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Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations
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Include books by the same authorThe Stones of Florence
Mary McCarthy · 230 pages
Picture-and-text book on Italy. Includes all aspects of Florentine life, from art and architecture to religion and politics.
The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World
Roz Hopkins · 444 pages
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Colin Dickey · 320 pages
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Eric Weiner · 353 pages
An acclaimed travel writer examines the connection between surroundings and innovative ideas, profiling examples in such regions as early-twentieth-century Vienna, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, and Silicon Valley. --Publisher
Lewis & Clark
Stephen E. Ambrose, Sam Abell · 255 pages
"Interweaves choice entries from the explorers' journals with the author's own latter-day chronicle of how he and his family continue to discover the Trail today."--Jacket.
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident
Geert Mak · 155 pages
"Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and at the same time a microcosmic reflection of Turkey as the link between Asia and Europe." "Geert Mak introduces us to the woman who sells lotter
A six months tour through the north of England
Young, Arthur · 421 pages
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
Gerard Russell · 368 pages
Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in various forms for thousands of years. These religions represent the last vestiges o
Exploration Fawcett: Journey to the Lost City of Z
Percy Harrison Fawcett · 312 pages
The Great White South: Or with Scott in the Antarctic
Herbert George Ponting · 442 pages
Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light
David Downie · 304 pages
Presents a guide to the districts of Paris, describing the history, buildings, landscape, social customs, and people of the city in each section.
Do Not Pass Go
Tim Moore · 346 pages
"Moore is a talented and very funny writer" Daily TelegraphA book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board . In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around London with the shake of a dice and even park your car for free. In Do Not Pass Go Tim Moore, belying his
The White Road: Journey into an Obsession
Edmund de Waal · 416 pages
"An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"--
Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest
Douglas Preston · 480 pages
Douglas Preston's Cities of Gold is a riveting account of his journey in the footsteps of Coronado, the legendary 16th-century explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition through the American Southwest. Preston and a friend, Walter Nelson, set out on horseback across one thousand miles of vast deserts and unknown mountains retracing Coronado's search for the fabled Seven Cities
The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
Timothy Egan · 254 pages
American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
Richard Grant · 320 pages
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Ben Montgomery · 282 pages
"Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangst
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
Claudio Magris · 416 pages
London Orbital
Iain Sinclair · 577 pages
A brilliant voyage of discovery into the deeply unfashionable fringes of London.'It isn't often that one reads a book and is convinced that it's an instant classic, but I'm sure that LONDON ORBITAL will be read 50 years from now. This account of his walk around the M25 is on one level a journey into the heart of darkness, that terrain of golf courses, retail parks and industrial estates which is B