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A comprehensive history of the English exploration and trade expeditions to Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries, written by renowned scholar Richard Hakluyt. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the politics, economics, and culture of these expeditions, and is a must-read for...

Newport was the summer home of internationally famous people at the time Island Cemetery was formed. Remarkably, many of these people chose to be buried here alongside the men and women who lived in the city year-round. Richard Morris Hunt, America's foremost architect, George...

"Maine Roadshow: A Roadside Tour of the State's History, Culture, Food, Funk & Oddities" is lavishly illustrated with nearly 450 photos, all taken by the author, during a five-year, thousands-of-mile journey exploring and documenting all corners of the state.In this colorful exhibition, award-winning photojournalist...

Explore the fascinating life and times of Commodore Holland Newton Stevenson through his personal journals and letters.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the...

The Teacher's Edition with Common Core Standards is a supplemental guide to The Princess of Sapphires of Sand. This book is aligned with the Common Core State Standards used in primary and secondary schools in forty-six U.S. states and includes a glossary for scholars.Author:...

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the many social trends that are shaping America today with this insightful and thought-provoking book by Edward Alsworth Ross. Drawing on his many years of experience as a sociologist, Ross provides a fresh and insightful perspective on the many...

Michigan's Upper Peninsula attracts tourists to visit its many natural and historic wonders. Author Mike Sonnenberg has traveled through all parts of the Upper Peninsula for his website www.LostInMichigan.net. From ruins on remote back roads, to historic places in large cities, this book has...

Yellowstone; the Wild Side is a story of Yellowstone National Park where a pageantry of rugged characters interacting with each other has created legends repeated around evening campfires through countless years. Some people have hollered with pure joy of beholding such splendid scenery and...

New Orleans, known the world over as one of the darkest, grittiest and most haunted tourist destinations imaginable. A place where we literally walk on the bones of the dead, party like there's no tomorrow and revel in sin and vice. But is it...

In order to secure his first passport, the author was flown from what was then a British colony to New York in 1970. He returned to the Bahamas weeks later. Raised in a footloose family, were road and rail trips in the US and...

This charming book combines the art of Ruth Hart Wilson and the photography of Terry & Ruth Wilson as they embark on thrilling adventures around the world. With a shared passion for exploring ancient cultures, embracing history, connecting with locals, and appreciating art, architecture,...

Zelda's Bed spans 72 hours in Montgomery, Alabama. Making a pilgrimage plagued by travel delays and extreme heat, Klecko spends an August weekend at the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum to launch The Dead Fitzgeralds, the first book in his Fitzgerald trilogy. Located in...

I came to Santa Fe straight from the 1952 Roy Rogers matinee in East Hampton, Connecticut. That and a 1982 New York Times travel article about Chaco Canyon. Like Lewis and Clark with a U-Haul, Reed and Jim leave Philadelphia and head to Santa...

What is a perfect moment in travel? How do you make one happen? Where do you find it? How much does it cost? Strolling with Your Elephant opens the door to amazing and authentic experiences all over the world for both active and armchair...

Ginny Toliver, a life-long Philadelphian, has been a teacher, world traveler and gracious host to numerous guests from Europe, Russia and and some countries predominantly Muslim. In this memoir of her unique life, she tells of her passion for making peace by making friends,...

In the tradition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road and set during the intersection of the radical '60s and the mellow '70s, ride along with a recent UVA grad as he hitchhikes cross-country and back with only $20 in his pocket and meets colorful...

The tourism industry is an industry of people and is directly dependent on the performance of activities, skills, professionalism, quality, and competitiveness. Approaching the perspective of people management stresses the need to humanize companies, making empowerment and commitment easier. These are key to setting...

Lost In Indiana is not your average travel book and more than just a list of places to visit. Mike Sonnenberg (Author of Lost In Michigan) tells stories of strange and historic locations in the Hoosier State not found on most travel brochures. If...

Unwind and boost your mood with this beautiful coloring book with beautifully drawn cityscapes of cities from all over the world.City Skylines around the World Coloring Book for Adults volumes 7 & 8 contains 80 coloring pages with skylines from cities all over the...

The Columbia River, Or, Scenes And Adventures During A Residence Of Six Years On The Western Side Of The Rocky Mountains Among Various Tribes Of Indians Hitherto Unknown: Together With A Journey Across The American Continent (Volume I) has been considered by academicians and...

Author: John Oadonohue, John O'DonohueISBN-10: 1604075244ISBN-13: 9781604075243Publisher: Sounds TrueLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2011Format: OtherWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Cheechakoes in Wonderland: A Southeast Alaskan OdysseyBy: Willard E. AndrewsCheechakoes in Wonderland is the story of a young couple from the suburbs of New Jersey consigned by Uncle Sam to two years on the remote planet of Southeast Alaska, who returned by choice to...

Essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) ranks among America's foremost nature writers. The Concord, Massachusetts, native spent most of his life observing the natural world of New England. His thoughts on leading a simple, independent life remain a foundation of modern environmentalism,...

Baggage: A Memoir of Travel That Went Off Script is a collection of stories of travels that did not go quite as planned. At times funny and surprising, Baggage: A Memoir of Travel That Went Off Script shows that travel is for everyone and...

Gone are the days when golf was a quaint and old-fashioned pastime. Back on the Olympic program since 2016, the sport has had a rebirth like none other, with professionals like Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy reinvigorating the course, and celebrities from Justin Timberlake...

Changing States is more than simply moving from one state to another. It is about how one's state of mind changes as one ages, how one's health changes, not always for the better, and how life must be lived in a positive rather than...

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. With a Description of the Buccaneers and a Short Account of Old-Time Ships and Sailors not to leave "before he had built his Pinnaces," and therefore, as soon as the ships...

I thought I would figure it out as I go. What else is there to do?I was moved from Germany to Mexico against my will when I was 18. No slave trade, just my opinion wasn't considered much by my parents who wanted a...

Cohen invites readers to accompany her on a personal trip through Mexico, where she falls in love with threerich and magical places: Oaxaca, Mexico City, and San Miguel. Taxi drivers, rug weavers, jewelry makers, and new friends populate her poems with stories of their...

Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850-1923) adopted the pseudonym, Pierre Loti, while in Tahiti. He served in the French military, ultimately becoming a naval officer. His service led him to travels around the world, and his keen eye for observations was quickly recognized. He was encouraged...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

Moving to Mexico? Things We Wish We Would Have KnownBy: H. Douglas Cooper, M.D.Moving to Mexico? recounts one family's relocation and all the things they wish they had known before making that move. For anyone considering such an endeavor, take this opportunity to learn...

A notorious bit of historical esoterica, this 1845 handbook for travelers heading westward from the civilized United States for the freedom of the wild, unsettled frontier is remembered today mainly for its small role in one of the most horrific stories of the American...

When Buffalo Ran is a classic Native American history volume by George Bird Grinnell. Seventy years ago, when some of the events here recounted took place, Indians were Indians, and the plains were the plains indeed. Those plains stretched out in limitless rolling swells...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Fasten your seatbelts and get ready to soar with an insider view of a pilot's life Captain Frank Donohue knew from an early age that he was meant to fly. Now, in his behind-the-scenes memoir, readers will learn the truth about being a pilot...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

Those that follow international migration commonly agree on the fact that the late twentieth century has been the age of migration. However, human migration started about two million years ago and continues to the present. The author hails from India and immigrated to the...

In the tradition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road and set during the intersection of the radical '60s and the mellow '70s, ride along with a recent UVA grad as he hitchhikes cross-country and back with only $20 in his pocket and meets colorful...

There's a moment when you're pissed off at all your friends, there's no one in your family you ever want to speak to again, and work sucks as only a job you ended up in by default, can. That's the moment where we all...

In the midst of the Cold War, against the backdrop of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the space race with the Soviet Union, and the Vietnam War, a band of iconoclastic American mountaineers set off for Mount Everest, aiming to restore America's confidence and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Seventeen of the twenty-two years the author served with the United Nations Development Programme were spent with his wife, Delores, on assignments in Thailand, Samoa, China and Vietnam. The main focus of the book is a collection of vignettes describing experiences of living in...

My Two Centuries in Africa is a humorous, affectionate, intimate book about Africa. It's a personal memoir about how a guy from Indiana accidentally spent almost 40 years in Africa and lived to tell about it. On a deeper level, it's a call to...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Can you actually become a digital nomad? Can you really achieve location independence, travel the world, and work from anywhere? YES - And now is the best time to do it. There is a window of opportunity (and who knows how long it will...

"After years of life-changing transition, how could I know what normal looked like any more?" When Catriona Turner seized the opportunity to leave Scotland for a three-year stay in southern France with her fiancé, she had no idea that over a decade later, she...

' Life and Values: My Autobiography'' is an account of the rich life-experiences of Anil Kumar Mukhopadhyaya. It takes us on a journey through his childhood, his formative years, his working life and his retiral years. Through this lucid and honest account of his...

The strange and beautiful story within ORBS: The Energy Around Us started with a family trip to the mystical vortex of Sedona, Arizona. One interesting vacation photo stirred my curiosity and heightened my awareness to the presence of the unknown. For me, this story...