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Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2015: The Travel Skills Handbook

Rick Steves · Avalon Travel Publishing; 2015 Edition edition
Format: Book

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Europe, including how to:Plan your itinerary and maximize your timePack light - and rightFind good-value hotels and restaurantsTravel smoothly by train, bus, car, and planeAvoid crowds and tourist...
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Fodor's Essential Europe: The Best of 24 Exceptional Countries

Fodor's · Fodor's; 2 edition
Format: Book

Fodor's correspondents highlight the best of 23 European countries, including cities from Paris to Prague and landscapes from the Swiss Alps to the Amalfi Coast. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether it's your first trip or your...
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The Disney Story: Chronicling the Man, the Mouse and the Parks

Aaron H Goldberg · Quaker Scribe
Pages: 213
Format: Paperback

Attention, all Disney Fans! Do you enjoy reading about the Disney theme parks? Perhaps you're enamored with the man who was Walt Disney? Maybe you're just plain crazy for Mickey Mouse and the Disney big-screen features? No need to order your serving of Disney history and knowledge...
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Italy - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Barry Tomalin · Kuperard
Pages: 168
Format: Print book

Italy delights and stimulates with its magnificent cities and monuments, its stunningly beautiful landscapes, the glory of its art and architecture, the richness and variety of its food, the elegance of its design and fashion, and the vitality and charm of its people. Italian style...
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Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Lara Dunston · Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2014.
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Dubai and Abu Dhabi will lead you straight to the very best on offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights, or want to find the best nightspots; this guide is the perfect pocket-sized companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists...
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Poland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Greg Allen · Kuperard; Rev Upd edition
Format: Print book

The changes in Polish life, culture, economics, and development have been remarkable. And the pace of change shows little sign of abating. Through twenty-five years of post-Communist transformation and ten years as a member of the European Union, some Polish cities, like Warsaw, Kraków,...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Thailand

DK Publishing · DK Eyewitness Travel; Rep Rev edition
Format: Book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Thailand will lead you straight to the best attractions the country has to offer, whether you're traveling to major destinations such as Bangkok and Phuket or want to experience diving in Ko Tao, elephant riding in Chang Mai, or the monuments in Wat Si Chum....
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Straight Up Tasty: Meals, Memories, and Mouthfuls from My Travels

Adam Richman · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The much anticipated first cookbook from Adam Richman, the irrepressible host of Man vs Food and NBC's Food Fighters, delivers what his fans have been waiting for: a heaping helping of over-the-top flavors with a side order of the erudite humor that is his trademark. Having eaten...
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The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek Ruins

James Angelos · Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece's dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country todayIn recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New York City

DK Publishing · DK Eyewitness Travel; Fol Lam Pa edition
Format: Book

Experience the best of New York City with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New York City. This newly updated travel guide for New York City will lead you straight to the best attractions Manhattan has to offer, from unearthing archaeological treasures at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to biking...
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Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park, 2nd Edition

Lee H. Whittlesey · Rinehart Publishers, Roberts
Pages: 412
Format: Paperback

The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks...
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Lonely Planet Colorado

Christopher Pitts · Lonely Planet; 2 edition
Format: Book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Colorado is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Admire the near-constant blue skies of Denver, hike through Rocky Mountain...
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The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World

Tracy Slater · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The brave, wry, irresistible journey of a fiercely independent American woman who finds everything she ever wanted in the most unexpected place. Shufu: in Japanese it means "housewife," and it's the last thing Tracy Slater ever thought she'd call herself. A writer and academic,...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: California

DK Publishing · DK Eyewitness Travel; Revised edition
Format: Book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: California will lead you straight to the best attractions California has to offer and provides the insider travel tips you need, whether you're making the most of the nightlife or exploring historic towns and museums. Fully illustrated, it covers all the major...
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