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Rhythm of the Wild: A Life Inspired by Alaska's Denali National Park
Kim Heacox · Lyons Press Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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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The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan
Bill Porter · Counterpoint Press Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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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
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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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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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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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An Angle on the World: Dispatches and Diversions from the New Yorker and Beyond
Bill Barich · Skyhorse Publishing Pages: 438 Format: Print book
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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