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Enjoy a Fun, Safe Adventure with Ultralight Backpacking The Challenge: You enjoy hiking but want to take it to the next level. How do you methodically go about lightening the load? How do you stay safe while backpacking with minimal supplies? What are the...

Have you ever wanted to wander around King's Landing, stride across the grounds of Winterfell or look out for White Walkers in the frozen wastelands north of The Wall? Do you want to live like lordly Tyrion Lannister, walk in the steps of warrior...

The lives of the Native American, African, and European inhabitants of Bertie County over its 400 years of recorded history have not only shaped, but been shaped by its landscape. One of the oldest counties in North Carolina, Bertie County lies in the western...

Imagine what it would be like to talk and fly with the men who flew the airplanes of World War II. What was in their minds as they made their first solos? And what was air combat like? Flying Through Time is the closest...

...an easy read, packed with good advice. Even experienced cruisers will pick up a thing or two...Author: Tor PinneyISBN-10: 1574091441ISBN-13: 9781574091441Publisher: Sheridan HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.96h x 5.94w x 0.74d

Welcome to Awful Airlines, you're going to have a hilarious time Humorist Andy Robbins (Cautionary Coloring Book Series) is back with The Awful Air Travel Activity Book. This equal parts irreverent & hilarious puzzle book is the perfect companion to a not-so-perfect day at...

After 15 years in the Timeshare industry I have written this book to try to help as many owners as possible learn how to use their vacation ownership product they bought. Once you learn the ins and outs of a timeshare program they can...

A brief travelogue / history of the Worcester and Birmingham canal in the Midlands of England. This is the seventh book in the series of canal guides.Author: John ToddISBN-10: 1547122943ISBN-13: 9781547122943Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2017Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

"Jehan de Mandeville," translated as "Sir John Mandeville," is the name claimed by the compiler of a singular book of supposed travels, written in Anglo-Norman French, and published between 1357 and 1371.Author: Sir John MandevilleISBN-10: 1546921990ISBN-13: 9781546921998Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/25/2017Pages: 168Format:...

Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and...

Travel through the Mediterranean on a small boat with an adventurous couple and their dog, experiencing the charms of Greek island ports, quiet nights at anchor in picturesque coves and the raucous energy of metropolitan marinas. Included is a primer on planning your own...

Stories of tragedy and valor from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 filled the pages of the Times-Dispatch in Richmond. Residents gathered to honor the fallen and cherish the survivors. From editorials to sermons, an outpouring of remembrance and remorse spread throughout the...

Travels in Arabia Deserta, originally published in 1888, is a two-volume set which describes English poet Charles Doughty's extensive travels through the Arabian deserts and the discoveries he made there. The work became well-regarded for its beautiful prose as well as its extensiveness, which...

"While you were gone, the Missus," he said twisting around toward me, "put all our names in the computer. If anything goes wrong, we're already in the black box." (On the road to Afghanistan.) -Kalif, / Muji. Mujahedin, AFGHANISTAN. The banker reached across the...

The years between 5500 and 3500BC have been described as the Mediterranean's "forgotten age". But in fact that was the Age of Enlightenment that saw the start of seettlement and village life, of civilisation in Europe and, coincidentally, experienced the first known steps of...

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight you are going to visit one of the world's most famous cities. Here you will see historic palaces, elegant hotels, and magnificent restaurants. If you're lucky, you may even see a corpse floating down the Thames. For tonight...

Assisi, Greccio and neighbouring places associated with St Francis and St Clare are among the world's most popular pilgrim destinations. This pocket guide is the perfect travelling companion for all visitors to this beautiful region of Italy. Written by an experienced tour leader, it...

Travelling with only a change of clothes in an old pillow case, a typewriter & rusty speargun, Pinney's journey through the West Indies & Pacific in 1962 is alive in this traveller's tale of high seas, close tropical coasts, fishermen, bars & women and...

When Victoria Romano, an Italian-American woman, decides to move from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Amalfi, Italy with her dog Murphy and her cat Tiger, she intends to spend a placid, restful, salutary year doing absolutely nothing. Instead of dolce far niente, though, Victoria is seduced...

This book commemorates the enduring legacy of the world's most famous ship - TITANIC.Her story is one of all those bound together on that fateful voyage. On board were: writers, artists, honeymooners, sportsmen, priests, reverends, fashion designers, aristocrats, millionaires, children, crew and emigrants looking...

This volume seeks to expose and illustrate new approaches and thinking in qualitative methods that are being developed and implemented in tourism research. The chapters present an opportunity for social researchers from a range of disciplines to examine how to adapt the wide variety...

This book explores the paradoxes of Self-Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday...

An historical guide to Portugal which both describes and accounts for what the visitor might see and experience in this often-spellbinding country. Portugal, the 'ancient ally', is a country easily accessible, with an enviable climate, welcoming inhabitants and famous beaches. English and Spanish apart,...

Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including "the global/national," "culture," "native speaker," "immersion," and "host society." Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it...

All aboard for a delicious ride on nine legendary railway journeys Meals associated with train travel have been an important ingredient of railway history for more than a century--from dinners in dining cars to lunches at station buffets and foods purchased from platform vendors....

Author: Colin Duncan TaylorISBN-10: 1789015839ISBN-13: 9781789015836Publisher: Troubador PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2018Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d

Get a first-hand account and fascinating new details of the story behind The Finest Hours, the film portraying the harrowing rescue of the SS Pendleton in 1952.On February 18, 1952, off the coast of Cape Cod, a fierce nor'easter snapped in half two 503-foot...

Four centuries ago, English explorer Henry Hudson (1570-1611), commanding the yacht *Halve Maen* for the Dutch East India Company, sailed into a New World tidal estuary near the landmass the local Lenape Indians called the "island of many hills." The island was Manhattan, and...

An authentic account of the Titanic's disaster with mesmerizing first-hand account of survivors.***** "He led Mrs. Astor to the side of the ship and helped her to the life-boat to which she had been assigned. I saw that she was prostrated and said she...

Spanish explorer and historian PEDRO SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA (1532-1592) spent more than twenty years in Peru. During that time he collected what was, at the time of its writing in 1572, the most accurate history of Incan civilization. De Gamboa personally interviewed many Incas...

The waters of coastal Virginia swirl with tales both tragic and heroic. Join Virginia Beach native Alpheus Chewning as he recounts harrowing stories of storms at sea, loss of life and fortune and the heroism of the United States Life-Saving Service. Marvel at the...

From valiant rescues to sorrowful disasters, the eastern shore of Long Island is home to a riveting collection of maritime lore.Since the mid-1600s, eastern Long Island's shoals, sandbars and assorted submerged hazards have caused many an unlucky vessel to become shipwrecked. The frequency of...

"One of the most awful tragedies of modern times has visited Galveston. The city is in ruins, and the dead will number possibly 6,000. The wreck of Galveston was brought about by a tempest so terrible that no words can adequately describe its intensity,...

This one volume contains two pioneering works of outdoor adventure and study from celebrated naturalist John Tyndall. A physicist and educator by profession, Tyndall began visiting the Alps annually in 1849 to explore the glaciers: he climbed Mont Blanc several times, made the first...

Sir John Franklin's Narrative of the Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1822 recounts a hair-raising adventure of the "Golden Age of Discovery," the period from 1800 to 1847 when sailing ships from around the world feverishly searched for...

This book has the answers to all questions on what to do to get a visa to any country of your choice and what to do when you get there to avoid becoming illegal or stranded. Most foreign countries will give you a visa...

This book is a collection of trips that were taken with my family and friends. It is a random sampling of some of the trips we took over many years. It is a collection of journal entries that were recorded at the time of...

This book is a collection of trips that were taken with my family and friends. It is a random sampling of some of the trips we took over many years. It is a collection of journal entries that were recorded at the time of...

RV Camping 50 RV Tips To Make Your Trips Safe And Interesting Recreational vehicles (often shortened to RVs) are a brilliant, cost-effect means of travel; both for its own sake and for special occasions such as festivals, concerts and sporting events. Although the risk...

RV Lifestyle 50 Life Hacks On How To Live In A Car, Van Or RV If you find yourself in a situation in which you are living, either short or long term in your car, then this guide is for you. It includes advice...

Thousands flock to the beautiful coastline along Penobscot Bay every year, but the dark sea has often turned treacherous. Temperamental skies become stormy without notice; violent gales challenge even the most seasoned captains. Craggy rocks can be virtually invisible to oncoming vessels, like the...

Author: Benjamin D. Hill, Winfield S. NevinsISBN-10: 1540218562ISBN-13: 9781540218568Publisher: History Press Library EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2008Pages: 98Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d

Sit back, relax, and enjoy this fun and funky coloring book that celebrates the beautiful and unique city of Asheville, NC. Nestled away in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Asheville is known far and wide as a happy and creative place to live and visit....

Here comes a coloring book that is seriously cute! Each spread features a colored animal pattern on the left, and a black and white version on the right. From the jungle treetops, to the ocean floor, there's a fabulous choice of animals to create...

Emily Grosholz weaves elements of philosophy, mathematics and the sciences into her experience of the social and natural world, to produce wise and cosmopolitan poetry of high lyricism. The Stars of Earth starts with new poems chronicling the months of a year lived and...

Humorous, entertaining and real air traveling tips that will help you next time you fly. A must travel guide before your flight. Whether you are a jetsetter who travels frequently or someone who has never been inside of an airport, this travel guide is...

Singing is the key to opening the mysteries of the Psalm writers' historic faith.Mysterious truths are from everlasting to everlasting. This means that singing the Psalms are full of power for living today's life. For navigating its complexities, for being the change in your...

Peanut Butter and Passports is a rollicking account of author Tom Gose's journeys to Hawaii, Peru, Bolivia, Cuba, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland with an irreverent, "laugh out loud" and self-deprecating narrative. He describes the cultures and customs encountered as he tries to navigate...

Did you ever dream about setting sail on your own yacht and exploring the most beautiful spots on our blue planet? If you are toying with the idea of taking a temporary break from the daily grind or planning to sail away to paradise...

Journey into the world of international culture with artist Heather Valentin's City Girls Adult Coloring Book. Every page is full of Heather's most beloved ladies... Geishas, Belly Dancers and other gorgeous international beauties will take you on a global journey while relaxing and coloring...