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Fodor's London

Fodor's Travel Guides · Fodor's Travel Publications
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Crowds continue to flock to England's capital as much to discover the hippest galleries, shops, and exciting nightlife scene as to enjoy world-renowned museums, the royal palace, and some of the chicest restaurants and hotels in the world. The new Fodor's London captures all of this,...
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Appalachian Trail Guide to Central Virginia

Irma Graf · Appalachian Trail Conservancy; 3 edition

The official guide--a book and set of maps--to 225 miles of the Appalachian Trail from Waynesboro (I-64) to the New River at Pearisburg, Va., including parts of the George Washington-Jefferson National Forests and the Blue Ridge Parkway (the most-visited national park), with a separate...
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The Bread Exchange: Tales and Recipes from a Journey of Baking and Bartering

Malin Elmlid · Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

An ode to a life warmly lived, The Bread Exchange tells the story of one woman's hunger for greater meaning in her life and how it has been enriched by the sharing of her handmade bread. From her cozy kitchen in Berlin to a flat in London, from a deck in New York City to huddling around...
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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

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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AIA Guide to Chicago

American Institute of Architects Chicago · University of Illinois Press; 3rd Edition edition
Format: Print book

An unparalleled architectural powerhouse, Chicago offers visitors and natives alike a panorama of styles and forms. The third edition of the AIA Guide to Chicago brings readers up to date on ten years of dynamic changes with new entries on smaller projects as well as showcases like the Aqua...
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Havana Modern: Twentieth-Century Architecture and Interiors

Michael Connors · Rizzoli
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover

A revealing collection of astonishingly fresh and undiscovered midcentury architecture and interiors in Havana. Caribbean design expert and historian Michael Connors leads the reader on an unprecedented tour in Havana of the stunning and architecturally important private homes and buildings...
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The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World

Lonely Planet. · Lonely Planet Pubns
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Take a journey through every country in the world. 850 images. 230 countries. One complete picture. With details of every United Nations-approved country in the world, and a few more principalities and dependencies besides, Lonely...
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The Cruel Country

Judith Ortiz Cofer · University of Georgia Press
Format: Hardcover

“I am learning the alchemy of grief—how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted—but I have not yet mastered this art,” writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country. This richly textured, deeply moving, lyrical memoir centers on Cofer’s return...
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A Geek in Korea

Daniel Tudor · Tuttle Publishing; Paperback with Flaps edition
Format: Book

"Daniel Tudor has a fine understanding of contemporary South Korea and a flair for storytelling. His narrative of the nation's landscape is an earnest, investigative tale that seeks to undercover the truth about this often misunderstood country."—Krys Lee, author of Drifting...
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Lost Kidnapped Eaten Alive!: True Stories from a Curious Traveler

Laurie McAndish King · Destination Insights
Format: Print book

Laurie McAndish King’s adventures may have seemed like a good idea at the time: Tracking lions on foot, without a gun, in Botswana. Taste-testing the world’s most expensive coffee—which happens to be made from the excrement of a small Balinese mammal. Marrying a Maasai...
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The World's Best Spicy Food: Where to Find it & How to Make it

Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*The follow up to the successful The World's Best Street Food, this title presents 100 spicy dishes with historical and cultural information, as well as instructions on how to make it at home. Smart and evocative photography...
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The Bradt travel guide. Iraq

· Bradt Travel Guides ; Guilford


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Tea & Antipathy: An American Family in Swinging London

Anita Miller · Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book

Tea & Antipathy is a delightfully hilarious and true account of one American family's summer in the posh London neighborhood of Knightsbridge in 1965. Capturing the helpless feeling that living in a foreign city often brings, the book recounts how the Millers met a wide variety of memorable...
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Lonely Planet Europe's Best Trips

LONELY PLANET. · LONELY PLANET PUBNS
Pages: 608
Format: Print book

Whether exploring your own back yard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet's Europe's Best Trips, your passport to unique experiences that await you along Europe's highways. Get to Europe, rent a car, and hit the road!
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