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Eating Rome: Living the Good Life in the Eternal City

Elizabeth Minchilli · St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Book

Elizabeth Minchilli has been eating her way through Rome since she was 12 years old. Eating Rome, based on her popular blog Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome, is her homage to the city that feeds her, literally and figuratively. Her story is a personal, quirky and deliciously entertaining look...
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From Moon Cakes to Mao to Modern China: An Introduction to Chinese Civilization

Fayuan Zhu · CN Times Books,
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

To understand China, we need to step into the palace of her culture and explore her rich history. With this in mind, a group of scholars from China and America have put this book together as a primer on all things China, from art and science to religion and society. In this book they offer...
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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...
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Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn

Nick Hunt · Nicholas Brealey Publishing

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK AWARDIn 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar. The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time...
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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

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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Eat St.: Recipes from the Tastiest, Messiest, and Most Irresistible Food Trucks

James Cunningham · Pintail
Format: Paperback

Eat St. is a lip-smacking celebration of North America’s tastiest, messiest, and most irresistible street food. Join James Cunningham on the ultimate cross-country culinary road trip to find the most daring, delicious, and inventive street food across the country. And now you can make...
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Germany: A Literary Anthology

Brian Melican · Interlink Pub Group
Format: Book

xx, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering

Clara Bensen · Running Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

One Dress, Three Weeks, Eight Countries - Zero BaggageNewly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking...
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Walking The Himalayas

Levison Wood · Little
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet-navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range. Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called "the toughest man on TV"...
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The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

Paul Theroux · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar, The Last Train to Zona Verde is an ode to the last African journey of the worlds most celebrated travel writer.Happy again, back in the kingdom of light, writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey...
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Walking the Nile

Levison Wood · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

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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Rhythm of the Wild: A Life Inspired by Alaska's Denali National Park

Kim Heacox · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and wolves. At its heart, Rhythm of the Wild...
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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

Blair Braverman · Ecco
Pages: 274
Format: Print book

"A revelatory memoir of the author's efforts to develop the strength and resilience to survive in the demanding landscapes of Norway and Alaska describes her physically exhausting survival endeavors on a ruthless arctic tundra marked by violent natural and human threats."--NoveList.
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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia

David Greene · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Travels with NPR host David Greene along the Trans-Siberian Railroad capture an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.Far away from the trendy cafés, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.Midnight in Siberia chronicles...
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We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter Memoir

Jennifer Coburn · Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

How her daughter and her passport taught Jennifer to live like there's no tomorrow Jennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it's too late....
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