Back Travel | October Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Travel  
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

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Malaysia & Singapore

Dorling Kindersley Inc. · Dk Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Malaysia and Singapore is your in-depth guide to the very best of this region.Whether you want to discover the best places to spot colorful fish and jungle-dwelling animals like orangutans, or are looking to sample the incredible food in the ultra-modern metropolises...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Cotton Tenants: Three Families

James Agee · Melville House
Format: Paperback

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographerIn 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Bulls Before Breakfast: Running with the Bulls and Celebrating Fiesta de San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain

Peter N. Milligan · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Ever since Ernest Hemingway popularized the fiesta de San Fermín with the publication of The Sun Also Rises in 1926, the world has been enthralled with the concept of running with the bulls. For millions, running with the bulls remains on their bucket list, and for Hemingway fans it is a lifelong...
Read More check catalog
 
 
100 Places You Will Never Visit: The World's Most Secret Locations

Daniel Smith · Quercus
Format: Book

Ever wondered what it takes to get into Fort Knox? Fancied a peek inside the Coca-Cola Safety Deposit Box? Would you dare to visit Three Mile Island? The world is full of secret places that we either dont know about, or couldnt visit even if we wanted to. Now you can glimpse the Tora Bora...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever

John Marshall · Ballantine Books; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Three Cups of Tea; Eat, Pray, Love; and Wild comes the inspiring story of an ordinary American family that embarks on an extraordinary journey. Wide-Open World follows the Marshall family as they volunteer their way around the globe, living in a monkey sanctuary in Costa...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Journey Through Tudor England: Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London to Stratford-upon-Avon and Thornbury Castle

Suzannah Lipscomb · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Using place as a lens through which to view history, come take a vivid and captivating journey through England's most vibrant era For the armchair traveler or for those looking to take a trip back to the colorful time of Henry VIII and Thomas Moore,A Journey Through Tudor England takes...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Planes, Canes, and Automobiles: Connecting with Your Aging Parents through Travel

Valerie M. Grubb · Greenleaf Book Group
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Fodor's Rome

FODOR'S TRAVEL GUIDES. · Fodor's
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years. Packed with landmark sights, world-renowned museums, awe-inspiring churches, fabulous trattorias, and, of course, the Vatican, Rome is a city that's worth...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries

Kim MacQuarrie · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 427
Format: Print book

Unique portraits of legendary characters along South America's mountain spine, from Charles Darwin to the present day, told by a master traveler and observer.The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2015

Bob Sehlinger · Unofficial Guides
Format: Book

If you purchase The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World in ebook format, receive free monthly updates via your device so youll be in the know about important changes, making your vacation planning better than ever! Compiled and written by a team of experienced researchers whose work has been...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Secrets of the National Parks - The Experts Guide to the Best Experiences Beyond the Tourist Trail

National Geographic Society . Book Division. · National Geographic Society
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

Identifies hidden treasures and lesser-known points of interest in each of America's national parks.
Read More check catalog
 
 
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

Matthew Goodman · Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLEROn November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day - and heading in the opposite...
Read More check catalog
 
 
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil

Dorling Kindersley Inc. · Dk Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil is your in-depth guide to the very best of this country in South America, publishing in time for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.Whether you want to explore the streets of Rio de Janeiro or lounge on its beaches, celebrate the culture of Carnaval...
Read More check catalog