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On Trails

An Exploration

de Robert Moor ...

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubFrom a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the ... Leer más

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New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubFrom a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the
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London

A Biography

de Peter Ackroyd ...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKHere are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all ... Leer más

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKHere are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all
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There's Treasure Inside: The Past and Future Treasure Box

de Jon Collins-Black ...

Series Libro 4 - There's Treasure Inside
Discover the Greatest Treasure in American History!"I've hidden a treasure somewhere in the United States that's worth millions upon millions of dollars, and it's waiting for you to find it." – Jon Collins-BlackFive treasure boxes have been hidden in five locations across the country. One of these treasure boxes is named The Past and Future Treasure Box. Inside it are various riches, including at ... Leer más

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Discover the Greatest Treasure in American History!"I've hidden a treasure somewhere in the United States that's worth millions upon millions of dollars, and it's waiting for you to find it." – Jon Collins-BlackFive treasure boxes have been hidden in five locations across the country. One of these treasure boxes is named The Past and Future Treasure Box. Inside it are various riches, including at
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This Land is Your Land

A Road Trip Through U.S. History

de Beverly Gage ...

A Barack Obama Summer Reading List SelectionPulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our ... Leer más

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A Barack Obama Summer Reading List SelectionPulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our
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A Walk in the Woods

Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

de Bill Bryson ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York TimesBack in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native cou... ... Leer más

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York TimesBack in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native cou...
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There's Treasure Inside: The Pokémon Treasure Box

de Jon Collins-Black ...

Series Libro 3 - There's Treasure Inside
Discover the Greatest Treasure in American History!"I've hidden a treasure somewhere in the United States that's worth millions upon millions of dollars, and it's waiting for you to find it." – Jon Collins-BlackFive treasure boxes have been hidden in five locations across the country.One of these treasure boxes is named The Pokemon Box, after the pop-culture video game and card game that is ... Leer más

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Discover the Greatest Treasure in American History!"I've hidden a treasure somewhere in the United States that's worth millions upon millions of dollars, and it's waiting for you to find it." – Jon Collins-BlackFive treasure boxes have been hidden in five locations across the country.One of these treasure boxes is named The Pokemon Box, after the pop-culture video game and card game that is
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Asylum

de William Seabrook ...

"Perhaps the most honest and haunting accounts of the struggle for mental health in literature." — ObserverThis dramatic memoir recounts an eight-month stay at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s. William Seabrook, a renowned journalist and explorer, voluntarily committed himself to an asylum for treatment of acute alcoholism. His sincere, self-critical appraisal of his experiences ... Leer más

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"Perhaps the most honest and haunting accounts of the struggle for mental health in literature." — ObserverThis dramatic memoir recounts an eight-month stay at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s. William Seabrook, a renowned journalist and explorer, voluntarily committed himself to an asylum for treatment of acute alcoholism. His sincere, self-critical appraisal of his experiences
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Wild

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

de Cheryl Strayed ...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century**At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was ... Leer más

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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century**At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was
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In Other Words

A Memoir

de Jhumpa Lahiri ...

Traducido por Ann Goldstein ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake delivers a powerful meditation on the process of learning to express herself in Italian—and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice. • "The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a writing life I have read.” —The Washington PostOn a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning ... Leer más

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake delivers a powerful meditation on the process of learning to express herself in Italian—and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice. • "The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a writing life I have read.” —The Washington PostOn a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning
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There's Treasure Inside: The Forrest Fenn Treasure Box

de Jon Collins-Black ...

Series Libro 2 - There's Treasure Inside
Discover the Greatest Treasure in American History!"I've hidden a treasure somewhere in the United States that's worth millions upon millions of dollars, and it's waiting for you to find it." – Jon Collins-BlackFive treasure boxes have been hidden in five locations across the country. One of these treasure boxes, inspired by the famous Forrest Fenn treasure hunt, is named the Forrest Fenn Box ... Leer más

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Discover the Greatest Treasure in American History!"I've hidden a treasure somewhere in the United States that's worth millions upon millions of dollars, and it's waiting for you to find it." – Jon Collins-BlackFive treasure boxes have been hidden in five locations across the country. One of these treasure boxes, inspired by the famous Forrest Fenn treasure hunt, is named the Forrest Fenn Box
... Leer más
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

Now Filmed As The Mercy

de Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall ...

'A masterpiece.' New Yorker'Wholly riveting, brilliantly researched.' Evening Standard'A meticulous investigation into the seeds of disaster... fascinating, uncomfortable reading.' Sunday TimesIn 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had developed, and saw the Sunday Times Golden Globe round the world sailing race as the perfect opportunity to showcase... ... Leer más

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'A masterpiece.' New Yorker'Wholly riveting, brilliantly researched.' Evening Standard'A meticulous investigation into the seeds of disaster... fascinating, uncomfortable reading.' Sunday TimesIn 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had developed, and saw the Sunday Times Golden Globe round the world sailing race as the perfect opportunity to showcase...
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The Enlightenment Collection

de Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Friedrich Engels, Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, Rene Descartes, David Hume, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, Steppenwolf Press ...

The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state. In France, the central doctrines of the Enlightenment philosophers were individual liberty and religious tolerance, in ... Leer más

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The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state. In France, the central doctrines of the Enlightenment philosophers were individual liberty and religious tolerance, in
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Paranoid in Paradise

de Anthony Ashley Reeves ...

Anthony Ashley Reeves arrives in Pattaya with money in his pocket, a head full of plans, and no intention of returning to Australia anytime soon.At first, Thailand feels like freedom: endless nightlife, cheap hotels, beach towns, bars that never close, and a world where consequences seem far away. But beneath the neon lights lies something darker. As the money disappears, so does his grip on ... Leer más

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Anthony Ashley Reeves arrives in Pattaya with money in his pocket, a head full of plans, and no intention of returning to Australia anytime soon.At first, Thailand feels like freedom: endless nightlife, cheap hotels, beach towns, bars that never close, and a world where consequences seem far away. But beneath the neon lights lies something darker. As the money disappears, so does his grip on
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The Venetian Empire

A Sea Voyage

de Jan Morris ...

For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean – an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'.Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the ... Leer más

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For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean – an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'.Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the
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Lost in the Jungle

A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival

de Yossi Ghinsberg ...

Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of ... Leer más

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Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of
... Leer más
Dreaming in Chinese

Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language

de Deborah Fallows ...

Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering the behavior and ... Leer más

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Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering the behavior and
... Leer más
Alaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume

Illustrated: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen and Alaska Days

de John Muir, S. Hall Young ...

John Muir made four trips to Alaska, as far as Unalaska and Barrow. Muir, Mr. Young and a group of Native American Guides first traveled to Alaska in 1879 and were the first Euro-Americans to explore Glacier Bay. Muir Glacier was later named after him. He traveled into British Columbia a third of the way up the Stikine River, likening its Grand Canyon to "a Yosemite that was a hundred miles long". ... Leer más

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John Muir made four trips to Alaska, as far as Unalaska and Barrow. Muir, Mr. Young and a group of Native American Guides first traveled to Alaska in 1879 and were the first Euro-Americans to explore Glacier Bay. Muir Glacier was later named after him. He traveled into British Columbia a third of the way up the Stikine River, likening its Grand Canyon to "a Yosemite that was a hundred miles long".
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Confessions of a Hostie - Airline Travel Tips

de Danielle Hugh ...

Travel with confidence; it just takes the right preparation and approach.Danielle Hugh is an international flight attendant with over 20 years flying around the world; also traveling extensively on her own time - experiencing both sides of airline travel. She answers many of air travels big questions: where to sit on a plane, how to travel with children, conquering fear of flying, when to check-in ... Leer más

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Travel with confidence; it just takes the right preparation and approach.Danielle Hugh is an international flight attendant with over 20 years flying around the world; also traveling extensively on her own time - experiencing both sides of airline travel. She answers many of air travels big questions: where to sit on a plane, how to travel with children, conquering fear of flying, when to check-in
... Leer más
Jolliet and Marquette

A New History of the 1673 Expedition

de Mark Walczynski ...

Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations. Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original research to place the explorers and their journey within seventeenth-century North America. His account takes readers among the region’s diverse ... Leer más

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Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations. Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original research to place the explorers and their journey within seventeenth-century North America. His account takes readers among the region’s diverse
... Leer más
Clueless in Alaska

Kayak Alaska? Are You Crazy!!

de Leslie Ann Braun ...

Sea kayaking on lakes or in protected waterways can be somewhat of a challenge. Taking this sport to a wilderness area elevates it to a much higher level with its own unique set of circumstances. Kayaking in Alaska when totally "clueless" tests your physical prowess, your courage, your ingenuity, and your spirit. This is a true story of fun, challenges, strength, endurance and creativeness. ... Leer más

$3.99 USD

Sea kayaking on lakes or in protected waterways can be somewhat of a challenge. Taking this sport to a wilderness area elevates it to a much higher level with its own unique set of circumstances. Kayaking in Alaska when totally "clueless" tests your physical prowess, your courage, your ingenuity, and your spirit. This is a true story of fun, challenges, strength, endurance and creativeness.
... Leer más
The Log from the Sea of Cortez

de John Steinbeck ...

A Penguin ClassicIn the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, embarked on a month long marine specimen-collecting expedition in the Gulf of California, which ... Leer más

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A Penguin ClassicIn the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, embarked on a month long marine specimen-collecting expedition in the Gulf of California, which
... Leer más
Journey to Portugal

In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture

de José Saramago ...

The Nobel Prize–winning author explores his homeland in "this monumental work, a literary hybrid" of cultural history, literary nonfiction, and travelogue ( Publishers Weekly).In 1979, José Saramago decided to write a book called Journey to Portugal—and dedicated himself to obtaining the fullest meaning of his title. More than merely journeying in or through his native country, he wanted to ... Leer más

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The Nobel Prize–winning author explores his homeland in "this monumental work, a literary hybrid" of cultural history, literary nonfiction, and travelogue ( Publishers Weekly).In 1979, José Saramago decided to write a book called Journey to Portugal—and dedicated himself to obtaining the fullest meaning of his title. More than merely journeying in or through his native country, he wanted to
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The Future Is Peace

A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

de Aziz Abu Sarah, Maoz Inon ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples.“[A] short but immensely poignant account of a shared journey across ... Leer más

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples.“[A] short but immensely poignant account of a shared journey across
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Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About

A Memoir

de Isabel Klee ...

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From the social media superstar behind @SimonSits, Isabel Klee—known for her heartwarming tales of dog rescue—comes an utterly winning memoir about a twentysomething woman’s search for true love in New York City and the dogs who helped her find it.A Jersey girl by birth, Isabel Klee had always wanted to live in New York City. At age 20, she got her chance, ... Leer más

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THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From the social media superstar behind @SimonSits, Isabel Klee—known for her heartwarming tales of dog rescue—comes an utterly winning memoir about a twentysomething woman’s search for true love in New York City and the dogs who helped her find it.A Jersey girl by birth, Isabel Klee had always wanted to live in New York City. At age 20, she got her chance,
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