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Scotland's Best Castles and Stately Homes

Martin Coventry - Goblinshead
Format: Paperback

The best castles, historic houses, royal palaces, and stately homes to visit in Scotland. Contains detailed entries with locations, description, ownership, plan, and drawings. 64 pages of color photographs.
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Travels with Henry James

Henry James - Nation Books
Format: Print book

"To travel with James in these pages is to take an unhurried vacation with a thoroughly seasoned, supremely cultivated, acutely intelligent companion. Our guide is a curious, engaged observer not only of landscapes and streets and cathedrals but also of paintings and plays and the characteristics...
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Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship

Anjan Sundaram - Doubleday
Format: Print book

The author of the acclaimed Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo now moves on to Rwanda for a gripping look at a country caught still in political and social unrest, years after the genocide that shocked the world. Bad News is the story of Anjan Sundaram's time running...
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Alex's Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance

Martin Goldsmith - Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

A tale of two journeys...On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner SS St. Louis sailed away from Hamburg, Germany, bound for Havana, Cuba. On board were more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany. But an indifferent world conspired against them. After being denied landing...
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Michigan Off the Beaten Path: A Guide To Unique Places

Jim Dufresne - Globe Pequot Press
Format: Paperback

Michigan Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience--if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Michigan Off the Beaten Path takes...
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Alone in Antarctica: The First Woman To Ski Solo Across The Southern Ice

Felicity Aston - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

In the whirling noise of our advancing technological age, we are seemingly never alone, never out-of-touch with the barrage of electronic data and information.Felicity Aston, physicist and meteorologist, took two months off from all human contact as she became the first woman -- and only...
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Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

Frances Mayes - Crown; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes...
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The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

Terry Tempest Williams - Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar
Format: eBook

America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir WhenWomen...
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American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light

Iain Sinclair - Faber & Faber
Format: Hardcover

The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet"How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class...
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Locally Brewed: Portraits of Craft Breweries from America's Heartland

Anna Blessing - Agate Midway
Format: Paperback

Locally Brewed celebrates the Midwest's craft brewing movement with profiles of 20 of the area's brewmasters and their breweries. These are entertaining and inspiring stories of the individuals who have been essential in the exponential growth of this movement, as told through vivid...
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Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans

David Barrie - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer,...
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In Other Words

Jhumpa Lahiri - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

National Best SellerFrom the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut - an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart...
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The French House: An American Family, a Ruined Maison, and the Village That Restored Them All

Don Wallace - Sourcebooks; 1st edition
Format: Book

On a tiny French island, a couple of American dreamers redefine their lives by restoring a ruinxwhich in this lovely, shimmering story becomes a parable of a saner, greener, more sustainable path that we all can follow if we will but listen to the wisdom of the villagers the way the Wallaces...
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A Long Way Home: A Memoir

Saroo Brierley - G.P. Putnam's Sons; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and homebut an identity long-since left behind.At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last...
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More Curious

Sean Wilsey - McSweeney's; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In More Curious, Sean Wilsey travels across the U.S., from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, to the isolated artists' enclave of Marfa, Texas, to the boardrooms and ballrooms of post–9/11 New York City. Wherever he is, Wilsey captures his surroundings with the precision of a photographer...
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Oddball Michigan: A Guide to 450 Really Strange Places

Jerome Pohlen - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

There's more to Michigan than beautiful forests, shuttered factories, and miles and miles of stunning shoreline. Armed with this offbeat travel guide, you'll soon discover the strange underbelly of the Great Lakes State. Michigan has monuments to fluoridation, snurfing, the designer...
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Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo

Anjan Sundaram - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries.
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Lonely Planet Brazilian Portuguese Phrasebook & Dictionary

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet; 5 edition
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher With Lonely Planet's Brazilian Portuguese Phrasebook, let no barriers - language or culture - get in your way. Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages....
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The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore

Robert Finch - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A poignant, candid chronicle of a beloved nature writer's fifty-year relationship with an iconic American landscape.Those who have encountered Cape Cod -- or merely dipped into an account of its rich history -- know that it is a singular place. Robert Finch writes of its beaches: "No...
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Backroads & Byways of Michigan: Drives, Day Trips & Weekend Excursions

Matt Forster - Countryman Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Print book

Whether it's the Chicago and Territorial Roads, home of a historic and scenic railroad, or the Lower Peninsula's Chain of Lakes area, Backroads & Byways of Michigan is the shortest route a visitor can take to explore like a local. Whether it's the Chicago and Territorial...
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My First Summer in the Sierra

John Muir - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Book

Muir kept this Journal on his first extended trip to Yosemite in 1869. Here he faithfully recorded his impressions of the dazzling animal and plant life he encountered in the magnificant Sierra.
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Little Traverse Bay, Past and Present

Michael R. Federspiel - Painted Turtle
Format: Hardcover

The railroad's arrival in the 1870s transformed the formerly sleepy Little Traverse Bay region into a tourist mecca. Victorian resort communities and the growing towns of Harbor Springs and Petoskey provided lodging, dining, entertainment, and supplies to an influx of settlers, speculators,...
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The Best Place to be Today: 365 Things to do & the Perfect Day to do Them

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet; 1 edition

Find the best thing to do every day of the year, from one-day events like India's Holi festival or the cheese-rolling race at Cooper's Hill in England, to seasonal events like Alaska's caribou migration and weather-dependent adventures like completing the Tour de Mont Blanc....
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The Grand Circle Tour: A travel and reference guide to the American Southwest and the ancient peoples of the Colorado Plateau

Michael Royea - Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Book

The Grand Circle Tour is a circuit around a ring of National Parks and Native American sites in the Four Corners Region of the Southwest. It encompasses some of the most significant ancient history in North America remanants of the Anasazi civilization. From the well-known sites like Zion...
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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 Family Camping Guide to Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois & Indiana

Frazier M. Douglass - Trails Books
Format: Print book

The Family Camping Guide is written for family or tent campers who typically prefer public campgrounds with large, level, grassy, and shady campsites. Inside youll findCritical information for all 721 state, federal county, and municipal camping destinations in the four Lake Michigan states.Details...
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Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France

Thad Carhart - Viking
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,...
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Amore: An American Father's Roman Holiday

Roger Friedland - Harper Perennial; Original edition
Format: Book

Part memoir, part cultural exploration, Amore follows an American father as he and his teenage daughters journey into the heart of Rome, into the way Romans love and what they have to teach about its erosion in America.As his twin daughters approached adolescence, sociologist Roger Friedland...
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

Michael Booth - Picador Usa
Format: Hardcover

A WITTY, INFORMATIVE, AND POPULAR TRAVELOGUE ABOUT THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES AND HOW THEY MAY NOT BE AS HAPPY OR AS PERFECT AS WE ASSUMEJournalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view...
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George Washington's Journey: The President Forges a New Nation

T H Breen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

This is George Washington in the surprising role of political strategist.T.H. Breen introduces us to a George Washington we rarely meet. During his first term as president, he decided that the only way to fulfill the Revolution was to take the new federal government directly to the people....
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Dishing Up New Mexico: 145 Recipes from the Land of Enchantment

Dave DeWitt - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

Chow down on Calabicitas with Red Serranos and slake your thirst with a Prickly Pear Margarita. Dave Dewitt brings together 145 recipes that exemplify the diversity, ingenuity, and unique flavors of New Mexican cuisine. In addition to revealing the secrets behind regional delights ranging...
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Far and Near: On Days Like These

Neil Peart - ECW Press
Format: Hardcover

Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volume in this series, Far and Away, combined words and images to form an intimate, insightful narrative that won many...
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Explorer's Guide Michigan

Jeff Counts - Countryman Press; 3 edition
Format: Book

From the best of Detroit to the best remote angling spots and everyplace in between, this guide delves into the rich variety of Michigan. Explorer’s Guide Michigan is the most comprehensive guide to the Great Lakes State. It’s the perfect companion for exploring the Upper...
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We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter Memoir

Jennifer Coburn - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

How her daughter and her passport taught Jennifer to live like there's no tomorrow Jennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it's too late....
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Seven Letters from Paris: A Memoir

Samantha Vérant - Sourcebooks
Format: Book

Twenty years, seven letters, and one long-lost love of a lifetime At age 40, Samantha Verants life is falling apart-shes jobless, in debt, and feeling stuck... until she stumbles upon seven old love letters from Jean-Luc, the sexy Frenchman shed met in Paris when she was 19. With a quick...
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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia

David Greene - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Travels with NPR host David Greene along the Trans-Siberian Railroad capture an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.Far away from the trendy cafs, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.Midnight in Siberia chronicles...
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100 Places You Will Never Visit: The Worlds Most Secret Locations

Daniel Smith - Quercus
Format: Paperback

Ever wondered what it takes to get into Fort Knox? Fancied a peek inside the Coca-Cola Safety Deposit Box? Would you dare to visit Three Mile Island? . The world is full of secret places that we either dont know about, or couldnt visit even if we wanted to. Now you can glimpse the Tora...
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I Never Knew That About New York

Christopher Winn - Plume
Format: Paperback

A treasure trove of fascinating trivia about the city that never sleepsDid you know: Grand Central Terminal is the largest railway station in the world.Columbus Circle is the point from which all official distances to and from New York are measuredWhen Queen Elizabeth II visited Trinity...
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How to Barter for Paradise: My Journey through 14 Countries, Trading Up from an Apple to a House in Hawaii

Michael Wigge - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

Most people like to travel in comfort: they stay in fancy hotels, never leave tourist spots, and stay away from the locals. Michael Wigge isn't like most people, though. After travelling the world without money for 150 days while writing How to Travel the World for Free, his next...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Munich & the Bavarian Alps

Dk Publishing. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Munich & the Bavarian Alps is your go-to guide to this beautiful region.Discover the best that Munich and the Bavarian Alps have to offer, from local festivals and markets to all the must-see sights. Experience Oktoberfest, ski down the Alps, and tour...
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Kyoto Gardens: Masterworks of the Japanese Gardener's Art

Judith Clancy - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Print book

"Bring the art and beauty of Japan to your garden with inspiration from Kyoto Gardens, written by Judith Clancy and photographed by Ben Simmons." - HGTV GardensFeaturing beautiful Japanese garden photography and insightful writing, Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master...
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

Joshua Foer - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Book

Since 2009 the folks behind AtlasObscura.com have scoured the planet for a look at the oddest and rarest of natural wonders, churches and cathedrals of every stripe, insanely dangerous bridges and passages, and architectural anomalies. They also cover museums devoted to hair, disease and torture,...
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Lonely Planet USA's Best Trips

Christopher Pitts - Lonely Planet; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of USA's open roads with Lonely Planet's USA's Best Trips, your passport to unique experiences waiting along American highways. Featuring...
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Mountain to Mountain: A Journey of Adventure and Activism for the Women of Afghanistan

Shannon Galpin - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Being inspired to act can take many forms. For some it's taking a weekend to volunteer, but for Shannon Galpin, it meant leaving her career, selling her house, launching a nonprofit and committing her life to advancing education and opportunity for women and girls. Focusing on the war-torn...
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Super Sushi Ramen Express: One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan

Michael Booth - Picador Usa
Format: Print book

Japan is arguably the preeminent food nation on earth, a Mecca for the world's greatest chefs, with more Michelin stars than any other country. The Japanese go to extraordinary lengths and expense to eat food that is marked both by its exquisite preparation and exotic content. Their creativity,...
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Where Are They Buried?: How Did They Die?

Tod Benoit - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Revised edition
Format: Print book

The perennially best-selling guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of our most enduring cultural icons, now revised and completely updated to include 25 entries of the newly dead. Where Are They Buried? has directed legions of fervent fans and multitudes of the morbidly curious...
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The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World

Steve Hely - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

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, Helys writing will make readers want to reach for their...
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey

Dawn Anahid MacKeen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation...
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Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland

Dave Barry - G.P. Putnams Sons
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry...
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The World's Best Spicy Food: Where to Find it & How to Make it

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*The follow up to the successful The World's Best Street Food, this title presents 100 spicy dishes with historical and cultural information, as well as instructions on how to make it at home. Smart and evocative photography...
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The Golden Moments of Paris:A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s

John Baxter - Museyon Inc
Format: Book

In The Golden Moments of Paris, John Baxter uncovers fascinating true stories about the characters that gave Paris its “character” in the years between World War I and World War II. Explore one of the world’s most beautiful and loved cities in 26 fact-filled, humorous,...
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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul

Charles King
Format: Book

"Intrigue, violence, sex, and espionage, all set against the slow dimming of Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book." -- Simon Winchester At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed...
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Discovering Michigan County-by-County: Upper Peninsula Edition

Barbara J. VanderMolen - Thunder Bay Press
Format: Print book

Welcome to Michigan! Barb VanderMolen will be your personal tour guide as you travel through the Great Lakes State. Barb has compiled an extensive amount of information to share with you in a user-friendly format. Her book is a knowledgeable companion, consisting of 128 pages and more than...
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On the High Line: Exploring America's Most Original Urban Park

Annik LaFarge - Thames & Hudson; Revised Edition edition
Format: Paperback

A fully revised, updated edition of the award-winning guide to the High Line, the park that transformed an entire neighborhood and became an inspiration to cities around the globe When the High Line opened in 2009 it was expected to attract around 300,000 visitors a year. In 2013, more...
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Mexico - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Russell Maddicks - Kuperard
Format: Paperback

Culture Smart! Mexico takes you to the heart of Mexican society. It describes how people socialize and meet members of the opposite sex, the dynamics of daily life, the central importance of family, and the annual cycle of Catholic feasts and fiestas. For business travelers there...
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One Dry Season: In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley

Caroline Alexander - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The author describes her experiences traveling in Gabon, and discusses the journeys of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century British explorer
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Wild by Nature: From Siberia to Australia, Three Years Alone in the Wilderness on Foot

Sarah Marquis - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

One woman 10,000 miles on foot 6 countries 8 pairs of hiking boots 3,000 cups of tea 1,000 days and nights "The only way to survive three years of walking was to embrace the moment of now." -- from Wild by Nature Not since Cheryl Strayed gifted us with her adventure on the Pacific...
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Walking The Himalayas

Levison Wood - Little
Format: Print book

Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet-navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range. Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called "the toughest man on TV"...
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The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China

David Eimer - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

In 1949, Mao Zedong announced the birth of the People’s Republic of China, a proclamation to the world that, after centuries of war and social conflict, China had emerged as one nation. Since then, this idea has been propagated by broadcasts of marches and mass demonstrations of unity,...
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Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

Geoff Dyer - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

From a writer "whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era" (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers. As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance...
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In a Rocket Made of Ice: Among the Children of Wat Opot

Gail Gutradt - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully told, inspiring true story of one woman's volunteer experiences at an orphanage in rural Cambodia - a book that embodies the belief that love, compassion, and generosity of spirit can overcome even the most fearsome of obstacles. Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life...
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Mexico City Museums Guide

CLAUDIA ITZKOWICH - EDICIONES EL VISO
Format: Print book

* The first-ever definitive guide to museums in Mexico City This is the first-ever comprehensive guide to Mexico City museums. An attractive book, it contains splendid photographs that show the museums at their best, as well as practical information, which makes it an indispensable companion...
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No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering

Clara Bensen - Running Press Adult
Format: Hardcover

"An engaging memoir of travel, love, and finding oneself." -- Kirkus Reviews . Newly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor...
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100 Things to Do in Detroit Before You Die

Amy S Eckert - Reedy Press
Format: Print book

Detroit enjoys a rich history, having forged the American landscape with sexy muscle cars and the toe-tapping rhythms of Motown. But there's more to love about Detroit than merely its history. And there's never been a better time to explore than today, as the Motor City buzzes with...
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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

John Waters - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback

Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with Americas most beloved weirdo.John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "Im Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across...
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In Search of the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker's Odyssey

Samuel Fromartz - Viking
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST FOOD BOOKS OF 2014 BY THE ATLANTIC AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICIf you love great bread, you will love this book! From Paris, to Berlin, to Marienthal, Kansas, we follow Sam on his quest as he shares his love for bread and the baking secrets he learned along the way.Daniel...
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International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Recipes*

Mark Kurlansky - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe and wherever his daughters finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday nights dinner. Their tradition of International Night has afforded Mark an opportunity to share with his daughter, Talia--and now the readers of International...
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Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World

Lynne Martin - Sourcebooks
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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F Is for France: A Curious Cabinet of French Wonders

Piu Marie Eatwell - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book

Exploring a culture filled with arcane laws, historical incidents, and bizarre paradoxes, Piu Eatwell's follow up to her award-winning and critically acclaimed myth-buster They Eat Horses, Don't They is a delightful exploration of France's quirky, literary, and culinary heritage....
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1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die: A Food Lover's Life List

Mimi Sheraton - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate gift for the food lover. In the same way that 1,000 Places to See Before You Die reinvented the travel book, 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die is a joyous, informative, dazzling, mouthwatering life list of the worlds best food. The long-awaited new book in the phenomenal 1,000...
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Uganda Be Kidding Me

Chelsea Handler - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Wherever Chelsea Handler travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stories ever. On safari in Africa, it's anyone's...
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