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WINNER OF TWO NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS: 2020 Nautilus Awards and 2020 National Indie Book Awards.While to most of the world L.A. represents all that is superficial, deep at its core L.A. is the World Center of Spiritual Awakening. This new book by 4-time author...

There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet. Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans, and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts...

The high desert of the Owyhee Mountain region has a history rich in native conflicts, settlers braving its harsh deserts, miners searching for fortune in its rugged mountains and boomtowns springing up and then crashing down as the mines dried up. This book deals...

American Antiquities, And Discoveries In The West: Being An Exhibition Of The Evidence That An Ancient Population Of Partiallly Civilized Nations, Differing Entirely From Those Of The Present Indians, Peopled America Many Centuries Before Its Discovery By Columbus, And Inquiries Into Their Origin, With...

Signature Recipes and Noteworthy Restaurants from the Florida Keys & Key WestEnjoy fabulous food from the Florida Keys & Key West - without leaving home!Find out what's cooking in the Florida Keys & Key West, in this fun and lively tribute to the island...

Becoming a Digital Nomad with Remote Work is NOW more accessible than ever!In this #1 bestselling book, you'll learn how to become a digital nomad with high-paying remote jobs through a proven step-by-step process based on 10-years of experience. What if you could travel...

Sally Sears left a promising career in television news to explore the world and herself. From Moscow to Tahiti, starting on the Trans-Siberian Railway, she found adventures and unforgettable characters in Beijing, Kathmandu, Ladakh, and the islands of the Pacific.As China began opening to...

Author: Shane HannanISBN-10: 1642149292ISBN-13: 9781642149296Publisher: Page PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2018Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d

Midland, Michigan began life as The Forks, where the Tittabwassee and Chippewa Rivers met. By 1858, The Forks became the Village of Midland, and in 1869 it was incorporated and named the Village of Midland City. Lumbering and farmland attracted the first settlers, and...

No one knows the maritime history of the Northeast any better than Jeremy D'Entremont, and with this small volume he begins a series of histories about the shipwrecks, lighthouses, and sea heroes of New England. The book begins with the hurricane of 1635, one...

The Sioux constitute a diverse group of tribes who claimed and controlled almost a quarter of the continental U.S. from the late 1700s to the 1860s. The name Sioux was coined by French traders and was taken from the Anishinabe word Nadoweisiw-eg, meaning little...

The adventures of the man who created AladdinThe Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of...

In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the...

THERE IS NO BETTER WAY to enjoy the United States of America than to explore some of the country's 63 national parks. Journey to two parks above the Arctic Circle, three in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, eight on the Colorado Plateau, and...

Join award-winning beer writer Mark Dredge on his search for the world's best beer adventures and experiences. This collection of over 150 unmissable beer experiences features the world's greatest beers, bars, breweries, and events: it's the ultimate bucket list for every beer lover. Combining...

The importance of the oceans to life on Earth cannot be overstated. Liquid water covers more than 70% of our planet's surface and, in past geological time, has spread over 85%. Life on Earth began in the oceans over 3.5 billion years ago and...

This all-new, outrageously colorful, super-charged Second Edition of A (mostly) Kids' Guide to Naples, Marco Island &The Everglades is a family guidebook like no other It's packed with awesome things to do, see and experience, from sophisticated Naples to the deep, mysterious Everglades, including...

An extraordinarily moving memoir from an iconoclastic new talent--an artist, cook, and illustrator whose adventures at home and abroad reveal the importance of living life with your eyes wide open. Best known for her witty illustrations, and as a cookAuthor: Tamara ShopsinISBN-10: 1501137875ISBN-13: 9781501137877Publisher:...

"Swept away by WANDERLUST" is a coffee table style journal that inspires you to dream and capture all your travel adventures. Full of inspiration, beautiful photography and travel motivation that ignites the wanderlust spirit, it is the perfect gift for every traveler, adventurer &...

Hardback sleek matte finish cover Page size: 8.5" x 8.5" (216mm x 216 mm). 96 lined white pages Welcome page with space to add your personalized message Left page for Date, Name, Address / Email Right page for Comments (full page open layout) An...

From actress and activist Angelina Jolie comes the personal journals she compiled while performing humanitarian relief efforts in such countries as Sierra Leone and Tanzania, Pakistan and Cambodia. When award-winning actress Angelina Jolie took on a radically different role as a Goodwill Ambassador for...

Between 1955 and 1987, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Glacier was the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the free world. Consequently, it was often given the most difficult and dangerous Antarctic missions. This is the dramatic first-person account of its most legendary...

Legendary Idahoan, Harry Shellworth (1877-1973), is brought to life in this comprehensive look at his legacy of contributions and accomplishments for the state. Shellworth's forty-some years as a land agent with the Boise Payette Lumber Company encompassed friendships with political and historical figures, authors,...

This book tells the story of my own investigations in my home state of Minnesota.Every report that I am personally aware of at this time for Minnesota and the Dakotas is included here. Many are of a more-or-less conventional nature (man sees sasquatch, sasquatch...

H.B.'s sporting trips and work travels have led him on many adventures, from Costa Rica to British Columbia, from Florida to Alaska. When circumstances led H.B. to retire to The Orchard, alone save for his trusted Springer Spaniel Jack, he balked at settling back...

"Who goes to Scotland for two weeks with a stranger they met over the internet?" At forty-three, Ninya was depressed, out of shape, and filled with crippling anxiety after addiction, cancer, and divorce had destroyed nearly everything. One day, she received a message from...

In this book, you'll find plenty of evidence that the supernatural is alive in the Golden Isles. Crumbling slave cabins, plantation homes and grand mansions, ancient forts, even a hospital that once cared for the five hundred slaves of Retreat Plantation -- all have...

Don't Know Much About Geography by New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis is a fascinating and fun exploration of our planet.Geography is the hub from which other disciplines radiate: meteorology, ecology, geology, oceanography, demographics, cartography, agricultural studies, economics, and political science.In addition...

Hybrid RV living is an exciting, full-time RV lifestyle where you have both an RV and your own lot with full hookups. The lot often includes a small house or casita to use while you're there. It's a fantastic way to transition from a...

NATSUKASHII: Uchinaa nu umui / Old Times: Reflections of Okinawa offers you an extensive up close and personal experience as you follow me day by day, throughout my last five trips to Okinawa. I detail what it's like to live and play on the...

Around the World with Aunt Inez tells the story of an amazing trip around the world in the 1970s that Arlene Lawless took with her 84-year-old Aunt Inez. The book describes a world without cell phones, when people had to interact one-on-one, and the...

It was 1968 and the world was in turmoil as my sister and I cast off into the unknown. We found passage on a freighter crossing the Atlantic and disembarked in Tangier, Morocco. Hitchhiking across North Africa to Egypt, we crossed the Mediterranean Sea...

Although the popular imagination has forever linked Captain Jams Cook with the South Pacific, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements actually took place in the polar regions. Recognizing that Cook sailed more miles in the high latitudes of all of the world's oceans than...

Fully updated and revised with more than 150 public campgrounds, Camping New Mexico is an ideal companion for tourists and locals alike, featuring detailed descriptions, campground locations, maps, GPS coordinates, and driving directions. Author: Melinda CrowISBN-10: 1493052071ISBN-13: 9781493052073Publisher: Falcon Press PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2022Pages: 152Format:...

Cold Latitudes is a memoir in essay form based on years of working in the Alaska Arctic and Antarctica. The author was privileged to see first-hand worlds that few will ever know, while participating in cutting-edge research at high latitudes. From solo voyages down...

In this joyful new book Monocle unpacks what makes a great city, whether you're looking for a new place to call home or need help fixing your own.How do we make better cities - places that work for people of all ages and backgrounds?...

Do you love Route 66, then your just found the right book You already really like word searches, but most books are virtually the same with just lists of words. There must be something more, and now there is; in our books you can...

In recent years the emphasis has shifted away from a focus on pedagogy (the how of teaching) and towards curriculum (the what of teaching). Ofsted's revised inspection framework reflects this shift, and their plans to -deep dive- into subject areas - meaning that teachers...

Harbour Island, Bahamas. Tourism, Travel Guide. Briland', as locals and repeat visitors call it, is renowned as one of the loveliest, most stylish and enjoyable islands in the Bahamas, if not the Caribbean. Just 5km long and 2km wide, it's a photogenic bric-a-brac of...

This new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism framed around the UN's sustainable development goals. It examines the origins and dimensions of sustainable tourism and offers a detailed account of sustainable initiatives and management across destinations, the tourism industry, public sector and...

I found no one to accompany me, and was determined to do; so I trusted to fate, and went alone. In 1797 in Vienna, Ida Pfeiffer was born into a world that should have been too small for her dreams. The daughter of an...

An updated version of the popular book based on the "How to Live in Denmark" podcast, with 8 new chapters. In this fun, easy-to-read book, Kay draws on her own experience as a foreigner in Denmark when it comes to learning Danish, trying to...

Ask any Spaniard where you will find the best food in the country and the answer is invariably the Basque provinces. In this book, Maria Jose Sevilla describes the region through the eyes of men and women whose lives embrace every aspect of its...

Leaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny travel through rows of vibrantly colored Greek revival and Creole-style homes. For decades, this stunning architectural display marked an entry into a more authentic New Orleans. In...

In the bright morning of his youth Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie, Jr., contains in its pages "the genuine article-the Indian, the trader, the...

An Accidental Envoy is a memoir covering the period 1990 to 2005 during which I was involved with the Turks & Caicos Islands, initially as one of a team of consultants charged with devising a strategy to lift that small Caribbean nation, a British...

LARRY B. STELL has written this book and dedicates his many abroad experiences to the many civilians, military and families, embassy and corporate families who live in other countries. Overseas schools provide a unique opportunity for our elementary and secondary teachers to travel and...

Opening with a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Lockdown Letters & Other Poems ranges near and far in the author's catalogue. While spared the devastating effects of the disease, he offers a view of the way daily life changes and new risks are confronted...

In 1918, Tahir Shah's grandfather, The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, published the small volume of 'poetry in prose' - Eastern Moonbeams. The book marked not only the beginning of a glittering literary career, but the start of something far greater.In the century since The...

Have you ever wanted to simply grab a handful of things and start amazing adventure? To make the most out of a backpacking experience, it's important to know a few important do's and don'ts that will make everything much more enjoyable. This guide is...