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Amazing Boat Journeys

Lonely Planet
Format: Hardcover


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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Mary Norris - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The beloved Comma Queen returns with a buoyant and charming book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.In her New York Times best-selling Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation, and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's...
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A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: 9 Steps to Giving Up Everything

Alex Sheshunoff - New American Library
Format: Hardcover

So You Too Can: - Move to a South Pacific Island - Wear a Loincloth - Read a Hundred Books - Diaper a Baby Monkey - Build a Bungalow And Maybe, Just Maybe, Fall in Love! * * Individual results may vary.The true story of how a quarter-life crisis led to adventure, freedom, and love...
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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
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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Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs

Keena Roberts - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb.Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds...
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A Year of Living Prayerfully: How A Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Jared Brock
Format: Hardcover

Follow Jared on a 37,000-mile trip around the world as he...* Dances with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn* Discovers the 330-year-old home of Brother Lawrence* Burns his clothes at the end of the Camino de Santiago* Attends the world's largest church in Seoul* Visits Westboro Baptist Church* Tries...
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Micro Trips

Lonely Planet
Format: Hardcover


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Trees of Illinois Field Guide (Tree Identification Guides)

Stan Tekiela - Adventure Publications
Format: Paperback

Learn to identify Illinois trees with this handy field guide, organized by leaf type and attachment.With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make tree identification simple, informative, and productive. There's no need to look through...
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

CANDICE MILLARD - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy - from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the RepublicFor millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th...
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Insight Guides: Iceland

INSIGHT GUIDES. - LANGENSCHEIDT
Format: Print book

To say that Iceland is a country bristling with natural beauty is something of an understatement. Volcanoes, lagoons, glaciers, waterfalls, black-sand beaches and geysers densely populate its landscape. The lively capital city of Reykjavik also has a lot to offer visitors, from the stunning...
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