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Top Books (Travel)
2005
| Taking travelers around a city that he knows intimately, native Californian Jerry Dunn showcases San Francisco's many different neighborhoods. |
2010
| Ireland's clearest mapping, from the experts at AA Updated from Ireland's Official Mapping Agencies, OSI (Ordnance Survey Ireland) and OSNI (Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland), this atlas includes AA approved camping sites and AA recommended golf courses, car parks, picnic sites, port plans, and ferry routes. There are motorway strip maps detailing all of Ireland's motorway junctions; 11 detailed city and town plans—Belfast, Cork, Londonderry, Dublin, Galway, Killarney, Kilkenny....[more] |
2002
| Rizzoli, considered one of the most respected Italian trade names, is proud to announce the debut of its travel guide series for Italy. Unlike other conventional guides which only cover predictable tourist spots, the Rizzoli Guides are comprehensive in that they feature familiar favorites, but with an emphasis on intriguing cultural sites and commercial points of interest. This unique approach to Rome's treasures allows the traveler to experience and know the city as natives do, giving the sophi....[more] |
2004
| One of the most comprehensive book ever written on finding travel bargains is packed with savvy travel tips, bargain-finding strategies, and insider secrets. |
2007
| Beyond New Jersey's bustling cities and busy turnpikes are lesser known marvels of nature and history, all within easy reach of a traveler consulting this book. Let Backroads of New Jersey guide you to the natural wonders, historic sites, and other secrets of the Garden State, from scenic lake country and bountiful farmlands to woodland forest preserves and the glistening white-sand beaches of a 127-mile Atlantic Ocean shoreline. One of the original thirteen colonies, New Jersey was the s....[more] |
| Travel by rail in India is the safest, simplest, and most enjoyable way of seeing the country. The modern trains that have largely replaced the old steam locomotives are particularly comfortable and fast, but enthusiasts will also find in this edition that the traditional steam trains are still running. |
2006
| From picturesque towns around the bustling city of Boston, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and the other Transcendentalists revolutionized American ideas about the artistic, spiritual, and natural worlds. This fascinating and beautiful volume examines the intertwined lives of these remarkable men and women and explores the places that inspired them. Lavishly illustrated with photos, paintings, and maps, the book vividly recaptures 19th-century New England while discove....[more] |
1961
| When The Gathering of Zion was first published in 1964, Ray A. Billington wrote, "Wallace Stegner has written the best single volume to appear on the Mormon migration westward. . . . His sensitivity to human beings and his ability to understand the spirit motivating the oft-persecuted Latter Day Saints allow him insights missed by earlier writers. . . . [Stegner draws on] scores of printed and unprinted diaries kept by the Saints, and has used these very personal documents to pinpoint events tha....[more] |
| After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson made the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.m. seven nights a week, and, most of all, because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, and it was thus clear to him that his people needed him.But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on ....[more] |
1977
| Whether dashing through the Plains, creeping over the Rockies, hurtling across the Great Basin, or threading the Sierra Nevada, the California Zephyr is an earthbound cruise ship bearing five hundred souls, each with a story to tell. Within its eighteen cars one hears tales of trysts in showers and sleepers, of charming serendipities in dining cars, of smuggling drugs and pets (including an elusive boa constrictor), and of a small child's tragic death on the tracks. The California Zephyr remains....[more] |
1970
| In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution.Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986, harboring no preconceptions of what he might find. What he discovered was overwhelming: a culture of heroes who had turned into inanimate objects and of politicians and warriors who were poets; a land of difficult, often beautiful contradict....[more] |
2000
| The executive producer of the PBS TV programs by the same name now brings the joys of North American rail journeys to readers in a large-format color tome. Enriched with historical detail, each of the eight chapters celebrates one rail journey. 150 color photos. 8 maps. |
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