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The Consequential Frontier: Challenging the Privatization of Space

Peter Ward · Melville House
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"A lucid, bright and essential work of reporting, analysis and genuine care. Peter Ward has given us a new way to think about private endeavors in space. Superb."? - Rivka Galchen, author of Little LaborsThis in-depth work of reportage dares to ask what's at stake in privatizing...
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Traveling with Service Animals: By Air, Road, Rail, and Ship across North America

Henry Kisor · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

The boom in trained service animal use and access has transformed the lives of travelers with disabilities. As a result, tens of thousands of people in the United States and Canada enjoy travel options that were difficult or impossible just a few years ago. Henry Kisor and Christine Goodier...
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Fodor's Essential Ireland 2020

Fodor's Travel Guides · Fodor's Travel
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback

Ready to experience Ireland? The experts at Fodor's are here to help. Fodor's Ireland 2020 travel guide is packed with customizable itineraries with top recommendations, detailed maps of Ireland, and exclusive tips from locals. Whether you want to explore Ireland's iconic coastal...
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Surfacing

Kathleen Jamie · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

An immersive exploration of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines.In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces...
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On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey

Theroux, Paul · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines.Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe...
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Near the Exit: Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper

Lori Erickson · Westminster John Knox Press
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback

"An ideal guidebook to facing the inevitable." - Foreword Reviews After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head on, with the eye of a tourist...
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Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?: A Novel

Brock Clarke · Algonquin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A story in which anything and everything can happen, and mostly does. This is a book of many trips--across oceans, back to the past, and, most profoundly, into the infinite deep space of the human heart. Brock Clarke has given us a wonderful novel that bursts with all the meaty stuff...
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A Tall History of Sugar

Forbes, Curdella · Akashic Books
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

"In her immersive modern fairy tale, Forbes unspools an unlikely love story as well as a haunting, hypnotic piece of postcolonial Jamaican history...Arrienne's recount moves in hopscotch fashion, but it's driven forward by her enchanting voice, to which Forbes brings an electric...
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Birnbaum's 2020 Walt Disney World: The Official Guide

Birnbaum Guides · Disney Editions
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

As Walt Disney World continues to grow and evolve, trust Birnbaum as your guide! The 2020 edition delves into detailed descriptions of all attractions, resorts, and eateries; offers money-saving coupons and strategies to maximize your vacation budget; and includes a peek into what's new:Toy...
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Fodor's Las Vegas

Fodor's Travel Guides · Fodor's Travel
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Ready to experience Las Vegas? The experts at Fodor's are here to help. Fodor's Las Vegas travel guide is packed with customizable itineraries with top recommendations, detailed maps of Las Vegas, and exclusive tips from locals. Whether you want to gamble in a glitzy casino on the Strip,...
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