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My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth
Wendy E. Simmons · Rosettabooks
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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Most people want out of North Korea. Wendy Simmons wanted in.In My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth, Wendy shares a glimpse of North Korea as it's never been seen before. Even though it's the scariest place on Earth, somehow Wendy forgot to check her sense of humor... |
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Joshua Foer · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 481
Format: Hardcover
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It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders - the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South... |
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Rhythm of the Wild: A Life Inspired by Alaska's Denali National Park
Kim Heacox · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and wolves. At its heart, Rhythm of the Wild... |
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The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China
David Eimer · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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In 1949, Mao Zedong announced the birth of the People’s Republic of China, a proclamation to the world that, after centuries of war and social conflict, China had emerged as one nation. Since then, this idea has been propagated by broadcasts of marches and mass demonstrations of unity,... |
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A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light
Eleanor Brown · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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A collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women's fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig, edited by Eleanor Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters and The Light of Paris.... |
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City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
Rupert Christiansen · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eug?ne Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine.... |
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The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Patrick Leigh Fermor · Random House Inc
Pages: 362
Format: Hardcover
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In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick ("Paddy") Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him almost a year. Decades later, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in A Time of Gifts... |
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The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
Francisco Goldman · Grove Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Coming off the most successful book of a decorated career - Say Her Name - The Interior Circuit is Francisco Goldman's timely and provocative journey into the heart of Mexico City.The Interior Circuit is Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's... |
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Archaeology Hotspot Egypt: Unearthing the Past for Armchair Archaeologists
Julian Heath · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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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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Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park
Janet Chapple · Granite Peak Publications
Pages: 399
Format: Paperback
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This fifth edition of the popular guide to Yellowstone, the world's first national park, revises descriptions of the hot springs, geysers, and wildlife viewing spots. Mile-by-mile road logs document every approach to the park and every interior road. Through charts and explanations,... |
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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
Lauren Elkin · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month (March 2017) The New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceFinancial Times, New Statesman and The Guardian Best Books of 2016The flneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon.... |
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Ride Along the Great Wall
Robin Hanbury-Tenison · Harpercollins
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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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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