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Lonely Planet The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet

Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet; 1 edition
Format: Book

Every country in the world, in one guidebook Lonely Planet delivers the first guide to The World. Weve taken the highlights from the worlds best guidebooks and put them together into one 960-page whopper to create the ultimate guide to Earth. This user-friendly A-Z gives a flavour of each...
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Postcards from Stanland: Journeys in Central Asia

David H Mould · Ohio University Press
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

"An illuminating travelogue through Central Asia ... . As a genial travel guide, Mould, an academic who doesn't write like an academic, shows how one should resist the temptations to stereotype a culture too easily and understand it too quickly." - Kirkus ReviewsCentral Asia...
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Hidden Tuscany: Discovering Art, Culture, and Memories in a Well-Known Region's Unknown Places

John Keahey · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

In Hidden Tuscany, acclaimed author John Keahey takes the reader into a part of Tuscany beyond the usual tourist destinations of Chianti, Florence, and Siena. The often overlooked western portion of Tuscany is rich with history, cuisine, and scenery begging to be explored, and Keahey encourages...
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Lonely Planet New England's Best Trips

Lonely Planet. · Lonely Planet Pubns
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet New England's Best Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering New England by car. Featuring 32 amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along...
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111 Places in Chicago That You Must Not Miss

Amy Bizzarri · Emons Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

* The ultimate insider's guide to Chicago, fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs* Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides * Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 170 titles and 1 million copies in print...
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The Rough Guide to Panama

Rough Guides · Rough Guides; 2 Updated edition
Format: Book

The new Rough Guide to Panama is the ultimate travel guide to this vibrant and fascinating country. Discover Panama's highlights with stunning full-color photography and maps and more listings and information than ever before. Inside The Rough Guide to Panama you'll find detailed...
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Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

Robyn Davidson · Vintage
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURERobyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the following words: "I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned...
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365 Things to Do in Ithaca New York: Complete Insider's Guide to All Things Ithaca

Laurel Guy · Schiffer Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

On Cayuga Lake in the heart of the Finger Lakes, Ithaca, NY, is home to Cornell University and Ithaca College. Gorges. Enlightened. Quirky. Ithacans do things differently. For every day of the year, there is something interesting in this guidebook to see or do. Laurel Guy weaves 10,000...
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F Is for France: A Curious Cabinet of French Wonders

Piu Marie Eatwell · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Exploring a culture filled with arcane laws, historical incidents, and bizarre paradoxes, Piu Eatwell's follow up to her award-winning and critically acclaimed myth-buster They Eat Horses, Don't They is a delightful exploration of France's quirky, literary, and culinary heritage. From absinthe...
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Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God

Steven Nightingale · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

Granada is one of the iconic cities of the world. It stands for the culture of Al-Andalus, composed of Moslems, Jews, and Christians, who lived together in the legendary convivencia of the Spanish Middle Ages. Al-Andalus gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared...
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The New York Times: Footsteps: From Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, Literary Pilgrimages Around the World

New York Times · Three Rivers Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A curated collection of the New York Times' travel column, "Footsteps," exploring iconic authors' relationships to landmarks and cities around the world Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby's sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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25 Places in Canada Every Family Should Visit

Jody Robbins · TouchWood Editions
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Canada's 150th birthday is the perfect opportunity to start exploring this country with your kids while finally experiencing the spectacular Canadian destinations you've been dreaming about.Planning a family getaway can be overwhelming, but award-winning freelance travel writer...
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Let's Go Europe 2017: The Student Travel Guide

INC HARVARD STUDENT AGENCIES · AVALON TRAVEL
Pages: 840
Format: Print book

First time to Europe? It's our 57th. There isn't a hostel in Hungary we haven't tested, a beer in Brussels we haven't imbibed, or a metro line in Madrid we haven't mastered. After going through the ups and downs, we know the ins and outs. Part local expert, part goofy...
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