The Salt Path

By: Raynor Winn

The uplifting true tale of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the windswept South West coastline. Now a Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller, it’s a tale of triumph: of hope over despair; of love over everything . . . home was no longer about bricks and mortar.

Facing Freedom

By: Eryn Donnalley

One-way ticket to India. The intentional act of re-becoming. I left broken and came back whole. This is my story.

Find out how I incorporated knowledge and wisdom from around the world to find purpose, meaning and happiness.

Vagabonding

By: Rolf Potts

There’s nothing like vagabonding: taking time off from your normal life—from six weeks to four months to two years—to discover and experience the world on your own terms. In this one-of-a-kind handbook, veteran travel writer Rolf Potts explains how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel.

Wild

By: Cheryl Strayed

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone.

13 Little Blue Envelopes

By: Maureen Johnson

Ginny Blackstone never thought she’d spend her summer vacation backpacking across Europe. But that was before she received the first little blue envelope from Aunt Peg. Armed with instructions for how to retrieve twelve other letters Peg wrote—twelve letters that tell Ginny where she needs to go and what she needs to do when she gets there—Ginny quickly finds herself swept away in her first real adventure.

Notes from a Small Island

By: Bill Bryson

After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson decided to return to the United States. But before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.

Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic

By: Adam Shoalts

In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America’s greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it’s still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even see another human being.

Dear Bob and Sue

By: Matt Smith

Dear Bob and Sue is the story of Matt and Karen Smith’s journey to all 59 U.S. National Parks. They wrote the book as a series of emails to their friends, Bob and Sue, in which they share their humorous and quirky observations. It is at times irreverent, unpredictable and sarcastic, all in the spirit of humor. They describe a few of their experiences in each park but do not provide an exhaustive overview of each experience or park.

The Kindness of Strangers

By: Mike McIntyre

What would you do if you had to journey penniless across America, depending only on the kindness of those you met along the way? If you’re Mike McIntyre, you might meet… A biker-turned-minister who shares faith, food, and self-defense tips with a stranger on the road… A lady firefighter who used to be a man… A lonely woman who offers a place to spend the night, and in the morning feels the loss of yet another man who leaves her…

Travel As Transformation

By: Gregory Diehl

From living in a van in San Diego to growing chocolate with indigenous tribes in Central America, to teaching in the Middle East and volunteering in Africa, Gregory V. Diehl has spent his entire adult life discovering the world and himself. Leaving his California home shortly after his 18th birthday, he went on to live and work in 45 countries across the globe by age 28.

The Lost Girls

By: Jennifer Baggett

With their thirtieth birthdays looming, Jen, Holly, and Amanda are feeling the pressure to hit certain milestones; score the big promotion, find a soul mate, have 2.2 kids. Instead, they make a pact to quit their jobs, leave behind everything familiar, and embark on a yearlong round-the-world search for inspiration and direction.

A Year in Provence

By: Peter Mayle

In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January’s frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine.

The Unlikely adventures of the Shergill Sisters

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

The British-born Punjabi Shergill sisters—Rajni, Jezmeen, and Shirina—were never close and barely got along growing up, and now as adults, have grown even further apart. Rajni, a school principal is a stickler for order. On her deathbed, their mother voices one last wish: that her daughters will make a pilgrimage together to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out her final rites.

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

By: Kristin Newman

Not ready to settle down and in need of an escape from her fast-paced job as a sitcom writer, Kristin instead traveled the world, often alone, for several weeks each year. In addition to falling madly in love with the planet, Kristin fell for many attractive locals, men who could provide the emotional connection she wanted without costing her the freedom she desperately needed.