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Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs
A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
The Alaskan landscape—so vast, dramatic, and unbelievable—may be the reason the people in Haines, Alaska (population 2,400), so often discuss the meaning of life. Heather Lende thinks it helps make life mean more. Since her bestselling first book, If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name, a near-fatal...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues,...
Smokejumper
A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature’s blazes.
Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every...
Fugitives and Refugees
A Walk in Portland, Oregon
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk’s tonsils currently reside?
Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?
Curious about Chuck’s debut in an MTV music video?
What goes on at the Scum Center?
How do you get to the Apocalypse Café?
In...
by Melinda Blanchard, Robert Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2001
This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with calamities and comedy, culinary disasters and triumphs,...
Cuban Flavor
Exploring the Island's Unique Places, People, and Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
A lush journey through Cuba, its paladars, and its flavorful cuisine
For Cubans, food is a complex story—a tapestry of love and loss woven so deeply into their culture that it goes well beyond that of history or sustenance. Gershman, who’s love affair with Cuba began long before her first visit,...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues,...
Perfect Island Getaways from 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
The Caribbean, Bahamas & Bermuda
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Stop dreaming and get going! Whether you’re planning a romantic getaway, the ultimate honeymoon, a family vacation, or a last-minute escape from the woes of a too-long winter, the Caribbean offers the right destination for every taste and budget—and Patricia Schultz knows just where and how to...
Bicycling the Pacific Coast
A Complete Route Guide, Canada to Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2005
More than a meticulously detailed route, this is an adventure highlighting what to see and explore along the way. Everything you need to know about each day's ride is included: from tunnel- riding strategies to where to buy a new derailer, from one-of-a-kind museums along the way to side trips to lonely...
Driving Home
An American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
For more than thirty years, Jonathan Raban has written with infectious fascination about people and places in transition or on the margins, about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached, and, as an Englishman transplanted in Seattle, about what it means to feel rooted in America....
by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies...
Chasing Alaska
A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C. B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a career as a reporter. He soon learned that a distant relation had...
Grand Canyon National Park South Rim Tour Guide eBook
Your personal tour guide for Grand Canyon travel adventure in eBook format!
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Explore the fascinating highlights, history, geology & nature of Grand Canyon National Park with this entertaining, educational, point-by-point Waypoint Tour complete with travel expert stories & detailed tour maps. Your personal tour guide for Grand Canyon travel adventure! www.waypointtours.com Waypoints...
by Simon Jonas
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Santa Fe, New Mexico, consistently rated one of the world's top travel destinations for its confluence of scenic beauty, long history, cultural diversity, and extraordinary concentration of arts, music and fine dining.
In the...