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Author
Series
Publisher
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Includes a spectrum of hikes recommended by National Park Service supervisors, mountaineers, wildlife biologists, and other travel experts as well as "if you go" information to act as a starting point for planning a trip to each destination. In addition to many hikes in the U.S. (particularly in national parks) are recommendations for hikes in Alberta's Banff National Park; Southern Patagonia in Argentina; the Overland Track in Australia/Tasmania;...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
'The premise of this book is simple, or that is what it seemed when I started.' Peter Fiennes follows in the footsteps of twelve inspirational writers, bringing modern Britain into focus by peering through the lens of the past. The journey starts in Dorset, shaped by the childhood visions of Enid Blyton, and ends with Charles Dickens on the train that took him to his final resting place in Westminster Abbey. From the wilds of Skye and Snowdon, to...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Consumer travel advocate Christopher Elliott gives you the inside scoop on how to travel smart in this new guide from National Geographic. Calling on practical advice accumulated from more than 20 years of experience in the field, Elliott guides you through the complexities of travel--from cruises to car rentals, travel insurance to time shares, restaurants to resorts, and airlines to agents--and arms you with all the information you need for a successful...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
©20089 [i.e. 2009]
Language
English
Description
Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon's mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice's churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos. Important locations from the novels are highlighted and major themes and characters are explored, accompanied by excerpts from the novels.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press, An imprint of Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C.B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a career as a reporter. It turned out that a distant relation had made the same trek northwest a century earlier. Captain Joe Bernard spent decades in Alaska, amassing the largest single collection of Native artifacts ever...
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
c1999, 2001
Language
English
Description
Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, An Unexpected Light is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people and culture, Elliot leaves the relative security of Kabul. He travels by foot and on horseback, and hitches rides on trucks that eventually lead him into...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wilderness Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Your Guide to Oregon's Best Backpacking Trips
Colorful desert canyonlands, stunning wildflower meadows, glacier-clad mountains—find your favorite scenic escape in Oregon. Authors and hiking experts Douglas Lorain and Becky Ohlsen present 26 of the best backpacking opportunities in the country. Explore the various landscapes of the Wallowa Mountains. See the peaks of Mount Hood and the Three Sisters in the High Cascades, as well
...Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this delightful, beautifully photographed tour of France, England, and Italy, YouTube star Katie Quinn shares the stories and science behind everyone's fermented faves--bread, cheese, and wine--along with classic recipes"--
They are some of humanity's most ancient and essential foods, as well as much-beloved staples of a great dinner party. And cheese, wine and bread all develop their complex flavors through the process of fermentation. Take...
49) Just passin' thru: a vintage store, the Appalachian trail, and a cast of unforgettable characters
Author
Publisher
Menasha Ridge Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thru delivers one suspenseful scene after another. But in this historic setting - a store on the Appalachian Trail called Mountain Crossings - the characters who show up are no fictional creations. They are the real-life stars of the author's new life as a backpack-purging, canteen-selling, hostel-running, bandage-taping, lost-child finding, argument-settling, romance-fixing, chili-making man of many faces....
Author
Publisher
London: Moyer Bell
Pub. Date
c1973
Language
English
Description
"A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in touch with mankind." -New York Times
Newly reissued with an introduction by Plum Sykes, this cult favorite is a delightful diary-think Nancy Mitford–meets–Nora Ephron-chronicling author Helene Hanff's "bucket list" trip to London (at the age of fifty-five!) after the unexpected success of her memoir 84 Charing Cross Road.
When she's invited to London for the English publication of...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Solo sailors are widely known to be a breed apart, and here's an unforgettable book that shows just how wide a berth they give themselves from the crowds. Several years ago, Miles Hordern, a schoolteacher by training, though he had run away to sea a few times before, set sail on a twenty-eight-foot boat from New Zealand to South America, the largest uninterrupted stretch of water on earth, and into the dominion of icebergs, cyclones, and swells of...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Imagine yourself in a schoolroom in one of the most remote regions of one of the hardest-to-reach countries on earth. Nepal. The Lower Mustang region to be exact. To reach it takes a 14-hour flight from New York to Doha, Qatar. Then four hours by air to Kathmandu. Transfer at one of the world's most dangerous airports to a 90-minute flight to Pokhara, followed by a jarring, eight-hour Jeep ride over a vertiginous dirt road — one side is a mountain...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, a travelogue capturing the changing relationship between a mother and her adult daughter follows their sixteen-city, twelve-country tour during which their adventures and mishaps brought them closer together.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"...[S]hares the stories of women on unforgettable journeys -- women who live out of vans, trucks, and vintage trailers, exploring wild landscapes, cooking meals over campfires, and sleeping under the stars...[A] celebration of female courage, self-reliance, and self-discovery..." -- Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
More than thirty years ago, Michael Peisel's classic, Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom, introduced the world to a region more isolated than the deepest Amazon. Against the odds-and in the tradition of the nineteenth-century explorers of whom he is a direct descendant-Peissel has combed Tibet for forty years and has come to know one of the last nomadic peoples on earth to live with what he calls a "Stone Age memory."
In 1994, seizing the rarest of...
57) Haunted America
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Language
English
Description
Haunted America takes you on a grand tour of ghostly hauntings through the U.S. and Canada, sweeping from terrifying battlefield specters at Little Bighorn to a vaudeville palace in Tampa, from ghostly apparitions in President Garfield's home in Ohio to the White House in Washington, DC.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed journalist Bernard Ollivier continues his epic journey across Persia and Central Asia as he walks the length of the Great Silk Road.
Walking to Samarkand is journalist Bernard Ollivier's stunning account of the second part of his 7,200-mile walk from Istanbul, Turkey to Xi'an, China along the Silk Road--the longest and perhaps most mythical trade route of all time. Picking up where Out of Istanbul left off, Ollivier heads out of the Middle...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"An elite marathoner describes the year she spent running over 3,500 miles in nine different countries, living with host families and exploring diverse running communities and cultures all over the globe,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death.
In this extraordinary book, Peter Nichols chronicles a contest of...
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