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Barbecue Lover's Memphis and Tennessee Styles
Restaurants, Markets, Recipes & Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Barbecue Lover’s Guide to Memphis- and Tennessee-Style celebrates the best this southern region has to offer. Perfect for both the local BBQ enthusiast and the traveling visitor alike, each guide features: the history of these BBQ culinary styles; where to find--and most importantly consume--the...
Charleston Chef's Table
Extraordinary Recipes from the Heart of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Signature recipes from greater Charleston’s top restaurants
In recent years, Charleston, which hosts more than four million visitors annually, has matured into a world-class culinary destination. Now, The Charleston Chef’s Table allows locals and visitors alike to take a bit of the city’s...
Canada's Road
A Journey on the Trans-Canada Highway from St. John's to Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
Russia has the Trans-Siberian Highway, Australia has Highway 1, and Canada has the Trans-Canada Highway, an iconic road that stretches almost 8,000 kilometres across six time zones.
In the summer of 2012, on the highway's 50th birthday, Mark Richardson drove its entire length to find out how...
But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!
Adventures in Eating, Drinking, and Making Merry
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In her new book, But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!, Julia Reed, a master of the art of eating, drinking, and making merry, takes the reader on culinary adventures in places as far flung as Kabul, Afghanistan and as close to home as her native Mississippi Delta and Florida's Gulf Coast. Along...
by Peter Soutowood
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Starting an expedition requires planning, faith, and ignorance. When I set off on a trans-continental expedition in a vintage Land Rover I was strong on the second two.For Land Rover’s 50th anniversary in 1998 I joined a group of fifty people from all over North America to travel off-road...
Hey Ranger 2
More True Tales of Humor & Misadventure from the Great Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
In this sequel to the wildly successful Hey Ranger: True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from America's National Parks, former ranger Jim Burnett casts his net globally in search of the most outrageous and humorous stories of man in his eternal quest to experience the natural world. Burnett tells...
by Robert Mottram
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Grief and loss are not the end of the road. Gifts found along life's way can make it abundantly worth living, as this couple discovered on the ultimate road trip. They lived the secret dream of countless American couples; a year on the road-with no timetable-that took them more than 30,000 miles into...
by Jack Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Generations before this story starts, migration and travel shaped the author's family history. He is a Boomer, the first generation with brain-patterns shaped by consumer electronics. A California Kid from the legendary 1960s; his only car is an iconic Chevy Nova hot rod. He plans a road trip...
Destination: Cocktails
The Traveler's Guide to Superior Libations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Featuring hundreds of cocktail bars in dozens of cities across the United States and around the world, Destination: Cocktails is the traveler’s guide to the craft cocktail movement. From New York to Los Angeles and London to Tokyo, this book is the ultimate reference to a network of fantastic bars...
The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys
Great Writers on Great Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
From the #1 travel magazine in the country, a collection of travel tales from some of today's finest writers
Travel writing maintains its seemingly endless popularity, and this volume offers a particularly transporting body of work, pairing exotic locales with writers of the highest caliber:...
Lassoing the Sun
A Year in America's National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
"In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity and majesty, complexity and vitality--and their power to heal." --Ken Burns
Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed...
by Bob T. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
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...
by David Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
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.”...
by Brigid Keenan
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
`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...