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The Africa Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent
Lonely Planet, Matt Phillips · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorJourneys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips
National Geographic Society · 400 pages
Compiled from the favorite trips of National Geographic's travel writers, Journeys of a Lifetime spans the globe to highlight the best of the world's most famous and lesser known sojourns. It presents an incredible diversity of possibilities, from ocean cruises around Antarctica to horse treks in the Andes. Every continent and every possible form of transport is covered.... scores of creative idea
Himalaya
Michael Palin · 304 pages
Palin explores many countries of the Himalaya region which are little known to the West. This record of his journey contains the customary catalogue of disasters, crises, misunderstandings and colourful characters encountered on the way.
To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story
Casey Scieszka · 478 pages
Casey and Steven met in Morocco, moved to China then went all the way to Timbuktu. This illustrated travel memoir tells the story of their first two years out of college spent teaching English, making friends across language barriers, researching, painting, and learning to be themselves wherever they are.
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Joshua Foer, Ella Morton, Dylan Thuras, Atlas Obscura · 475 pages
"Wonder meets wanderlust in an extraordinary new travel book. Created by the founders of AtlasObscura.com, the vibrant online destination and community with over 3 million visitors a month, Atlas Obscura is the bucket-list guide to over 700 of the most unusual, curious, bizarre, and mysterious places on earth" -- Get off the beaten path, and brush off your bucket list! Inspiring equal parts wonde
America Obscura
Edited by Atlas Obscura, Doug Baldinger, and Louise Story
The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World
Roz Hopkins · 444 pages
A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside
Susan Branch · 272 pages
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.
Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations
Olivier Le Carrer · 142 pages
This alluring read includes 40 locations that are rife with disaster, chaos, paranormal activity, and death. The locations gathered here include the dangerous Strait of Messina, home of the mythical sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis; the coal town of Jharia, where the ground burns constantly with fire; Kasanka National Park in Zambia, where 8 million migrating bats darken the skies; the Nevada Tri
Gordon Ramsay's Uncharted: A Culinary Adventure With 60 Recipes From Around the Globe
Gordon Ramsay · 368 pages
City of Glass: Doug Coupland's Vancouver
Douglas Coupland · 152 pages
The 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.
Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
Roz Chast · 172 pages
"For native Brooklynite Roz Chast, adjusting to life in the suburbs (where people own trees!?) was surreal. But she recognized that for her kids, the reverse was true. On trips into town, they would marvel at the strange world of Manhattan: its gum-wad-dotted sidewalks, honey-combed streets, and 'those West Side Story-things' (fire escapes). Their wonder inspired 'Going into Town,' part playful gu
Dan and Phil Go Outside
Dan Howell, Phil Lester · 224 pages
Dan Howell and Phil Lester avoiders of human contact and direct sunlight actually went outside. Travelling around the world on tour, they have collected hundreds of exclusive, intimate and funny photos, as well as revealing and captivating side notes, to show the behind-the-scenes story of their adventure. Fans of the YouTubers Dan Howell (danisnotonfire) and Phil Lester (AmazingPhil) will love th
And the Pursuit of Happiness
Maira Kalman · 471 pages
Filled with original art and photographs by the author who is also an illustrator and designer, each chapter represents a month of Kalman's yearlong travel across the U.S. and her reflections on democracy. She starts with a celebration of Barack Obama's Presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., continues with the month of February and Abraham Lincoln, and explores democracy and the pursuit o
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns · 417 pages
In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
Jamie Does...
Jamie Oliver · 259 pages
This cookbook will celebrate the vibrant food of six very different countries. Cheap, short-haul flights and long weekend getaways have become increasingly popular and within a few short hours of the UK there are new and exciting worlds of food waiting to be discovered as Jamie finds out.
Boston, 1776
J. D. Dickey · 417 pages
Relive the chaos, courage, and color of the American Revolution’s capital city while meeting those who led the fight in the nation’s War of Independence. Features nine immersive walking tours on seven period-style maps— plus 45 historical images! Welcome to Revolution City—where the air smells of tar, booze, gunpowder . . . and rebellion. In Boston, 1776, author J. D. Dickey leads us through the t
Signspotting: Absurd and Amusing Signs from Around the World
Doug Lansky · 208 pages
Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid · 368 pages
Maps
Aleksandra Mizielinska, Daniel Mizielinski · 144 pages
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
J. Maarten Troost · 312 pages
The laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey in the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati--possibly The Worst Place on Earth.At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost--who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs--decided to pack up his flip-flops and move