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What's on your travel bucket list? Touring ancient marvels like the Colosseum or the Great Wall of China? Perhaps standing before stunning natural wonders like Igauzu Falls or Ayers Rock? Or maybe it's the mystique of sacred sites like Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu that captures your imagination? Find out who built Stonehenge, step inside the world's most extraordinary resorts, and live vicariously through thrills such as swimming with sharks in South...
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"Una celebración de la vida y el legado de uno de los escritores gastronómicos más importantes. Anthony Bourdain vio más mundo que nadie. Sus viajes lo llevaron desde los rincones más secretos de su Nueva York natal hasta una comuna tribal en Borneo, isla del Sudeste Asiático, pasando por las cosmopolitas Buenos Aires, París y Shanghái, la impresionante belleza de Tanzania y hasta la inmensa soledad del desierto arábigo de Omán. Este es...
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A modern bucket list for responsible, healthy, feel-good travel. Feel inspired and empowered by this guide to transformative travel experiences. If you want to discover yourself as much as the next big sight, these "Travel goals" will change your life. From sleeping under the stars and witnessing natural phenomena to more ambitious challenges, such as helping communities and self-guarding the environment, this is the essential companion to a life...
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Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In 'Backpack Ambassadors', Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the decades after World War II, revealing that these footloose young people were doing more than just exploring for themselves. Rather, with each step, each border crossing, each friendship, they were quietly...
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In 1922, a 15-year-old girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a traveling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to become the first female to drive around the world. Her name was Aloha Wanderwell. Aloha's mission was foolhardy in the extreme. Drivable roads were scarce and cars were alien to much of the world. The Wanderwell Expedition...
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Learn the lessons of travel safety and how to avoid the nastys of traveling. Tobias takes viewers through the perils of plane travel, extreme winter driving and hits the water providing safety tips for summer and winter. He'll take them out on the water, road and air while teaching them safety tips along the way and what they need to know when exploring and traveling to stay safe.
35) Refuge: a memoir
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"Refuge is a book of lyric essays about a young woman's life as a budding writer and an international development and aid worker. Spanning twelve years and multiple continents, it focuses in large part on her advocacy and theater work with refugees. From crossing the border into one of Syria's refugee camps in 2013; to an interview with a man who fled Aleppo for the peace and security of Sweden in 2015; to working in a sustainable forestry foundation...
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"Each episode provides a thrilling and informative introduction to an important place on the globe. Placing equal emphasis upon in-depth cultural history and breathtaking aerial cinematography, this series touches upon every inhabited continent--from Turkey to New Zealand. Along the way, you'll visit ancient ruins, marvel at natural phenomena, and discover the infinitely diverse ways that human beings have found to make themselves at home upon the...
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"The open road calls to those who can't help but answer. This book is both a resource and a calling written by women, for women, who dream of traveling though are apprehensive to go it alone. As seasoned solo travelers, we believe we have the responsibility to preserve an unbeaten path for curious wanderers to explore for themselves, the road less traveled. The advice gleaned in this book is a result of our own independent travel experiences as well...
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"Emile Delilah is a young xenophile (lover of foreign nations) so addicted to traveling to the exotic regions of Outer Canthus that the government pays him a monthly stipend just so he can continue his visits. Living in the same tenement as Emile are Boreal Rince, the exiled king of Outer Canthus, and Elijah Salamis, a supranationalist determined to erase the cultural and geographic boundaries that separate the citizens of the Earth. Although they...
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