Travel and holiday guides

Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana, published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834.

On this long, unique, extraordinary journey, we join an American middle-aged teacher as she wanders the world.

My first day at Avalon, 1916, was one likely to be memorable among my fishing experiences.

Paul Bouchard's books includeEnlistment, A Package at Gitmo, The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Man, and the nonfiction workA Catholic Marries a Hindu.

No doubt there will be saints and sages in our time; Masters of Wisdom and great Elders.

In late December 2016, Paul Bouchard and his wife boarded British Airways and headed to Chennai, India, for a five-day visit of her family.

Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change.

Join Tristan Jones as he tells tales of the humorous and fascinating adventures that his Saga of a Wayward Sailor began.

Pearl Zane Grey was best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts, but he also wrote two hunting books, six children's books, three baseball books, and eight fishing books.