Tours category: 1997 books
Tokyo Sights and Insights
Exploring the City's Back Streets
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Tokyo Sights and Insights is the unique work of Ryosuke Kami, artist, essayist, and native Tokyoite. Weekends Mr. Kami bicycles about his favorite city in search of Tokyo sights to capture on his sketch pad; weeknights he draws on these same sketches to produce the insights that fill this book.
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Rooms of One's Own
50 Places That Made Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Misérables in an attic in Guernsey and Noël Coward wrote that most English...
Bruxelles surprises - Édition 2017
500 coups de cœur
Language: French
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Partez à la découverte des lieux insolites et branchés de Bruxelles ! Surprenant... même pour les Bruxellois !- Où manger les meilleures frites de Bruxelles ?- Quels sont les 5 cafés les plus romantiques de la ville ?- Quelles sont les 5 boutiques de mode les plus tendance ?Autant de bonnes adresses...
Andorre
Découvrez ce petit pays plein de charme entre la France et l'Espagne, avec des villages pittoresques et une nature préservée - le pays de la randonnée et du ski !
Language: French
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Vous aimez découvrir de nouvelles contrées ?
Alors, bienvenue en Andorre, cette belle principauté située dans les Pyrénées entre la France et l'Espagne, dans un cadre naturel exceptionnel, avec des montagnes, des vallées, des lacs glaciaires et des paysages superbes, des stations de...
Roswell
History, Haunts and Legends (Haunted America)
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Discover the paranormal past of this historic Georgia river town on the outskirts of Atlanta—includes photos!
Roswell, Georgia, is haunted by the lingering ghosts of generations long dead. In this historic town, spirits roam through ruined mills, antebellum mansions, and slave cabins, searching...
Rooms with a View
The Secret Life of Grand Hotels
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Salvador Dalí once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid’s Palace in Madeira, and the details of India’s independence were...
by Andrea Zimmermann
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The first Danbury Fair was held under a borrowed tent in 1869. Over the next 112 years, the fair expanded to a ten-day event, earning a national reputation for its themed villages, giant figures, grandstand shows and wildly popular stock car races. The twelve formal venues for music and entertainment...
by David Yonke
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Look back at some of the beloved places and landmarks in Toledo's past, from stores and stadiums to neighborhoods and nightclubs. Recall the birth of the Jeep, as well as unique shopping experiences at Tiedtke's, Lasalle's, Lamson's and Portside Festival Marketplace. Catch the action of a Toledo Mud...
New York City & Washington, D.C. Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
New York City is a center for technology, culture, cafes, bars and restaurants, fashion, music and the arts, R&D, finance, and business. It has one of the largest and most famous skylines in the world, dominated by the famous Empire State Building. New York City is the largest city by population...
by Peter Samis, Mimi Michaelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visitors of varying ages, identities, and social classes? Does appealing to a larger audience force museums to "dumb down" their work? What internal changes are...
Hollywood's Chinese Theatre
The Hand and Footprints of the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Throughout its history and up to the present day, the theatre has served as a worldwide magnet to fans and tourists--more than 2 million visitors annually--who flock to the site daily to view the flamboyant architecture and the historic cement squares. The footprints, handprints, and signatures of 213...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
London is one of the biggest most important cities in Europe. As it is the capital of England, it is always full of life and it never sleeps. No matter for holiday or for business, London is a great place to be. One of the largest and most important financial centers in the world is located in London....
by Don Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Although humble in their function, these carefully crafted barns have shaped the lives of Mainers for centuries. Built long before the days of plastic and plywood, the barns have survived for generations, each with a story to tell. In Bridgton, one barn offered comfort to a sixteen-year-old boy when...
by Kenneth Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Napa Valley, California. Napa is located 50 miles north of San Francisco at the southern end of scenic Napa Valley which is the main wine growing region of the United States and one of the major wine regions of the world. It is also known for its gourmet...