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Tokyo Geek's Guide: Manga, Anime, Gaming, Cosplay, Toys, Idols & More

GIANNI SIMONE · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Tokyo is ground zero for Japan's popular "Geek" or otaku culture - a phenomenon that has now swept across the globe.

This is the most comprehensive guide ever produced to Tokyo's geeky underworld. It provides a comprehensive run-down on each major Tokyo district...
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Journeying

Claudio Magris · Yale University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings...
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The Monocle Travel Guide to Kyoto: The Monocle Travel Guide Series

Fiona Wilson · Gestalten
Pages: 148
Format: Hardcover

Monocle reports from around the globe. As its Edited bys and correspondents dart from city to city, they get to know the best places to rest their heads, stretch their limbs, and kick back with a contact in a hard-to-find cocktail bar. That information is now available in The Monocle Travel...
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Insight Pocket Guide Iceland

INSIGHT GUIDES. · Insight Guides
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Iceland is a country bristling with natural beauty. Its landscape is littered with volcanoes, lagoons, glaciers, waterfalls, black-sand beaches and geysers. The lively capital city of Reykjavik also has a lot to offer visitors, from the stunning Blue Lagoon to its rich cultural heritage....
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The New York Times: Footsteps: From Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, Literary Pilgrimages Around the World

New York Times · Three Rivers Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A curated collection of the New York Times' travel column, "Footsteps," exploring iconic authors' relationships to landmarks and cities around the world

Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby's sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby,...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Europe

Dk Publishing. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 760
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Europe will lead you straight to the best attractions this diverse continent has to offer, from the majestic peaks of the Alps to the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean.This newly updated guidebook is packed with information on the culture, history, architecture,...
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Explorer's Guide Buffalo & Niagara Falls

CHRISTINE A SMYCZYNSKI · Countryman Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

An all- new guide to the famous vacation destination

The Empire State is home to some of the nation's most astounding natural and cultural wonders. From beautiful Lake Erie to the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains mountains to historically rich Buffalo, this region has the makings...

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How to Live Japanese

Yutaka Yazawa · White Lion Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From Miyazaki to mountains, sake to sparking joy, find your Zen and make time to learn about how to live Japanese. Whether it's the cutting edge of film-making, revolutionizing the whisky market or competing with parents on lunchboxes, you'll be all the better for some time spent...
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Montparnasse: Paris's District of Memory and Desire

John Baxter · Harper Perennial
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling excursion of Montparnasse.

By the IACP Award-winning author of the national bestseller The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, MONTPARNASSE reveals the history...

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Historic New England: A Tour of the Region's Top 100 National Landmarks

Patricia Harris · Globe Pequot Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

National Historic Landmarks are touchstones of our collective past that still resonate with our present. The six New England states have nearly 400 such places. However, important doesn't always translate into interesting ans so we have Historic New England: A Tour of the Region's Top 100 National...
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Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary

Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's #1 phrasebook publisher* Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful French phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask about tucked-away vineyards, bargain...
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Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles 2018

NOT FOR TOURISTS. · Not For Tourists
Pages: 384
Format: Flexibound

The Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles is the essential urban handbook that thousands of Los Angelenos rely on daily. The map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guidebook divides the city into fifty-seven mapped neighborhoods and pinpoints all of the essential services and entertainment...
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Walk Through History: Discover Victorian London

Christopher Winn · Ebury Press
Pages: 301
Format: Hardcover

Walking around London is one of life's great pleasures. There is a huge amount that you can only see on foot - but sometimes it is hard to know where to look. This book takes the reader on a series of stimulating original walks through different areas of central London, focusing on one particular...
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City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris

Rupert Christiansen · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

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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Book Towns: Forty Five Paradises of the Printed Word

Alex Johnson · Frances Lincoln
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

The so-called "Book Towns" of the world are dedicated havens of literature, and the ultimate dream of book lovers everywhere. Book Towns takes readers on a richly illustrated tour of the 40 semi-officially recognized literary towns around the world and outlines the history and development...
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