents Sept. 1 & 2 (Kindle Countdown Deal.) Reviews appreciated!
I can contribute three travel titles to this Travel Readers and Writers Folder - all travel narratives, which I co-authored with fellow Goodreads author, Richard Starks. We have been fortunate enough to have the books reviewed here on Goodreads as well as on amazon.com. The books are:'Greenland for $1.99'. Prestwicke Publishing. A journey through the land, politics and culture of Greenland. A short book illustrated with 24 photographs. amzn.com/B00H7JPMNC
'Along the River that Flows Uphill – from the Orinoco to the Amazon'. Haus Publishing (hard cover), Prestwicke Publishing (Kindle edition). This book weaves the story of an Amazon journey with science, math and reason to explore the risks that are inherent in adventurous travel. amzn.com/B00C0K6Q38
'A Room with a Pew: Sleeping our Way through Spain’s Ancient Monasteries'. The Lyons Press. The story of a journey we made through Spain staying only in ancient monasteries with active communities of monks or nuns. amzn.com/B009GI7816
We're pleased to answer any questions you might have about these books or about travel writing in general.
Hi guys. Just wanted to introduce myself. I am a travel writer focusing on motorcycling and have recently written my first book titled "The Faceless Man". This is a first person travel narrative with strong themes relating to letting go of society and finding self-definition through going your own way. It is a true story of a recent journey whereupon I recently left Byron Bay with a close friend to ride motorbikes around Australia. We did this with no set plans or itinery, rather we did this to let go from modern society and feel the freedom of the road, and to have a complete sense of living on our own terms.This book is about travel, friendship, self-reliance, love and the search for the perfect freedom which all of us want, but only a few actively seek. It is a deeply honest tale which reflects my true voice and character, and is at times deeply poignant, philosophical and laugh out loud funny. I also believe that this is a great summarisation of modern Australia, as seen through the eyes of a nomadic gypsy biker.
It is 325 pages long and is available from all major online bookstores for $22.95. It will be released on December the Third. For more information check out my goodreads page at Isaac Oosterloo, or www.isaacoosterloo.com.
Peace and Safe Travels.
Isaac Oosterloo
Hi, In the last of 3 posts for the 2nd anniversary of The Silencer’s publication, just a little from behind the scenes of a travel thriller set in the Balkans. Paul. https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Well, my historical thriller has also been classified by readers as having a travel genre, and I guess for good reason. My titular character, Anne, travels much in her home country of England to discover the meaning of love and true happiness. Check out 'Anne' right here:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Hey everyone,My book is free right now on Kindle. It's a series of essays from my trip around the world (with pictures, of course!). Check it out here: http://amzn.to/1B5PtY2
Go Home, Oaxaca. You're Drunk.Was quitting work to live abroad the right move? Find out in this light-hearted travel journal as a husband and wife experience fun and mishap during their months-long stay in culturally vibrant Oaxaca, Mexico!
If all travel guides were this fun I might get off my ass and go somewhere. - Shelby *wants some flying monkeys*
Available on Kindle for 99 cents @ http://www.amazon.com/Go-Home-Oaxaca-...
Jared Brock traveled 37,000 miles around the globe on a modern day prayer pilgrimage (and also to eat some delicious falafel.) In the process, he met the Pope, walked on coals, danced with rabbis, and revived his prayer life.
ADVANCE PRAISE:
"Fun and insightful." -Booklist
“Brock proves that you don’t have to live in a monastery and grow a two-foot beard to have a rich prayer life… though having a beard certainly doesn’t hurt.” -Aaron Alford, BeardedGospelMen.net
"You will be swept up in the sheer force of the storytelling, the beauty of the prose, the many comedies of error, the exotic cast of characters, and–above all–the drama of Jared’s prayer life.” -Mark Buchanan
Here's the giveaway link: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
The Writer's Drawer Travel Writing Contest - check the link for the theme, guidelines, deadline, and prizes! http://www.thewritersdrawer.net/trave....The Writer's Drawer:
http://www.thewritersdrawer.net/
email: writersdrawer@gmail.com
Anyone interested in Egypt? Missing in Egypt is a romantic travel mystery with vivid descriptions of Egyptian sites.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
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