Category Archives: Travel Guides
Ultimate Fishing Adventures
A collection of thrilling fishing tales that will take you to 100 remarkable fishing destinations from Alaska to Australia From epic offshore battles to the peace and calm of fly fishing, this stunning coffee-table book will inspire and excite with tales of adventure ranging from secret African rivers to idyllic tropical islands. Follow along as
The Famine Plot: England`s Role in Ireland`s Greatest Tragedy
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland’s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mรณr, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that
Orbanland: Why Viktor Orban`s Hungary Matters
From Europe to America, political landscapes have shifted in recent years in a way summed up in microcosm no better than by the trajectory of one small country, Hungary–whose leader, Viktor Orban, has gained outsized international notoriety as the bad boy of the European Union for his steadfast alternative to the liberal democracy that has
Tip Of The Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organised a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury `floating university,` populated by some of America`s best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet John Muir. Those aboard encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental
Inuit Art: Cape Dorset 2022 Wall Calendar
About 1,200 miles north of Toronto, the hamlet of Cape Dorset, Nunavut, is home to a multigenerational community of Inuit graphic artists. Their cooperatively owned printmaking studios have been in continuous operation since 1959, producing unique, captivating, and powerful images. Twelve of these remarkable prints adorn this calendar’s pages.12 monthly grids and full-color artworkHigh-quality printing
The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes–and thousands more–to the American plate.In the nineteenth century, American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment. But as a new century approached, appetites broadened, and David Fairchild, a young botanist with an insatiable
Inuit Art Cape Dorset 2022 Mini Wall Calendar
Inuit artists in the Canadian Arctic community of Kinngait (Cape Dorset) are known around the world for their limited-edition prints. Owls and other birds are favorite subjects, as are polar bears, walruses, and whales. This mini wall calendar reproduces 12 remarkable Inuit prints.12 monthly grids and full-color artworkHigh-quality printing with soy-based inks on premium, environmentally
Scotland: The Art of Deborah Phillips 2022 Wall Calendar
Journey across Highland meadows and down North Sea coasts with Deborah Phillips’s vibrant Scottish landscapes. Phillips was only 14 when she first exhibited art at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Now her works are featured at galleries throughout Scotland, England, and Ireland. Spend a year traveling the
France Vintage Travel Posters Large 2022 Calendar
Colorful vintage travel posters depicted France as an ideal escape tinted with glamour. Well-known artists such as Roger Broders and Georges Dorival were commissioned to create imagery that would tempt tourists to the grand metropolis of Marseille, the impossibly blue waters of the Cote dAzur, and the spectacular scenery of Foix, gateway to the Pyrenees.
Canadian Travel Posters 2022 Wall Calendar
Vintage Canadian travel posters capture the country’s monumental beauty. From the waves off Nova Scotia to resorts in Quebec and Ontario to the towering Canadian Rockies and wild Pacific beyond, artists had abundant inspiration to entice early 20th-century travelers to depart to Canada for a holiday. Get lost in luxurious escape with the 12 posters
Italy Vintage Travel Posters Large 2022 Calendar
From Rome to Ravello, Florence to Venice, travelers have long been drawn to Italy for its cultural heritage and stunning scenery. With eye-catching illustrations and typography, renowned artists and anonymous designers during the interwar years created poster art to help viewers imagine themselves exploring Italys architectural ruins and taking in the gorgeous views. Their posters
The Group of Seven 2022 Wall Calendar
The Group of Seven shared a passion for Canada’s wilderness and a strong desire to create a distinctive visual language, inspired first and foremost by the Canadian landscape. Their goal was to explore the country and paint it. In so doing, they captured the imagery that would imprint itself on the Canadian consciousness. Through their
Lawren S Harris 2022 Wall Calendar
One of the original founders of the Group of Seven, Lawren S. Harris believed in the need for a national art movement. He painted the Canadian landscape with enthusiasm, capturing the majesty of its wilderness and its inherent spirituality’”as shown in the 12 dramatic landscapes featured in this calendar.12 monthly grids and full-color artworkHigh-quality printing
The Gods Of Tango
Arriving in Buenos Aires in 1913, with only a suitcase and her father’s cherished violin to her name, seventeen-year-old Leda is shocked to find that the husband she has travelled across an ocean to reach is dead. Unable to return home, alone, and on the brink of destitution, she finds herself seduced by the tango,
Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie`s route by canoe in a grueling journey — and discovered the Passage he
My Twenty-Five Years In Provence
From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of `A Year in Provence` pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France’”the charming and indelible parade of village life, the sheer
How To Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
“It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? The impulse to
Lucky Boy
Solimar Castro-Valdez is 18 and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin`s doorstep in Berkeley, California, dazed by first love, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity, Soli learns that
Naturally Vegetarian: Recipes and Stories from My Italian Family Farm
Solfrini grew up eating fresh, local, seasonal foods, but when she moved to New York City to study design, she quickly felt the damaging effects that came with eating a new diet filled with processed foods, too much meat, and too few vegetables. Returning to Italy, she embraced the seasonal, vegetable-friendly foods and, after eliminating
French License
This travel memoir covers the hilarious attempt of a Californian expat to obtain his driver`s license in Paris. What appears simple enough becomes a tragicomedy as he confronts one obstacle after another. It has taken him so long, that he`s able to steer the reader onto unexpected detours along the way. You`ll cross funny town
