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Spanning 15 years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, Wanderlust documents Elisabeth Eaves’ insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures. Young and independent, she crisscrosses five continents and chases the exotic, both in culture and in romance.

The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II. Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself...

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You’ll hear personal travel anecdotes as well as get book suggestions, gear and tech ideas, events and more. Hosted by Sarah Leamy, an award-winning writer and wanderer with a background in publishing.

Join us as the triggers of our wanderlust - Fables, Maps, Curiosity and Adventure are transformed into action as we embark on a 10 month journey to 40 countries in Asia, Europe, North Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. We have common knowledge and experience quests centred around food, specifically breads flat, and local dishes that are spicy, sweet, healthy and odd. We have more personal quests like things related to small ultralight aircraft and the use of technology on the trip. Of course there is the culture, history, geography, scenery and interactions in the paces we visit and we...

A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and adventure in a memoir that "pushes literary boundaries" (The Atlantic) At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, Laura Smith began to feel trapped. Not by her fiancé, who shared her appetite...

At 23, William Simon Baekeland was well on his way to becoming the world’s best traveled person. The “billionaire” heir to a great plastics fortune had already visited 163 countries, but his real passion was finding ways to visit the world’s most challenging destinations. He earned rock-star status in the world of extreme travel. But when his story began to unravel, an eccentric group of hyper-well-traveled country collectors were left wondering how they had allowed their obsession to blind them to the warning signs that William Baekeland wasn’t who they thought he was.

Some people are meant to travel the globe, to unwrap its secrets and share them with the world. And some people have no sense of direction, are terrified of pigeons, and get motion sickness from tying their shoes. These people are meant to stay home and eat nachos. Geraldine DeRuiter is the...