Subpar Parks, both on the popular Instagram page and in this humorous, informative, and collectible book, combines two things that seem like they might not work together yet somehow harmonize perfectly: beautiful illustrations and informative, amusing text celebrating each national park paired with the one-star reviews disappointed tourists have left online. Millions of visitors each year enjoy Glacier National Park, but for one visitor, it was simply Too cold for me! Another saw the mind-boggling vistas of Bryce Canyon as Too spiky! Never mind the person who visited the thermal pools at Yellowstone National Park and left thinking, Save yourself some money, boil some water at home.

Featuring more than 50 percent new material, the book will include more depth and insight into the most popular parks, such as Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and Acadia National Parks; anecdotes and tips from rangers; and much more about author Amber Share's personal love and connection to the outdoors. Equal parts humor and love for the national parks and the great outdoors, it's the perfect gift for anyone who loves to spend time outside as well as have a good read (and laugh) once they come indoors.

With Share's classic spin on visitors' candidly cranky reviews of each location, Subpar Planet fills skeptical travelers with a wanderlust for the world's most spectacular features, including the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the Great Barrier Reef, Chichén Itzá, the Sahara, and many more!

Equal parts hilarious and informative, Subpar Planet is perfect for seasoned globe-trotters, people interested in broadening their worldly horizons, and anyone who simply wants to see the unique ways their fellow human beings interact with the world around them.

A sarcastic and humorous travel memoir about a middle-aged American woman's travels around the world that transform her perspective on relationships, career, spirituality and life in general.

After an unexpected breakup turns her plans upside down, this 40-something can only wallow in self-pity for so long before pulling up her big girl panties. She tackles a new job, an empty nest, and ultimately makes the decision to pack up all her belongings and put them in storage so she can travel the world as a digital nomad, living out of one suitcase.

One sassy mid-life crisis later, she discovers more about herself than she intended to. The path to spirituality is paved with accountability and recognizing her own part in the challenges that permeate life, love, work and her relationship with herself.

This book is for anyone who has felt lost, bored, or uninspired, but especially women who feel the midlife crisis stereotype has ignored them.

Every year thousands of RVers hit the road for fun and adventure, but RVing has built in misadventures-backing into a tree, bending a jack stand, and more-spoiling an otherwise perfect outing.

For the past ten years, the author has asked RVers the same question: What's the dumbest thing you've done while RVing? Each year, he has given an award for the dumbest mishap.

In this funny and helpful handbook, 101 of these mishaps come together so the reader can learn from other people's mistakes, saving them unnecessary grief and cash.

- Always use a spotter when entering or departing a campsite. - Do a walk-around inspection before moving your rig. - Never flush out your blackwater tank after dressing for church.

Practical and comical, this a great read for all RVers, both veterans and novices.

Kops-Fetherling International Book Award for Sports & Leisure

Land Without a Continent follows author Matt Savino on a meandering road trip from Los Angeles to Panama. Along the way, Matt discovers a world of ancient wonders and awe-inspiring natural scenery, time and again has his preconceptions shattered, and finds himself trapped on the wrong side of Nicaragua during the uprising of 2018. Matt's adventures and foibles blend with a deep dive into the history, habitat, and exceedingly tasty food of this underestimated, misunderstood corner of the world.

Have you ever made a drunken bet? Worse, still, have you eveer tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland wich a fridge, Tony Hawks did both, and his foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life. Joined by his trusty traveling companion-cum-domestic appliance, he made his way from Dublin to Donegal, from Sligo through Mayo, Galway, Clare, Kerry, Cork, Wexford, Wicklow--and back again to Dublin. In their month of madness, Tony and his fridge met a real prince, a bogus king, and the fridge got christened. They surfed together, entered a bachelor festival, and one of them had sex without the other knowing. And unexpectedly, the fridge itself became a momentary focus for the people of Ireland.

An international bestseller, Round Ireland with a Fridge is a classic travel adventure in the tradition of Bill Bryson with a dash of Dave Barry.

Contemplating your great escape? Follow the author and her traveling partner into the jungles of Southeast Asia. These humorous, often unbelievable stories will save you the trouble of having to stoically endure spider bites, monkey attacks, machete throwing tribesmen, hungry lions, and even ringworm. This is a book for scratching the travel itch, or spreading it.

In the late summer of 2022, the author finds his next traveling companion in the hot and dusty backyard of an antique shop on the backroads of Fossil, Oregon. The companion, Orvis, is an imaginary dog. True soulmates, they inspire one another to take a journey that neither could take alone, a journey of humor and forbearance, personal discovery, and egregious self-sacrifice. Together they break new ground in the annals of travel writing, finding the best and the worst of the places they visit, but always maintaining their strong opinions and sense of humor.

A Journey With Orvis is not really about the places they travel (from Mexico City to Istanbul, Zagreb to Paris, London to Dublin), but is more about the 'who' and 'why' of traveling itself. It helps that they travel lightly with only a small carry-on and open minds. It helps even more that one of them is imaginary.

By the end of the journey, it could be either one.

An annotated edition of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad, Twain's best-selling book in his lifetime, and the book that made him an international celebrity.

This edition includes:

All original illustrations from the first edition.Over 1200 footnotes covering the people, places, events, and even the words used in this classic travel book.Eight Appendixes, including information on the passengers, officers, and crew.A lexicon including hundreds of words, all defined in the book.A comprehensive index.

Published in 1869, the book is based on what was the first organized cruise ship journey, taking a group of wealthy American tourists (and Twain) to Europe and the Middle East. Twain and his fellow excursionists visited the Azores, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, and the Ottoman Empire (in locations that today would be Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel). The book looks at Americans and Europeans, and the art and literature that made up the Western canon up to that point. Twain finds himself an art critic visiting some of the most famous works of art in France and Italy, giving his very American perspective. Twain navigates many quarantines due to cholera in that pre-antibiotic age. Woven into the book are his knowledge of the Bible and literary works. Finally his travels in the Holy Land shatter his romantic view of the land based on the Bible and previous authors' descriptions of the land.

• Entertaining adventure writing: the author is a comedian and his writing is smart and funny.
• The hilarious absurdity of the things we do to connect to nature: like climbing a mountain in the pouring rain or buying ridiculously expensive gear just to take a walk.
• Broad appeal: For fans of Bill Bryson and Karl Pilkington, as well as followers of the wildly popular instagram turned book, Subpar Parks.
• One of Scandinavia's biggest comedians: Kalv is hugely popular in Scandinavia and his humor translates to a North American audience.
• Relatable writing about middle-age: with humor and specificity, Kalvo describes that all-too-familiar process of entering your forties and realizing your friends' tastes and hobbies have changed (and yours may have too).

A combination of ultra-formal communication notices and the fun of Madd Libbs - for grown-ups! Formal Notices is a great communications and conversation-starting book. Use it in the office!

Having trouble saying what you mean? No longer - Formal Notices has just the solution! This collection of fifty fill-in-the-blank letters makes it easy to express even the most difficult of sentiments. For example - Did you not get offered the job? Send them a De-Rejection Letter. Or perhaps your love interest is oblivious to your pursuit? Try a Declaration of Romantic Interest form. With a potent blend of old-fashioned formality, a health dose of sarcasm and plenty of shameless honesty, you'll charm your recipient while you let your opinions be known. In addition to being a great read, the truly brave can remove a form, fold it over and send it through the mail. So no matter what life throws at you, Formal Notices will help you Let That Which is Unsaid, Be Said.

Based on real-life one-star reviews, One Star Wonders provides a fascinating insight into the spectrum of human quirks, entitlement, and expectations. From the traveler who was too cold during their trip to see the Northern Lights to the woman who was confused that there was no king or queen in the Palace of Versailles, this hilarious gift book is like having the most inexperienced, least-traveled tour guide at your beck and call. Paired with Mike's signature illustrations, One Star Wonders is a collection of sidesplitting reviews that will provide endless entertainment for travel and humor enthusiasts alike.

I believe my book captures many interesting and exciting situations. These situations are gleaned from my personal experiences. I am convinced that my years as a Smokejumper have defined and shaped the man I am today. Several escapes from near-death experiences have brought me to this day and provided me with an abundance of gratitude.

And one day soon, one last jump into the unknown.

With a new roof and working electrics in place, Rosie is ready for the next phase of turning the 22-roomed derelict Italian villa into a home. It needs to be ready in time for her elderly Irish parents to move in, and her daughter to finally visit after being separated for so long by Covid lockdowns.

However, with renovation disasters, endless negotiations with the Shouty Woman at the bank, and the several shades of suffocating mould in every room, it seems like the house will never be a home for Rosie and her family, let alone her octogenarian parents from Ireland.

The over-enthusiastic tradesmen who put water in the electrics and leave unexpected bills in the letterbox, strengthen the thought that perhaps it would be easier to leave the villa in Italy dream behind and just pack up and move back to Ireland...

If you liked Ann Hood's Fly Girl and Julie Cook's Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am, you'll love True Tales of TWA Flight Attendants.

The golden age of air travel promised a life of glamour and adventure for beautiful, single, young women interested in exploring the world-and no airline offered more glamour or excitement than Trans World Airlines.

TWA provided an enviable jet-set lifestyle for flight attendants-and the opportunity to travel to exotic destinations like, London, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong and Bombay. Flight attendants appeared on TV and in movies, and rubbed elbows with the rich and famous, from Elizabeth Taylor and John F. Kennedy Jr., to presidents and Popes, all while decked out in designer uniforms from clothing designers like Oleg Cassini and Ralph Lauren.

In the 1960s and 1970s, TWA accepted fewer than 1% of applicants to be flight attendants-making it tougher to get into than Harvard. Plus, a flying career offered the best education money could never buy.

TWA flight attendants could cook chateaubriand medium rare, deliver a baby at 35,000 feet, and survive a plane crash-all the while immaculately dressed from their never-a-strand-out-of-place hairstyles, all the way down to their mandatory high heeled shoes. But the glamorous lifestyle of a TWA flight attendant sometimes came at a cost.

True Tales of TWA Flight Attendants is a diary-style fly girl memoir with stories from hundreds of TWA flight attendants, and filled with a fascinating behind-the-scenes, never-before-seen look at the glamour, excitement, and struggles faced by young women as they traveled the world with TWA during this exciting time in airline history-from the golden age of air travel through the great stewardess rebellion and beyond.

Click buy now to read the most fascinating, behind-the-curtain, fly girls' book of the year!

Perfect for flight attendant gifts too!

John Robinsons Road Trip series is long overdue for a new release. Finally, here it is. Filled with political satire, signs on our times, good country food, and extraneous humor, John has exceeded his previous work with fresh stories of oddities and history, human failings and triumph. Who would ever guess that the flyover state had this much to offer?

Hundreds of thousands of people all over Ireland were entertained and thrilled in their youth by reading the homely and racy adventures of Kitty the Hare in magazines and journals. Kitty was the famous travelling woman of Ireland and according to her, 'You'll find good, hospitable people everywhere you go in Ireland . . . I'm after travelling through Munster . . . and through most of Leinster and some of Connaught and part of Ulster as well as faith, so I know what I'm talking about . . .'

Here, for the first time, we have collected some of the best and most exciting of these stories and so as Kitty says, 'Let ye all gather close to me, and stir up the turf into a blaze, the way you'll have some sort of courage, Mossa, to listen to my tale . . .'

Not your typical bucket list book, The Bucket/F*ck It List lets you check off bucket, f*ck it, or done it for each of the 3,669 items, depending on whether you intend to do it, couldn't care less about it, or have already accomplished it. Regardless of where you lie on the FOMO/JOMO (fear of missing out/joy of missing out) spectrum, checking things off just feels good. Use this as a travel guide to the world's most exotic festivals and quirkiest museums or as social media fodder (don't forget to take lots of selfies).

If you liked Ann Hood's Fly Girl and Julie Cook's Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am, you'll love True Tales of TWA Flight Attendants.

The golden age of air travel promised a life of glamour and adventure for beautiful, single, young women interested in exploring the world-and no airline offered more glamour or excitement than Trans World Airlines.

TWA provided an enviable jet-set lifestyle for flight attendants-and the opportunity to travel to exotic destinations like, London, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong and Bombay. Flight attendants appeared on TV and in movies, and rubbed elbows with the rich and famous, from Elizabeth Taylor and John F. Kennedy Jr., to presidents and Popes, all while decked out in designer uniforms from clothing designers like Oleg Cassini and Ralph Lauren.

In the 1960s and 1970s, TWA accepted fewer than 1% of applicants to be flight attendants-making it tougher to get into than Harvard. Plus, a flying career offered the best education money could never buy.

TWA flight attendants could cook chateaubriand medium rare, deliver a baby at 35,000 feet, and survive a plane crash-all the while immaculately dressed from their never-a-strand-out-of-place hairstyles, all the way down to their mandatory high heeled shoes. But the glamorous lifestyle of a TWA flight attendant sometimes came at a cost.

True Tales of TWA Flight Attendants is a diary-style fly girl memoir with stories from hundreds of TWA flight attendants, and filled with a fascinating behind-the-scenes, never-before-seen look at the glamour, excitement, and struggles faced by young women as they traveled the world with TWA during this exciting time in airline history-from the golden age of air travel through the great stewardess rebellion and beyond.

Click buy now to read the most fascinating, behind-the-curtain, fly girls' book of the year!

Perfect for flight attendant gifts too!

What's the wildest thing that ever happened to you during an outdoor adventure?

Did you accidentally set your boots on fire? Get attacked by hungry raccoons or investigated by a curious bear?

What's it like to be a park ranger? What happens when you get bucked off a horse, dangled from a cliff, bitten by bloodthirsty horseflies, or fall smack-flat onto your butt while leading a group of scouts down a trail?

These hilarious and eye-popping adventures will capture your imagination and carry you right into the experience of visiting our beautiful parklands. A fun beach read, or great stories for families to share.