Museums category: 1997 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The ultimate adventure guide
This is the most comprehensive guide to Java ever produced. Hundreds of pages of travel tips and dozens of lively articles on history, nature, and the arts, take you right under the surface of Javanese life, with visits to lots of unique places.
Under the volcano
Java’s...
Puerto Rico & San Juan Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The beautiful Caribbean island of Puerto Rico is a self-governing U.S. territory in the Greater Antilles islands off the southeastern coast of mainland U.S.A. It is part of a chain of islands that includes Cuba, Jamaica and Hispaniola. Puerto Rico has a mild tropical climate, which is appealing...
Fort Lewis
Cold War to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Camp Lewis was established in 1917 as a training camp for the US Army in World War I. Made a permanent post in 1927, Fort Lewis became an important base for training and sending soldiers to combat in World War II and the Korean War. In 1956, the 4th Infantry Division arrived at Fort Lewis while America...
Kansas Forts & Bases
Sentinels on the Prairie
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The relationship between Kansas and the science of war is ingrained, consistent and evident, yet it seems antithetical to the quiet, conservative farmer who is the quintessential image of the state. It is not. The same values created both, and both created Kansas. From early exploration of America, Bleeding...
by Anna Groves
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Thomas Hardy was as successful a writer as he was a prolific. In the Wessex novels which won him fame is affection for the country way of life into which he was born. At the cottage in Bockhampton we can experience something of this simple, rural childhood. At Max Gate, which he designed and built to...
Cuba & Jamaica Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Cuba makes you feel like you have emerged from a time machine into the Latin America of a bygone age. Classic U.S. motorcars from the 1960s are a common sight on the streets. Fidel Castro’s brand of Soviet communism still survives. Pictures of the revolutionary Che Guevara adorn huge buildings....
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!
by Lucy Abel Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
This charming and accessible guide (electronic edition) takes as its focus the towns and villages of the Greater Tarnava Valley, home to an exceptional cultural heritage. Here Romanian, Hungarian, Saxon, Jewish and Roma elements come together in an extraordinarily rich mix, against a backdrop of some...
The Ancient Maya and Their City of Tulum
Uncovering the Mysteries of an Ancient Civilization and Their City of Grandeur
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Discover the ancient Maya civilization and one of their most popular toured ancient ruined cities of Tulum, Mexico in this detailed guidebook. Th e Ancient Maya and Th eir City of Tulum: Uncovering the Mysteries of An Ancient Civilization and Th eir City of Grandeur, is an easy to read comprehensive...
Lugano, Switzerland Travel Guide
Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Located in the Ticino region of southern Switzerland, Lugano appears to be a slice of Italy cradled amidst Switzerland’s natural grandeur. Lugano is, in fact, one of the largest towns in Switzerland and is the biggest town outside Italy with an Italian-speaking majority. This Swiss city with a Mediterranean...
Lucca & Siena Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
The medieval, walled city of Lucca is a treasure and full of 16th century charm. With beautiful well-preserved buildings, Lucca is a city that is ideal to explore on foot or by bike. Slow down to best experience it all. Siena is a beautiful ancient city in Tuscany, seventy kilometres to the south...
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.
Thanks to a prime location linking Europe and North Africa, as well as a vibrant culture and stable government, Morocco has seen a huge influx of tourists in recent years. Sophisticated...
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The history and science behind some of the most interesting and famous museum exhibits in the world, from the Smithsonian, the London Natural History Museum, the Chicago Field Museum, the LaBrea Tar Pits, the Oslo Viking Ship Museum, the Independence Mall Museum, the American Museum of Natural History;...
by Marlene Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Heres what to see and do, and where to eat, drink, shop, stay, and play in the "City of Angels"from glitzy Hollywood to posh Beverly Hills, from Santa Monicas surf to Pasadenas parade, and beyond! An amalgam of mini cities connected by a web of freeways and boulevards, Los Angeles is at once classic...