Travel

Little Snail loves her big snail family, but sometimes she feels so different to them. She craves something more exciting... a new house. A house that's interesting, fun, and unusual--just like her.Follow a little snail on her thoughtful and amusing quest to find a...

A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors' neighbourhoods in the Big Apple. Literary Landscapes: New York is the follow-up to Literary Landscapes: Paris and contains a familiar blend of everything precious to the bibliophile - a blend of quirky...

This hardcover, coffee table book will take you on a journey to view some of the most beautiful lighthouses that line the coast of the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. Each page features a stunning image taken by photographer, Danielle Jorae, along with a location...

Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small...

From the #1 bestselling author of Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids comes a collection filled with hundreds of jokes and riddles about trains, planes, and automobiles--and featuring, for the first time ever, games and puzzles to keep the whole family busy for hours!A great activity...

KIDS LOVE MICHIGAN: An Organized Family Travel Guide to Kid-Friendly Michigan. 600 Fun Stops & Unique SpotsDiscover places where you can "race" over giant sand dunes, climb aboard a lighthouse, explore the land of lakes, locks and falls, meet an inventor, or catch a...

Explorers Kristen and Ville Jokinen met and fell in love while scuba diving in Vietnam. Ville then left his native Finland to join Kristen in Oregon and together they embarked on a life-changing two-year cycling adventure covering 18,000 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to...

José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella, was a Spanish lawyer, parliamentarian, and martyr. Son of the General Miguel Primo de Rivera, the dictator of Spain from 1923-1930, Rivera founded the Falange...

Jane Was Here is a whimsical, illustrated guide to Jane Austen's England - from the settings in her novels and the scenes in the wildly popular television and film adaptations, to her homes and other important locations throughout her own life. Discover the stately...

Packed with horsepower, towering, tough, / I truck from coast to coast, bringing goods to neighborhoods. Climb on up into the cab of a semitruck and take a cross-country journey with a driver and her trusty pup! The truck rumbles to the warehouse to...

Author James A. Crutchfield has mined thirty-seven of the most colorful episodes from Montana's provocative past--from the first glimpse of French explorers of the "Shining Mountains" in 1743 to the attempt to round up the wild horses of the Pryor Mountains.Author: James A. CrutchfieldPublisher:...

Learning to read, speak and write Italian like a native? Your journey begins here.Mamma mia, l'italiano è bellissimo! Spoken by close to 85 million people in Italy and across the globe, the Italian language is the closest direct descendent of Latin and an official...

Here come the Iowa babies, ready to give you a tour of their home state in this appealing board book--the perfect Christmas gift for little ones!Spirited and charming images pair with quirky text to introduce young readers to a group of smart, active, stylish,...

Exploring forgotten regions of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, Susana Ordovás and photographer Guido Taroni uncover the faded splendor of both neglected and restored homes. Susana Ordovás's Inside Yucatán is an ode to the merging of the ancient with the contemporary. At the turn of the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake delivers a powerful meditation on the process of learning to express herself in Italian--and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice. - "The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a...

This is the story of a Black man from Harlem descended from slaves and his wife, an immigrant Jewish daughter of Holocaust survivors. Both martial artists, they have been together since 1981 and have over 125 years martial arts training combined. In this book,...

The Eiffel Tower. Notre-Dame. The Champs-Elysées. The Arc de Triomphe. Accomplished illustrator Emily Isabella has captured them all--and so much more!--in this one-of-a-kind coloring book celebrating the very best of France's capital. Each page is printed on high-quality card stock and designed to detach...

A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translationBetween the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. Ibn Fadla-n's chronicles of his travels are...

If you are a woman who loves horses, if you love a woman who loves horses, if you are the parent of a girl or the child of a woman who loves horses--this is for you. Karin Winegar does the deepest dive yet into...

As hikers explore the woodland coves, creek-side trails, wooded hilltops, and rocky mountains contained in this guidebook, it's easy to forget that every trail in this book is in a suburban neighborhood. While each of the more than sixty hikes described by Jonah McDonald...