This second photo essay from Vicki Couchman provides a frank and honest insight into the many different cultures, tastes, and sights of South America. Each photograph eavesdrops on Couchman’s experiences and gives insight into places both on and off the tourist trail. The photographs capture everyday life above and below the Equator in a relaxed and unobtrusive manner. They also give an uncensored account of the common thoughts, feelings, and emotions evoked by long distance travel, as well as the varied adventures and experiences to be had abroadwhether pleasurable or problematic, exhilarating or exhausting. This book is an inspiration to those wanting to take a leap into the unknown, and serves to soften the culture shock of stepping away from the developed world.

A Trail of Visions Route 2

Arts & Photography

Couchman, Vicki

Photography & Video

Eye Books

People travel for many reasons, with some looking to escape and some looking for adventure. This compilation of travel stories captures the essence of travelling, namely to experience the unknown—be it heavenly or hellish—and return to tell the tale. With contributors ranging in age from 10 years old and to 90, these tales demonstrate that just about everyone has travelled in some capacity and that every experience is unique.

Travellers' Tales From Heaven and Hell

Travel

Travel Writing

Frigid Women

In 1997 a group of twenty women set out to become the world's first all female expedition to the North Pole, hoping to raise awareness and support for sufferers of cancer and other illnesses. Mother and daughter Sue and Victoria were amongst them, and this is their inspirational story of personal accomplishment.

Biographies & Memoirs

Riches, Sue

Riches, Victoria

Community & Culture

Their goal was to become the first people to ride mountain bikes unsupported across the three southern continents and, in doing so, raising money for the charity, Intermediate Technology. This is a fast moving tale of self-discovery—full of adventure, conflict, humour, danger and a multitude of colourful characters. Much more than a travelogue, it proves ordinary people can chase great dreams with the ultimate success.

Discovery Road

BROWN, Andy

Garratt, Tim

An intrepid adventurer, Mark has spent the last decade traveling areas left ominously blank on maps. This is the story of his malaria-wracked expedition across central Borneo. Once again he defies cartographers by going in search of the 'wild men of Borneo'—a tribe of jungle dwellers whose existence is validated only by myth. With fellow traveler Paul he paddles up an uncharted river into what was believed to be the valley of the spirit world—where even the island's fiercest head hunters fear to go. Crossing treacherous mountains that no Western eye has ever seen, they penetrate ever deeper into the inhospitable jungle. On the way they encounter shipwrecks, malaria, amoebic dysentery, near-starvation, leeches, exhaustion, enforced alcohol abuse, a barbecued mouse-deer foetus and a ferocious craving for chocolate.

Fever Trees of Borneo

Everleigh, Mark

Asia

In search of adventure, Roy Follows joined the Malay police at the height of a bitter 10-year campaign against communist terrorists. He was 22 and had no experience of jungle warfare. Within a year he had become the youngest ever commander of a jungle fort and platoon operation deep within enemy controlled territory. Reliant on uncertain intelligence, he led his platoon through a series of offensive patrols and carried the war with the terrorists to their own ground. Faced by a deadly enemy, Roy was also forced to confront an unknown but equally threatening environment. Stampeding elephants, swarming ants, and prowling tigers competed with the terrorists for the lives of his men. The jungle itself constantly tried to deceive even the most wary navigator, whilst offering little respite from the relentless rain and draining humidity. This is the gripping account of Roy’s hard-fought stint as a jungle officer.

Jungle Beat

Follows, Roy

Historical

Haunted by his late father's thirst for adventure, Alex Hickman persuaded his local newspaper that it needed a Balkan correspondent. Talking his way into besieged Sarajevo, he watched as the city's fragile ceasefire fell apart. A series of chance encounters took him to Albania and a bizarre appointment with the government. Thrown into an alliance with the country's colorful dissident leader, he found himself occupying a ringside seat as corruption and scandal spilled the country into chaos. This is a moving story of one man's search for his father's legacy among the mountains and ruin of Europe's oldest, and most mysterious corner.

Slow Winter

Hickman, Alex

Europe

Packing away her tutu and pointe shoes and donning cycling shorts and yellow Lycra, professional dancer Polly Benge took the decision to follow her heart. She soon found herself ferociously pedaling up mountains in India, staring at the increasingly distant backside of her beloved Tim. But mere mountains were to be the least of her worries. Prior information about the unsmiling Border Officials, the surroundings of extreme poverty, the inadequacy of maps, the continual bouts of constipation, and the real danger of travelling through Assam may have persuaded her to stay at home. This was not the India of Raj palaces or holy Ghats but the dangerous and explosive region of the isolated northeast. Polly and Tim spent their nights huddled under mosquito nets in the middle of the jungle while outside barbarous militants hid from the Indian army, and by day they cycled through the intoxicating hills of Meghalaya and the tea gardens of Darjeeling and Assam. This expedition was to represent far more than a journey to find the perfect cup of tea; for Polly it was to be a test of stamina, self-belief, and most of all her love for Tim. If they could survive this, then she would leave her comfy world of dancing, friends, and family and move to New Zealand to be with him forever.

Tea for Two

Benge, Polly

The Forensics Handbook

Tom is on the last leg of his journey where he continues to discover strange and amazing sights and meet a host of fun characters. He skids through freezing Siberia, and in Japan shares a steaming hot pool with some surprised monkeys. Based on the author’s personal experiences, this book provides an immersive experience for young adventurers.

The Boy Who Biked the World: Part Three: Riding Home through Asia (3)

Children's Books

Humphreys, Alastair

Action & Adventure

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