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Your guide to the Florida Keys!From the time of Ponce De Leon and over the 500 hundred years since he stepped on solid ground in the Florida Keys, visitors have come first in expeditions and exploration of a wild, natural group of islands totally dependent on natures blue print of the ebb and...

India!!!!! As a citizen of this beautiful and pulchritudinous country, I am so proud to tell you all about it.   On the portentous night of August 14, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru hoisted the Indian flag and proclaimed, “When the world sleeps, India will wake to life and freedom.”...

`A beautifully written, meticulously researched journey through time in Kashmir? ? Basharat Peer The very name Kashmir conjures up magical images, from the real garden paradise of Shalimar to Thomas Moore?s fantastic descriptions in ?Lalla Rookh?. Recounting the story of this colourful and fascinating...

Rick Steves' Tours eBooks are straightforward, self-guided tours of some of Europe's most popular museums, ancient buildings, and other points of interest, designed for easy reference on your mobile device or eReader. In Rick Steves' Tour: St. Peter's Basilica, Rome-for less than the price of a cappuccino-Rick...

Surrounded by the natural beauty of mountain lakes, streams, and cascading waterfalls, the historic Skytop Lodge resort sits on 5,500 pristine acres in the heart of the Poconos. Developers of the estate cultivated this aesthetic when they hired the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm to site...

Located in the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania is a beautiful state park with the compelling name of Promised Land. It is visited by thousands annually, and many of those visitors have been coming to the park for generations. Promised Land State Park features more than 200 images that have been preserved...

Through the eyes of a 22 year old Australian, we get to hear firsthand the trip of a life time as he crosses the African continent from north to south with a group of fellow adventurers with a specialist overland travel company in 1971. Crossing the Sahara desert takes weeks as obstacles are overcome...

In 1960's England a lot of little boys grew up infatuated with America. Some of us dreamed of living there one day. It looked like "England on steroids"; bigger, wealthier, and lots more sunshine! Trudging through the rain soaked streets of my working class, medieval, Northern English village,...

Where are the best meals in the United States? For Tom Sietsema, The Washington Post’s food critic, the answer is more than a test. It’s a quest—one that can end in your own kitchen. Follow Tom as he dines, drinks and browses at 271 restaurants, bars and shops while reporting for his project “America’s...

"Bewes' breezy prose makes him a pleasant traveling companion ... he clearly knows Switzerland inside and out." - The Spectator In June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and a half later, travel...

Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. Greece is the ultimate Mediterranean getaway. Impossibly blue seas, gorgeous beaches, whitewashed alleyways draped in pink bougainvillea,...

Fueled by an insuperable lust for life and earnings from three game shows, Peter Lawrence Kane sought to realize his life-long goal: getting to all fifty states before his thirtieth birthday. This is the hilarious account of the bizarre (mis-)adventures that befell a self-described "gay nerd" as he...

The frequency of eating fish and seafood has grown worldwide due to the rising interest in healthy living and the desire to add more variety to our diets. Simply Fish explores a wide range of recipes, techniques, and secrets to delivering a restaurant-quality experience in your own home, simply through...

Circumnavigation of the earth, by Bill and Normandie Doar aboard their 36-foot custom steel French sailing sloop Advent II, started in 2003. They sailed south from North Carolina, into the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean, then westward through the Panama Canal, across the Pacific Ocean, across Australia...