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The TravelsA sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever written Marco Polo's voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China. Afterward, he served Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions in the Far East. His subsequent account of his travels offers a...
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The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: A History and Guide to a Legendary New York NeighborhoodThe Lower East Side has been home to some of the city's most iconic restaurants, shopping venues, and architecture. The neighborhood has also welcomed generations of immigrants, from newly arrived Italians and Jews to today's Latino and Asian newcomers. This history has become somewhat...
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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth CenturyFor four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and extended through Deng Xiaoping and Jiang...
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The Adventurer's Handbook: From Surviving an Anaconda Attack to Finding Your Way Out of a DesertCombining The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook and Into Thin Air, award-winning documentarian Mick Conefrey's The Adventurer's Handbook draws lessons from the glory days of exploration.What makes a good explorer? Adaptability, ambition, stamina, self-confidence, curiosity, optimism, authority--and fundraising ability. Though few of us will ever...
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The Tea Party AdventureIn The Tea Party Adventure, best friend's Sicily and Paige embark on an exciting travel experience to a new city. Follow the girls as they visit iconic landmarks, enjoy traditional food and speak some of the local language. This book encourages young readers to...
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Unforgettable Canada: 125 DestinationsFeaturing 10 new destinations. This beautifully illustrated guide features 125 of Canada's most remarkable destinations. Scattered across every province and territory, some represent dream excursions to the far reaches of the land, while others are closer to your hometown than you would have imagined....
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Waterfalls of Ontario: Revised and Expanded Featuring Over 125 WaterfallsPraise for previous editions: A very practical guidebook to exploring 80 different provincial waterfalls... A coffee table book on one hand, a guidebook on the other... nicely balanced, organized and provocative. --Toronto Star It's rare to have a book that's so user friendly, packed...
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Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip Through TennesseeA star par excellence, Dolly Parton is one of country music's most likable personalities. Even a hard-rocking punk or orchestral aesthete can't help cracking a smile or singing along with songs like "Jolene" and "9 to 5." More than a mere singer or actress,...
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Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New UtopiasNew islands are under construction or emerging because of climate change. Eccentric enclaves and fantastic utopian experiments are multiplying. Once-secret fantasy gardens are cracking open their doors to outsiders. Our world is becoming stranger by the day--and Alastair Bonnett observes and captures every fascinating...
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Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World"Extraordinary. . . . Berger is a hero of biology who deserves the highest honors that science can bestow."--Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than those of horses' by half, enabling...
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Canada In Pictures: The Prairie Region - Volume 4 - Alberta, Manitoba, and SaskatchewanCanada's Prairie Region is composed of three provinces - Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. These provinces are characterized by endless plains and hills. In this book, you will get to "travel" to the three said regions to see their most amazing sights. Information on these...
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A Dictionary of GeographyContaining over 3,100 entries on all aspects of both human and physical geography, this best-selling dictionary is the most authoritative single-volume reference work of its kind. It includes coverage of cartography, surveying, meteorology, climatology, ecology, population, industry, and development. Worked examples and diagrams are...
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Stockholm: A Cultural HistorySituated on one of the world's most beautiful harbors, Stockholm has set the benchmark for civilized urban living since the time of the Vikings. Tony Griffiths reveals a city of power, intrigue, and murder; of scientists and investors; and a sensual city, home of...
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Zagreb: A Cultural HistoryFor most of its history, Zagreb was a small town to which big things happened. It has been ruled by Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, threatened by the Ottomans, and absorbed into Yugoslavia. Today it is the capital city of the newly independent Croatia....
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The Appalachian Trail ReaderThe longest continuously marked footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail spans 2,140 miles across fourteen states--from Georgia to Maine--and travels through vastly different natural and social environments. Now, in a lively and eye-opening introduction to this national treasure, The Appalachian Trail Reader collects...
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Americans and the California Dream: 1850-1915In the late nineteenth century, California became the cutting edge of the American dream, the final frontier both geographically and in the minds of the many men and women who went there to pursue their destinies. In this fascinating volume Keven Starr examines California's...
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Boater's Guide: Fort Benton to Judith Landing Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument: Fort Benton to Judith Landing Upper Missouri River BreaksThis Boater's Guide has an introductory section with information to know before your trip, two fold-out maps showing the entire river corridor, and 21 one-page maps of the river. The maps show the location of different features, the corresponding river mile, and land status...
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Are We There Yet, Daddy?On a hundred-mile car trip to Grandma's house, a father and son travel from the city to the country. Every ten miles the son asks, Are we there yet, Daddy? and is told to consult the map. A gatefold map, as well as a...
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I Never Knew That about New YorkA treasure trove of fascinating trivia about the city that never sleepsDid you know: - Grand Central Terminal is the largest railway station in the world. - Columbus Circle is the point from which all official distances to and from New York are measured...
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Guide to Greece: Volume 2: Southern GreeceThe second volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2,000 years ago Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of...
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