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City Parks
Public Spaces, Private Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Catie Marron’s City Parks captures the spirit and beauty of eighteen of the world’s most-loved city parks. Zadie Smith, Ian Frazier, Candice Bergen, Colm Tóibín, Nicole Krauss, Jan Morris, and a dozen other remarkable contributors reflect on a particular park that holds special meaning for them.
Andrew...
Drinking Japan
A Guide to Japan's Best Drinks and Drinking Establishments
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Drinking Japan the first practical Japan travel guide in English, to depict Japan's bars and alcoholic beverages.
Author Chris Bunting goes to tremendous lengths to present Japan's best bars and alcoholic drinks. You will be prepared for your trip with detailed profiles of Japans finest sake,...
by Ronnie Clark Coffey
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Once home to Native Americans and mountain settlers, Harriman State Park is today a 73-square-mile wilderness and recreation area lying 30 miles north of New York City. Offering over 200 miles of hiking trails, swimming, boating, fishing, and camping, it has been an oasis for city dwellers for 100 years....
Getting Around Tokyo Pocket Atlas and Transportation Guide
Includes Yokohama, Kamakura, Yokota, Yokosuka, Hakone and MT Fuji
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This pocket atlas and Japan travel guide is an indispensable tool for getting around Tokyo—whether as a first–time visitor, or a local resident.
The travel book is conveniently divided into chapters that enable the user to know what to do on arriving at Narita or Haneda Airport, and then...
Best of Tokyo
Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
This Japan travel guide is an insider's look at the best restaurants, bars, clubs, hotels, shops, sights, and events in Tokyo.
With new venues for fun, food, and fashion opening everyday, it's difficult to keep up with Tokyo's abundant offerings. Whether you're tired of the standard tourist...
Tokyo Museum Guide
A Complete Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
This Japan travel companion is a complete guide to over 195 fascinating museums in Tokyo, Yokahoma, and Chiba.
Tokyo affords no better-or cheaper-day trip than a visit to one of its many fascinating museums. Now for the first time in English is a complete guide to all the museums, large and...
Tokyo Sights and Insights
Exploring the City's Back Streets
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Tokyo Sights and Insights is the unique work of Ryosuke Kami, artist, essayist, and native Tokyoite. Weekends Mr. Kami bicycles about his favorite city in search of Tokyo sights to capture on his sketch pad; weeknights he draws on these same sketches to produce the insights that fill this book.
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by Mary Carr
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Tokyo is the capital of Japan and, with 35 million people, the largest metropolitan area in the world. Japan is home to 68 Fortune 500 companies, with 47 located in Tokyo, the most of any city in the world. Tokyo has something for everyone: busy shopping areas, famous nightlife, historical sights,...
by Larry Hyslop
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
History Traveler Series #3
• Enjoy the silence of Carlin Canyon, between rock walls once echoing with cacophony of wagons, animals and people.
• View the sparkling water as the North Fork of the Humboldt flows into the Humboldt River, once a scene of dust clouds rising from oxen, horses...
Bruxelles surprises - Édition 2017
500 coups de cœur
Language: French
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Partez à la découverte des lieux insolites et branchés de Bruxelles ! Surprenant... même pour les Bruxellois !- Où manger les meilleures frites de Bruxelles ?- Quels sont les 5 cafés les plus romantiques de la ville ?- Quelles sont les 5 boutiques de mode les plus tendance ?Autant de bonnes adresses...
Rooms with a View
The Secret Life of Grand Hotels
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Salvador Dalí once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid’s Palace in Madeira, and the details of India’s independence were...
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines...
Memphis Barbecue
A Succulent History of Smoke, Sauce & Soul
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Memphis is equal parts music and food--the products of a community marked with grit and resiliency. The city's blues and soul music have lifted spirits, while barbecue has been a serious business ever since pork first entered the culinary landscape of Memphis with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who...
by Thomas Welsh, Gordon F. Morgan, Mahoning Valley Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Celebrate Youngstown's proud tradition of dining out, a commitment to hospitality that has endured through the tightening of the Rust Belt. Take a tour of restaurants like the MVR and the Boulevard, which continue to reflect Youngstown's ethnic diversity and tenacious entrepreneurial spirit, as well...