Category Archives: Travel Guides
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural
Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn`s well-known
Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World`s Most Secretive Nation
Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.The weekly column Ask A North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies about what is happening inside the “Hermit Kingdom.” North Korean
Pacific Lady
It was an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a time when women simply didn`t do such things. None of this deterred Sharon Sites Adams. In June 1965 Adams made history as the first woman to sail solo from the mainland United States to Hawaii. Four
Hoosh
Antarctica, the last place on Earth, is not famous for its cuisine. Yet it is famous for stories of heroic expeditions in which hunger was the one spice everyone carried. At the dawn of Antarctic cuisine, cooks improvised under inconceivable hardships, castaways ate seal blubber and penguin breasts while fantasizing about illustrious feasts, and men
Corkscrewed
Robert V. Camuto`s interest in wine turned into a passion when he moved to France and began digging into local soils and cellars. “Corkscrewed” recounts Camuto`s journey through France`s myriad regions – and how the journey profoundly changed everything he believed about wine. The world of great wines was once dominated by great Bordeaux chateaux.
Bicycling Beyond the Divide
Daryl Farmer, at the time a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so often done in America: he headed west. Twenty years later and seventy pounds heavier, with the yellowing journals from that transformative five-thousand-mile bicycle trek in his pack, Farmer set out to retrace his path. This is his story of
Before the Heroes Came – Antarctica in the 1890s
Before the Heroes Came – Antarctica in the 1890s is an appreciation of the pioneering ventures in the far south before the arrival of the better known names associated with the region. The book gives a revitalised look at the romanticism, vanity, competition and entirely human qualities of the late nineteenth century visitors that provided
Walk of Ages: Edward Payson Weston`s Extraordinary 1909 Trek Across America
On his seventieth birthday in 1909, a slim man with a shock of white hair, a walrus mustache, and a spring in his step faced west from Park Row in Manhattan and started walking. By the time Edward Payson Weston was finished, he was in San Francisco, having trekked 3,895 miles in 104 days. Weston`s
My Canadian Boyfriend, Justin Trudeau
There is no world leader as beloved (or loooved) as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Dynamic, smart, charismatic, compassionate, and sometimes sassy, he has quickly emerged as not only a dominant politician, but as a model-like role model to millions around the globe. This laugh-out-loud tribute to the head (and heart) of the Canadian government
Annotated Big Sleep
The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler`s 1939 classic The Big Sleep, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem and hundreds of illuminating notes and photographs alongside the full text, is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan`s library.A masterpiece of noir, Raymond Chandler`s The Big Sleep helped to define a genre and remains
Real Maine Food: 100 Plates from Fishermen, Farmers, Pie Champs, and Clam Shacks
Eating a hot buttered lobster roll is like taking a mini-vacation: it conjures the scent of salt in the air and the crash of waves on the rocks the essence of a day at the beach in Maine. Now, with Real Maine Food you can re-create this humble delicacy as well as more than 100
Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed Ritz and Escoffier. In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times bestselling Provence, 1970, transports readers to turn-of-the-century London and Paris to discover how celebrated hotelier Cรฉsar Ritz and famed chef Auguste Escoffier joined forces at the Savoy Hotel to spawn
New York, New York: Mid-Sized Edition
In addition to the classic storied neighborhoods and buildings previously showcased in New York, New York, Richard Berenholtz has photographed several new architectural marvels, like the striking Gehry IAC building, a Chelsea residence building by Jean Nouvel, and the new World Trade Tower, to name only a few. This book wonderfully captures the duality of
London Pop-up
A selection of London`s most iconic monuments, landmarks, and architectural wonders unfold in seven pop-ups contained in a charming pint-sized package making it an easy impulse purchase. Easy to tuck in a bag or a pocket, this book is truly the perfect souvenir or gift for tourists as well as anyone who wants to share
Paris Pop-up
A selection of the city`s most iconic monuments, landmarks, and architectural wonders unfold in seven pop-ups contained in a charming pint-sized package making it an easy impulse purchase. Easy to tuck in a bag or a pocket, this book is truly the perfect keepsake for tourists as well as the ideal gift for anyone who
Spectacular Ireland
Through words and stunning images, the Emerald Isle is brought to life in `Spectacular Ireland`, a collection of more than 140 colour photographs by some of Ireland`s best landscape photographers and text by Peter Harbison, one of Ireland`s most distinguished voices and renowned archaeologists.
Central America NGS Classic Wall Map PAPER
Central America, from Guatemala and Belize to Panama, on a wall map, size 73 x 56.5cm (30″ x 22″ approx), paper version, published by the National Geographic Society in their traditional classic style: light coloured base with country boundaries in different colours. Topography of the region is shown by light relief shading with names of
A Millimetre Of Dust – Visiting Ancestral Sites
A Millimetre of Dust is the story of a journey from Cape Town to the Northern Cape and back to visit some world-class Stone Age archaeological sites. In the tradition of writers such as Barry Lopez, W.G. Sebald, Gary Snyder and Bruce Chatwin, this travel memoir combines extensive research with personal narrative to explore how
Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945
The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In Subterranean Cities, David L. Pike explores the representation of underground space in the nineteenth
At the Edge of the World: The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion
The remarkable story of the French Foreign Legion, its dramatic rise throughout the nineteenth century, and its most committed champion, General Hubert Lyautey. An aura of mystery, romance, and danger surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded in 1831. Famous for its physically grueling training in harsh climates, the
