Gift Guide: Grounded Globetrotters
Someone on your list got the travel itch? Bring the world to them with a book! Gift them a travel guide to help them plan a future trip, a compelling narrative for an armchair adventure, or a book of gorgeous photography to transport them to a different place.
Want to keep looking? Try one of these shelves:
This Land of Snow: A Journey Across the North in Winter
Every journey begins with a single step, or in Morley’s case, the shush of cross-country skis
Reinhold Messner: My Life At The Limit
“Messner is not only the greatest high-altitude mountaineer the world has ever known; he is probably the best it will ever know.”
—TIME
Pocket Doctor, 3rd Edition: A Passport to Healthy Travel
The classic reference for international travelers completely updated.
Over the Edge: The True Story of the Kidnap and Escape of Four Climbers in Central Asia
"In Over the Edge, Greg Child embeds the gripping drama of four young American climbers taken hostage in Kyrgyzstan within a profound account of the geopolitics of radical Islam. It's an amazing story, amazingly told, by one of the best adventure writers of our time." – David Roberts
Arctic Solitaire: A Boat, a Bay, and the Quest for the Perfect Bear
"In freely sharing what he sees and experiences, Souders immerses his audience in a captivating adventure, offering an intimate view of both the perils of lone exploration and the stunning beauty of the wild. The result is a rare, enchanting treat for any reader." -Foreword Reviews