Category Archives: Travel Guides
Taka-Chan and I: A Dog`s Journey to Japan
A tale of adventure, loyalty, daring escapes, friendship, and honor, Taka-chan and I has it all. One day, Runcible, a Weimeraner, digs a hole from his home on Cape Cod all the way to Japan. There he meets Taka-chan, a little girl imprisoned by a seadragon who is angry that fishermen like Taka-chan`s father no
Minik: The New York Eskimo: An Arctic Explorer, a Museum, and the Betrayal of the Inuit People
In 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary brought six Polar Inuit, intended to serve as live `specimens` at the American Museum of Natural History, to New York. Four died within a year. One managed to gain passage back to Greenland. Only the sixth, a boy of six or seven with a precociously solemn smile, remained.
Young Man With A Horn
Dorothy Baker`s `Young Man with a Horn` is widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it courses with the verve and swing of the music that defined an era. From the beginning, Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn`t matter to
Cartography.
A lavishly illustrated reference guide, Cartography. by Kenneth Field is an inspiring and creative companion along the nonlinear journey toward making a great map. This sage compendium for contemporary mapmakers distills the essence of cartography into useful topics, organized for convenience in finding the specific idea or method you need. Unlike books targeted to deep
The Skin
Translated by Rachel Kushner”It is a shameful thing to win a war.” The reliably unorthodox Curzio Malaparte`s own service as an Italian liaison officer with the Allies during the invasion of Italy was the basis for this searing and surreal novel, in which the contradictions inherent in any attempt to simultaneously conquer and liberate a
Cruising Guide to Eastern Florida
This fifth edition contains thoroughly researched directions on and firsthand evaluations of the waters, facilities, and attractions on the Florida coast between St John`s River and Miami.
The Year of the French
In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth century`s ugliest years. Central to
Fifty Places to Bike Before You Die
In the ninth addition to his bestselling “Fifty Places” series, author Chris Santella is back at it again, this time exploring the world on bikes with Fifty Places to Bike Before You Die. Biking has grown increasingly popular in recent years, as both a leisure and extreme exercise activity and Chris cover trips for cyclists
The Heretic
Raised by his nurse after the childbirth death of his mother and his father`s emotional abandonment, Cipriano Salcedo, whose birth occurred at a moment of spiritual and political significance, joins the Reformation movement and is targeted by the Spanish Inquisition. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
