02 Aug 2024
6 New Travel Memoirs
Embark on a journey without leaving home with these six new travel memoirs. From breathtaking adventures to soul-stirring discoveries, these fresh releases offer a window into diverse cultures and personal transformations. Pack your virtual bags and get ready to explore the world through captivating stories and vivid experiences!
Tales From Down Under
by Judy Kashoff
Release Date: May 9 2024
Why give up a dental career to milk a cow for a meal and bed? They left home to wander about for five years on five continents. They travelled mostly by bicycle, bringing them close to the earth and the people on it. Judy takes us, with humor and photographs, “Down Under”: from Sydney, Australia to Papua New Guinea, where they dined with head-hunters and teetered on the edge of a live volcano.
Scars & Souvenirs
by DeAnna Anderson
Release Date: July 21 2024
This memoir recounts the adventures and misadventures from harrowing encounters to humorous cross-cultural lessons learned while living and working outside of the United States. DeAnna and her family packed a lifetime of experiences into less than a decade which created lasting scars and souvenirs.
A Beautiful World: The Travel Journals of Isabel Lunas
by Isabel Lunas
Release Date: July 25 2024
Originally never written with publishing in mind, this is a compilation of the journal entries she made while traveling. They were jotted down while flying in the middle of the night, while lying in hammocks in South America, around campfires in Indiana, riding Asian bullet trains, sitting on summer beaches, and lounging on rooftops in Europe.
North of South: An African Journey
by Shiva Naipaul
Release Date: July 8 2024
In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to discover what ‘liberation’, ‘revolution’ and ‘socialism’ meant to the ordinary people. His journey of discovery is brilliantly documented in this intimate, comic and controversial portrayal of a continent on the brink of change.
The Sugar Rush
by Peter Gregg
Release Date: July 2 2024
Filled with humor and madcap adventure, The Sugar Rush is the story of two friends with a sweet, golden, syrupy dream, set against the rugged New England wilderness.
Completion: Stitching Together Life’s Journey
by Sheila R. Burns
Release Date: July 15 2024
In “Completion,” Sheila R. Burns-Owens shares her remarkable journey from educator to world traveler, chronicling her adventures across all 50 states of America with her life partner, Willie C. Owens. Sheila’s memoir, from traversing the Historic Route 66 to strategizing her visits, offers an intimate look at her life’s triumphs and challenges.
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