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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Europe
DK Publishing · DK Eyewitness Travel; Revised edition
Format: Print book
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Europe will lead you straight to the best this diverse continent has on offer. The fully updated guide includes unique illustrated cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the must-see sights, plus street-by-street maps of cities and towns, from the majestic... |
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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
John Waters · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
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A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdoJohn Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving... |
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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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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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No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering
Clara Bensen · Running Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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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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Embracing Cuba
Byron Motley · University Press of Florida
Pages: 210
Format: Print book
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"Words alone do not do Cuba justice. They depict only fragments of her mystery and beauty, her strength and fragility, her spirit and song. And so I turn to my cameras . . ." - from the introduction, Embracing Cuba "Motley's images of Cuba's people, arts, design, and public... |
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In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
Robert D Kaplan · Random House
Pages: 287
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe's frontier countries - and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern... |
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Yokohama Yankee: My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan
Leslie Helm · Chin Music Press Inc.; 1ST edition
Format: Paperback
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"A lovely, unsettling family story and a vivid traversal of modern Japanese history that will impress the jaded Japan scholar and inspire the curious general reader or memoir fan." — Library JournalHelm was the Tokyo correspondent for the Los Angeles Times when he realized... |
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Crossing the River: A Life in Brazil
Amy Ragsdale · Seal Press, 2015.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Overwhelmed with her fast-paced, competitive lifestyle, Amy Ragsdale moved with her husband, writer Peter Stark, and their two teenage children from the US to a small town in northeastern Brazil, where she hoped they would learn the value of a slower life. In this culturally rich and economically... |
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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
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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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Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
Marie Mutsuki Mockett · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 316
Format: Print book
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How does one cope with overwhelming grief?Marie Mutsuki Mockett's family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the burial of her Japanese grandfather's bones. As Japan... |
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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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