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Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways
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Include books by the same authorRick Steves' London 2008
Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw · 446 pages
India
Sarina Singh, Lonely Planet, Joe Bindloss, Paul Clammer · 1,140 pages
1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die
Patricia Schultz · 1,200 pages
Southeast Asia on a Shoestring
China Williams, George Dunford, Rafael Wlodarski, Matt Warren, Simone Egger, Matt Phillips, Nick Ray, Paul Smitz, Tasmin Waby, Lonely Planet, Robert Reid · 1,004 pages
Japan
Lonely Planet, Chris Rowthorn, Ray Bartlett, Justin Ellis · 812 pages
Paris
Lonely Planet, Catherine Le Nevez, Steve Fallon, Annabel Hart · 320 pages
Drift through the secluded streets of Montmartre, marvel at some of the world's finest art museums or track down the city's top nightlife - however you want to enjoy Paris, this fully updated guide will show you the best of France's incomparable capital.
The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World: Over 600 Secrets of the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom
Susan Veness · 249 pages
Complete with secret tips from Disney's famed Imagineers, this book is the perfect in-park companion for Disney World fans.
Gordon Ramsay's Uncharted: A Culinary Adventure With 60 Recipes From Around the Globe
Gordon Ramsay · 368 pages
Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson · 324 pages
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. back to the States for a while. But before leaving his much-loved Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around old Blighty, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had for so long been his home. The resulting book was a eulogy to the country that produced M
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Eric Weiner · 403 pages
Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier
The Great Railway Bazaar
Paul Theroux · 348 pages
In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour.
In Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin · 250 pages
"An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin's exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for life and adventure and a singular gift for storytelling, Chatwin treks through "the uttermost part of the ea
The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World.
Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett, Amanda Pressner · 551 pages
Three friends at a crossroads in their twenties quit their high pressure New York media jobs, leave their friends and everything familiar behind, and embark on a year-long backpacking adventure around the world.
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
William Dalrymple · 496 pages
In the spring of A.D. 587, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile wor
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Vintage Departures)
Robyn Davidson · 280 pages
“I arrived in the Alice at five a.m. with a dog, six dollars and a small suitcase full of inappropriate clothes.... There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns…” For Robyn Davidson, one of these moments comes at age twenty-seven in Alice Springs, a dodgy town at the frontier of the vast Australian desert. Davidson is intent on walking the 1,700 miles of
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Eric Newby · 253 pages
It is an autobiographical travelogue of Eric Newby,describing,in a comic,understated style,his ascent to Mir Samir.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed · 315 pages
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her mot
Toujours Provence
Peter Mayle · 241 pages
Peter Mayle's love affair with the south of France continues and deepens. Now he's got most of the building work organized, he's had time for a few trips - to the Cannes Film Festival, the Menerbes dog show and the wine caves at Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
Anthony Bourdain · 288 pages
The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen · 338 pages
This lovely book (1978) describes a two month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region of Nepal. The book combines the search for the snow leopard with a search for inner meaning (Zen Buddism)