Travel - General
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World (Dodo Press)
By: Elizabeth Bisland
Elizabeth Bisland (1861-1929) was an American author. She was an assistant editor at Cosmopolitan magazine in New York. When the newspaper's owner, John Brisben Walker, heard about Nellie Bly's trip around the world, he decided that he would make it...
Published: Jan 2009
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 108
Indian Summer: A Good Man in Asia
By: Will Randall
Will Randall thought teaching in an inner-London comprehensive was a tough job. But that was nothing compared to the next assignment: saving a slum school in the Indian city of Poona. Learning as much as he is teaching, Will finds his life...
Published: Mar 2007
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 242
Indulgence: One Man's Selfless Search for the Best Chocolate in the World
By: Paul Richardson
From Willy Wonka to Ferrero Rocher, chocolate is embedded in our culture as perhaps no other foodstuff. And although it has been swooned over endlessly in print, Indulgence takes the subject to entirely new realms. In a pleasurable mélange of...
Published: Apr 2004
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 319
Inn Love: Recipes for Romance
By: Pamela Lanier
The success of our Bed and Breakfast Guides has led to the development of a related area-cooking. Many regular visitors to Inns have fond memories of their favorite stays and romantic interludes and meals that were special in so many ways. Inn Love...
Published: Sep 2011
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 160
Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain
By: Lori Tharps
Magazine writer and editor Lori Tharps was born and raised in the comfortable but mostly White suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she was often the only person of color in her school and neighborhood. At an early age, Lori decided that her...
Published: May 2009
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 224
Letters From China and Japan (Dodo Press)
By: John Dewey
Professor John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William...
Published: Mar 2010
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 110
Maine's Most Scenic Roads, 2nd Edition: 25 Routes off the Beaten Path
By: John Gibson
Tucked away among Maine's blue highways are stretches of road that are scenic, beautiful, and a joy to discover. In this fully updated edition of Maine's Most Scenic Roads you'll find trips that are close by, or just far enough away to fit whatever...
Published: Jul 2011
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 192
Meet the Germans
By: David Cason
Probably more than any other nation on earth the Germans are a nation judged by stereotypes. Countless times, I have played a game with friends and acquaintances, asking the question: 'When you think about the Germans, what spontaneously comes to...
Published: Jul 2008
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 148
Nicaragua In Focus: a Guide to the People, Politics and Culture (In Focus Guides)
By: Nick Caistor
Whatever happened to Nicaragua? In the 1980s it was a byword for revolution, a bogeyman for US governments and a symbol of Latin America's quest for new paths to development and social justice. But since the Sandinistas' electoral defeat in 1990 it...
Published: Feb 2002
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 100
Road Trips: A Cerca Country Guide (Cerca Country Guides)
By: A. D. Hopkins
Some of the best pleasure trips a person could take in the American Southwest are explored through gorgeous photography, first-person accounts by experienced travelers, maps, helpful hints, and detailed route instructions. About half of the trips are...
Published: Jan 2010
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 71
Rollo in Rome
By: Jacob Abbott
Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was an American writer of children's books. He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. His Rollo Books, such...
Published: Feb 2008
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 156
Safety and Security for Women Who Travel (Travelers' Tales)
By: Sheila Swan
This book equips women with a cache of valuable advice on how to gain awareness and stay centered in all situations to enjoy the pleasures, not the pitfalls, of travel. Revised and updated with new chapters and expanded information, the collection...
Published: Oct 2004
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 153
Side Walks: A Journal for Exploring Your City
By: Kate Pocrass
This charmingly illustrated journal encourages users to discover the hidden and extraordinary details of one's own city. Filled with unique explorations and quirky prompts, it's the perfect place to keep track of favorite local haunts, as well as a...
Published: Apr 2012
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 128
Six Weeks at Heppenheim
By: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell nee Stevenson (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her novels...
Published: May 2008
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 48
Spanish Recognitions: The Roads to the Present
By: Mary Lee Settle
"Settle takes us along as she digs into Spain's past....Consistently compelling."—Wayne Hoffman, Washington Post Book WorldAt eighty-two years old, Mary Lee Settle set off alone to find the Spain she thought she knew. But,...
Published: Aug 2005
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 368
Special Places to Stay: Morocco, 3rd
By: Alastair Sawday
This guide uncloaks Morocco's ancient tradition of hospitality and enables readers to connect with the charms and customs of this enchanting country. Around 100 stunning places: Kasbah luxury on mountain...
Published: Jun 2010
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 190
The Best American Travel Writing 2011
By: Sloane Crosley
The hilarious and well-traveled Sloane Crosley, author of the New York Times bestseller I Was Told There'd be Cake, helms this collection of the genre's gems.
Published: Oct 2011
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 320
The Best American Travel Writing 2012
By: Jason Wilson
The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds...
Published: Oct 2012
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 320
The British Virgin Islands: An Introduction and Guide (Macmillan Caribbean Guides)
By: Claudia Colli
This book offers vivid insights into the islands' people, culture, history, and geography. From the BVI's national parks, to its beaches, activities, and wildlife, this lively and informative guide is all a visitor needs to know and understand the...
Published: Dec 2006
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 151
The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo (Wanderlust and Lipstick)
By: Beth Whitman
Designed for women of all ages traveling for business, pleasure, or family, this indispensable travel handbook offers encouragement, lighthearted anecdotes, and numerous travel-tested tips. Drawing upon 20 years of travel experience, the guide...
Published: Apr 2009
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 272
The Family Sabbatical Handbook: The Budget Guide To Living Abroad With Your Family
By: Elisa Bernick
What's it like living in another country? People have been fascinated by the topic for millennia, accounting for best sellers from Herodotus to Mayle and Mayes. While many readers are satisfied with a vicarious experience, a growing number want to...
Published: Apr 2007
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 296
The Flight of Ikaros: Travels in Greece During the Civil War
By: Kevin Andrews
“An intense and compelling account of an educated, sensitive archeologist wandering the back country during the civil war. Half a century on, still one of the best books on Greece as it was before ‘development.’”—The Rough Guide to the...
Published: Apr 2010
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 200
The Good Beer Guide to New England
By: Andy Crouch
With wit, enthusiasm, and a deep respect for the craft of brewing, Andy Crouch profiles nearly one hundred establishments in New England, offering a description and history of each, as well as insights into each brewmaster's philosophy and brewing...
Published: May 2006
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 276
The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia
By: W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s. By 1914 he was famous, with 10...
Published: Jun 2009
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 156
The London and Country Brewer
By: Anonymous
The London and Country Brewer is a brewing book published in 1736, containing the whole art of brewing all sorts of malt-liquors, ales and beers, as practiced both in town and country.
Published: Sep 2009
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 84
The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places
By: John Keay
A timely reissue of this classic collection, formerly titled The Mammoth Book of Explorers, contains over 40 fascinating first-hand accounts of exploration including the first crossing of North America, exploration of the Congo, and...
Published: Jun 2010
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 480
The Out Traveler: Hawaii (The Out Traveler)
By: Matthew Link
New! The Out Traveler volumes strive to inspire sophisticated travelers by showcasing thoughtful and transformative travel experiences that set the standard of gay travel. These new and information-packed books emphasize the long-overlooked but...
Published: May 2008
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 296
The Sea and the Jungle (Marlboro Travel)
By: H. M. Tomlinson
The book is the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Para in the Brazils, and thence 2000 miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers to the San Antonio Falls; afterwards returning to Barbados for orders,...
Published: May 1996
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 258
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Power Travel: How to Arrive with Your Dignity, Sanity, and Wallet Intact
By: Scott McCartney
Imagine a world without late planes, missed connections, lost luggage, bumped passengers, cramped seating, high fees and higher fares, surly employees, and security lines. . . . Ordinary travel is an extraordinary ordeal. Yet despite the...
Published: May 2009
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 320
The Waste Land
By: Martin Rowson
In Martin Rowson’s The Waste Land, private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland. Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic...
Published: May 2012
Genre: Travel - General
Pages: 80