When learning a new sport, especially one that you can do in a variety of environments like stand-up paddling (SUP), it’s not always convenient to take a class. But that doesn’t mean you can’t snag a solid how-to book to tote with you on your adventures—whether it’s merely paddling on a calm river or learning...

Many Vagablogging readers are familiar with Matt Kepnes, or Nomadic Matt . Kepnes’s website is packed full of information on travel deals, travel tips, travel guides, and loads of interesting travel tales suited to any genre. Now Kepnes has taken the next step and has published his own Ebook. Kepnes’s book is a smooth read....

The Adventurer's Handbook is entertainingly subtitled, "From surviving an anaconda attack to finding your way out of the desert," which carries the implication that it's another one of those worst-case survival manuals that reminds you to clench your butt cheeks when you dive off a cliff so water doesn't rush into your nether regions and...

Fleur Britten's "On The Couch" is the first travel memoir about couchsurfing I've seen; this doesn't mean there aren't any others, naturally, but it does mean that I picked it off the library shelf with a surge of excitement. "Ooh!" I thought to myself. "This is gonna be good!" I was, unfortunately, wrong. Couchsurfing is...

I happened to be killing time in the Cairns airport flipping through the bookstore when I came across the travel memoir of "catching love, fish and wisdom": Robyn Catchlove's "Somewhere Down a Crazy River." I then promptly forgot about it until I received a notice from the publisher, and I gave it a read. It's...

Selecting 250+ pictures to represent the expanse and wonder of the planet is a daunting task, but it is one that Earth Bound: A Rough Guide to the World in Pictures has done very well. Best known for its guidebook series, Rough Guides has pulled from a collection of more than 100,000 images to create...

In Tone Deaf in Bangkok , Janet Brown does a remarkable job of capturing daily life in Bangkok and chronicling her transformation from her early days exploring the city as a farang to settling into the rhythms of the city to her eventual journey back to the United States. Nana Chen's photography accompanies Janet Brown's...