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Report copyright infringementby Ade Pearson (Author)Tahiti Origin. The Journey to the Pacific, a History. On Tahiti in the 1750s and 1760s there was clearly a hierarchical, feudal-like society: of high chiefs, the arii, who were very high indeed; of landowners or nobles, called the raatira; and of an ordinary lowborn class called manahune or teuteu. But unlike his European counterpart even the lowest could feed himself readily and build himself a shelter against the storms. while he lived as ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Kennedy (Author)Gran Canaria Environment. Information Tourism. Exploring the Canary Islands will never be complete without a visit to its most popular island, Gran Canaria. From the colorful northern meadows and rolling hills to the arid, desert-like plains of the south, Gran Canaria gives travelers the chance to be in two different places on one unique island. There is no such thing as a "best" time to visit Gran Canaria because the weather stays pleasant ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Swart (Author)What if the path to success isn't what you expect it to be?For Ian, it was a magic carpet ride. What began as a passion for fashion and life as a hippie in the late '60s led him on an unexpected journey-one that took him overland from Europe to the remote villages of India, eventually stumbling, due to a family tragedy, into the magical world of handmade rugs.In Life's Journey on a Magic Carpet, Ian reflects on the challenging moments, chance ...

New Providence Travel, Rhode Island: Tourism Environment, Vacation, Holiday, Business opportunities

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Miller (Author)New Providence Travel, Rhode Island. Atop the confluence of the Providence, Moshassuck and Woonasquatucket Rivers, Rhode Island's capital city offers some of the finest urban strolling in New England: around Brown University's historic campus on 18th-century College Hill, along the landscaped Riverwalk trail, and among downtown's handsome streets and lanes with their hipster-y cafes, art-house theaters, fusion restaurants and trendsetting b...

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Report copyright infringementby John Knight (Author)Fuerteventura Tourism. Touristic Information Fuerteventura is a piece of paradise on Earth. Thanks to its geographical and political situation, it is the perfect place for tourists. Located 61 miles far from the coast of Morocco, almost in the same latitude than Florida, this island has good weather during the whole year, with an average yearly temperature of 20.4 C and only a few days of rain along the year. For those tourists used to rainy...

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Report copyright infringementby Shiroma Perera Nathan (Author)Inspired by the author's formative years in Sri Lanka (Ceylon in the book), her loves, sorrows, and above all her muse Vivien Leigh, Serenading the Dawn is a nostalgic, at times playful, at times heartbreaking, informative, and whimsical journey in verse. Illustrated with evocative and wistful pencil sketches and written in a style that evokes imagery of an era long gone, this sentimental anthology will appeal to lovers of history,...

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Report copyright infringementby Jessie Keyssecker (Author)A funny and sensitive memoir about growing up on the semi-rural outskirts of Brisbane in the 1960s and 1970s, and living and working in the Queensland Outback. From there, to the opposite end of the spectrum and to urban Japan. Hilarious things happen when the assumptions we make are wrong. Come with Susan on this crazy journey and expect plenty of belly laughs. With short anecdotal chapters, it is the ideal commuting or bedtime read, ...

The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Banks (Author) Number of Pages: 600 Dimensions: 1.33 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 19, 2009

Who is that Weirdo Dancing in the Corner?: The Travel Diaries of Spaceman Africa

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Report copyright infringementby Africa Spaceman (Author)Have you ever seen the T-shirt slogan that says, "I used up all my sick days so I called in dead"?Spaceman Africa found himself on an adventure with some mates in Donegal, Ireland, when, really, he should have been at his warehouse job in London. Realising that it's not possible for a dead person to call their workplace, Spaceman had a friend phone on his behalf. It worked. Spaceman has never been back to his warehouse job.In February 19...

Mouse in Orbit: An Inside Look at How the Walt Disney Company Took a Neglected, Moribund Art Form and Turned It into a Mainstream Movie Powerhouse

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Hulett (Author), Tom Sito (Foreword by)From Animation to ArbitrationIn Mouse in Transition, the prequel to this book, Steve Hulett told the story of his ten years at Disney Feature Animation. Now Hulett recounts his next twenty years in the animation industry: as a union representative for the Screen Cartoonists Guild.When, in 1989, Hulett was elected as the business representative of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists, Local 839, IATSE, he may have di...

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Sturgess (Author)"Many old bushies drank tea with no milk and no sugar. Arthur was one of them but he did find some sugar when I asked. Not many of the western stations had house cows for milk, but many did use powdered or condensed milk, so I asked Arthur if he had any. He replied, 'What are you making? Pudden?'""There are alcoholics and alcoholics, but Sparrow's explanation to me that the best thing he ever drank was methylated spirits with carbide in i...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Goluba (Author)Fast-paced travel adventures and setbacks sprinkled with humor and reflection.Seeking adventure beyond watching corn grow in his hometown, life changes dramatically for Robert Goluba days after graduating from high school. He attends Army basic training, a state university, and crosses the Atlantic to live with a family in Germany. A family Robert has never met that speaks a language he barely understands.It doesn't begin well. He offends ...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert U. Montgomery (Author)Told in journal entries, this book is about my first three years of teaching at two different schools, my search for companionship and romance, family conflict, tragic loss, and recovery, punctuated by an adventure in Africa.- If you are a teacher or retired teacher, especially at the high school level, I think you will identify with much of what I experienced in the classroom, especially during the early days of your career. I hope...

Let's Eat Italy!: Everything You Want to Know about Your Favorite Cuisine

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Report copyright infringementby François-Régis Gaudry (Author)From the same team that created Let's Eat France! comes this celebration of Italian food in the form of an oversized, obsessively complete, visual feast of a book."A fantastic read for foodies and a luscious culinary reference." --Booklist With a mix of gastronomy, food science, history, cultural references, legend, lore, charts, graphs, photos, and illustrations, every one of the 400 pages in Let's Eat Italy! is an alluring and am...

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

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Report copyright infringementby Dean King (Author)This expansive book chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the perilous heart of the Sahara. The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub--and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffl...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Andreas (Author)A unique, intimate and moving pilgrimage on an island that Maria Andreas describes with emotion, humour and tenderness. She fell in love with this "big pebble" a while ago. Nearly three decades. She stayed there a long time, learned its language, its history and its culture, before setting down there that which she confides to be "the best part of her heart".Maria has books published in French, German and English and a vibrant engaging web...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Dean Frisbie (Author)"The Book of Puka-Puka" is a vivid and charming account of life on a remote coral atoll in the South Seas. The narrative follows Robert Dean Frisbie's experiences as a trader on the isolated island of Puka-Puka in the Cook Islands during the early 20th century. Frisbie captures the rhythms of Polynesian life, the eccentricities of the island's inhabitants, and the profound beauty of a place nearly untouched by the modern world.Throug...

From Plastic Parrots to Flying Kangaroos: Big Boeings and Hovering Helos

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Report copyright infringementby Geoff Cowell (Author), Adrian Cowell (Drawings by)What happens when a young man who dreamt of flying ever since he watched The Battle of Britain in 1969, manages to squeak through the demands of Air Force pilot training and finds himself posted to fly Boeing 707s in a unit that routinely transports members of the Royal Family, Governors-General and Prime Ministers around the world? For someone who aspires to one day occupy the hallowed captain's seat of a Qanta...

Lines of the Times: A Travel Scrapbook - The Journal Notes of Martin Fowler 1973-2016

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Fowler (Author)"... destined to become a classic and a sought-after book in charity shops, long after you have dipped in and out of the twenty-six chapters." ... a literary critic Always the flâneur, Martin takes us through his wanderings (and wonderings!) over four decades of world travel.An inveterate explorer of the world's tapas bars and cafes, and finding more of interest in a wine and a beach than a museum or cathedral, he shares the thoughts and w...

Denver to Mumbai: A Story of Returning Home

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Report copyright infringementby Hemangi Sawant (Author)Winner - PenCraft Spring 2026 Best Book Award, Nonfiction-memoir.Amazon Rankings- #1 Bestseller - Bombay Travel Guides Category (Amazon.com) #1 New Release - Western U.S. Biographies (Amazon.com)#1 New Release - Indian Travel (Amazon.com)"Can you ever really go home again?"In her award-winning and gripping memoir, Hemangi Sawant explores that question. She emigrated with her husband from India to the United States, and while many immigran...

This Way But Not Here: An Ode to Lake Champlain

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Report copyright infringementby Mathias Dubilier (Author)Join Captain Dubilier on a boat tour of Lake Champlain for stories about its history, the indigenous story of its creation, the lake monster Champ, and personal reflections on place, tourism, and home. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.29 x 7 x 4.25 IN Publication Date: May 15, 2026

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Seems (Author)"You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust your sails". A fictional biography showing the difficulties surrounding family and social relationships in small-town Eastern Canada when one's in-built direction is homosexual. "Although I felt relieved that things were now in the open, it took both my mother and I a bit of time before we were comfortable being around each other ... she may not have understood that it wasn't a choice I was m...

In the Tail of the Peacock - Travel and Adventures of an English Woman in Morocco

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Report copyright infringementby Isabel Savory (Author)Isabel Savory's first book, published in 1900, was a best seller sensation about a game hunting expedition she made with friends from Bombay up to Peshawar, to the Khyber Pass into Kashmir and then down to the Nigiri Hills. In less than a year she was trekking in Morocco and then published the book about her journeys there, in 1903. Isabel Savory travelled to Morocco in 1901 with a friend who took the pictures for her book "In the tail of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (Author)Eliza Rumaha Scidmore was born October 14, 1856 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America and died November 3, 1928 in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a journalist and a traveller and spent long periods in in Alaska, Japan, China, Java and India. In this book about Java written in 1912, Scidmore, who clearly loved the subject is very enthusiastic about the country and the traditions that have made Java such a unique place. It s...

Pilgrimage Large Print: Lessons Learned from Solo Walking Three Ancient Ways

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Report copyright infringementby J. F. Penn (Author)Do you enjoy travel memoirs with a combination of personal reflection and practical tips? Are you interested in solo walking, or are you considering walking the Camino de Santiago or other multi-day walks?Are you a seeker? Or did you enjoy the movie, The Way?If yes, Pilgrimage is for you.In mid-2020, I was not okay - and I didn't know how to find my way out of that darkness. But I could put one foot in front of the other until I figured it ou...

Didn't See That Coming: True stories of a geologist's adventures, challenges, friendships, and self-discovery from far a field.

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Report copyright infringementby Roger James Kuhns (Author)As a geologist working in mineral exploration for one of the largest mining companies in the world, Roger Kuhns traveled the rocky terrains of the earth, seeking precious metals and diamonds, a journey that began with a passion for the natural environment but became one of self-discovery. He soon realized that navigating the corporate world could be far more treacherous than the deepest mines in South Africa or the most remote drill ri...

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Report copyright infringementby Glenn Carley (Author)Good Enough from Here is a compelling work of creative nonfiction, an artifact of Canadiana, set in the real-life geographical and historical context of Canadian Forces Station (CFS) ALERT on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island in the late 1970s. Considered at the time Canada's most northerly permanently inhabited location, the small, orange civilization within the base perimeter serves as a stage for the interplay of relationships among c...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard M. Grove (Author), Richard M. Grove (Photographer)A Cuba memoir by world traveller Richard M. Grove. Socially enlightening, sometimes funny, always interesting. President of the Canada Cuba Literary Alliance, Richard has travelled and taught in Cuba for 20 years. He has a unique perspective and view of Cuba that most tourists cannot possibly have. Let Richard take you on two trips, in this memoir, that you will never be able to duplicate. Enjoy the jour...

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Report copyright infringementby Megan Beck (Author)In March 2020, the world entered a new phase none of us were expecting. The entire world as we knew it began to suddenly change. First we shut down, then we began wearing masks, and soon we were even banned from traveling or being in the same room together. Isolation became the norm. For some, binging TV shows became a lifeline. For others, life only became more intense than before. Everyone reacted differently, and every country had their ow...

Thirty Dollars and A Dream: An Odyssey into the Unknown

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Mehra (Author)Born in the chaos of India's 1947 Partition and orphaned at twelve by his mother's death from cancer, Madhu Mehra grew up in the narrow lanes of Old Delhi's Chhipiwara, surrounded by temple bells, monkey-roofed peepal trees, and the quiet resilience of a displaced Hindu family.At twenty-one, clutching just thirty dollars and a one-way steamer ticket, he boarded the ageing SS Sirdhana in Bombay and sailed into the unknown. What followed was an...

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Report copyright infringementby Brant Von Goble (Author)In Kǒngmíng, Brant von Goble reflects on his unprepared leap into teaching English in Hunan, China, during the late 2000s. Through fragmented memories of shortwave radio, cultural clashes, and quiet isolation, he traces his journey from disorientation to unexpected belonging. The narrative culminates during a deserted Spring Festival on campus, where, alone under a moonless sky, he watches glowing sky lanterns-Kǒngmíng dēng-rise silently...

From Where Lions Speak: An Ordinary Mans Discovery Of Peace, Fear And Belonging

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas P. Andonian (Author)When a lifelong dream refuses to fade, it becomes a calling.For Doug Andonian, Africa was that calling-a place he first met in the pages of a borrowed magazine and spent a lifetime longing to stand within.From Where Lions Speak follows Doug's remarkable journey from an ordinary New England childhood to the heart of the African bush, where the wild delivers lessons no classroom ever could. In landscapes alive with predator and prey, h...