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Meet Me in Venice: A Chinese Immigrant's Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West
Suzanne Ma · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover |
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When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm... |
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Wild America: A Personal Celebration of the National Parks
David Muench · Rucksack Readers USA
Pages: 100
Format: Print book |
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Published on John Muir Day (April 21st) and timed to coincide with the centennial of the us national park service.Wild America brings together David Muench, the eminent wilderness photographer, with Roly Smith, the respected outdoor writer. This book celebrates their personal selection... |
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Planes, Canes, and Automobiles: Connecting with Your Aging Parents through Travel
Valerie M. Grubb · Greenleaf Book Group
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback |
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If the thought of vacationing with your parents makes you cringe, fear no more! Help is here! Planes, Canes, and Automobiles: Connecting with Your Aging Parents through Travel is a gold mine of practical advice, funny anecdotes, and tales of triumphs and travails from Val Grubb, who has traveled... |
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Hemingway's Paris: A Writer's City in Words and Images
Robert Wheeler · Yucca Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover |
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Walk through the Streets of Paris with Ernest Hemingway.In gorgeous black and white images, Hemingway's Paris depicts a story of remarkable passion - for a city, a woman, and a time. No other city in any of his travels was as significant, professionally or emotionally, as was Paris.... |
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Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia
Mariusz Szczygiel · Melville House
Format: Hardcover |
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Winner of the Europe Book PrizeOne of Europe’s most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic—the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land that brought us Kafka—to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth... |
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50 States, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do
Joseph R Yogerst · National Geographic
Pages: 287
Format: Paperback |
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This richly illustrated book from the travel experts at National Geographic showcases the best travel experiences in every state, from the obvious to the unexpected. Sites include national parks, beaches, hotels, Civil War battlefields, dude ranches, out-of-the-way museums, and more. You'll... |
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Official Guide to the Smithsonian, 4th Edition
Smithsonian Institution. · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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The Smithsonian Institution holds more than 142 million artifacts and specimens in its trust. This colorful guide to the museums and galleries on the National Mall, in the Washington metropolitan area, and in New York City presents an enormous amount of history and pertinent museum information,... |
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Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History
Andrew Carroll · Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover |
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Here Is Where chronicles Andrew Carrolls eye-opening and at times hilarious -- journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites where extraordinary moments occurred and remarkable individuals once lived. Sparking the idea for this book was Carrolls visit to the spot where... |
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The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids 2016
Liliane J. Opsomer · Unofficial Guides; 2016 Edition edition
Format: Print book |
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The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids is JAM-PACKED with useful tips, great advice, excellent discussion, and practical travel knowledge gleaned from years of Walt Disney World travel experience. It is one of the few guidebooks to Disney World that specifically addresses the needs... |
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Fodor's In Focus Florida Keys: with Key West, Marathon & Key Largo
Fodor's · Fodor's
Format: Book |
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A slender necklace of landfalls off the southern tip of Florida, the Florida Keys are nirvana for anglers, divers, literature lovers, and Jimmy Buffet wannabes. The favorite of many travelers--and the biggest tourist draw--is Key West, the southernmost point in the continental United States,... |
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