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Moon Washington DC

SAMANTHA SAULT - Moon Travel
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

History, politics, and the world's best free museums: DC is a bustling powerhouse of a city. From strolling the National Mall to hobnobbing at happy hour, get to know the capital with Moon Washington DC.Navigate the Neighborhoods: Follow one of our guided neighborhood walks through...
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Adventure Roads of Oregon

Leland Howard - Caxton Press
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

There is risk involved when traveling in wild places. Are you up for it? Adventure Roads of Oregon provides roadway explorers and adventurers with the most complete compendium ever published of the roads less traveled throughout the beautiful state of Oregon. From north to south and east...
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Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places

Robert Macfarlane
Format: Paperback

A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane's travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England.In Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple) , Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel...
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Epic Bike Rides of the Americas

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Get ready to explore America's most thrilling gravel, road and trail bike routes. This definitive companion for cycling enthusiasts showcases 200 of North, Central and South America's best and most celebrated routes, from epic adventures off the beaten path to shorter urban rides. Go bikepacking...
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How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together

- Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this "funny and honest" (Pamela Druckerman) memoir, Slate editor Dan Kois sets out with his family on a journey around the world to change their lives together.What happens when one frustrated dad turns his kids' lives upside...
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The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World

Steve Hely - Dutton
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want...
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Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America

JAMES FALLOWS - Pantheon
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A unique, revelatory portrait of the civic and economic renewal already taking place across America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A surprisingly hopeful view of the country between its coasts.For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling...
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Lonely Planet Bolivia

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Bolivia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Tour the world's largest salt flat, walk in the path of the Inca or search...
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Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys across a Changing Russia

Lisa Dickey - St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: eBook

Lisa Dickey traveled across the whole of Russia three times - in 1995, 2005 and 2015 - making friends in eleven different cities, then coming back again and again to see how their lives had changed. Like the acclaimed British documentary series Seven Up!, she traces the ups and downs of ordinary...
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Wilderness, The Gateway To The Soul: Spiritual Enlightenment Through Wilderness

Scott Stillman - Wild Soul Press
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback

Through his deeply poetic and wildly provocative tale of personal transformation, Scott Stillman takes us on a spiritual journey, away from a chaotic world of details, obligations, smartphones and noisy machines, to a place that is unspoiled, untamed, free. Mostly solo, he guides us deeply...
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