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Conversations on the Hudson
Nick Hand · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 111
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One spring day in 2012, fresh from his circumnavigation of the British Isles, English designer Nick Hand set off on his bicycle from Brooklyn, New York, and pedaled north along the Hudson River toward its source in the Adirondack Mountains. His leisurely pace suited his simple agenda - to talk... |
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Uganda Be Kidding Me
Chelsea Handler · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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Wherever Chelsea Handler travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stories ever. On safari in Africa, it's anyone's... |
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The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
Philip Caputo · Henry Holt and Co.; 2nd Printing edition
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In The Longest Road, one of Americas most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large.Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled... |
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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
Simon Armitage · Liveright; 1 edition |
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Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District... |
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Ears of Steel: The Real Man's Guide to Walt Disney World
Bart Scott · Intrepid Traveler
Pages: 235
Format: Print book |
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Walt Disney World is for little kids, princesses, and dweebs, right? WRONG!There's more than enough at WDW to keep the two-fisted, thrill-seeking, hard-drinking, meat-eating he-man of the house happy as a caveman with a mammoth rib.Bart Scott comes to the aid of moms and girlfriends... |
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Think South: How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica
Cathy de Moll · Minnesota Historical Society Press |
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What does it take to move forty dogs, three sleds, twenty tons of food and gear, and six men from all over the world across nearly four thousand of the coldest miles on earth? Cathy de Moll, the executive director of the 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, introduces the wild... |
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Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
Geoff Dyer · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover |
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From a writer "whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era" (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers. As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance... |
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Walking the Nile
Levison Wood · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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The Nile, one of the world's great rivers, has long been an object of fascination and obsession. From Alexander the Great and Nero, to Victorian adventurers David Livingstone, John Hanning Speke, and Henry Morton Stanley, the river has seduced men and led them into wild adventures. English... |
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