Browse Books in Essays & Travelogues

Tales This Side of the Elysian Fields

Back Where I Came From
On Culture, Identity, and Home

Stories Left in Stone
Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain

Two Springs, One Summer
A Year Inside the Life of a Chronic Adventurer

Of Canoes and Crocodiles
Paddling the Sepik in Papua New Guinea

Half-Light
Westbound on a Hot Planet

Captain Solitude
One Surfer's Search for the World's Greatest Sailor

A Ticket to the Grand Show
Journeys Across Cultural Boundaries

Off the Tracks
A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel

Reservations
The Pleasures and Perils of Travel

Hand Drawn Victoria
An Illustrated Tour in and around BC's Capital City

All You'll See Is Sky
Resetting a Marriage on an Adventure Through Africa

Inside the Belly of an Elephant
A Motorcycle Journey of Loss, Legacy and Ultimate Freedom

Gone Viking III
The Holy Grail

All the World's a Mall

How to Clean a Fish
And Other Adventures in Portugal

Searching for Happy Valley
A Modern Quest for Shangri-La

Women and Water
Stories of Adventure, Self-Discovery, and Connection in and on the Water

Cyclettes

Chasing Africa
Fear Won’t Find Me Here — A Memoir

A Time of Light and Shadow
To Asia, Africa, and the Long Way Home

Around England with a Dog

In the Name of Wild
One Family, Five Years, Ten Countries, and a New Vision of Wildness

Lights to Guide Me Home
A Journey Off the Beaten Track in Life, Love, Adventure, and Parenting