Let’s Go 2001: Washington, DC: The World’s Bestselling Budget Travel Series (Paperback)

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Portuguese Travel Pack (Hugo’s Travel Series) (Hardcover)

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Dutch Travel Pack (Hugo’s Travel Series) (Hardcover)

A Dutch phrase book and audiocassette travel pack which offers a 2000 line mini-dictionary which supports Dutch phrases and a pronunciation guide.
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The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (The Best American Series) (Paperback)

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Great travel writing feeds our hunger for armchair journeys while somehow making the armchair less comfortable. Series editor Wilson searched for the rare pieces that weren’t “aggressively positive”; Kincaid chose finalists that she says “underline my sense of my displacement.” True enough, whether discussing suburban Florida or the bullet-riddled border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, these essays and articles show us the overlooked and never-seen with curiosity, insight, engagement, and humility; none of these writers brags about being at home in the world. Standouts are many: in “Into the Land of bin Laden,” Robert Young Pelton finds a soldier who says, “I have no idea who we are fighting”; in “Tight-Assed River,” John McPhee sails with the men who pilot aircraft carrier-length barges down Illinois’ narrow waterways; and in “Trying Really Hard to Like India,” Seth Stevenson serves a stern rebuke to travelers who return with praise for a country simply be (more…)

Adventure Guide to Germany (Adventure Guides Series) (Paperback)

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Bursting with relevant and exciting information, Adventure Guides are certainly helpful. — Booklist

This guide covers all of Germany in detail, from Berlin to Dresden, the Black Forest to Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and Bavaria. How to get special discounts (some 20 for train and bus travel alone), with tips for saving on gas, on hotels, on museums – insights only an insider would know. The best shopping, the foods and wines – what to look for and where to find it. All the places to stay described in detail, from guesthouses and hostels to the most luxurious hotels. Germany has the world’s largest Gothic church at Cologne and more medieval castles than any country in the world. Hundreds of small towns are barely changed from the Middle Ages. The author guides us through all of the best castles, churches, museums and other historic sites. Rhine cruises, wine tours, concerts, theater, town and country walks, canoeing and kayaking, cycling – it’s all here. (more…)

Let’s Go 2000: New York City: The World’s Bestselling Budget Travel Series (Let’s Go. New York City) (Paperback)

In the land of the notoriously expensive and the painfully hip, Let’s Go is our guide to Fifth Avenue living on a Bowery budget. Salsa in the spiral rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum for free. Devour nine varieties of pastry in Russian Brighton Beach for $90. Scout talent at a world-renowned amateur basketball court for free.

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Keyport In The Twentieth Century (NJ) (American Century Series) (Paperback)

The twentieth century can truly be said to have been America’s century. As the nation reached the position of world leader, her towns and cities changed at an unprecedented pace. With the approach to the millennium, the topic of change is on everyone’s mind—how our communities and lifestyles have changed over the past century, and how we can endeavor to preserve the past while facing the futurein which the world seems to change ever faster. The American Century series documents and celebrates our most recent history—featuring images of faces and places which were taken within living memory and yet that already seem to belong to a long-past era.

About the Author
Keyport in the Twentieth Century, written by Timothy E. Regan, uses a wealth of images to bring the history of Keyport, New Jersey, in this eventful century to life.

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Thai Travel Pack (Hugo Series) (Hardcover)

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