The Roamers Book Club
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1995 travel writer Bill Bryson was living in the United States after residing in England for over twenty years and longed to reconnect with the cou...
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1996 author Jon Krakauer joined a Mount Everest expedition to document the recent commercialization of the world's highest peak. As an experienced ...
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been lost in the woods? Did you immediately ball up in the fetal position and scream for help? Stephen King's, The Girl Who Loved Tom Go...
The White Heart of Mojave by Edna Brush Perkins
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a long fight on the front lines of the women's suffrage movement Edna Brush Perkins and her friend Charlotte Jordan needed a vacation so they di...
Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France by Adin Dobkin
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Roamers dive into the book Sprinting Through No Man's Land by Adin Dobkin who painstakingly chronicled the journey of the 1919 Tour de France cycl...
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Roamers discuss Cheryl Strayed's book Wild which was adapted into the film of the same name staring Reese Witherspoon. In 1995 Strayed set out on ...
Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg
27 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christine and Kyle read Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg which chronicles the time that Ghinsberg........got lost in the jungle. In 1981 he and t...
Riding On - A Shake the Sleeping Self follow up
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The book club revisits Jedediah Jenkins book, To Shake the Sleeping Self by talking to some long distance cyclists about what they're experiences on t...
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For two years in the 1950's Edward Abbey worked as a park ranger in Arches National Park (then monument) spending most of his time alone, contemplatin...
Further Downstream - An interview with rafting expert Seth Peterson
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a follow up to Running the Amazon by Joe Kane, Christine interviewed her younger brother Seth Peterson who is a high skilled whitewater rafting and...
Running the Amazon by Joe Kane
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1986 a ragtag team of twelve explorers attempted to kayak the Amazon from source to sea. Their journey began 16,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes a...
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout her teens and twenties Blair Braverman proved to herself that she could survive some of the coldest environments in the world while learnin...
To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Would you quit your dream job for an epic bike ride? Does travel result in life changing epiphanies? What impact do your parents have on who you becom...
Texas Talk with MK Paulsen
27 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Travels with Charley John Steinbeck wrote, "Once you are in Texas it seems to take forever to get out and some people never make it." Our Texas cor...
Travels With Charley: In Search of America: John Steinbeck
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does the current state of America compare to that of the 1960's? Has progress been made? Are cities doomed to fail? What great adventure is on you...
Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of World War II
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This month the Roamers Book Club read Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of WWII. It is the remarkable story of Lt. Col. Harry ...
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Following the death of his wife, Peter Matthiessen set out on a journey in 1973 through the Himalayas of Nepal with the goal of spotting the elusive...
Following Tracks
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We received a passionate opinion from a loyal Roamers member about Robyn Davidson's Tracks and we learned more about camels! Next week we'll be releas...
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
12 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision." We discuss Tracks by Robyn Davidson and her empowering ...
Kon Tiki - By Raft Across the South Seas
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Roamers covers Kon Tiki which was a 1947 expedition where the author, Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out on an adventure as they s...
Welcome to The Roamers Book Club
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mini-adventurers, Christine and Kyle, introduce The Roamers Book Club. Join the club and read the first adventure book, Kon-Tiki by Norwegian explorer...