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222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die

Loren Rhoads · Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Book

Perfect for budding cemetery armchair travelers and serious taphophiles, this hauntingly beautiful guide to the world's most interesting and unusual cemeteries has been revised and updated to include 23 additional locations. . Every year, millions of tourists flock to cemeteries...

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Best Climbs Denver and Boulder: Over 200 Of The Best Routes In The Area

Stewart M. Green · Falcon Guides
Format: Paperback

Best Climbs Denver & Boulder covers Eldorado Canyon, the Flatirons, Boulder Canyon, Golden Cliffs, Castlewood Canyon, the north section of the South Platte, and some toproping routes at Ironclads
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Best Hikes Rocky Mountain National Park: A Guide to the Park's Greatest Hiking Adventures

Kent Dannen · Falcon Guides
Format: Book

Best Hikes Rocky Mountain National Park features the best hiking throughout Rocky Mountain National Park. Detailed maps and trail descriptions make navigating these wonderful trails easy, from family-friend strolls to popular vistas to hillier wooded pathways. FalconGuides have set the standard...

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The Best of Rocky Mountain National Park

Alan Leftridge · Farcountry Press; first edition
Format: Book

Make the most of your trip to Rocky! This handy guide covers everything you need to know. Find the best hikes, best picnic spots, best places to watch wildlife, best wildflowers, best waterfalls, best activities for kids, and more. Compiled by a former park ranger, with beautiful color...

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The Crevice Garden: How to make the perfect home for plants from rocky places

KENTON SPRIGGS PAUL SETH · Filbert Press
Format: Book

A crevice garden replicates the environmental conditions of mountain tops, deserts, coastlines, and other exposed or rocky places on earth. These striking garden features provide perfect conditions for the plants native to these far-off places, bringing the cultivation of these precious...

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How to Die in Space: A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena

Paul M. Sutter · Pegasus Books
Format: Book

A brilliant and breathtakingly vivid tour of the universe, describing the physics of the dangerous, the deadly, and the scary in the cosmos.So you've fallen in love with space and now you want to see it for yourself, huh? You want to witness the birth of a star, or visit the black...

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Petrified Forest National Park

William Gibson Parker · Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback

Petrified Forest National Park in Northeast Arizona was set aside in 1906 by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt to protect the scientifically important Mesozoic forests. With a boundary encompassing 225,000 acres, the park protects not only the largest and most colorful deposits of petrified wood...

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Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects

Edward Posnett · Viking
Format: Book

An original and magical map of our world and its riches, formed of the stories of the small-scale harvests of seven natural objectsIn this beguiling book, Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world--eiderdown,...

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