Managing the Bucket List: The Journey Begins Volume I by Carol J. McIlwain is a self-help travel book with memoir elements about making long-held travel ambitions achievable through planning that fits the person taking the trip. After retiring from the Department of the Navy in...

Sara Verrall’s Mexico Amiga! is a captivating memoir that describes four consecutive winter escapes to Mexico with her Swedish partner, Jan, whom she affectionately calls “My Viking.” The memoir takes readers on a journey that ignores the typical tourist trail and traverses the Pacific coast:...

Michael Cooper’s memoir Miscalculated Risks is a collection of survival stories pulled from forty years of trekking through the North American wilderness. This isn't some slow-burning narrative; it’s a series of high-stakes moments when things went completely wrong during backpacking, climbing, and rafting trips. Cooper...

Mastering the Art of Travel by A.J. Weimer is a thoroughly comprehensive, practical guide I wish I had read sooner. It includes so many things I have never thought about. It is about transforming travel from a regular and casual activity into a carefully cultivated...

Mud, Microbes & Medicine by Elizabeth Reed Aden is a memoir that is definitely a study in two parts. As a young PhD anthropology student in the 1970s, the author sought a topic for her doctoral thesis. Searching the world for a suitable environment, she...

Musea by Lande Jewels is a guide to London's museums, made wholly unique by each being described in poetic, rhyming verse. Jewels includes dozens of entries, like The National Portrait Gallery, where Holbein and Hogarth hold one side of the room while Gainsborough, Reynolds, Kauffman,...

More Manchester Than Mongolia by Jacqueline Lambert is an adventure memoir that follows the author, her husband Mark, and their four furry companions on a journey through the British countryside. After postponing their Mongolian road trip, they decided to take a test ride in their...

In Monks, Monkeys, and Misty Rice Fields: Journeys and Discoveries in Thailand and Southeast Asia, Robert Wilson takes readers on an intimate, insightful journey through Thailand and its neighboring countries. What begins as a teacher’s relocation from San Diego to the northern Thai town of...

Meanwhile, Here in Austin by Cetywa Powell is a magical book that shows you Austin through the eyes and camera of a journalist and photographer who moved to the city in the spring with her husband and son and explored and documented her impressions throughout...

In Middle Miles, Cory Mortensen is cycling from the Canadian to the Mexican border. He’s a middle-aged man, but what his body feels, his mind merely acknowledges. It’s a journey that will take 27 days, and one in which he will experience vast changes in...