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Before independence from Mexico in 1836, the Catholic faith was the only religion settlers in Texas, known as Texians, could legally practice. To acquire land in Texas, then a part of Mexico known as Coahuila y Tejas, one had to be a member of the Roman Catholic Church or agree to convert to Catholicism. Although a few Protestant church buildings were erected before Texas's independence in 1836, most were erected after 1836 because of Mexico's strict...
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A different spin on pub crawls and Christmas markets
All too often we miss what is right in front of us. This book hopes to open the reader's eyes, not only to drinking establishments, Christmas markets (home and abroad), but to provide you with some interesting facts, traditions, history and trivia to boot.
Christmas and alcohol seem to have been in step for centuries, and this set of 'crawls' aims to make your trips to the Christmas markets a...
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This revised and updated comprehensive travel guide examines North America's most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. Important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast are exhaustively examined, from the weathered pueblos of the American Southwest and the medicine wheels of western Canada to Graceland and the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. Histories and cultural contexts are objectively surveyed,...
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Dice el dicho que viajar es vivir no lo s exactamente, pero realmente es una delicia. Ya sean viajes reales o imaginarios, entrar en contacto con otras culturas es una forma educativa y entretenida de adentrarnos en la propia humanidad, de la que somos parte.Reconocer tambin que tenemos un origen, dejamos el ombligo en algn lugar (donde nacimos) y es ah a donde vamos a volver. Reconocer lo nuestro (nuestra patria, no importa cul es nuestra visin de...
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Would you like to learn about magic?
Discover it the way I did. A longed for adventure after reading Anne of Green Gables as a child. Travelling from Sydney, Australia through unknown destinations to Prince Edward Island in Nova Scotia.
"It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?"
Anne Shirley's words came true for me.
Awaiting me was pure magic in a dusty mirror in a Green Gabled house.
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The Luxury Traveler's Handbook proves that luxury travel doesn't have to be expensive. Written by the founders of the online travel and lifestyle magazine, LiveShareTravel, it's a show and tell guide on getting luxury for less. Exploring everything from flights and hotels to shared ownership and glamping, The Luxury Traveler's Handbook is your passport to smarter, luxury travel. It is part of The Traveler's Handbook Series which also includes books...
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The Luxury Traveler's Handbook proves that luxury travel doesn't have to be expensive. Written by the founders of the online travel and lifestyle magazine, LiveShareTravel, it's a show and tell guide on getting luxury for less. Exploring everything from flights and hotels to shared ownership and glamping, The Luxury Traveler's Handbook is your passport to smarter, luxury travel. It is part of The Traveler's Handbook Series which also includes books...
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The Creative Traveler's Handbook provides the first-ever travel guide on creative travel worldwide. Chock full of inspirational stories, travel tips and advice, it offers everything you need for planning and managing your next creative escape, addressing beginners and experienced travelers alike. An indispensable guide to the art of life-seeing instead of sight-seeing.
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The 2nd edition of The Solo Traveler's Handbook offers more stories and tips on solo travel fun and safety. Part how-to manual and part travel literature, it will help you venture out with confidence to discover yourself as you discover the world! It is part of The Traveler's Handbook Series which also includes books on career break, food, luxury and volunteer travel. The Solo Traveler's Handbook offers: A comprehensive how and why of solo travel....
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Comment penser l'association entre patrimoine mondial, développement et tourisme? Le tourisme, orienté autour de sites inscrits sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, peut être au service du développement des communautés. C'est à ce nouveau paradigme de tourisme durable que s'intéressent les auteurs, en examinant les acteurs et les bénéficiaires de ce développement local et les recompositions territoriales auxquelles celui-ci donne...
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Der Wanderführer für traumhafte Ziele in Tirol
Die Seen der Tiroler Berglandschaft sind einzigartige Naturjuwelen, die das perfekte Ausflugsziel für den Urlaub oder das Wochenende sind. In diesem modernen Wanderführer findest du 30 Wanderungen in ganz Tirol verteilt. Dieses Buch bringt dich ohne lange Planung und Vorbereitung an die schönsten Seen Österreichs.
Seewanderungen in Tirol für alle Fitnesslevel
Die Wanderungen in diesem Wanderführer...
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Magnetically written by former CEO of a North Carolina Girl Scout Council and award winning CEO for the Western New York chapter of a national arts-in-education organization, this uniquely engaging travel journal describes four keys to unlocking personal and spiritual fulfillment: solitude, introspection, courage, and commitment. Through a series of compelling travel essays and deeply thoughtful memoirs, Janice Booth draws readers into each adventure-ranging...
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Uncovering the past through the lens of sacred travel, this travel book includes both academic and popular religious perspectives, and is filled with photographs of both famous and lesser-known locales from every corner of the world. Each site-specific explanation of the significance of Goddess today and in centuries past deftly combines current trends, academic theories, and historical insights. From the Middle East, to Europe, Africa, and the Americas,...
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Footprint's Diving the World is essential reading for anyone interested in diving. With over 200 prime sites and color images throughout, this book offers the ultimate inspiration as well as all the practical information you need to plan your next dive. Written by expert photo-journalist team Beth & Sean Tierney, who have been diving for over 25 years, this third edition has been revised and updated to reflect the shifts in the dynamic dive travel...
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In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer's conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who inspired him both to pack his bags to travel and to pick...
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One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels in the Near East, establishing herself as a Twentieth Century heroine. A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937-8 expedition in what is now Yemen, a journey which helped secure her reputation not only as a great travel writer, but also as a first-rate geographer, historian, and archaeologist.
There, in the land whose "nakedness is clothed...
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Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious curiosity, and, as his novels prove, a very quick eye. He foresaw the merits of Cannes, then a small village, as a health-resort, and the possibilities of the Corniche road.
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Part of The Traveler's Handbook series, The Adventure Traveler's Handbook provides a mixture of on-the-ground tips and inspirational stories for both new and experienced outdoor explorers. Featuring all aspects of adventure travel from technical planning and training, to travel safety and winter survival skills, it is an indispensable guide to exploring bold new ways to travel.
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"Suppose you were a quiet, respectable, sedentary business or professional man, and the captain of a tramp steamer bound to South America and up the Amazon suddenly dropped into your peaceful office, invited you to go along with him, got your acceptance by a clever trick, and had you at sea before you could stop to think-wouldn't you expect to find 'something doing'?" Thus begins this classic of travel literature, in which a London journalist sets...
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