Feathered Canyons by Jeannette Hanby and David Bygott is a memoir of historical significance. Hanby was born during WWII and raised by protective parents in a safe environment. Once she graduated from California's Berkeley in 1962, she decided to explore life deeper and learn more...

Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue by Henry David Ayon presents over two hundred colored and sepia drawings of inspiring and majestic temples and tombs. The book takes readers on a cultural and visual voyage down the Nile while enjoying explanations of the built forms. Architects...

Hazelet’s Journal: A Riveting Alaska Gold Rush Saga written by George Cheever Hazelet and edited by his great-grandson John H. Clark is a fascinating account of George Cheever Hazelet’s Journal as he hunted for gold in the remote, unforgiving wilderness that was the Alaskan Goldfields...

The Geography of Belonging: A Love Story by Oriane Lee Johnston is one the best books I’ve read this year. It is a smart and conscious book, written by a woman aware of who she is, the natural world around us, and the socio-political realities...

This book is not for the casually curious! Home is Where Heart Is: Tiny Houses, Vans, and Living Your Best Life by Kristine Hudson is an extremely detailed introduction to life on the road, either part-time or full-time. It’s not a how-to book necessarily. It...

Barefoot in Hells Canyon by Bryan Gould recounts the story of two adventurous nineteen-year-olds who embarked on an audacious quest, planning to travel along the Snake River on a frail raft in 1958. Bryan and Glen were just a year out of high school when...

A Drive Down the Coast: Getting Lost on the Back Roads of California by Russ DiBella is an informative travel book designed for the adventurous traveler. Looking forward to a relaxed trip down the west coast, Russ planned to see a few sights and retrace...

“Why do we travel?” It’s an age-old question, one that faces all of us at one time or another. Some of us travel far; others merely to the next village, but we all travel somewhere, at some time in our lives. And, what we see...

It all began with a black-and-white Border Collie and the desire to work with sheep. This is a unique memoir about the meaningful canine-human relationship between Luke and Naomi in Away To Me, My Love: A Sheepdog’s Tale of Two Lives by Naomi McDonald. A...

Armed with bravery and a desire for adventure, Regina Petra Meyer examined the prospect of traveling to faraway places to deal with a distressing restlessness that had been seething inside her for a long time. She accomplished exactly that and found a new love in...