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Bryson share his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend. The two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way.
Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The "AT" offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests...
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"A walking journey across Arizona with essays on wildfire, copper mining, border crossing, dirty politics, Native culture, violence, suburban monotony, shrinking water, local cuisine, literary culture and the Grand Canyon. I have sought to write the mostcomprehensive one-volume portrait of Arizona ever written: a deep narrative map"--
Rim to River is the story of this extraordinary journey through redrock country, down canyons, up mesas, and across...
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In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called "The Lost City of Z."--Publisher description.
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"What happens when best friends with nothing in common come together, fall apart, and fall in love? The Vacationers meets When Harry Met Sally..., from the author of Beach Read When Poppy met Alex, there was no spark, no chemistry, and no reason to thinkthey'd ever talk again. Alex is quiet, studious, and destined for a future in academia. Poppy is a wild child who only came to U of Chicago to escape small-town life. But after sharing a ride home...
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Levison Wood's most challenging expedition yet begins along the Silk Road route of Afghanistan and travels 1700 miles through five countries over the course of six months. Following in the footsteps of the great explorers, Wood walks the entire length of the Himalayas in an adventure of survival and endurance. In a personal story of perseverance and discovery, Wood forges bonds with local guides, porters, mountain men, soldiers, farmers, smugglers...
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Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a...
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" ... based on the journal Clarence Boynton kept which documented the driving trip he took with his wife, Mariquita ("Quita"), Dr. Watkins, his wife Bessie and their daughter Merial. ... The journal is well written, interesting and really gives the reader an idea of what road trael was like in the fall of 1913 Arizona"--Page xiii.
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View the art of Velazquez, El Greco, and Goya in Madrid. Visit El Estorial, a palace monastery so grand, it's called the 8th wonder of the world. See Segovia, home of the Alcazar and a Roman aqueduct that still works. Travel back in time to Toledo. Explore the gypsy caves of Cordoba. Discover Moorish Spain in Granada. See Seville, the city that inspired four operas and Don Quixote. Enjoy the Costa del Sol. Peruse the Salvador Dali museum. Then see...
14) A year in Italy
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Geographic travel journalist Steven McCurdy shares his love of Italy and his experiences with those who have been there and those who are planning to go.
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"George and Harold have been turned into evil zombie nerds doomed to roam a devastated, postapocalyptic planet for all eternity! Unfortunately, the boys can't count on Captain Underpants for help because Tippy Tinkletrousers and his time-traveling hijinks prevented George and Harold from creating him in the first place! With Tippy having changed the course of human history forever, George and Harold will have to figure out a way to change it back!"...
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Japan is a country of contrasts, as Eastern values and traditions of its unique past co-exist with practices of Westernized present. Industrialized modern cities connect by bullet trains, but visitors can also discover of world of wonderful shrines with torii gateways, Buddist statues and peaceful gardens in quiet backwaters.
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The Emerald Isle is a country of dazzling contrasts and contradictions, with its beautiful landscapes and craggy coastlines, to its cosmopolitan cities. Explore the island's rich heritage, where ancient relics and monuments tell the story of a culture forged by myth, legend, and adversity.
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