Travel Tales: Sea Stories — The Ways of WaterI have collected so many fascinating stories of traveling the World's waterways from tales of ocean-going travel by huge ocean liners, and cruise ships to even sailboats. Indeed, if you expand the notion of travel along the World's waterways as well to include some of the Planet's most famous rivers, and if you consider the huge variety of means of water transport to also include small boats, canoes, rafts, and ...

THEY SAY UFOS AND THE PARANORMAL ARE REAL!Some of humanity's biggest mysteries, including the paranormal, UFOs, and the possibility of alien life on Earth, continue to intrigue!Some of us never experience any of these anomalies, while others experience them throughout our lives, more than once, and even repeatedly. What are we to make of not one but many of these strange, mystifying experiences?We can think of these people as "serial paranormal ...

Are aliens among us?In this collection, “The Road to Strange” takes you straight into the heart of one of humanity’s biggest mysteries: the alien presence on Earth.Open the pages to 40 compelling eyewitness accounts, many never-before published, attesting to personal encounters with alien beings and their craft. The stories come from all over the world and from witnesses in all walks of life – people just like you. Every story is followed by an insightful commentary that ex...

Travel Tales: The Best of 10,000 Stories Vol 1No collection of 10,000 or so travel stories, vignettes, or parts thereof that were shared with me by nearly 2,000 world travelers whom I've interviewed across the Globe over five decades would ever be complete without gathering them together into one place of simply the best of the best travel tales.In Vol 1, (Chapters 1 thru 6) travelers' tales include the numerous incredible accounts...

Travel Tales: Close Calls & Great Escapes Volume 1 is the first of a two-book companion set in the True Travel Tales series of very scary travel tales of danger in your travels and managing to just barely escape. It is a collection of the fearful and dangerous sorts of things that can and do happen to travelers, but mostly these will not happen to you. You'll read examples the real, raw fear and very unsettling occasions that may pop up now and again in your trave...

It is the next book in my True Travel Tales series. I have collected so many fascinating stories of traveling, transiting, and hitchhiking the world's highways and byways, from tales of overland travel by cars, buses, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, tuk-tuks, and yes, even by camels and elephants: one might say on conveyances from "cars to camels!"Indeed, suppose you consider the variety of ways travelers travel and transit overland. In that case, you will very well appreci...

It is the next book in The Road to Strange series. It collects flying saucer (UFO) reports as well as all sorts of alleged variant human / space alien interactions in between among the nearly 2,000 interviews that Michael has conducted at home and during his travels over the last five decades, the period often referred to in UFO circles as the so-called "Modern Era."Although the typical stories collected in The Road to Strange book series include spooky a...

THIS SERIES:True Travel TalesOver the last five decades, I've interviewed nearly 2,000 world travelers and adventurers. I am weaving the best of their almost 10,000 fantastic tales into a psychology of travel as revealed by these very telling stories. I've encountered these travelers on planes, trains, buses, ships, tours, safaris, as well as in campgrounds, bars, cafes, restaurants, and pubs. These courageous travelers have freely shared with me t...

Michael Brein’s Paris Travel Guide helps you get to the city's top 50 points of interest easily and cheaply using Paris's excellent Metro system. From the Eiffel Tower to the Louvre, with this ultra simple guide you have all you need to discover and get to Paris’s 50 top points of interest or Paris’s top 10 "Must See" attractions if you have limited time; find the nearest Metro station and which lines to take; see how to exit the station and walk to the attraction; note other nea...

THIS SERIESOver the last few decades, I've interviewed nearly 2,000 world travelers and adventurers. I am weaving the best of their almost 10,000 fantastic travel tales into a psychology of travel as revealed by these very telling stories. I've encountered these travelers on planes, trains, buses, ships, tours, safaris, and in campgrounds, hotels, restaurants, cafes, and pubs. These courageous travelers have freely shared their most personal travel experiences, som...

Travel Tales: Trains — Terror on the Rails:Is the next book in line of relatively shorter-take samplers in my True Travel Tales book series. It's a collection of some scary close calls on passenger or freight trains while plying some of the World's most famous railways and barely managing in some instances to escape from being robbed or even harmed.Train Stories is a collection of some fearful close calls that can and do happen to...

It is the next book in The Road to Strange series. It collects Bigfoot and Sasquatch reports, as well as alleged variants of cryptid types, among the nearly 2,000 interviews that Michael has conducted at home and during his travels over the last five decades.Although the typical stories collected in The Road to Strange book series include a variety of spooky accounts of supposed Bigfoot-Human interactions, most of these sorts of encounters are not likely to happen...