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Cover of RV Living Full Time: The Beginner’s Guide to Full Time Motorhome Living - Incredible RV Tips, RV Tricks, & RV Resources!
by Kevin Gise
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017

Have you been seeking adventure? Tired of being chained down to one spot? Do you want to get in touch with nature? **Want to visit beautiful and fun locales? ** If you answered YES, know that it’s possible when RV living on the open road. A life spent traveling and adventuring...
Cover of Moon Arizona & the Grand Canyon
by Tim Hull
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

Explore Arizona's vast open spaces, dreamy canyons, and colorful culture with Moon Arizona & the Grand Canyon. Inside you'll find: Strategic, flexible itineraries from day hikes in the Grand Canyon to a two-week Arizona road trip, designed for outdoor adventurers, history buffs, foodies,...
Cover of Grand Teton National Park
by Kendra Leah Fuller, Shannon Sullivan, Jackson Hole Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014

The majestic beauty of Grand Teton National Park has moved people throughout time. Native Americans believed in the spiritual power of the towering mountain peaks and journeyed there to gain special powers. Early fur traders, who had just crossed less ominous mountain ranges, viewed with trepidation...
Cover of Exploring Gramercy Park and Union Square
by Alfred Pommer, Joyce Pommer
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015

Created by Samuel Ruggles as a haven for wealthy New Yorkers, both Gramercy Park and Union Square have been among Manhattan's most desirable neighborhoods for more than 150 years. From writers and artists to powerful politicians, illustrious figures like O. Henry, Andy Warhol, Samuel Tilden and Joseph...
Cover of Grand Canyon National Park
by Thomas Alan Ratz
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009

Arizona is proud to have one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World�the Grand Canyon. With the arrival of the Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroad in the early 20th century, the development of the canyon began in earnest. The railroads, along with the Santa Fe�s business partner, the Fred Harvey...
Cover of Central Park
by Edward J. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2006

Harper's Weekly reported in 1857 that no engineer had yet been able to present a feasible plan for Central Park and that "it may not ever happen." Their pessimism was misplaced, as Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's Greensward Plan was approved in May 1858. By 1860, visitors were enjoying the magnificent...
Cover of Harriman State Park
by Ronnie Clark Coffey
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010

Once home to Native Americans and mountain settlers, Harriman State Park is today a 73-square-mile wilderness and recreation area lying 30 miles north of New York City. Offering over 200 miles of hiking trails, swimming, boating, fishing, and camping, it has been an oasis for city dwellers for 100 years....
Cover of This Land Is Our Land

This Land Is Our Land

How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back

by Ken Ilgunas
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines...
Cover of Giant City State Park
by Karen Sisulak Binder
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010

Anyone wanting to understand how Giant City State Park in rural Makanda earned its name need only hike on the Giant City Nature Trail. Here they walk through the park�s namesake rock formations, carved 20,000 years ago by the melting waters of a Pleistocene glacier that stopped a mere 1.5 miles from...
Cover of Meridian Hill

Meridian Hill

A History

by Stephen R. McKevitt
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014

In the nineteenth century, Commodore David Porter built his mansion on a prominent hill sitting directly north of the White House, and the rest of Meridian Hill's history is indelibly tied to the fabric of Washington. John Quincy Adams once resided in Porter's mansion. Union troops used the estate and...
Cover of Best Casinos in the World Top 100
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100 of the etc. did not happen quickly....
Cover of The Little Black Book of Maui and Kauai
by Joanne Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009

With maps and insider tips, this smart travel guidebook will lead you through the Aloha States most popular gems: Maui, the Valley Isle (and its smaller islands of Molokai and Lanai) and Kauai, the Garden Isle! Heres what to see and do, and where to eat, drink, shop, stay, and playfrom sun-drenched...
Cover of The Lost Mill Village of Middlesex Fells
by Douglas L. Heath, Alison C. Simcox
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

One of the earliest mill communities in the Massachusetts Bay Colony formed along Spot Pond Brook, a few miles north of Boston. Thomas Coytmore built the first mill in 1640 at the brook's downstream end in "Mistick Side" (present-day Malden). Other mills sprang up along the brook as well. Today, most...
Cover of It Happened in Glacier National Park
by Vince Moravek
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

It Happened in Glacier National Park takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Park's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
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