Books about people having big adventures?

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Because I've got cabin fever and want to read about people doing interesting things while I can't!

This year I read 'Lone Rider' by Elspeth Beard (first woman to travel the world by motorbike), amazing book. So was 'Stop Drifting Start Rowing'. And I also read 'Salt Path' about a couple who walked the South West Coast Path.

Any recommendations?

Horse boy by Rupert Isaacson

I was going to suggest the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman but it depends if you want real life or fantasy.

There was this thread recently I've taken lots of inspiration from.

Narrative travel books http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/whatweree_reading/3963242-Narrative-travel-books

Eat, Pray, Love as well.

Not such a 'big' adventure, but if you enjoyed Salt Path then you might like the Boogie series by Mark Wallington? Five Hundred Mile Walkies is the first and it had me laughing all the way through.

Wild by Cheryl Strayed.

Young Adult/Children but the Hatchet series by Gary Paulsen - and he'd actually lived in the wilds so its based on his real life knowledge.

I've just been given Waterlog by Roger Deakin. It's from the 1990s, kind of a nature chronicle of his year swimming all over the UK.

Have a look for Isabella Bird’s books. She was a 19th century explorer of the most intrepid kind.

If you can get a copy of Lesley Blanch’s Wilder Shores of Love, it features four women who threw over the traces of convention for a wilder life in the Middle East. It’s a wonderful book. Lady Hester Stanhope in Mary Stewart’s The Gabriel Hounds is based on Isabelle Eberhardt.

I have a book which I’ve not yet read called Walking to Samarkand by Bernard Olivier. He walked the old Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia.

What about Tracks by Robyn Davidson? Not actually read it (but watched the film 😊). Really enjoyed Wild and Salt Path.

Currently reading a Tim Moore book about cycling The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold - not quite so good as French Revolutions or the donkey one that he did.

I second Wild. Amazing book.

The Pants of Perspective by Anna McNuff

I'm enjoying Around The World in 80 Trains. Not a huge adventure but satisfies the wanderlust (temporarily).

Raynor Winn has written a follow-up to The Salt Path, if you liked that — The Wild Silence.

All of Peter Moore's books.
Start with, The wrong way home.
www.petermoore.net/

For rom com Miss Adventure by Geralyn Corcillo. It's about someone who gets a financial payment and decides to start living life by doing adventure sports. Very funny and feel good but loads of adventure-ey bits too!!!

The Lost Ark of the Covenant, by Tudor Pàrfitt. Like a real-life Indiana Jones.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by the same author. Both have unusual main characters who have incredible (if slightly odd) adventures, and they are fun reads too.

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I’ve been staying up late finishing The Great Hunt, a cracking read.

Elsewhere by Rosita Boland, and A Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt by Elizabeth Longford.

Elspeth Beard was the first British woman to travel around the world by motor bike. I am reading "Et J'ai Suivi le Vent" by Anne-France Dautheville, a French woman who travelled around the world on a Kawasaki 100cc in the early 1970s.

Narrow Dog to Carcasonne about a retired couple who take a narrow boat from Stoke on Trent through the rivers and canals of England, over the channel and through the French canals and rivers down to the beautiful medieval town. It's really funny and interesting and they have a whippet called Jim on board - hence the narrow dog bit.

Three ways to capsize a boat by Chris Stewart

!Rundiinavia and Yes!

I loved both of these. I have read and e enjoyed quite a few on this thread and looking forward to checking out some of the others.

Adrift in Caledonia - Nick Thorpe

I was trying to remember this one earlier but just seen it linked when I looked up the narrow boat book