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1) Italian Days
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Italian Days is one of the richest and most absorbing travel books written-a journey that traverses the Italian peninsula and immerses readers in a culture which provides the reader with a definition of the good life.
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Embark on a captivating journey through the heart of history. This immersive book is your passport to the enchanting city of Rome, Italy, where the echoes of the past resonate in every cobblestone and every ancient monument. In this meticulously crafted exploration, Peter Mills takes you on a vivid and personal adventure, revealing the secrets of Rome's unparalleled cultural richness, architectural marvels, and the pulsating energy that defines...
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Lee Gutkind's memoir of motorcycling, and an ode to the solitude, independence, and exhilaration of the open road Few things loom as large in our imaginations as the idea of a cross-country trip, exposed to the elements and open to whatever challenges lie around the bend. In the early 1970s, looking to experience and explain the allure of the road trip, Lee Gutkind embarked on a long motorcycle road trip, documenting the misadventures and magic that...
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In this book, the reader is privileged to take a leisurely and thoroughly enjoyable trip through the Greece of the mid-twentieth century, led by a poet-narrator who is a comfortable and engaging guide and complemented by the artwork of John Guerin. Frederic Will recounts his odyssey: from Austria through Yugoslavia, across the northern Greek border, from Salonika to Athens and the Aegean Sea, to the site of remnants of Old Greece in Smyrna, Pergamum,...
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Lonely Planet's Friuli Venezia Giulia is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Indulge in coffee and cuisine of Trieste, hit the slopes of Giulie Alps or laze away on the beaches of the southern coast ; all with your trusted travel companion. Inside Lonely Planet's Friuli Venezia Giulia Travel Guide:
What's NEW in this edition? NEW top...
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Immerse your children in the beauty and wonder of the U.S. National Parks. Help them comprehend how BIG and WIDE, how TALL and DEEP your love for them will always be. These are memories they will never forget! As you explore, see if you can identify which national parks are pictured!
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A travelogue and historical exploration of Mexico from one of the twentieth century's greatest travel writers. Dame Rebecca West travels through Mexico and explores its people, history, religion, and culture in her unfinished work Survivors in Mexico, carefully stitched together by Bernard Schweizer in this posthumously published edition. West tackles the country's broad historical legacy - the Spanish conquest and Mexican revolution, the muralist...
8) Lady Aurora
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Lady Aurora FitzRoy, hija de los barones de Seagrave, se encuentra en Amesbury, Inglaterra, en 1819, cuando el truco de un misterioso mago la hace desaparecer en Stonehenge delante de su familia y amigos, y la envía sin querer hasta 2019.
Un viaje en el tiempo involuntario y sorprendente que la hace aparecer en un campo de golf de Salisbury. Allí conoce a un joven escocés y a su extraordinaria hermana, una fan de Jane Austen, que la acogerá en...
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Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Begley and Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In her contribution to the book, Muhlstein charmingly describes how she and her husband dine at the same restaurant every night for years on end, and how becoming friends...
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La cte amalfitaine est, sans aucun doute, le littoral le plus spectaculaire et le plus beau d'Italie. Des villages de style mauresque s'accrochent aux spectaculaires falaises dentelées perchées au-dessus des vagues ondulantes.L'air, parfumé de citrons et d'herbes sauvages, et bien sûr, la mer est fraîche. Les villages qui s'égrènent le long de la cte amalfitaine ont des rues pavées bordées de villas couvertes de bougainvilliers, d'arches...
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** USAToday Bestseller **
The founder of Scott's Cheap Flights explains why we're searching for airfare all wrong, shares the strategies that have saved his two million newsletter subscribers a collective $500 million on airfare, and presents a bold new approach for how to see the world while never overpaying for flights again.
When Scott Keyes booked flights to Italy for $130 roundtrip and Japan for $169 roundtrip, he didn't just uncover amazing...
12) The Golden Torc
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The Many-Colored Land, the first volume in Julian May's dazzling series of science fiction-fantasy novels, began with a des perate act of exile. A group of talented misfits from a future society chose to pass through a time-portal into the unknown dangers of a world six million years past, the world of the Pliocene. They emerged in a proto-Kurope inhabited by two extraterrestrial races - the chivalric Tanu and the dwarfish, forest-dwelling Tirvulag....
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"Engaging… [McCarthy's] curiosity is infectious and there's plenty to amuse." - St Petersburg Times
"Hilarious...If McCarthy isn't telling a fabulous yarn himself, he's quoting someone who is." - Washington Post
"McCarthy is stitch. Move over, Bill Bryson. You've finally met your match." - Chicago Tribune
"An entertaining romp [and] a meditation on Ireland today." - Conde Nast Traveler
"Highly engaging…a very funny book." - Los Angeles Times...
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An informed, photo-filled guide to "all of the essential stopping places [with] terrifically detailed information on the architectural joys of Rome." -Books Monthly
Rome's architectural remains date as far back as the city's founding in the 8th century BCE. The primitive settlement that began on the Palatine Hill grew over the next thousand years to the caput mundi-the capital of the world-the largest, most powerful presence in the ancient Western...
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La cte amalfitaineUn livre d'Enrico Massetti avec 67 images en couleur.Un petit livre sur la cte d'Amalfi, qui est sans doute le littoral le plus spectaculaire et le plus beau d'Italie. Des villages de style mauresque s'accrochent aux spectaculaires falaises déchiquetées perchées au-dessus des vagues ondulantes.L'air est parfumé de citrons et d'herbes sauvages, et la mer est fraîche. Les villages de la cte amalfitaine ont des rues pavées bordées...
16) Sweet Forever
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Pirates, time travel, forever love . . . Julianna Doran experiences her first heated spark of desire in a haunted Hudson River mansion. Though she knows the days of pirate ships are over, she cannot stop yearning for the enticingly handsome and boldly dangerous Brom Vanderzee, the ghostly sea captain she gets but a mere glimpse of while playing with a Ouija board. Years later, even as Julianna prepares to wed, she still dreams of the achingly forbidden...
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Already provoking debate and garnering significant attention in France and within the wine world, Vino Business is a surprising and eye-opening book about the dark side of French wine, by acclaimed investigative journalist Isabelle Saporta. While Bordeaux has been a bastion of winemaking tradition and excellence for centuries, in recent decades the industry has changed dramatically under the influence of large-scale international investors. French...
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Did you ever want to teach your kids different Colors & names of common Places in Tamil ?Learning Tamil can be fun with this picture book.In this book you will find the following features: Colors & Places Names in Tamil.Colorful Pictures of Colors & Places.Colors & Places Names in English.English Transliteration (Using English to give you an idea of how the word is pronounced).Some Important Information Regarding Our Books: Each Color & Place has...
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Mark and his Suzuki DL 650 that he calls "Mabel" love adventure. This is a collection of some of theadventures that they have shared. Like most motorcyclists, a certain relationship develops with the motorcycle; Mabel and Mark trust each other. As they have found out on many occasions adventures are those things that happen to plans and sometimes you need someone you can trust. These are some of those stories."Mabel and I have had our fun and our...
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Rich in history and nineteenth-century charm, the California capital and the surrounding Sacramento Valley offer adventures for every traveler's taste. This guidebook covers virtually every aspect of this fascinating area, including Old Sacramento, highlights of the Gold Country, and Sacramento Valley, as well as a comprehensive restaurant and hotel listing.
For an unforgettable vacation in and around Sacramento, take along the Pelican Guide to Sacramento...
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