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Where To Go When: Unforgettable Trips for Every Month

DK Travel · DK Eyewitness Travel
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

This is the ultimate holiday planner, showcasing the most amazing places in the world and the best time of year to see them. It combines an inspiring narrative with sumptuous photography to bring to life over 100 destinations across the globe - discover when and where to explore Costa Rica's...
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Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever

John Marshall · Ballantine Books; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Three Cups of Tea; Eat, Pray, Love; and Wild comes the inspiring story of an ordinary American family that embarks on an extraordinary journey. Wide-Open World follows the Marshall family as they volunteer their way around the globe, living in a monkey sanctuary in Costa...
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Time to Take Flight: The Savvy Woman's Guide to Safe Solo Travel

Jayne Seagrave · TouchWood Editions
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Take it from a friend who knows: "travel is not scary or difficult for the mature single woman. Confidence and planning are the keys."Rome, Chicago, London, Vienna, Berlin . . . best-selling author and entrepreneur Jayne Seagrave has traveled there, and she's done it solo....
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A Year of Living Prayerfully: How A Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Jared Brock
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Follow Jared on a 37,000-mile trip around the world as he...* Dances with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn* Discovers the 330-year-old home of Brother Lawrence* Burns his clothes at the end of the Camino de Santiago* Attends the world's largest church in Seoul* Visits Westboro Baptist Church* Tries...
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The Atlas of Happiness: The Global Secrets of How to Be Happy

Helen Russell · Running Press Adult
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover


A fun, illustrated guide that takes us around the world, discovering the secrets to happiness. Author Helen Russell (The Year of Living Danishly) uncovers the fascinating ways that different nations search for happiness in their lives, and what they can teach us about our own quest...
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Moon Amsterdam

Audrey Sykes · Avalon Travel Publishing
Pages: 293
Format: Paperback

Join Amsterdam local Audrey Sykes on an unforgettable adventure. With her unique perspective and advice you can trust, Moon Amsterdam has everything you need to know to explore like a local.Moon Amsterdam shows travelers the best way to experience all Amsterdam has to offer - from the true...
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

Michael Booth · Picador Usa
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A WITTY, INFORMATIVE, AND POPULAR TRAVELOGUE ABOUT THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES AND HOW THEY MAY NOT BE AS HAPPY OR AS PERFECT AS WE ASSUMEJournalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view...
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Fodor's Essential Chile: with Easter Island & Patagonia

Fodor's Travel Publications · Fodor's Travel
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback

Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.

Squeezed between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, Chile offers something for everyone. Whether travelers are interested...

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A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

Miranda Richmond Mouillot · Crown
Format: Hardcover

A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences In 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland,...
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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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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Mary Norris · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The beloved Comma Queen returns with a buoyant and charming book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.

In her New York Times best-selling Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation, and punctiliousness over three...

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Journeys Home: Inspiring Stories, Plus Tips and Strategies to Find Your Family History

Andrew McCarthy · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

Addressing the explosive growth in ancestral travel, this compelling narrative combines intriguing tales of discovery with tips on how to begin your own explorations. Actor and award-winning travel writer Andrew McCarthy's featured story recounts his recent quest to uncover his family's...
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Lonely Planet's Ultimate Eats

LONELY PLANET. · Lonely Planet Food
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The world's top 500 food experiences - ranked! We asked the planet's top chefs, food writers and our food-obsessed authors to name their favorite, most authentic gastronomic encounters. The result is a journey to Mozambique for piri-piri chicken, Japan for bullet train bento boxes, San Sebastian...

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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

Joshua Foer · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 481
Format: Hardcover

It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world.

Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders - the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob...
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The Rough Guide to California

ROUGH GUIDES. · ROUGH GUIDES
Pages: 712
Format: Paperback

This in-depth coverage of California's local attractions, sights, and restaurants takes you to the most rewarding spots - from the Hollywood sign to the Golden Gate Bridge to the Redwoods - and stunning color photography brings the land to life on the pages. With a beautiful new cover,...
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