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Strolling Through Rome: The Definitive Walking Guide to the Eternal City

Mario Erasmo · I. B. Tauris
Format: Print book

How can one visit the monuments and sites of Rome and not feel overwhelmed? Strolling Through Rome guides visitors, first-time or returning, through the streets, museums, piazze, and parks of the Eternal City. A guidebook that acts as a companion rather than an obtrusive guide, Erasmo's...
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Frommer's EasyGuide to Montreal and Quebec City 2015

Leslie Brokaw · FrommerMedia
Pages: 219
Format: Print book

Between them, our three authors have either written or contributed to a dozen Frommer's travel guides to Quebec over the years. They have returned to these two colorful, pleasure capitals of Quebec for this 2015 edition, which reflects their most recent discoveries in attractions,...
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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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The Nashville Guide: Experience Local

Abby Demmer · Spring House Press
Pages: 247
Format: Paperback

If you ask any enthusiastic traveler how they want to experience their destination, most will answer "as a local." The Nashville Guide is the inaugural offering in a new series of travel guides built by a community and fueled by Instagram. Featuring local Nashville shops, restaurants,...
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Moon Jamaica

Oliver Hill · Avalon Travel
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

Former Jamaica resident Oliver Hill knows how to guide you to the best of everything Jamaica has to offer, from the rich roots and culture of the island to its most romantic escapes. Oliver also offers a range of exciting activities for every traveler, including unique trip ideas like Best...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Denmark

DK Publishing · DK Eyewitness Travel; Rep Rev edition
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides the most maps, photography, and illustrations of any guide. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Denmark is your in-depth guide to the very best of the country of Denmark. Make your trip to Denmark an unforgettable cultural experience with our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide....
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Berlitz Portuguese Phrase Book & CD

Berlitz Publishing · Berlitz Publishing; Sixth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

This brand new edition of the Portuguese Phrase Book and CD features a fresh, crisp design with vivid color photography, eye-catching color-coding, and user-generated content, making it the phrase book created by the people for the people! Sections such as Food and Drink and In an Emergency...
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The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China

Huan Hsu · Crown
Format: Hardcover

A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family's hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang,...
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The Crossing of Antarctica: Original Photographs from the Pioneering Expedition

Huw Lewis-Jones · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

One hundred years after Shackleton attempted to cross the great white continent of Antarctica, this beautifully illustrated volume celebrates the men who succeeded where he had failed . . . and rewrote the history books The year 2014 is the centenary of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance...
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Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France

Thad Carhart · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A beguiling memoir of a childhood in 1950s Fontainebleau from the much-admired New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic, home to a continual...
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Naked and Marooned: One Man. One Island.

Ed Stafford · Plume

What do you do after you walk the Amazon? Ed Stafford - adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River - likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford...
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The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic

Jason Surrell · Disney Editions
Format: Print book

The Haunted Mansion is one of the most popular and beloved attractions in Disney theme park history, and can be found in each Magic Kingdom Park around the globe.This newly updated book brings the Mansions inhabitants to an afterlife like never before. Magic Kingdoms Haunted Mansion illustrates...
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Hope Runs: An American Tourist, a Kenyan Boy, a Journey of Redemption

Claire Diaz-Ortiz · Revell,
Pages: 204
Format: Print book

Sammy Ikua Gachagua had lost his father to illness, his mother to abandonment, and his home to poverty. By age ten, he was living in a shack with seven other children and very little food. He entered an orphanage seeing it as a miracle with three meals a day, a bed to sleep in, and clothes...
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How to Be the World's Smartest Traveler

Christopher Elliott · National Geographic,
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

Leading travel expert and USA Today columnist Christopher Elliott shares the smartest ways to travel in this tip-filled guide from National Geographic. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience as a consumer travel advocate, Elliott gives you the inside scoop on how to navigate the often...
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