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Hear Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Rich Musical Heritage & Lively Current Scene

Michael Murphy · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

By the author of Eat Dat and Fear Dat, a charmingly irreverent guide to the thriving, world-famous music scene in New Orleans "Where can I go to hear music?" is a question often asked by visitors to New Orleans. The question might better be asked, "Where can I go and not hear...
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Insight Guides: London City Guide

Insight Guides · Insight Guides
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

· Stunning, specially-commissioned photography that brings the city and its people to life. · Highlights of the city's top attractions in our Best of London, including the city's best museums and art galleries and iconic landmarks such as Big Ben and Buckingham Palace.· Descriptive...
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Rick Steves Scandinavia

Rick Steves · Avalon Travel Publishing
Pages: 824
Format: Paperback

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia.With this guide, you'll set sail to Europe's most prosperous corner - a smorgasbord of Viking ships, deep green fjords, stave churches, brooding...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Egypt

Dorling Kindersley Inc. · Dk Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Egypt is your in-depth guide to the very best of the oldest tourist destination on Earth.Take day trips and excursions to see ancient pyramids, visit the monuments of the Nile Valley and the souks, mosques and madrassas of Islamic Cairo, experience local festivals...
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Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World-from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief

Tom Zoellner · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory, entertaining account of the world's most indispensable mode of transportationTom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new book he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change...
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Lonely Planet Spain

Lonely Planet. · Lonely Planet Pubns
Pages: 864
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Spain is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wander the lanes of Barcelona's Gothic quarter; look down over Spain from the Pyrenees;...
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Alone in Antarctica: The First Woman To Ski Solo Across The Southern Ice

Felicity Aston · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

In the whirling noise of our advancing technological age, we are seemingly never alone, never out-of-touch with the barrage of electronic data and information.Felicity Aston, physicist and meteorologist, took two months off from all human contact as she became the first woman -- and only...
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Lonely Planet Greek Islands

Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet
Pages: 584
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Greek Islands is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Meander down the cobbled alleyways of Rhodes Old Town,...

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1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die: A Food Lover's Life List

Mimi Sheraton · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate gift for the food lover. In the same way that 1,000 Places to See Before You Die reinvented the travel book, 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die is a joyous, informative, dazzling, mouthwatering life list of the worlds best food. The long-awaited new book in the phenomenal 1,000...
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Lonely Planet Morocco

Paul Clammer · Lonely Planet; 11 edition
Format: Print book

#1 best-selling guide to Morocco* Lonely Planet Morocco is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Lose yourself in the Fez medina, take a camel ride in the Sahara, or enjoy a cup of mint tea in the High Atlas;...
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Travels with Henry James

Henry James · Nation Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"To travel with James in these pages is to take an unhurried vacation with a thoroughly seasoned, supremely cultivated, acutely intelligent companion. Our guide is a curious, engaged observer not only of landscapes and streets and cathedrals but also of paintings and plays and the characteristics...
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Andy Steves' Europe: City-Hopping on a Budget

Andy Steves · Avalon Travel
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

Pick a Weekend, Pick a City, and Go This book picks up where crowdsourcing leaves off, covering the flashpacker skills you need for spur-of-the-moment trips to Europe s top destinations. Master digital tools. Book cheap flights online, find rooms at AirBnB, and catch a ride with Uber. Connect...
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National Geographic Traveler: South Africa, 3rd Edition

Richard Whitaker · National Geographic Soc
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

This guide covers all the main towns, cities, and parks of one of the most beautiful countries on Earth. Travel information and tips for the hot spots of Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, and Durban are all extensively updated for this latest edition. The book also includes spotlights...
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Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook

Andrew Doughty · Wizard Publications Inc
Pages: 315
Format: Print book

The finest guidebook ever written for Maui. Now you can plan your best vacation--ever. This all new seventh edition is a candid, humorous guide to everything there is to see and do on the island. Best-selling author and longtime Hawai'i resident, Andrew Doughty, unlocks the secrets of an island...
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Fodor's San Francisco 2014: with the Wine Country

Fodor's · Fodor's; Fol Pap/Ma edition
Format: Print book

For domestic travelers, San Francisco is a city that can't be beat and this dazzling guide covers its charms, both great and small.  Can't miss attractions like the Golden Gate Bridge, the Palace of Fine Arts, a cable-car ride over Nob Hill, and Golden Gate Park are all richly...
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