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A Day with Claude Monet in Giverny

ADRIEN GOETZ · Flammarion
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

This beautiful slipcased volume offers an intimate tour inside Monet's home and through the idyllic Giverny garden that inspired his most iconic paintings. Monet first spotted the village of Giverny from the window of a train and then relocated to the rural haven outside Paris in 1883....
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The Northwest Coastal Explorer: Your Guide to the Places, Plants, and Animals of the Pacific Coast

Robert Steelquist · Timber Press
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback

"Part field guide, part travel guide, Steelquist writes with the authoritative voice of that friend you want next to you on the trail or in the dunes - the one who knows just where to go for a weekend getaway and what to pack for the Pacific Northwest's unpredictable weather."...
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The Last Voyageurs: Retracing La Salle's Journey Across America: Sixteen Teenagers on the Adventure of a Lifetime

LORRAINE BOISSONEAULT · Pegasus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

In 1976, America's bicentennial, 24 young men set out to re-create French explorer La Salle's voyage down the entire length of the Mississippi River, abandoning their modern identities in order to live like the voyageurs of the 1600s. Reid Lewis never wanted to be an ordinary French...
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Bangkok: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of Thailand

Leela Punyaratabandhu · Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From one of the most respected authorities on Thai cooking comes this beautiful and deeply personal ode to Bangkok, the top-ranked travel destination in the world.Every year, more than 16 million visitors flock to Thailand's capital city, and leave transfixed by the vibrant culture...
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A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank

Nir Baram · Text Publishing Company
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

"From horror to fatigue to indifference, an important look forward and back that provides a grass-roots sense... An honest and troubling snapshot of Israel - both Palestinian and Israeli - that reveals the creeping realization that a two-state solution may no longer be possible."...
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Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York

Justin Davidson · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

From New York magazine's architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City - a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution...
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Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Kathleen M Kendrick · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

This fully illustrated guide to the Smithsonian's newest museum takes visitors on a journey through the richness and diversity of African American culture and the history of a people whose struggles, aspirations, and achievements have shaped the nation. Opened in September 2016,...
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The New Midwest: A Guide to Contemporary Fiction of the Great Lakes, Great Plains, and Rust Belt

MARK ATHITAKIS · BELT PUB
Pages: 104
Format: Print book

In the public imagination, Midwestern literature has not evolved far beyond heartland laborers and hardscrabble immigrants of a century past. But as the region has changed, so, in many ways, has its fiction. In this book, the author explores how shifts in work, class, place, race, and culture...
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Geography: Ideas in Profile

Daniel Dorling · Profile Books
Pages: 175
Format: Paperback

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsGeography gives shape to our innate curiosity; cartography is older than writing. Channelling our twin urges to explore and understand, geographers uncover the hidden connections of human existence, from infant mortality in inner cities...
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An Atlas of Countries that Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States

Nick Middleton · Chronicle Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

What is a country? Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton brings to life the origins and histories of 50 states that, lacking international recognition and United Nations membership, exist on the margins of legitimacy in the global order. From long-contested lands...
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