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Go Girl!

Author : Elaine Lee

Publisher : The Eighth Mountain Press

Page : 374 pages

File Size : 15,75 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780933377424

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The first travel book for the sisters!









For the Love of Europe

Author : Rick Steves

Publisher : Rick Steves

Page : 425 pages

File Size : 15,3 MB

Release : 2020-07-07

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1641711302

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After 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring, award-winning collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories. Join Rick as he's swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangers of falling in love with a gondolier in Venice, and savors a cheese course in the Loire Valley. Contemplate the mysteries of centuries-old stone circles in England, dangle from a cliff in the Swiss Alps, and hear a French farmer's defense of foie gras. With a brand-new, original introduction from Rick reflecting on his decades of travel, For the Love of Europe features 100 of the best stories published throughout his career. Covering his adventures through England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and more, these are stories only Rick Steves could tell. Wry, personal, and full of Rick's signature humor, For the Love of Europe is a fond and inspirational look at a lifetime of travel. Winner of the 2022 Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award: Best Travel Book, Silver



Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P

Author : Jennifer Speake

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 540 pages

File Size : 37,49 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Travel

ISBN : 9781579584245

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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.



Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages

Author : John Block Friedman

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 756 pages

File Size : 43,28 MB

Release : 2013-07-04

Category : History

ISBN : 113559094X

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Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia is a reference book that covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years A.D. 525 to 1492.



Why Travel Matters

Author : Craig Storti

Publisher : Nicholas Brealey

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 21,16 MB

Release : 2018-04-17

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1473670306

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When you travel, you have a choice: You can be a tourist and have a nice time, or you can be a traveler and change your life. Why Travel Matters is for those who want to change their lives. Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit and a distinctive style, Craig Storti infuses his own experiences traveling the world for 30-plus years with quotations, insights, reflections and commentary from famous travelers, great travel writers, historians and literary masters. Storti's vast knowledge of the literature makes him an expert curator of astute gems from the likes of St. Augustine, Mark Twain, Somerset Maugham, D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley and more.



The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing

Author : Alfred Bendixen

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 34,14 MB

Release : 2009-01-29

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0521861098

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A stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.