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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...
22) Sydney in Colour
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Sydney is one of the world's most vibrant yet youngest global cities.
While renowned for its iconic Opera House, Harbour Bridge and Bondi Beach, another side opens up as you wander the city. This is the true heart of Sydney. Its history, architecture and pieces of the unique Australian life all abound.
This book seeks to capture the colours and beauty of the city through images of what may seem at first glance to be the everyday or ordinary but...
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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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Regarded by many as the first major historian, Herodotus was a Greek scholar and traveler who set down his impressions of foreign countries and his analysis of wars and other significant events in a relatively straightforward, journalistic manner. This volume contains Herodotus' views on Egypt. For centuries, some of the the author's claims about Egypt were regarded as far-fetched, but evidence has recently come to light that supports some of his...
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Solo travel is on fire!
Many yearn to take a trip to a beautiful or exotic destination where they can experience true serenity and different cultures, but if you've never traveled solo, this can be a daunting endeavor.
You'll have different questions, including:
How do you get started?
Where do you stay?
Are there dedicated accommodations for solo travelers?
How do you travel safely?
How do you manage the people in your life who won't understand...
27) The History of Rome in 12 Buildings: A Travel Companion to the Hidden Secrets of The Eternal City
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Any travel guide to Rome will urge visitors to go the Colosseum, but none answers a simple question: Why is it called the Colosseum? The History of Rome in 12 Buildings: A Travel Companion to the Hidden Secrets of The Eternal City is compelling, concise, and fun, and takes you behind the iconic buildings to reveal the hidden stories of the people that forged the Roman Empire. Typical travel guides provide torrents of information but deny their readers...
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Cook your way across the U.S.A.! Foodies of all stripes and sensibilities-from budding chefs to kitchen divas-will flock to this where-to travel guide detailing fifty of America's top recreational cooking programs. Gourmet Getaways is the essential guide to planning and getting the most out of a culinary vacation, whether one is a beginning cook or an accomplished gourmet. From well-known culinary schools to country inns, from a weekend to a week,...
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Cooking in Paradise is a rich, definitive guide to hands-on gourmet cooking vacations around the world.
Ever dream of sauteing in Sicily? Or having a master divulge the secrets of perfect patisserie in Paris? How about mincing in Morocco? Cooking in Paradise will show you how to get there, and scores of other places, with over 150 listings for cooking-vacation programs around the world (and a handful right here in the United States, too).
Joel and...
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Tales from Home and Around the Globe
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1950 The Boxcar
1953 The Reluctant Hobo
1956 The Chaw
1956 Watermelon Ride
1957 Ruff
1957 Melon Patch & the Fire Trucks
1958 Drag Race
1959 Hitchhikin' to the Cotillion
1960 Wanna Go See Sally
1962 Hitchhikin' to Puerto Rico
1962 University Riot
1963 Return from Puerto Rico
1964 Trouble at Church and Home
1966 Smoke Generator
1967 Sleepin' on the Limited
1968 Wet Rail-No Air
1969 Pool
1970...
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Who hasn't dreamt of packing up and just leaving their daily lives behind for a while?
Sherrie and Patrick have and for years, they would take months to a year off of work to jump on their motorcycles and ride away.
And then they had babies.
Patrick knew it was time to break out his lifelong dream of sailing around the world.
But Sherrie was the ultimate reluctant sailor.
For anyone who is wondering how to convince their partner to sail away...
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Few sailors have had a more varied and adventurous six years at sea than Dennis Puleston did from 1931-1937. Working as a teller in a London bank, he thirsted for adventure. After pooling his savings with a friend, he quit his job and went to sea on a 31 foot yawl. After a brief sail down the Portuguese coast they crossed the Atlantic and spent a pleasant season among the Caribbean islands until their money gave out. At that point they found work...
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What better way to kick-start your second half-century than by announcing to friends and family that, 'At some point in the future, I shall be cycling solo round the world for two years'? After all, this is not only the province of macho males in their mid-twenties; middle-aged mums in mid-menopause also deserve a look-in. Eighteen months after this confident announcement, ignoring the imploring pleas from her frantic (grown-up) children and prising...
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First inexpensive edition of great travel classic offers detailed, sharply observed portrait of 17th-century Persia. Vivid record of life at court of Shah: lavish banquets and entertainments, diplomatic negotiations, intrigues and cruelty, more. Also, soil and climate, flora and fauna, manners and customs, trade and manufacture, and many other aspects. 9 illustrations.
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El Primer viaje alrededor del mundo, relatado en su libro por Antonio Pigafetta, ya había sucedido a principios de aquel siglo y terminó en septiembre de 1522.
Sin embargo, Martín Ignacio de Loyola décadas después soñaba con darle vuelta al mundo. Loyola inició su Viaje alrededor del Mundo el 13 de junio de 1581, en dirección a México.
Llegó, finalmente, a Filipinas en 1582, junto a otros treinta y un misioneros franciscanos. De Filipinas...
37) The Year We Roamed: A Father-and-Son Trip Around the World: A Father-and-Son Trip Around the World
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For fourth grade, Pete and Baraka decided to homeschool.
Except they didn't stay home.
Thirteen months later they completed their circumnavigation of the globe. Along the way, they learned many great lessons about the world, themselves, and each other. Join them as they set out from home in Puerto Rico and voyage through Florida, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, London, Denmark, Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, India, the Philippines, China, Japan, and Northwest...
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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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In the best adventures, the intrepid explorer returns home to banner headlines and a hero's welcome. . . but what of the men and women who don't return home? This collection proves their stories are just as compelling. From the disappearance in Utah of cowboy roamer Everett Ruess to the loss of billionaire explorer Michael Rockefeller in the wilds of New Guinea, the tales ring with mystery, intrigue, and excitement. Whether murdered, drowned, or eaten...
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Stephens' two expeditions to Mexico and Central America in 1839 and 1841 yielded the first solid information on the culture of the Maya Indians. The books in this two-volume set relate his archeological discoveries and exploration of ruined cities, monuments, and temples with penetrating and exciting narrative. Remarkably realistic illustrations by Frederick Catherwood double the appeal of the books.
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