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City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
Rupert Christiansen · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eug?ne Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine.... |
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1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die
Patricia Schultz · Workman
Pages: 1200
Format: Print book
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Covering the U.S.A. and Canada like never before, and for the first time with full-color photographs, here are 1,000 compelling, essential, offbeat, utterly unforgettable places. Pristine beaches and national parks, world-class museums and the Just for Laughs festival, mountain resorts,... |
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Rick Steves Great Britain
Rick Steves · Avalon Travel, 2016.
Pages: 1070
Format: Print book
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You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Great Britain.With this guide, you'll explore the misty isle of Great Britain, from lively London to the lush green fields of Wales and the craggy beauty of the Scottish Highlands. Wander the sheep-dotted... |
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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
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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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Secret London - An Unusual Guide
Rachel Howard · Jonglez Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Where can you find monsters in Trafalgar Square? Whatever happened to Bedlam? Where can you praise God, buy meat- balls and have a sauna? What's in the House of Dreams? To which secret society does Prince Charles belong? What's the trick to instant weight loss?Secret London, An Unusual... |
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Backroads of Ontario
Ron Brown · Firefly Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Backroads of Ontario gives travelers the information and maps they need to explore Ontario in a new and creative way. It invites them to exit the noisy busy highways and take a trip through Ontario's countryside and its history: silent ghost towns, charming villages, century-old mills... |
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Lonely Planet New York & the Mid-Atlantic's Best Trips
LONELY PLANET. · Lonely Planet
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's New York & the Mid-Atlantic's Best Trips. Featuring 30 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures,... |
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Explorer's Guide Coastal Maine
Christina Tree · Countryman Press
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
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Explore one of America's most magnificent coastlines Measuring 7,000 miles, Maine and its islands have more shore than the rest of the East Coast combined. This essential Explorer's Guide points you to the best lobster pounds, fine restaurants, theaters, festivals, and museums scattered... |
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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Charles King
Pages: 476
Format: Book
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"Intrigue, violence, sex, and espionage, all set against the slow dimming of Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book." -- Simon Winchester At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed... |
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A Taste of the Hocking Hills
MATT RAPPOSELLI · Ohio University Press
Pages: 97
Format: Hardcover
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When chef Matt Rapposelli left the National Park Service to attend culinary school in New England, he was moving from one passion to another. What later brought those passions together was a job in the Hocking Hills, southeast Ohio's stunning, wild landscape, where the restaurants he helmed... |
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Night Trains: The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper
Andrew Martin · Profile Books
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
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In Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience... |
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The Edge of the World: A Visual Adventure to the Most Extraordinary Places on Earth
Jimmy Chin · Falcon Guides
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Photos and stories that will stop you in your tracksCreated in partnership with Outside magazine for its 40th anniversaryThe gripping stories behind some of Outside's most iconic images.More than 140 of the best adventure photos ever featured in OutsideWith a foreword by world-renowned... |
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Haunted Heartland
Michael Norman · University of Wisconsin Press
Pages: 332
Format: Paperback
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A fleeting figure dressed in a white party dress roams the streets of southwest Chicago. A long-dead Iowa college student treads the staircase in an old building. A ghostly, plaid-shirted workman plays peek-a-boo with a ticket seller in a Minnesota theater. A phantom wolf prowls Ohio's... |
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