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Secret Stairs
A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Containing walks and detailed maps from throughout the city, Secret Stairs highlights the charms and quirks of a unique feature of the Los Angeles landscape, and chronicles the geographical, architectural, and historical aspects of the city’s staircases, as well as of the neighborhoods in which the...
Insiders' Guide®: Portland, OR in Your Pocket
Your Guide to an Hour, a Day, or a Weekend in the City
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Insiders’ Guide in Your Pocket is a new series of miniguides that distill the best of the trusted Insiders’ Guide® series into easy-to-use, portable, quick references—each with two popout® maps and detailed listings on hotels, restaurants, and attractions, as well as suggested itineraries....
by Teresa Bitler
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
Introducing Great Escapes: Selective guides for travelers who want to find quick trips and getaways within a specific locale. They take away the drudgery of sifting through online and printed travel info by listing only the most worthwhile events, activities, and places to stay and eat.
Great...
Route 66 Adventure Handbook
High-Octane Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Route 66 Adventure Handbook is your personal guide to the vanishing American roadside, with all of its exuberance, splendor, and absurdity.For this updated and expanded fifth edition, Drew Knowles has included it all: magnificent architecture, natural wonders, Art Deco masterpieces, vintage motels and...
Las Vegas & Grand Canyon Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In Nevada’s Mojave Desert lies the exciting city of Las Vegas. The city is an international center for entertainment, shopping, gambling, grand shows, nightlife, relaxation and letting loose. It is said that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" in this theme park for adults. The Grand...
Air Travel
The Insider's Air Travel Guide to The Cheapest Air Travel, Air Travel Regulations, Air Travel Companion Fly in Style, and Air Travel Tips
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
In this comprehensive air travel guide discover everything you need to know about air travel, the cheapest air travel, air travel regulations, air travel companion fly in style, and other priceless air travel tips.
La Belle Créole
The Cuban Countess Who Captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The adventurous woman nicknamed La Belle Créole is brought to life in this book through the full use of her memoirs, contemporary accounts, and her intimate letters. The fascinating María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, also known as Mercedes, and later the Comtesse Merlin, was a Cuban-born...
by Kit Ronallo
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Lake Tahoe, the popular vacation and recreation region straddling the border between California and Nevada. Summer activities include golf, boating and hiking. Winter activities include world class skiing, snowmobiling and ice skating. Year round activities...
Napa Valley & Lake Tahoe Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Vineyards dot California’s Napa Valley (Wine Country) and tourists flock to the United States’ premier wine-growing region, with its year round sunshine and quaint Napa Valley towns like Calistoga and Napa. This is a lovely area to visit the attractive and diverse wineries, while tasting fine...
Cuba
Religion, Social Capital, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
When Cuba’s centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s, Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new social and political responsibilities. They began to work openly with state institutions on projects such as the promotion of Afro-Cuban heritage...
Hiking to History
A Guide to Off-Road New Mexico Historic Sites
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
With more than 13,000 years of human habitation, New Mexico offers a wealth of historic sites located on vast tracts of land well off the beaten path. As author Robert Julyan observes, not much history has been made from a speeding car, and locations that have to be reached on foot are almost always...
by Amron Gravett, Christine Robinette
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The appreciation of the Chimney Rock region goes back more than 1,000 years. Here in southwestern Colorado, the Ancestral Puebloans inhabited the northern San Juan River Basin as an outlier community of Chaco Canyon. Its function and use has created much conjecture. The site was abandoned by the early...
Choose the Pacific Northwest for Retirement
Information for Travel, Retirement, Investment, and Affordable Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
This is the comprehensive guide to have if considering retirement in the Pacific Northwest. From real estate to weather statistics, this guide will empower you to help you make such an important life decision.
by Michael Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
When 13-year-old Horace's favourite aunt, Roomeen, arrives from her long sojourn in Panama, everyone is excited to see her; but everyone is even more interested in what is in her trunk. In the days following Auntie Roomeen's arrival, her gold chain goes missing, and the theft ignites the long-standing...