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Down the Horizon Line: The Working Adventures of Hayes Perkins 1878-1964

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Report copyright infringementby John M. Martin (Author), Brian Timoney (Illustrator), Joyce Krieg (Editor)Hayes Perkins (1878-1964) left home at fifteen to travel the world for the next 60 years, a lone working-class adventurer, maintaining no fixed address and always paying passage with the skill of his own hands. Throughout his travels, Hayes kept a diary that eventually ran to 2,000-pages. One early entry, written as he walked away from yet another good job, announced his life's guiding pr...

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...

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Report copyright infringementby Arne Fronsdal (Author)From Himalaya to South Pacific is an inspiring memoir of adventure, resilience, and exploration. Arne Fronsdal shares his extraordinary journey across continents-from crossing the Atlantic on a freighter to navigating the towering Himalayas, the rugged Andes, and the vast Pacific.More than a travelogue, this book is a testament to the thrill of discovery, the power of human spirit, and the deep connection between man and nature. Perfect fo...

Slack Action: My Year of Marginal Mishaps, 1967

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Report copyright infringementby J. Tim Raymond (Author)Step back into the analog world of 1967, a turbulent time of change. The author takes a detour from student life to live among his peers, travel across the country, find romance, and experience independence. The Vietnam War was on the nightly news and the United States military needed all available men. Caught between the attitudes of a traditional World War II generation and the emerging free-thinking youth culture of the time, he learns...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Walker (Author)From Ghanaian dance floors to global adventures, Richard Walker's memoir, Highlife, & my other lives is a celebration of love, music and resilience. Blending personal history with cultural exploration, it offers readers a poignant and adventurous journey through a remarkable life.As a boy, Richard went to live in Ghana where he danced with his parents and their friends to Highlife music. This experience sets the tone for a life in whi...

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Report copyright infringementby Jacqui Webster (Author)"I can't believe we're actually doing this!" I shouted, wheeling my heavily laden bicycle between motorbikes, horse-drawn carts piled high with dates and oranges, and stalls selling spices, ceramics, carpets and French pastries, as we weaved our way out of the bustling alleyways of Marrakesh... Jacqui Webster has always wanted to travel in Africa - she just never expected it would be on a bike! Inspired by her partner Joe's adventurous s...

Three Vassar Girls Abroad: Rambles Of Three College Girls On A Vacation Trip Through France And Spain For Amusement And Instruction (1882)

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Williams Champney (Author)""Three Vassar Girls Abroad"" is a travelogue written by Elizabeth Williams Champney and published in 1882. The book follows the adventures of three young women from Vassar College as they embark on a vacation trip through France and Spain. The girls travel for both amusement and instruction, making stops at various historical and cultural landmarks, including the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre Museum, and the Alhambra. Alo...

This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a Changing Northern Michigan

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Mulherin (Author)What happens when a place is so beautiful that everyone wants to go there--and then they stay? This book explores a phenomenon occurring around Michigan's Great Lakes and other high-demand scenic locations across the country: natural landscapes are undergoing profound human and climatological change as people pick up their lives and move to bucolic locations. The Grand Traverse region in northwest lower Michigan has been one of the most im...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Backus (Author)In the early 80s, New York City's Gansevoort Meatpacking District, a small irregular patch of the West Village, was a wild confluence of meat market workers, gay men hitting The Mineshaft or The Anvil, trans prostitutes, homeless huddled around burn barrels, New Jersey mafiosos, veterans of three wars, heroes of the French Resistance, and Holocaust survivors. Michael Backus was newly arrived to the city when he began working at Adolf Kusy...

How In The World...? - A behind the scenes look at what it takes to create the MAGIC of Walt Disney World

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Report copyright infringementby David Schroeder (Author)How In The World... can you buy forty-three square miles of land without anyone knowing? That is just the beginning of this fascinating journey through the first twenty-five years of development, construction, and daily operations of Walt Disney World -- Disney's largest resort complex. No other Walt Disney World book offers such an all-encompassing perspective as "How in the World...?" as it delves into everything from how Walt Disney W...

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Drawdy (Author)When on the journey of writing my first book, Train of Thought: Stories from On and Off the Rails, I communicated with several people on the Internet: authors, editors, and others in the business. I eventually met with a couple published authors for advice, and one gave me advice that I will never forget: "If you're afraid to write it? Write it." At times, some of my family, friends, past coworkers, and many others (including myself) wish I...

East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Rueckert (Author)Rachel panicked as she lay awake on the first night of her year-long honeymoon-a backpacking trip around the world. Though young and in love, she wasn't sure she actually believed in marriage, let alone the lofty Mormon ideal of eternal marriage. This unconventional honeymoon felt like a brief reprieve from the crushing expectations for a Mormon bride. But this trip also offered opportunities: the chance to study wedding traditions in ot...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Fahey (Author)In Global Entries: Anecdotes From My Travels Abroad, Joe Fahey invites readers on an unforgettable ride through decades of global adventures. This engaging and lighthearted collection of short stories combines humor, history and cultural insights as it relates his experiences from far-off places. The anecdotal stories capture the essence of travel -- the thrill of discovery, the wonder of diverse cultures as well as the emotions associated wi...

JayBangs: How Jay Stein, MCA, & Universal Invented the Modern Theme Park and Beat Disney at Its Own Game

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Gennawey (Author)Jay Stein Builds a Better MousetrapAfter years of sitting fat and happy atop the theme park totem pole, Mickey Mouse discovered a big cat in his backyard named Jay Stein. Against stiff odds, corporate politics, and fierce opposition from Michael Eisner's Disney, Jay Stein founded Universal Studios Florida. This is how he did it.Starting in the mailroom of MCA (now NBCUniversal), where his duties included delivering messages to stars like Al...

The Little Book of New York: Celebrating the City That Never Sleeps - Hardcover

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by Orange Hippo! (Author), Orange Hippo! (Editor)A little book about the Big AppleNew York City is one of the most visited cities in the world, attracting about 65 million visitors every year. On first impression, it is loud, busy, and expensive, with New Yorkers fighting against the crowds to get to the other side of 42nd Street and yellow cabs speeding down Broadway. Many residents are squeezed into tenement buildings and skyscrapers where rents are sky-high and apartments are small, but st...

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Report copyright infringementby Eula Woodyard McKown (Author)A Girls' Road Trip: From Texas (U.S.) to Prince Edward Island (Canada) recounts the travels of four women from Texas who drove to Prince Edward Island enjoying various spots along the way. The women also enjoyed visiting and sightseeing with friends as they traveled.Included in the book are descriptions of their activities in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine as they travel...

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Report copyright infringementby Barber (Author)The Parthenon Paradox: Rivers of RedemptionParadise wasn't supposed to come with a flood warning.Peter and Alex had carved out their dream life in a small Greek village-basking in the sun, embraced by a close-knit community, and enjoying the simple joys of Mediterranean living. But when a relentless storm unleashes a devastating flood, their idyllic world is swept away overnight, leaving behind a home filled with mud, debris, and uncertainty.As t...

The Old South: Essays Social and Political

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Nelson Page (Author)American author THOMAS NELSON PAGE (1853-1922), of the Nelson and Page "First Families" of Virginia, popularized the "plantation tradition" of Southern literature, idealizing the slavery-era South in such short story collections as In Ole Virginia (1887) and The Burial of the Guns (1894). But he also wrote nonfiction of the same tenor, such as this 1892 collection of essays, which he hoped might "serve to help awaken inquiry into the ...

Ten Stories from the Killing Fields: Taken from the Award-Winning Killing Fields, Living Fields

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Report copyright infringementby Don Cormack (Author), Julia Cameron (Foreword by)In the 1970s, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge army transformed Cambodia into a nationwide death camp in one of the most brutal periods of mass killing in modern history.Cormack's fluency in the Khmer language, and his pastoral heart, meant people could talk with him openly, and recount their pain, struggle, hope as they survived these cruel years. The ten short stories in this book are 'powerful, riveting, compelling...

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel D. Bogan (Author)""Let The Coyotes Howl: A Story Of Philmont Scout Ranch"" is a captivating book written by Samuel D. Bogan about his experiences at the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. The book is a memoir that takes readers on a journey through the author's time spent at the ranch as a Boy Scout. The author shares his personal experiences and adventures, including hiking through the rugged terrain, encountering wildlife, and developing lifelong frie...

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Report copyright infringementby Dave Norman (Author)From Beijing's hutongs to the "always undefeated" city of Warsaw, follow Josh along with author Dave Norman as they explore the Far East and Eastern Europe by rail. Whether drinking with nomads in Mongolia, dining with locals in Seoul, or exploring Russian paintball combat with a "retired" Soviet arms dealer, Norman's blend of humor and history makes the adventure come alive. At its core, "Following Josh" is the story of two friends reunitin...

Seldom Seen: A Journey Into the Great Plains

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Dobson (Author)In May 1995, with nothing but a backpack and a vague sense of disquiet, Patrick Dobson left his home and a steady if deadening job in Kansas City, Missouri. Over the next two and a half months he made his way to Helena, Montana, letting chance encounters guide him to a deeper sense of who he was and where he was going. His chronicle of this journey charts his experiences with the seldom-seen people of the small towns, the far-flung outpos...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Terrill (Author)On Sacred Ground continues the epic journey begun in The Earth Beneath My Feet. Not everyone would consider a 7,000-mile walk a particularly sensible idea. Especially if it involved living outside for eighteen months, and travelling alone through high mountains and wild forests. But to a young Londoner, the idea made perfect sense...In May 1997, Andrew Terrill set out on an extraordinary journey: a walk from Calabria in southern Italy to ...

The Negro Trail Blazers of California: A Compilation of Records From the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California,

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Report copyright infringementby Delilah Leontium Beasley (Author)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 United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is...

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by Bill Bryson (Author)Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and ...

Portraits from Paris: School and Travel Remembered from the City of Light

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Report copyright infringementby Gavin Cologne-Brookes (Author)Written between 2019 and 2024, Portraits from Paris is a novelized memoir of a boarding-school childhood in 1970s England, interspersed with journalistic sketches of cities as diverse as Montevideo, Kolkata, and Moscow that draw from the travel-studded years between school and the author's move to France. Along the way, Gavin Cologne-Brookes reflects on historic events ranging from Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russian inv...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael D. Burke (Author)What is it like to train as a whitewater guide? What special skills do you need to forage for fiddlehead ferns? What do a handful of Maine auction houses have in common? Why did a village suddenly form on a frozen lake? What is it like to devote a summer to attending county fairs?The Art of the Myth answers questions like these, and others, about life in Maine. A collection of essays on topics from sea kayaking to maple sugaring, from r...

And the Beat Goes On: My E-Ticket Ride Writing about, Working for, and Running through Disney's World

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Report copyright infringementby Chuck Schmidt (Author), Leslie A. Sklar (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 10, 2025

Reconnecting with America: A Stranger at Home

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Report copyright infringementby Robert J. Barra (Author)Reconnecting with America is more than the story of an 8,000 mile motorcycle journey. It illustrates the toxic influence of fear and insecurity in American life.The author rode across America in the summer of 2019. He spoke with a cross section of Americans; a homeless wanderer who collected animal skulls in the desert, a recovering drug addict planning to open a head shop. An insurance executive who lived behind a wall in St. Louis...

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Report copyright infringementby Larry P. Buckingham (Author)Captain Nathan Roth is given an ultimatum, sail now or never sail again. This forces Roth to take his daughter on a dangerous voyage. During the voyage, Roth and his crew encounter a vicious storm that brings much havoc damage to his ship and a great personal loss. Roth then embarks on a mission with relentless fury to bring about the total ruin of the one man he holds responsible. During this mission, Roth will make a discovery that...

Rogue of the Lua: Llife Experienced Few Could Imagine

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge Pinero (Author)Words that come to mind when thinking of Jorge Pinero include Vivacious and Vivere, one who lives life to the fullest. Whether its almost being mauled by a charging lion or enjoying a great African sunset, he does it all ... - Gunter Bierbaumer, Professional Hunter, AfricaThis book is a snapshot of life in villages of the Luangwa Valley of Zambia and shows what residents deal with in human/wildlife interaction on a daily basis. The western ...