Travel

An insider's glimpse of the suprirsing, scandalous time famed novelist Edith Wharton called Lenox home.In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect. She and her husband,...

America's Main Street, US Highway 1, Baltimore Avenue, Washington Boulevard--there are many names for the link between Baltimore City and Washington, DC. Connecting residential communities and commercial crossroads clustered along both sides of this historically important artery of transportation, this road has spanned three...

The story of Barrington, Rhode Island, began in the 1640s with a small outpost on the shores of Narragansett Bay. Despite its total destruction during King Philip's War in 1675-1676, by 1717, it was incorporated as a town named Barrington after the brother of...

Pearl River was part of a royal land patent issued to two New York businessmen, Daniel Honan and Michael Hawdon.Honan, the accountant general of New Amsterdam, and Hawdon, a friend of the infamous Captain Kidd. Immigrants later settled in areas they called Nauraushaun, Middletown,...

Michigan established St. Joseph County in 1829. It was a fertile land with an abundance of fresh water supplied by the St. Joseph River. The county's colorful past is the result of forgotten locals and visitors. Hezekiah Thomas fished for diamonds in Corey Lake....

Idora Park opened on May 30, 1899, as Terminal Park, a picnic area at the final trolley stop on the south side of Youngstown, Ohio. The name was changed to Idora Park on November 25, 1899.Initial features and attractions included a Dentzel carousel with...

The California Dream made Route 66 the most famous road in the world. Flappers dreamed of stardom under the bright lights of Hollywood. A wave of families fleeing the Dust Bowl transformed the state during the Great Depression. During World War II, another wave...

Visit and explore Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during your trip to the Baltic States.From top restaurants, bars, and clubs to standout scenic sites and walks, our insider tips are sure to make your trip outstanding. Whether you're looking for unique and interesting shops and...

ROAD TRIP These expertly crafted crosswords from Puzzlewright Junior will provide hours of fun for kids on the go. Young wordsmiths will have fun working on these 40 age-appropriate crosswords, with kid-friendly themes and clues. They're perfect for introducing children to the challenging and...

In an "eye-opening memoir" (People) "as beautiful as it is discomfiting" (The New Yorker), award-winning writer Apricot Irving untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti.Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary's daughter in Haiti. Her father was an agronomist, a man who...

Larry Buchanan, a world-renowned geologist, discovers an enormous deposit of silver beneath a remote Quechua village in Bolivia and unwittingly fulfills a 400-year-old prophecy that promised a life of wealth for the villagers. Karen Gans, a specialist in child development, is deeply disturbed by...

Author: Stephen GrahamPublisher: Bloomsbury ReaderPublished: 07/09/2019Pages: 208Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.10h x 4.60w x 0.70dISBN: 9781448217243About the AuthorGraham, Stephen: - Stephen Graham is Co-Head of Music and Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is the author of Sounds of the Underground:...

As a young man piloting a small sailboat across the Pacific, Steve Thomas developed a fascination with ancient methods of navigation. He learned of a seafaring culture which, 6,000 years ago, used arcane navigation arts to guide initiates unerringly across the Pacific with no...

Read Mountains to learn all about these exciting, beautiful, and unique landforms. Discover the different mountain types, how mountains are formed, and what living things can be found in and around mountains.Author: Chris OxladePublisher: Heinemann Educational BooksPublished: 01/01/2014Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.40h x...

Beth Winegarner became the first to apply British and European concepts of earth energy and sacred alignments to the Sonoma County landscape when she began researching the region's historic and haunted sites in 1995. She then became the first to publish that research when...

The Silent Traveller Returns! Distinguished author, artist, calligrapher, and poet Chiang Yee wrote and illustrated a dozen "Silent Traveller" books, from 1937-1972. The first to focus on an American city was The Silent Traveller in New York, originally published in 1950. Long out-of-print, the...

MaryJane Butters' go-to guide for putting glamour into camping. Glamping, or glamour camping, one of the MaryJane's pet concepts, is about the juxtaposition of rugged and really pretty, grit and glam, diesel and absolutely darling. --The New York Times Glamping--unleashing your inner wild while...

From romantic spots like Le Bernardin to beloved holes-in-the-wall like Corner Bistro, John Donohue renders people's favorite restaurants in a manner that captures the emotional pull a certain place can have on the hearts of New Yorkers. All the Restaurants in New York is...

Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world. Paris Review Best Books of the Year The 15-million copy bestselling travelogue-memoir from legendary Taiwanese author Sanmao, translated into...

Mordantly funny, thought-provoking travel essays, from the acclaimed author of Out of Sheer Rage and "one of our most original writers" (New York Magazine). This isn't a self-help book; it's a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In these...