Myriads of legends and myths have developed around the Egyptian Pharaoh, King Tutankhamun - better known as King Tut. Marc Jr Caron examines his life in his excellent book King Tut Unclassified Deluxe Edition: More Stories and More Photos, in which he introduces the reader...

Kong Boys: Seven Friends from Hong Kong Take on Eleven European Cities for Their Thirtieth Birthdays by Gerald Yeung is an interesting non-fiction book for travel fans. The author introduces readers to his four childhood friends and explores their friendship over the years, a journey...

If you’re like me, you read travel guides for pleasure. Key West & The Lower Keys Travel Guide, by local residents Karuna Eberl and Steve Alberts, is one of the best travel guides I’ve ever read. To say that it’s entertaining doesn’t begin to cover...

Kozhikode is a city located in southern India. It is rich in culture and natural beauty and makes an interesting destination for adventurous tourists, those looking for something different or unusual as opposed to the ordinary tourist locations. Once known as the City of Spices,...

Kids, Camels, & Cairo: Tales of an International Educator by Mrs. Jill M. Dobbe chronicles the travels and life of the author in Cairo when she was sent to work in an International School in Cairo. The book reveals the details of how the author...

“Traveling to an unknown destination ignites our desire for adventure.” Know Before You Go: Traveling the U.S. and Abroad by Stephanie Tehan Patterson is designed to make those adventures easy to plan and ensure the reader is not the person left trying to cope with...

In Kidnapped By Nuns, Bob Fuss talks of his days at Stanford, that when he joined, his intention was to become a lawyer. But his association with freshman Pete Williams, who later went on to become a much acclaimed NBC News correspondent, changed all that. He...

Kilimanjaro Diaries by Eva Melusine Thieme is about climbing the highest mountain on an entire continent and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. The preparations for this trip, starting with an internet survey, began well in advance, including practicing with climbing boots for the...

My husband teases that he lives vicariously through me because like author M.G. Edwards, I was on the verge of a midlife crisis in my 40’s and yearned for adventure, trekking off to Kenya, Russia, and dozens of other places. “Kilimanjaro: One Man’s Quest to...