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1001 Restaurants You Must Experience Before You Die

Jenny Linford · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Hardcover

The world is full of wonderful places to eat, and this mouthwatering, globe-trotting guide features 1001 of the very best. Gourmets with an appetite for good food in gorgeous settings will find their taste buds tingling with anticipation as they flip through this book. The featured eateries...
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Lonely Planet San Antonio, Austin & Texas Backcountry Road Trips

Lonely Planet.
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's San Antonio, Austin & Texas Backcountry Road Trips<
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Inns and Adventures: A History and Explorer's Guide to Vermont, New Hampshire, and the Berkshires

Alison O'Leary · On Cape Publications
Format: Print book

It's possible to jump on a highway and zip past picturesque church steeples rising from the greenery, but Inns & Adventures will make you slow down, explore, and stay the night. Adventures include such activities as white-water kayaking, hiking, fishing, mountain biking, hidden...
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Art Galleries & Museums of Britain (Museum Guide)

KGP Publishing · Kgp Pub; illustrated edition edition
Format: Illustrated]

Informative and amusing, this heavily illustrated travel guide contains key visitor information for more than 700 museums as well as a handful of castles and stately houses. The guide is arranged by county, followed by sections on Scotland and Wales. It is exceptionally well laid out, covering...
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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia

David Greene · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Travels with NPR host David Greene along the Trans-Siberian Railroad capture an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.Far away from the trendy cafés, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.Midnight in Siberia chronicles...
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Frommer's Washington D.C. with Kids

Beth Rubin · Frommers; 7 edition
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

With Frommer's, family vacations have never been so easy. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places local parents and kids like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go—they've done the legwork for you and they're...
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The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China

Huan Hsu · Crown
Format: Hardcover

A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family's hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang,...
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A Kitchen in France: A Year of Cooking in My Farmhouse

Mimi Thorisson · Clarkson Potter; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

With beguiling recipes and sumptuous photography, A Kitchen in France transports readers to the French countryside and marks the debut of a captivating new voice in cooking. When Mimi Thorisson and her family moved from Paris to a small town in out-of-the-way Médoc, she did not quite...
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Worth Fighting For: An Army Ranger's Journey Out of the Military and Across America

Rory Fanning · Haymarket Books
Format: Print book

Rory Fannings odyssey is more than a walk across America. It is a gripping story of one young mans intellectual journey from eager soldier to skeptical radical, a look at not only the physical immenseness of the country, its small towns, and highways, but into the enormity of its past,...
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