Challenge: Escape to Everywhere- Memoirs and Memories

Circle the Globe with these stories of adventures and life on other continents! Can you read one book from all 7: Europe, Asia, Oceania/Australia, Africa, Antarctica?

When you complete 2 tasks, you will earn 20 points and a badge.

A person relaxes on a couch and reads in the foreground.  Behind the couch, clouds and a plane circle the globe with a sun rising on the upper right side.  Above the image are the letters: "Escape to Everywhere"
Task

General Titles

  • Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel by Shahnaz Habib
  • The Catch Me If You Can: One Woman’s Journey to Every Country in the World by Jessica Nabongo
  • Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost: A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure by Rachel Friedman
  • The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
  • The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise​​ by Pico Iyer
  • Ten Years A Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home by Matt Kepner

Explore Europe (CHOOSE ONE)

  • Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova
  • From Scratch by Tembi Locke
  • Seasons (DVD or stream in Kanopy)
  • See You in the Piazza by Frances Mayes
  • A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
  • The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell

Explore Asia (CHOOSE ONE)

  • Mud and Stars, Travels in Russia by Sara Wheeler
  • Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Laura Prior-Palmer
  • The Girl With Seven Names: Escape from North Korea by Hyeonseo Lee
  • A Beginner's Guide to Japan by Pico Iyer

Explore Africa (CHOOSE ONE):

  • Africa is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
  • Black Lion: Teachings from the Wilderness by Sicelo Mbatha
  • Born a Crime: Trevor Noah
  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
  • Cry of the Kalahari- Mark & Delia Owens

Explore Antarctica (CHOOSE ONE)

  • Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir by Jean McNeil
  • The Impossible First by Colin O'Brady

Explore South America (CHOOSE ONE)

  • My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
  • Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
  • Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux
  • Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge- John Gimlette

Explore North America (CHOOSE ONE)

  • Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
  • Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship by Tom Ryan
  • The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and a Climber's Life- Mark Synnott
  • The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West by Will Grant
  • Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham
  • A Walk in the Woods- Bill Bryson
  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail- Cheryl Strayed