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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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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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Rick Steves Best of France

RICK STEVES · Rick Steves
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

Hit France's can't-miss art, sights, and bites in two weeks or less with Rick Steves Best of France!Expert advice from Rick Steves on what's worth your time and moneyTwo-day itineraries covering Paris, Normandy, the Loire, Dordogne, Provence, the French Riviera, and BurgundyOver...
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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

Nellie Bly · Penguin Books,
Pages: 331
Format: Print book

The first edited volume of work by the legendary undercover journalistBorn Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was one of the first and best female journalists in America and quickly became a national phenomenon in the late 1800s, with a board game based on her adventures and merchandise...
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Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm

Monte Reel · Doubleday; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious still mythical beastmdashthe gorillamdashonly to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day Darwins theory of evolution In Paul...
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The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan

Bill Porter · Counterpoint Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

To travel upon the Silk Road is to travel through history. Millennia older than California's Camino Real, and perhaps even a few years senior to the roads of the Roman Empire, the Silk Road is a network of routes stretching from delta towns of China all the way to the Mediterranean...
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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

"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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National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways & Byways - The 300 BEST Drives in the United States

National Geographic · National Geographic
Pages: 495
Format: Paperback

Describes the scenery, history, and points of interest along three hundred scenic routes across the United States.
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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

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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Follow the Money: A Month in the Life of a Ten-Dollar Bill

Steve Boggan · Aurum Press Ltd; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

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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An Angle on the World: Dispatches and Diversions from the New Yorker and Beyond

Bill Barich · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 438
Format: Print book

An Angle on the World is a brilliant tribute to Bill Barich's extraordinary range as a writer. Gathering together more than thirty years of work, this book addresses such diverse subjects as a murder trial in the Caribbean, a visit to a juju doctor in Nigeria, and the author's youthful...
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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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Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti

Amy Wilentz · Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The Rainy Season, Amy Wilentzs award-winning 1989 portrait of Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as a remarkable account of a journalists transformation by her subject. In her relationship with the country since then, Wilentz has witnessed...
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A Kitchen in France: A Year of Cooking in My Farmhouse

Mimi Thorisson · Clarkson Potter; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

With beguiling recipes and sumptuous photography, A Kitchen in France transports readers to the French countryside and marks the debut of a captivating new voice in cooking. When Mimi Thorisson and her family moved from Paris to a small town in out-of-the-way Médoc, she did not quite...
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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

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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