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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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The Handy Geography Answer Book

Paul A Tucci · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 450
Format: Print book

Geography is more than just maps and finding your destination. It is about the land, the people on that land, the delicate balance of nature, and our very interdependence upon it, despite the miracles of technology and grocery stores. It's about the effects of nature on places and people,...
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Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias

Alastair Bonnett · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

New islands are under construction or emerging because of climate change. Eccentric enclaves and fantastic utopian experiments are multiplying. Once-secret fantasy gardens are cracking open their doors to outsiders. Our world is becoming stranger by the day - and Alastair Bonnett observes...
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The Best Place to be Today: 365 Things to do & the Perfect Day to do Them

Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet; 1 edition

Find the best thing to do every day of the year, from one-day events like India's Holi festival or the cheese-rolling race at Cooper's Hill in England, to seasonal events like Alaska's caribou migration and weather-dependent adventures like completing the Tour de Mont Blanc....
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Explorer's Guide Buffalo & Niagara Falls

CHRISTINE A SMYCZYNSKI · Countryman Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

An all- new guide to the famous vacation destinationThe Empire State is home to some of the nation's most astounding natural and cultural wonders. From beautiful Lake Erie to the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains mountains to historically rich Buffalo, this region has the makings for a world-class...
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The Bronx: The Ultimate Guide to New York City's Beautiful Borough

Lloyd Ultan · Rutgers University Press
Format: Print book

Often overlooked by most tourists and locals alike, the Bronx—one of five boroughs that comprise the city of New York—is rich in cultural and historical attractions. From the Bronx Zoo the largest urban zoo in the United States to the New York Botanical Garden one of the most visited...
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The New York Times: 36 Hours, USA & Canada, East

Taschen. · Taschen
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Ease through the EastAdventures in Eastern North AmericaExploring the expanse of North America that looks toward the Atlantic Ocean means experiencing a kaleidoscope of picturesque towns, rural idylls, pulsating cities, and some of the most dramatic natural scenery on the continent. Such...
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Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

Sari Botton · Touchstone
Format: Book

“Gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be a New Yorker—slightly insane, broke, and madly in love. These essays made me laugh out loud with recognition. New York City isn’t an easy place to live, but is anything easy really worth doing?” —Emma Straub,...
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Full Moon over Noah's Ark: An Odyssey to Mount Ararat and Beyond

Rick Antonson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 382
Format: Print book

Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson sets his adventurous compass on Mount Ararat, exploring the region's long history, religious mysteries, and complex politics.Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting...
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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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Good Hotel Guides 2016 Great Britain and Ireland

Desmond Balmer · The Good Hotel Guide Ltd, 2015.
Pages: 672
Format: Print book

The Good Hotel Guide is the leading independent guide to hotels in Great Britain and Ireland. It is written for the reader seeking impartial advice on finding a good place to stay. Hotels cannot buy their entry as they do in most rival guides. No money changes hands, and the editors and inspectors...
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Battlefields of the Civil War (Battlefields of the Civil War Vol. I)

Blair Howard · Hunter Publishing
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

Hunter Publishing is proud to offer travelers this collection of unique titles that are not part of any series and often stand alone in their field of coverage. The eclectic selection of topics includes cultural and historical travel, as well as books that are tailored to specific interests,...
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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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