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Judgmental Maps: Your City. Judged.

Trent Gillaspie · Flatiron Books
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Your City. Judged A sharp tongued and fierce witted full-color collection of maps of America's greatest cities in all their brutally honest glory. When you move to a new city you look at a map to get you where you need to be, but a Google Map of San Francisco won't tell you where...
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Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2017

Lonely Planet. · Lonely Planet Pubns
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Where is the best place to visit right now, at this very moment in travel history? This is the most hotly contested topic at Lonely Planet and dominates more conversations than any other. We pose this question to everyone at Lonely...
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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

Lauren Elkin · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Amazon Best Books of the Month (March 2017) The New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceFinancial Times, New Statesman and The Guardian Best Books of 2016The flneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon....
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The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 11: True Stories from Around the World

Lavinia Spalding · Travelers' Tales
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback

Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized national leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best...
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Moon Blue Ridge & Smoky Mountains

Jason Frye · Avalon Travel
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Travel writer Jason Frye offers his firsthand experience and advice on the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains - including North Carolina High Country, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the Cherokee Indian Reservation. Huso includes travel strategies, such as More Than a Drive: Top Hikes...
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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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Frommer's EasyGuide to Alaska Cruises and Ports of Call

SHERRI EISENBERG · FrommerMedia
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

This is Alaskan cruising advice the way a friend would give it to you: fiercely opinionated, funny, and brimming not only with advice about which ships to pick and which itineraries will be most satisfying, but also what's not worth your time. We're proud that our Easy Guide to Alaska Cruises...
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Kids Love Ohio, 7th Edition: Your Family Travel Guide to Exploring Kid-Friendly Ohio. 500 Fun Stops & Unique Spots

Michele Darrall Zavatsky · Kids Love Publications, LLC
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

KIDS LOVE OHIO: Your Family Travel Guide to Exploring Kid-Friendly Ohio. 500 Fun Stops & Unique Spots Explore places where you can discover hidden caves and castles, whistle factories or workshops of inventors, log forts and lighthouses. Well-known attractions plus hundreds of places...
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Michigan Off the Beaten Path®: A Guide To Unique Places

Jim Dufresne · Globe Pequot Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Michigan Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience--if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Michigan Off the Beaten Path takes the reader...
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Along Interstate-75, 19th edition: The "must have" guide for your drive to and from Florida

Dave Hunter · Mile Oak Pub
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Along Interstate-75, from Detroit to the Florida Border. Interstate-75 is the main route for the millions of Midwestern "snowbirds" who drive to and from Florida each winter . . . and the current edition of Along I-75 is the "must have" guide for the trip. Whether...
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Wild, Beautiful Places: Picture-Perfect Journeys Around the Globe

National Geographic. · National Geographic Soc
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Experience the world's most wild, remote, beautiful places with shots by National Geographic photographers and vintage photos pulled from the National Geographic archives. Highlighting 50 of Earth's most pristine, scenic locales, this beautiful book is illustrated with stunning images,...
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Adventure Carolinas: Your Go-To Guide for Multi-Sport Outdoor Recreation

Joe Miller · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 160
Format: Book

Have you ever wanted to take up a new outdoor sport but thought, "Not me" or "Where do I begin"? In this unique take-it-with-you guide, outdoors and fitness writer Joe Miller introduces you to sixteen adventure sports in the Carolinas, from water to land and through...
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