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Lonely Planet Pocket San Francisco - Paperback

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by Ashley Harrell (Author), Alison Bing (Author)Lonely Planet's Pocket San Francisco is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighborhood by neighborhood. Marvel at the Golden Gate Bridge, escape to Alcatraz, and revisit the '60s on Haight Street; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of San Francisco and make the most of your trip!Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket San Francisco: Full-color maps and travel photography throughoutHighlightsand itineraries he...

Lonely Planet Banff, Jasper and Glacier National Parks 7 - Paperback

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by Lonely Planet (Author)Lonely Planet's Banff, Jasper and Glacier National Parks is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip. Hike the Skyline Trail, watch for bears, and ride the rapids; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Banff, Jasper and Glacier National Parks and begin your journey now!Inside the Lonely Planet's Banff, Jasper and Glacier National Parks Travel Guide: User-friendly highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your ...

China Blue 1984: Way off the beaten track...

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Report copyright infringementby Rosalinda Ruiz Scarfuto (Author)For two western women arriving from California via Hong Kong in 1984, China was a sea of BLUE Mao suits. Would you risk your life in an unknown 'communist' territory with only a dictionary, map, and a flimsy guidebook? In 1972 President Nixon reopened diplomatic relations for Americans with Mainland China, but not until 1982 were any visitors allowed to enter on their own. These travelers were an odd couple, a 24-year-old univers...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas D. Kristof (Author)From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism "This is the kind of memoir that changes the world. Read it."--Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry "Inspiring...May this book be read by every budding journalist, and even experienced ones, and indeed by anyone who hopes for the future of humanity."--Ann Curry, journa...

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Report copyright infringementby Hermann Tietgen (Author), Marcia Tietgen Smith (Editor), Karen Smith Cade (Editor)A man with a recent degree in Agriculture from the University of Berlin, Hermann came to Canada in 1930 to escape inflation and lack of jobs in Germany.A chance encounter led him to the North and a job prospecting for gold.He fell in love with the North like so many others had done before him.In 1939 the declaration of war against Germany stopped all searches for gold in the North...

A Horse-Drawn Sickle Bar Cutter: Finding My Road to Felicity

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Merrick Fuller (Author)What if the circumstances you were born into didn't define your future?"A Horse-Drawn Sickle Bar Cutter is a stirring memoir colored by history, nostalgia, and life lessons. Enlivened by serendipities and adventure, it's the story of one man's pursuit (often on his motorcycle) of visual and culinary artistry and a life well-lived."-Claudia Cooper, Middlebury College Professor, retiredRobert Merrick Fuller grew up in a 150-year-old ...

Headstrong: Embracing Alopecia and Becoming Pañuelo Girl

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Report copyright infringementby Christy Bailey (Author), Susanna Donato (Editor)Christy has a secret. While even her closest friends see the confident young professional rocking a blond '90s perm, she privately battles an ever-growing patchwork of bald spots, enlisting stinging creams, painful injections, and clever camouflage, from comb-overs to berets. Then, after her brief marriage collapses, her eyebrows vanish, too.At first, Christy manages her alopecia areata with wigs, creating a maste...

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Report copyright infringementby Edwin John Dingle (Author)Across China On Foot This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography,...

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Report copyright infringementby Rand R. Timmerman (Author)This is the true story of two septuagenarian brothers hiking the Appalachian Trail after one's loss of his wife. While the widower brother wrestles with grief, the other brother faces demons surrounding his path to sobriety. This is an uplifting story of overcoming adversity of the body, mind, and spirit along the trails and trials of life, both physical and proverbial. Complete with stunning photographs from the trail, A Spiritual Pas...

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Report copyright infringementby C. K. Shepherd (Author)Across America by Motor-cycle is a travel narrative that chronicles the author's journey across the United States on a motorbike. After returning to England post-World War I, the author embarks on this adventure as a way to process the unrest many soldiers felt after the war. His journey begins in New York, where he navigates the chaotic city traffic and adjusts to American road conditions and customs. The book humorously captures his ini...

Times New Romanian: Voices and narrative from Romania

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Report copyright infringementby James Nigel Shakespear (Editor)Living and working in Bucharest since 1996 Romanians would ask me 'What do you think of our country?' I found 38 Westerners making a life there and asked them to tell me how they found Romania and its people. This oral history, first published in 2014, comes from interviews with Western writers, social workers, travel guides, entrepreneurs, restaurateurs and NGO chartiy workers; some of them were married to Romanians. Their experi...

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by Sandra Magsamen (Author)Show your little one that home is where the heart is in this charming alphabet board book from Sandra Magsamen, USA Today bestselling author of Welcome Little One.There's no place like home! In this heartwarming ABC adventure, babies and toddlers will experience how wonderful it is to explore Michigan, from Detroit to Mackinac Island. Filled with Magsamen's sweet illustrations and touching rhymes perfect for bedtime read alouds, ABCs of Michigan teaches important al...

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Report copyright infringementby Robyn Flemming (Author)It's never too late to make a new path to a different future. For two decades, Robyn Flemming had known she was in trouble with alcohol and that a day of reckoning would come. When she set off in 2010 to wander the world as a freelance editor, it wasn't the first time she had shed an old skin for a new one. Now nearing sixty, was her decision to risk everything yet again an act of faith or of folly? As a global nomad, would she find the c...

Moctezuma's Revenge: Eight Navajos and a Teacher Explore the Mysteries of Ancient Aztlán (softcover)

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Shows (Author)What kind of fool would plan a trip through the whole of Mexico with eight Navajos, seven still in high school, in 1975? That individual would have to be certifiably out of his mind, of course. But still, that individual being me, as their teacher, considered it the opportunity of a lifetime. This story will take you through the trials and tribulations of being an outsider to a tribal group of students, who knew next to nothing of the world...

The Closest Exit May Be Behind You: Memoir of a Fearful Flight Attendant

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Report copyright infringementby Kathi Davis (Author), Sharon Schmid (Editor)Why would someone choose a career that terrifies her?The smiling girl in the cover photo harbors a dark secret. A graduate of the August 1970 Delta Air Lines rigorous training program, she is, in fact, terrified of flying. A traumatic flight from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, at age eight convinced her she would never take to the sky again. But her recently earned BA in psychology left little in the way of a car...

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Report copyright infringementby Eleanor McArevey Price (Author)An Ocean Divides Me is a touching memoir of adventure and independence. Born in Dublin at the time of the Irish Free State, Eleanor McArevey Price grew up comfortably, raised with love and support from her parents and extended family. With an architectural degree, but not many opportunities in post-war Ireland, she courageously set off alone for work in London then Rhodesia and later San Francisco and New York City. Together, her ...

Moctezuma's Revenge: Eight Navajos and a Teacher Explore the Mysteries of Ancient Aztlán (hardcover)

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Underground Ranger: Adventures in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Other Remarkable Places - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Doug Thompson (Author)In Underground Ranger Doug Thompson passes along the essence of what he learned on this unusual job as a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.Author BiographyAfter retiring from the National Park Service, Doug Thompson moved to the juniper-piñon hills of Capitan, New Mexico. Visit his Underground Ranger website at www.parkrangerdoug.com. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN Publi...

Triathlon Adventures Across America: Swimming, Biking, Running, and Making Memories Together

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Report copyright infringementby Terry L. Vanderwert (Author)What happens when an empty-nest couple turns a passion for road trips and the outdoors into their next adventure together? In Triathlon Adventures Across America, Terry and Joy VanderWert embark on an extraordinary quest to complete a triathlon in all 50 states-turning each race into an opportunity for adventure, discovery, and adding to the memories from their 50 years of marriage.From 2011 to 2023, the couple crisscrossed the count...

Travels in an Upside-Down World: A Memoir of time spent in the People's Republic of China

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Report copyright infringementby Derek Geoffrey Sidenius (Author), Ginny Etzel (Photographer)This is a book about discovering China from both historical and personal perspectives. It covers a five-year- period from 1984, when China's modernizations were just taking hold, to 1989 and the student-led Tiananmen protest that culminated in a vicious crackdown and a draconian aftermath. During this time the author taught at a major university of China's Ministry of Public Security in Beijing and wor...

Kiwi Roots: The Making of a New Zealander

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Report copyright infringementby John Mullinder (Author)KIWI ROOTS is the story of a young Kiwi boy growing up in rugby-mad New Zealand at a time of increasing racial tensions and during the abrasive political climate of the turbulent Muldoon years of the 70s and early 80s when New Zealanders were split right down the middle.Young John is a trusting and somewhat gullible child who is frequently led astray by his older and trouble-prone brother. But he survives school and heads to university, a...

Wild Blueberry Summer: More Upper Michigan Moments and Memories

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Report copyright infringementby Jon C. Stott (Author)The excitement of arriving at the Little Cabin in the Big Woods in late spring... the joy of greeting old friends-people, birds, and forest animals... listening to bird calls to tell the time of day and spotting different flowers to mark the progress of the seasons... visits to favorite out-of-the-way spots... the first harvest of blueberries and the aroma of the first batch of fresh out of the oven muffins. Wild Blueberry Summer celebrates...

The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

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Report copyright infringementby David Smart (Author)Disillusioned by the run-in-place corporate lifestyle, David finds himself unemployed and desperate to move the world under his feet.Bradley, his older, more adventurous, and slightly reckless college fraternity brother, makes an enticing proposal: thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650-mile Mexico-to-Canada footpath-barefoot.Just a few weeks later, the two inexperienced hopefuls abandon society to soul-search in nature's indifferent emb...

I Am Maine: Stories From Small Town Maine

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Flagg (Author)I moved to Maine when I was five.I lived in Brownville Junction with my mother and grandmother while my father traveled the globe with the Marine Corps. When I was ten, my father retired, and we moved to my mother's ancestral home. I resented my parents for tearing me away from the south. There was nothing good about living in a small town. School friends lived in a different area code, making talking on the phone or playing outside impossi...

A Portrait of Walt Disney World: 50 Years of the Most Magical Place on Earth - Hardcover

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by Kevin M. Kern (Author)Walt Disney World honors its fiftieth anniversary with "The World's Most Magical Celebration," an incredible 18-month event that begins October 1, 2021. As part of the festivities, this must-have coffee table book paints a robust portrait of the Florida resort, through vibrant voices and rare Disney theme park concept art, photographs, and ephemera. Walt Disney's vision for the "Florida Project" begins with Disneyland and the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. After an...

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Report copyright infringementby Ida Pfeiffer (Author)Embark on an extraordinary 19th-century adventure with Ida Pfeiffer's "A Woman's Journey Round the World." This captivating travelogue recounts Pfeiffer's remarkable solo voyage from Vienna to far-flung corners of the globe, including Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, and Asia Minor. Experience the world through the eyes of a pioneering woman traveler as she navigates diverse cultures and landscapes. Pfeiffer's insightful obs...

Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Egan (Author)In the summer of 1987 automotive journalist Peter Egan gave in to his lifelong fascination with classic airplanes and pursued the third branch of his addiction to romantic modes of travel--namely, flying. Carrying only the barest essentials--a pup tent, a wad of cash, and a change of clothing--Peter and his wife Barb took off on a six-week, seven-thousand-mile trip around the US in their yellow 1945 J-3 Piper Cub. The places they stumbled upo...

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Report copyright infringementby Joanna Pocock (Author)Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when we feel purposeless In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock traveled by Greyhound bus across the United States from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the cities, edge...

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Report copyright infringementby Hilaire Belloc (Author), Joseph Pearce (Foreword by)This edition is entirely re-typeset, includes Belloc's 77 original illustrations, and a new foreword by Belloc biographer Joseph Pearce. It is the best edition available anywhere!I vowed a vow there to go to Rome on Pilgrimage and see all Europe which the Christian Faith has saved; and I said, "I will walk all the way and take advantage of no wheeled thing...and be present at High Mass in St. Peter's on the Fe...

Lafayette In America, In 1824 And 1825: Or, Journal Of Travels, In The United States

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Report copyright infringementby Auguste Levasseur (Author)This book offers an eyewitness account of the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to America in 1824 and 1825. Written by one of his entourage, it provides a unique perspective on the life and times of one of the most famous men of the early nineteenth century.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the Uni...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Mundy (Author)This book is an overview of about ten years of my life. I've been fortunate to have the ability to travel around the world and experience many new and exciting things. During this time frame, I lived in four different states and traveled to over thirty countries.My book starts out on a boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on our way to the Philippines. This is my opening chapter, then I go back in time to when this whole book got starte...

Return to Viet Nam: One Veteran's Journey of Healing

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Report copyright infringementby Linda G. Myers (Author), Arthur H. Myers Veteran Usmc (Author)Art Myers is a Viet Nam veteran with memories. In 2005 he and his wife Linda traveled to Viet Nam with a group led by a psychotherapist who works with veterans affected by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). From the Mekong Delta in the south, to Hanoi in the north, it was a life-changing journey. Art's story is not unusual. He was a sergeant in the Marine Corps in 1968, a radio repairman statione...