Journey with seasoned travelers as they explore new experiences
The book entertains, through the narratives of travelers who have experienced such trips as floating on Alaska’s Hulahula river, sea kayaking around Canada’s Baffin Island, hiking Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, seeing gorillas in Uganda, and visiting ethnic tribes in China.
The book's focus is on adventure travel, and the trips will be entertaining, mind-expanding and often physically stretching for adult travelers of any age who want to step outside traditional travel modes. If you’ve already explored several of the world’s great cities, visited luxury spas and dude ranches, there’s a trip here for you.
50 Extraordinary Adventures Great Armchair Reading, Too
Even if you don’t intend to take any of these adventures, the first 24 trips are entertaining first-person descriptions of adventures seasoned travelers have enjoyed. During most of these journeys, the writers’ mental and physical boundaries were stretched in ways they never expected.
Riding the Hulahula and Other Extraordinary Adventures Overview
The book is organized by regions starting with an introduction by Sir Richard Branson and a "Get Ready" section. The most entertaining portion of the book has personal essays describing trips, and these chapters include sections such as "why go," "special issues and challenges," and "resources and information." The remainder of the book offers brief descriptions of 26 other adventures with contact information for the companies that offer the trips. These trips were chosen as the top choices for people over age 40 based on a survey by the Adventure Travel Trade Association.
The narratives are all by "seasoned" writers. In this book that term is defined so: “Seasoned travelers tend to be older and are used to viewing the world through multiple lenses. With their broader perspective, adventurous older travelers tend to seek more complex and nuanced experiences".
The authors, Don Mankin and Shannon Stowell, are longtime, experienced adventure travelers. Stowell, president of the Adventure Travel Trade Association, has been in the adventure travel industry for many years. Mankin is a psychologist, educator, consultant and world traveler. The book’s publisher is the National Geographic Society.
