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The Berlitz Self-Teacher -- French: A Unique Home-Study Method Developed by the Famous Berlitz Schools of Language

Berlitz Schools of Languages of America. · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback

You acquired English naturally. Not through the memorization of long list of vocabulary, not through the tedious chore of learning bare-bones grammar but through actually speaking it. . . If you speak English you can speak French, the natural Berlitz way. Only the Berlitz Self-Teachers...
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Archaeology Hotspot Egypt: Unearthing the Past for Armchair Archaeologists

Julian Heath · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The Archaeology Hotspots series offers reader-friendly and engaging narratives of the archaeology in particular countries. Written by archaeological experts with a general reader in mind, each book in the series focuses on what has been found and by whom, what the controversies and scandals...
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Quixotic Key West & the Lower Keys Travel Guide

Karuna Eberl · Quixotic Travel Guides
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Winner Best Travel Book - American Book Fest Finalist Best Interior Graphic Design The peculiar tropical paradise at the end of the road draws millions of visitors, but many miss out on its true spirit and hidden places. Now, you won t endure such a fate. This 288-page, full-color guide...
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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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Ride Along the Great Wall

Robin Hanbury-Tenison · Harpercollins
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Once British author/explorer Hanbury-Tenison and his wife Louella had completed their journey on horseback from the south of France to their farm in Cornwall (recounted in White Horses over France), they decided to broaden their horizonsto a 1000-mile expedition along the Great Wall of China....
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

Tim Butcher · Grove Press
Pages: 326
Format: Print book

On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo...
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The Memory Book: One Woman's Self-Discovery in the Mist of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

Linda Fischer · Minted Prose LLC
Format: Paperback

Found in an antique store while the author was on a short vacation to Budapest, the small leather book—filled with watercolors, drawings, and messages—turned out to be a memory book. At the turn of the twentieth century, many Eastern European girls kept memory books as keepsake...
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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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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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Rio Noir

Tony Bellotto · Akashic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

"The latest installment of Akashic's geographically wide-ranging mystery series lands in Rio de Janeiro, a city whose famous imagery--the massive statue of Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf mountain, the beautiful beaches--constitutes the public face of the city, but behind lurks...
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Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

Mark Woods · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national...
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Hidden Mickeys: A Field Guide to Walt Disney World's Best Kept Secrets

Steven M. Barrett · SMBBooks
Pages: 343
Format: Paperback

"Hidden Mickey Guy" Steven Barrett searches all through the theme parks and resort hotels and everywhere else on Walt Disney World property for camouflaged images of Mickey Mouse to bring his Field Guide to Walt Disney World's Hidden Mickeys up-to-date with his latest findings....
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Women's London: A Tour Guide to Great Lives

Rachel Kolsky · IMM Lifestyle
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Discover the women who shaped London through the centuries and the legacy they left behind.The only guidebook focused on the women who have shaped London through the centuriesOriginal self-guided walking tours take you to historic areas where important women lived, worked, and are commemoratedDiscover...
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