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Moving Abroad: The Essentials
Mindful Travelling
Beneath the Shadow
Tokyo Mindscapes
On the Plain of Snakes
The Seine
The Dog Went Over the Mountain
Ian's Essential Travel Tips
Mind is the Ride
Churches and Churchyards of England and Wales
Berezina
India Bound
The Outlaw Ocean
Perfect City
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A MIXOLOGIST To party and have a good time!
Orb and Arrow
A Man a Plan a Canal Panama
Gourmet Mag
The Perfect Culture
Walking with Ghosts in Papua New Guinea
Across America by Motor-Cycle
Traveling with Service Animals
The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way
Off The Well-Lit Path
Roads from the Ashes
Beginning French
Ten Years a Nomad
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Cuba Then, Cuba Now
Backpacking Overnights
Beyond Guilt Trips
The Gentle Art of Tramping
The Fourth String
Seattleness
See You in the Piazza
American Carnival
An Uncommon Atlas
Lauragais
Re-tyred
Diagonal Walking
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Smoovster Master Guides: Everything you need to know about getting a job, finding a house, managing your budget... and much more
by Diana Firican
Diana Firican
Pub Date 16 Jul 2019
Decided to move to another country? This is the Guide for you.
You'll be guided step-by-step through the preparation for the move, accompanied by detailed and comprehensive explanations, extensive and user-friendly checklists, real stories and useful tips from immigrants who've moved abroad successfully.
Find out how to:
• Decide on the perfect...
Journeying the world, discovering yourself
by Sarah Samuel
Quarto Publishing Group - Leaping Hare Press
Pub Date 03 Sep 2019
Travelling can be frustrating as well as wonderful, and the perfect opportunity to practice mindfulness in technicolor! Mindful Travelling explores why broadening our horizons is good for the heart and soul! Sarah Samuel shines light on why travelling offers the glorious opportunity to learn more about who we really are–outside of our daily routine and...
Sarah Samuel
Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic
by Justin Gardiner
Pub Date 01 Apr 2019
In February 2010, with the help of a friend who works as a photographer with a National Geographic–sponsored cruise line, Justin Gardiner boarded a ship bound for Antarctica. A stowaway of sorts, Gardiner used his experiences on this voyage as the narrative backdrop for Beneath the Shadow, a compelling firsthand account that breathes new life into the...
Justin Gardiner
Where to Go, When to Go, What to See
by misaki matsui
Museyon Inc
Pub Date 01 Aug 2019
Traveling to Tokyo? Be sure to see some of the most iconic sites in Tokyo and nearby cities—from gorgeous skylines and jaw-dropping nature to hidden treasures. With this photo/guidebook, visitors can explore both the cutting-edge and traditional parts of the city like a local. misaki matsui, the photographer and author, introduces the beauty of the four...
misaki matsui
A Mexican Journey
by Paul Theroux
Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US–Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines.
Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places...
The River that Made Paris
by Elaine Sciolino
Pub Date 05 Nov 2019
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A vibrant, enchanting tour of the Seine from longtime New York Times foreign correspondent and best- selling author Elaine Sciolino.
In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river through its rich history and lively...
Elaine Sciolino
Travels With Albie: An American Journey
by Peter Zheutlin
The New York Times bestselling author of Rescue Road embarks on a cross-country journey to take the measure of America with a loyal friend.
On the cusp of turning 65, a man and his beloved rescue dog of similar vintage take a poignant, often bemusing, and keenly observed journey across America and discover a...
Peter Zheutlin
Overcome Travel Fears, Travel with Confidence, Make the Right Choices
by Ian Watts
Dog Ear Publishing
Pub Date 13 Feb 2019
Ian's Essential Travel Tips was written to help people demystify foreign travel and craft foreign trips to their tastes. This book answers many of the questions that first-time travelers have but also provides valuable information for seasoned travelers. You have choices, but it's important that you avoid common mistakes and choose wisely. Never settle for...
Ian Watts
by Jet McDonald
Pub Date 16 May 2019
When Jet McDonald cycled four thousand miles to India and back, he didn't want to write a straightforward travel book. He wanted to go on an imaginative journey. Mind is the Ride takes the reader on a physical and intellectual adventure from West to East using the components of a bike as a metaphor for philosophy, which is woven into the cyclist's...
Jet McDonald
by Richard Hayman
An engaging introduction to the workings of church buildings and churchyards, explaining the integral elements of a working church and how they have changed over time.
The parish church is a symbol of continuity, a cornerstone of the urban and rural landscape, and a treasure trove often as rich in cultural history as any museum. This compact and accessible...
Richard Hayman
From Moscow to Paris Following Napoleon's Epic Fail
by Sylvain Tesson
Europa Editions
Lire Magazine Best Travel Book
Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history's most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you've got Sylvain Tesson'sBerezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines travel, history, comradery, and...
The Making of a Woman Journalist
by Shelley Buck
WriteWords Press
The true story of a persistent woman and an extraordinary journey, India Bound is the sequel to East: A Woman on the Road to Kathmandu. After traveling overland to India and Nepal, Shelley Buck has returned to Europe, but is haunted. She dreams of going back to Asia and of becoming a journalist. It's the early 1970s. Women don't often set out to become...
Shelley Buck
Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
by Ian Urbina
"A riveting, terrifying, thrilling story of a netherworld that few people know about, and fewer will ever see.... The soul of this book is as wild as the ocean itself."
--Susan Casey, best-selling author of The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world...
Ian Urbina
An Urban Fixer's Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis
by Joe Berridge
Sutherland House
"A brilliant, enjoyable & important book" - Richard Florida
What are cities for? How do they really work? What does our urban future hold?
Joe Berridge, one of the world's leading urban planners, answers these questions in the course of an insider's tour of some of the world's largest and most diverse cities. Hopping from New York to London, Shanghai to...
Joe Berridge
The Bells of Old Tokyo
Meditations on Time and a City
by Anna Sherman
Macmillan-Picador
An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residents
From 1632 until 1854, Japan's rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture that endures to this day. In hypnotic prose and sensual detail, Anna Sherman describes searching for the great bells by which the inhabitants of Edo, later...
Anna Sherman
A Fusion of Creative "Kick Azz" Drink Masterpieces and a "Crazy-Insane" Epic Traveling Adventure in the Dominican Republic
by Elson Clinton Williams III (Tré)
Elson Clinton Williams III
"A MIND-BLOWING APHRODISIAC!" "EXPLOSIVELY FUN!" "DELICIOUSLY EXCITING!" These are just a few of the accolades inspired by Tré Williams' debut drink recipe book and travelogue/adventure story. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A MIXOLOGIST to Party and Have a Good Time is an inspired and fun-filled book that's on a mission to show you how to celebrate the ultimate joys...
Elson Clinton Williams III (Tré)
Book I: Exploration
by V. L. Stuart
BooksGoSocial
Pub Date 07 Jun 2019
"A dimlock cannot be removed," Rodenis had taught them, "except by the holder of its key."
A dimlock collar, made in mocking imitation of a great chain of office, is used to keep a mage from casting a spell or reaching out for mana. Its medallions are raised disks each separated by short links and each with the sign of a black spell. With its dark power it...
V. L. Stuart
by David Fletcher
Troubador Publishing Ltd.
Neither Brian nor Sandra knew whether there was a longer palindrome than 'a man a plan a canal Panama', but they did know that the country in this palindrome was well worth a visit. Not only did it house a whole treasure-house of wildlife riches, but it also had that extremely well-known canal.
Furthermore, it presented them with the opportunity to...
the Palermo Issue: Italian food, recipes, traditions and lifestyle
by CLAUDIA RINALDI
Pub Date 20 Mar 2019
What to do, see and eat in Palermo.
The Palermo issue will give all this information, plus more, much more: an insight into the traditions, the stories, the people and the cooking.
Be a traveler, not a tourist!
The Gourmet Mag is a seasonal (4 issues per year) cookbook and lifestyle magazine made in Italy.
A journal about cooking. living and exploring Italy.
CLAUDIA RINALDI
by Brent Robins
Cicero Publishing LLC
Thomas Gephardt is a world traveler. Or at least he would like to be one. Determined to leave the confines of his sheltered upbringing in the United States, he voyages to France to expand his horizons. He spends three months with a French family in Bordeaux, working in a local hotel. Inspired by these experiences, Thomas has plans to continue traveling...
Brent Robins
Crossing the Kokoda Trail in the Last Wild Place on Earth
by Rick Antonson
Skyhorse Publishing
Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson (Full Moon Over Noah's Ark) tackles his most challenging adventure yet: a formidable trail through the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea.
Rick Antonson has traveled to parts of the world that are not simply exotic but sometimes damned near inaccessible. He has climbed to the summit of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey...
Rick Antonson
Fully Annotated Centennial Edition
by Captain Mark Leslie Hunnibell
Darcie Rowan PR
Fully Annotated New Book Chronicles the Nearly 5,000 Mile Journey Across America by a British Adventurer in 1919 on a Henderson Four-Cylinder Motorcycle
It's a dynamic traveling feat by anyone to journey across America covering nearly 5,000 miles of road, but imagine what it was like doing so completely alone in 1919 riding a four-cylinder Henderson...
Captain Mark Leslie Hunnibell
By Air, Road, Rail, and Ship across North America
by Henry Kisor, Christine Goodier
The boom in trained service animal use and access has transformed the lives of travelers with disabilities. As a result, tens of thousands of people in the United States and Canada enjoy travel options that were difficult or impossible just a few years ago.
Henry Kisor and Christine Goodier provide a narrative guidebook full of essential information and...
Henry Kisor, Christine Goodier
by Colin Davey
Fordham University Press
The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City's most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained here. Located across from Central Park, the sprawling structure, spanning four city blocks, is a...
Colin Davey
by M. S. Holm
Sentry Books / Great West Publishing
In this neo-western novel, M.S. Holm returns to northern Mexico to tell the story of modern-day highwaymen and the travelers they target.
M. S. Holm
Allen Ginsberg as Traveller
by David S Wills
Beatdom Books
Allen Ginsberg visited sixty-six countries during his lifetime. He travelled in order to explore the world, but each time he went abroad, he came back changed. These changes built up his personality and poetic style, essentially creating the countercultural figure the world came to know during the 1960s – the world's most famous living poet and all-round...
David S Wills
An Odyssey in Real life on the Virtual Frontier
by Megan Edwards
Imbrifex Books
Pub Date 01 Dec 2018
• 20th anniversary e-book edition of this evocative travel and Internet history memoir with a new introduction by the author, foreword by best-selling author Chris Epting, and 22 color photographs • Making lemonade: the author's six-year odyssey began in the wake of a California wildfire that destroyed her home and possessions • Sudden...
Lessons from a Stone Farmhouse
by Les Américains
Les Américains
The trouble started when their dream came true.
First they took French. Then they took leave of their senses. They bought a 400-year-old cottage in rural France from an ad on the Internet. Their "completely restored" farmhouse certainly looked charming, but the pool leaked, the walls cracked, and the electricity fizzled whenever they switched on...
A Traveler's Journey Home
by Matthew Kepnes
Part memoir and part philosophical look at why we travel, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes' adventures abroad, an exploration of wanderlust and what it truly means to be a nomad.
"Matt is possibly the most well-traveled person I know...His knowledge and passion for understanding the world is unrivaled, and never fails to amaze me." —Mark Manson, New York...
Matthew Kepnes
by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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In an enthralling blend of travel literature and history, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro provides an insightful portrait of a mesmerizing place. Building on the in-depth exploration of Cuba's society, culture, and politics that formed part of his recent book, Island People: The Carribbean and the World, Jelly-Schapiro adds new material covering the changes that...
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
North Georgia Mountains and Southeast Tennessee
by Jim Parham
The Blue Ridge begins in North Georgia, home to the southern terminus of the world-famous Appalachian Trail. Together with Southeast Tennessee, this region boasts thousands of miles of trails where backpackers can explore fabulous state parks, remote wilderness areas, and everything in between.
Routes in this guide range from 3 to more than 21 miles. You'll...
Jim Parham
Mindful Travel in an Unequal World
by Anu Taranath
Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners—brought up to believe that international travel broadens our horizons—travel to low-income countries to learn about people and cultures different from their own. While travel abroad can provide much-needed perspective, it...
Anu Taranath
by Stephen Graham
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK)
'An absolute gem of a book' Alastair Humphreys
Know how to tramp and you know how to live . . . Know how to meet your fellow-wanderer, how to be passive to the beauty of nature and how to be active to its wildness and its rigour.
Tramping is a way of approach, to nature, to humankind, to a nation, to beauty, to life itself. It is a gentle art and there is...
Stephen Graham
A Memoir of Sensei and Me
by Janet Pocorobba
The wordsensei in Japanese literally means "one who came before," but that's not what Janet Pocorobba's teacher wanted to be called. She used her first name, Western-style. She wore a velour Beatles cap and leather jacket, and she taught foreigners, in English, the three-stringed shamisen, an instrument that fell out of tune as soon as you started to play...
Janet Pocorobba
A Cultural Atlas
by Tera Hatfield; Jenny Kempson; Natalie Ross
Sasquatch Books
This visually rich cultural atlas of Seattle explores the mercurial nature of place through the lens of one of the fastest growing cities in America. Through both experiential and data-driven cartography, Seattleness lends itself to longtime residents, newcomers to the city, and those curious about the moody borough that has brought us airplanes, grunge...
Tera Hatfield; Jenny Kempson; Natalie Ross
New Places to Discover in Italy
by Frances Mayes
Crown Publishing
Bestselling and beloved author Frances Mayes discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine
"Reading this book is a vacation in itself."—The New York Times Book Review (Best Travel Books of the Summer)
The Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza...
Frances Mayes
by David Skernick
Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
David Skernick
One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel
by Rosita Boland
Random House UK, Transworld Publishers
From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last thirty years she has visited some of the most remote parts of the globe carrying little more than a battered rucksack and a diary.
Documenting nine journeys from nine different moments in her life, Elsewhere reveals...
Rosita Boland
50 new views of our physical, cultural and political world
by Alastair Bonnett
Quarto Publishing Group - White Lion Publishing
An Uncommon Atlas is the new 2019 edition, previously published as New Views.
From charting energy networks to revealing new and emerging lands, measuring human migration to assessing the planet's ant populations – and including the phenomena we have little control over such as lightning strikes or asteroid impact – each map asks you to question, wonder...
Steeped in History, Soaked in Blood
by Colin Duncan Taylor
Troubador Publishing Limited
The Lauragais lies in south-west France at the heart of Occitania. Today it is largely ignored by the millions who visit its neighbours each year – Toulouse and Carcassonne – but in times gone by it rarely escaped the attentions of the great and the good, or the ambitious and the avaricious.
This is a book with big characters – Simon de Montfort, the...
Colin Duncan Taylor
Discovering India
by Sara McMurry
Re-Tyred is an evocation of India as the author has experienced it as a volunteer in rural areas and on the streets of Kolkata, with beautiful photographs throughout.
In Himachal Pradesh, in magnificent scenery of snow-clad peaks and forested hillsides, the children were as poor as those in Rajasthan, and equally keen to learn. In Kolkata exists the deep...
Sara McMurry
by Stefan Zweig
Pushkin Press
A collection of the great writer's observations, made during his travels across the Europe he loved so much
When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is something in it marvellously uplifting and invigorating. Whole past epochs suddenly return: nothing is lost, everything still full of...