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Fodor's The Complete Guide to Alaska Cruises
Fodor's · Fodor's; Fol Pap/Ma edition
Format: Paperback
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Fodors correspondents highlight the best of Alaska cruising, including detailed ship reviews, planning tips, and information on more than 20 of the most popular ports. Our cruise experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether its your first cruise or your... |
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Wild by Nature: From Siberia to Australia, Three Years Alone in the Wilderness on Foot
Sarah Marquis · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 259
Format: Print book
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One woman 10,000 miles on foot 6 countries 8 pairs of hiking boots 3,000 cups of tea 1,000 days and nights "The only way to survive three years of walking was to embrace the moment of now." -- from Wild by Nature Not since Cheryl Strayed gifted us with her adventure on the Pacific... |
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Dirty Chick: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer
Antonia Murphy · Gotham Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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"One month into our stay, we'd managed to dispatch most of our charges. We executed the chickens. One of the cats disappeared, clearly disgusted with our urban ways. And Lucky [the cow] was escaping almost daily. It seemed we didn't have much of a talent for farming. And we still had eleven... |
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And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit
Tom Lutz · University of Iowa Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Tom Lutz is on a mission to visit every country on earth. And the Monkey Learned Nothing contains reports from fifty of them, most describing personal encounters in rarely visited spots, anecdotes from way off the beaten path. Traveling without an itinerary and without a goal, Lutz explores... |
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Think South: How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica
Cathy de Moll · Minnesota Historical Society Press
Format: Print book
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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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Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg
James McPherson · Zenith Press
Format: Hardcover
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Enjoy this fully illustrated edition of Hallowed Ground by James M McPherson one of todays greatest Civil War historiansJames M McPherson the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world walks readers through the Gettysburg... |
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The World is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village
Anna Badkhen · Riverhead Books; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war.In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google cant find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand.... |
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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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Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
Philip Marsden · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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In 2010, Philip Marsden, whom Giles Foden has called "one of our most thoughtful travel writers," moved with his family to a rundown farmhouse in the countryside in Cornwall. From the moment he arrived, Marsden found himself fascinated by the landscape around him, and, in particular,... |
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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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The road to little dribbling : adventures of an American in Britain
Bill Bryson · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A loving and hilarious - if occasionally spiky - valentine to Bill Bryson's adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter. Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land.... |
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Follow the Money: A Month in the Life of a Ten-Dollar Bill
Steve Boggan · Aurum Press Ltd; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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What do you do if you want to really understand a country, to understand its people and feel its heartbeat? You can follow the rest of the tourists, or you can take the advice of Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's source, 'Deep Throat', and 'follow the money.'Starting... |
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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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