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Why Travel Matters: A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel

Craig Storti · Nicholas Brealey
Pages: 202
Format: Hardcover

Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit and a distinctive style, Craig Storti infuses his own experiences traveling the world for 30+ years with quotations, insights, reflections...
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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Paul Theroux · Mariner Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

"Theroux's eye for landscape remains as sharp as ever . . . It's Theroux's remarkable gift for getting strangers to reveal themselves that makes going along for this ride worthwhile." - New York Times Book Review Paul Theroux has spent the past fifty years roaming...
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Fodor's Essential Greece: with the Best Islands

Fodor's Travel Publications · Fodor's Travel
Pages: 800
Format: Paperback

Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.

Greece is the ultimate Mediterranean getaway. Impossibly blue seas, gorgeous beaches, whitewashed alleyways draped in pink...

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Around the world in 50 years : my adventure to every country on earth

Albert Podell · Thomas Dunne Books, 2015.
Pages: 354
Format: Print book

"This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible - first by setting a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world -- in the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown...
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Fodor's Arizona & The Grand Canyon

Fodor's Travel Publications · Fodor's Travel
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.

From the vastness of the Grand Canyon to Sedona's red rocks and the living Sonoran Desert, Arizona's landscapes are awe-inspiring....

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Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World

Lynne Martin · Sourcebooks
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Nearly every page has some crack piece of travel wisdom ... an accessible, inspiring journey." -KirkusThe Sell-Your-House, See-the-World Life!Reunited after thirty-five years and wrestling a serious case of wanderlust, Lynne and Tim Martin decided to sell their house and possessions...
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Instant Expert: A Visual Guide to the Skills You've Always Wanted

Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The follow-up to Lonely Planet's hit The Book of Everything, Instant Expert contains all that a world traveller needs to know. It's witty and full of brilliant illustrations of all types by noted infographics illustrator Nigel Holmes. Want to know how to dive for pearls, cure toothache,...
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Equator: A Journey

Thurston Clarke · William Morrow & Co
Pages: 463
Format: Hardcover

Thurston Clarke needed twelve visas to travel along the equator and this book is the culmination of the journey. The countries he travelled through include Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Nairobi, Quito, Somalia, tha Maldives and Galapagos and Kenya. It is a mixture of humourous anecdotes and political...
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Lonely Planet Korea

Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet
Pages: 424
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Korea is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Walk along Cheong-gye-cheon's long-buried stream, hike around Jeju-do's...

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Marking the Sparrow's Fall: Wallace Stegner's American West (A John Macrae Book)

Page Stegner · Henry Holt & Co; 1st edition
Pages: 359
Format: Hardcover

Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, and recipient of both the P.E.N. Center USA West and the California Arts Council award for his body of work, Wallace Stegner is a literary...
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Fodor's London 2018

Fodor's Travel Publications · Fodor's Travel
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years.







Crowds continue to flock to England's capital as much as ever to discover the hippest galleries, shops, and nightlife spots as well as to enjoy...
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The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook: Kauai Revealed

ANDREW DOUGHTY · WIZARD PUBNS
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

The finest guidebook ever written for Kauai. Now you can plan your best vacation ever. This all new tenth edition is a candid, humorous guide to everything there is to see and do on the island. Best-selling author and longtime Hawai i resident, Andrew Doughty, unlocks the secrets of an island...
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Haunted houses and wandering ghosts of California

Antoinette May · Examiner Special Projects
Pages: 89
Format: Paperback

Book by May, Antoinette
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Fodor's Vancouver & Victoria: with Whistler, Vancouver Island & the Okanagan Valley

FODOR'S. · FODOR'S
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years.Vancouver has a bit of everything, and it's all top-notch: fantastic food, excellent local wine, stylish shopping opportunities, boutique hotels, friendly...
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Fodor's Essential France

Fodor'S Travel Guides. · Fodor'S
Pages: 880
Format: Print book

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years. Unforgettable artwork, heavenly villages, and dream cities--there are so many reasons to visit France that deciding where to go and what to do can be a bit overwhelming....
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