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Some of the world's leading writers explore locales around the globe, in a collection of essays and articles from Condé Nast Traveler by Edna O'Brien, Pico Iyer, Edmund White, Jan Morris, Francine Prose, Russell Banks, Robert Hughes, Simon Winchester, and other notables. Original. 40,000 first printing.

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The travel writers of National Geographic describe their favorite trips and adventures around the globe, on every continent and using every possible form of transportation, accompanied by four hundred full-color photographs, two hundred maps, and practical advice on how to make the most of one's journey. 100,000 first printing.

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Providing helpful guides to traveling with children, these easy-to-use travel handbooks offer a wide variety of fun-filled, educational, hassle-free activities available in cities and regions around the world, covering everything from family days to puppet theaters and museums, along with planning tips, addresses, admission prices, age appropriateness, and nearby lodgings and restaurant recommendations.

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Offering up more than twenty day trips and weekend getaways close to Chicago, the book is organized to suit all tastes and budgets, whether one is more interested in eating his or her way along the nearby Wisconsin cheese trail, zipping through the Indiana Dunes in a dune buggy, or relaxing along the shores of Lake Geneva. Original.

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IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY is crammed with news and knowledge--in this case, about the mysterious Aborigines, exiled British convicts, careless prime ministers, and a disturbingly cryptic lifeguard. Along the way, readers also get an education in eating steaks that are the size of catcher's mitts, avoiding attack by killer seashells, and preparing for cyclones. And with such an entertaining traveling companion at the wheel, what's a 600-mile drive across the desert, even if the temperature soars to 140 degrees Fahrenheit? From the beach to the bush, and at every quirky roadhouse in between, Bryson's jaunt is a painfully hilarious tribute to a singularly peculiar locale.

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Michael Godfrey's Field Guide to the Piedmont - originally published by Sierra Club Books and here newly revised and updated - is an informative and entertaining guide to the entire region's habitats, ecosystems, and rich botanical communities. Focusing on plant succession, geology, soils, climate, and the plants and animals with which we share the land, Field Guide to the Piedmont also features 180 illustrations for easy identification of the Piedmont's principal flora and fauna. A chapter describing and providing directions to over fifty sites of special interest will inspire Piedmont residents to take this field guide in hand and explore their natural surroundings.

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A foodie's journey around the globe features all the finest fare in the finest locales--from sushi in Tokyo to Creole favorites in New Orleans to select beef in Argentina--in a guide that includes 350 color photos, recipes, sidebars, top-ten lists, and key travel information.

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A full-colour guide to over 4,000 inspected Bed & Breakfast's, Guest Houses, Farmhouses and Inns in Britain. It features establishments that have been inspected and rated for quality by the AA's inspectors, each rated from 1 to 5 stars. Useful symbols highlight the very best breakfasts and evening meals.

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Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life—from six weeks to four months to two years—to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Potts gives the necessary information on:


• financing your travel time
• determining your destination
• adjusting to life on the road
• working and volunteering overseas
• handling travel adversity
• re-assimilating back into ordinary life

Not just a plan of action, vagabonding is an outlook on life that emphasizes creativity, discovery, and the growth of the spirit. Visit the vagabonding community’s hub at www.vagabonding.net.

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Collects articles and interviews by a variety of writers while incorporating visitor tips and observations by the editor, in an intimate reference that shares historical information, accommodations profiles, and practical advice for viewing key destinations. Original.

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A cartographic history of the iconic river contains more than eighty full-color maps from the mid-sixteenth-century to the present, traces the expeditions of Fernando de Soto and other explorers, and offers insight into the river's role in key historical events.

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A gastronomic tour of the world describes the authors' samplings of regional cuisine from eighty different cultures, including Australia, Singapore, and India, in a volume complemented by recipes for their favorite finds.

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Traces the author's witness to the complex culture of Cuba, offering insight into its citizen's struggles as reflected by the stories of the women she meets, her budding love affair with a man who ultimately becomes her husband, and compatriots struggling to bring about governmental change. Reprint.

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Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a two-color interior design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features. Original.

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Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.

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A narrative account of the author's forays into some of the world's coldest regions describes his encounters with splashing through an Arctic swimming hole, investigations into ancient and more recent ice ages, and examinations of animal hibernation habits.

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Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.

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Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.

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Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.

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At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost—who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs—decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the Earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better.

The Sex Lives of Cannibals tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas, toxic fish, and worst of all, no television or coffee. And that’s just the first day.

Sunburned, emaciated, and stinging with sea lice, Troost spends the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options. He contends with a cast of bizarre local characters, including “Half-Dead Fred” and the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who’s never written a poem in his life), and eventually settles into the ebb and flow of island life, just before his return to the culture shock of civilization.

With the rollicking wit of Bill Bryson, the brilliant travel exposition of Paul Theroux, and a hipster edge that is entirely Troost’s own, The Sex Lives of Cannibals is the ultimate vicarious adventure. Readers may never long to set foot on Tarawa, but they’ll want to travel with Troost time and time again.

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Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.

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The renowned chef and author of Molto Italiano traces his eating tour of Spain at the sides of friends Gwyneth Paltrow and Mark Bittman, in a companion to a thirteen-part PBS series that celebrates the country's unique culinary traditions and flavors. 150,000 first printing.

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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and , unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandlesss short life. Admitting an interst that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the dries and desires that propelled McCandless. Digging deeply, he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind; the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons.When McCandlesss innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandlesss uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity , and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding--and not an ounce of sentimentality. Mesmerizing, heartbreaking, Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

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Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.

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An authoritative guide to traveling comfortably and affordably counsels readers on how to manage a wide range of challenges from airport security and lost luggage to flight delays and uncomfortable seating, in a reference that also shares information about upgrading to first class and understanding travelers' rights. 40,000 first printing. Original.

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A dubious husband-seeking voyage to 1928 Bombay poses unanticipated challenges for naïve Rose, who hopes to marry a cavalry officer with whom she is only passingly acquainted; Victoria, who is determined to lose her virginity before marriage; and Guy, a malevolent and disturbed schoolboy. Reprint.

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Offering a charming introduction to European travel based on the popular PBS travel series, these entertaining travel guides provide inside information on where to visit, what to see and do, where to stay, great places to eat, and how to get around quickly and economically, along with a close-up look at local culture, self-guided walking tours, fun side trips and excursions, colorful maps, and more.

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Returning home to Chespeake Shores to help her sister save the charming Inn at Eagle Point from foreclosure, Abby O'Brien Winters, along with her energetic twin daughters, must also deal with her own fractured family and the one man she has never been able to forget. Original.

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The acclaimed author of There Are No Children Here takes us into the heart of Chicago by introducing us to some of the city’s most interesting, if not always celebrated, people.

Chicago is one of America’s most iconic, historic, and fascinating cities, as well as a major travel destination. For Alex Kotlowitz, an accidental Chicagoan, it is the perfect perch from which to peer into America’s heart. It’s a place, as one historian has said, of “messy vitalities,” a stew of contradictions: coarse yet gentle, idealistic yet restrained, grappling with its promise, alternately sure and unsure of itself.

Chicago, like America, is a kind of refuge for outsiders. It’s probably why Alex Kotlowitz found comfort there. He’s drawn to people on the outside who are trying to clean up—or at least make sense of—the mess on the inside. Perspective doesn’t come easy if you’re standing in the center. As with There Are No Children Here, Never a City So Real is not so much a tour of a place as a chronicle of its soul, its lifeblood. It is a tour of the people of Chicago, who have been the author’s guides into this city’s—and in a broader sense, this country’s—heart.

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He could outride and outshoot five men, but he was a fool for a lady in distress. The posse was hot on his trail for murder when he took time out to rescue Sylvie from a gang of desperadoes. It wasnt till shed bushwhacked him with a shotgun and tried to poison him that he realized she was up to no good. And no sooner he had he shot his way out of her clutches than he met Penelope. After he'd heard her sad story, he should have cut and run, but somehow a Sackett never seem s to learn the easy way.

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Rome is a great place to visit -- but imagine the delights of living there. Long in love with the Eternal City, Alan Epstein has been reveling in life as a resident since 1995. In As the Romans Do, he reveals the city and its people in all their facets and contradictions: their gregarious caffé culture, inborn artistic flair, passionate appreciation of good food, instinctive mistrust of technology, showy sex appeal, ingrained charm, and much more. He unveils a place alive with pleasure and paradox, both pagan and Christian, Western and Middle Eastern. Rome is where one can relax, reflect, revel, and rebel -- all between the morning's cappucino and the evening's grappa.

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Edited by the critically acclaimed author of Annie John, the latest volume in the annual series presents a wide-ranging anthology of the finest travel writing published over the past year, selected from a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, and Web sites and encompassing contributions by Tom Bissell, Ian Frazier, Simon Winchester, Murad Kalam, and other notable authors. Simultaneous.

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How do you bring a million dollars in gold down a mountain? First you have to find it, and thats mighty hard when youre tracking a trail that's twenty years old. But the Sackett brothers were determined to find the treasure and to discover if their father, who blazed the trail long ago, was still alive. They just hoped that they were smarter than those New Orleans folks who wanted the gold -- and were willing to kill for it.

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A fortune tellers' murder portends big trouble for amateur sleuth Judith McMonigle in the zany whodunit that started it all--Mary Daheim's first sensational Bed-and-Breakfast mystery.

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In preparation for her fortieth birthday, Pia Thomason joins a singles' tour through romantic Europe, where she finds more than her heart at stake when she is torn between two mysterious men. Original.

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In this deeply personal and learned labor of love, the acclaimed chronicler of such great American cosmopolitans as Edith Wharton and Henry James, provides a new look at the glories of Florence, the smallish Tuscan city that has been a prime source for modern Western culture and has also been his second home for the past 50 years. "A treasurable guide".--Publishers Weekly. Photos.

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"One finishes the stories with a sense of warmth and sanity in 'Rez' life.... I defy readers to survive Mr. Northrup's loving descriptions of dreadful cars with bald tires and clanky parts without a chuckle, much less a belly laugh. Or to read his lyrical descriptions of tribal ricing without thinking we lose something out of our souls by working in climate-controlled offices". Bill Holm, author of Coming Home Crazy and The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth: Mineota, Minnesota "Northrup proves himself a skilled and straightforward writer ... with much insight into the human condition and a great deal of rather dark humor". Library Journal "Northrup demonstrates a hard-edged humor.... He has already found his voice and ... (evinces) power and sensitivity". Publishers Weekly An engaging collection of short stories and poems that offers commentary on reservation life, tribal government, and the white man's world through the eyes of a Native American Vietnam vet.

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The author of the beloved bestseller A Year In Provence offers readers another funny, beautifully evocative book about life in the picturesque French town--a heartwarming place where, if you can't quite "get away from it all", you can surely have a good time trying. a good time trying.

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In a food lover's guide to Paris, the author of Chocolate & Zucchini takes readers on a personalized tour of her favorite restaurants, wine bars, outdoor markets, and other great places to visit as she describes the best places to go for lunch, tea, dinner, or a simple glass of wine and offers advice on how to order a meal, decipher a menu, and more. Original. 35,000 first printing.

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Enhanced by color-coded entries, up-to-date maps, and colorful illustrations, this user-friendly series of travel guides explores some of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States and abroad, describing some of the unique features of each locale, presenting a range of itineraries and tours, and providing new sections devoted to gay and lesbian travelers.

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