American Traveler

Publisher: American Traveler PressAuthor(s): Sharon NelsonIllustration(s): b/w illusNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 1996Dimensions: 144 x 116 ...

Reducere. Read the stories that first appeared in the Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette reveal real life in the old mining towns in words and photos.

Reducere. Dr. Claude R. Foster, internationally acclaimed scholar of the German Reformation, a historian, a traveler, a poet. In Connections, he serves as a ...

Reducere. The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's On the Road instantly defined a generati...

Reducere. In this collection of engaging and entertaining mini-comic books, students share in the adventures of time traveler Scooter McGinty as he celebrate...

The American southwest, from the Grand Canyon to the desert landscapes, has always held allure for visitors from around the world. Acclaimed travel...

Reducere. In this newly updated book, C-SPAN provides a comprehensive guide to the final resting places of our nation's presidents. As much about the preside...

Secret Heroes is a remarkable compendium by Paul Martin, former Executive Editor of National Geographic Traveler, that illuminates the lives of thi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sanora BabbIntroduction by: Douglas WixsonAn autobiographical novel, long out of print, continues Sanora Babb's story as be...

Reducere. Each year, tourists spend approximately $944 billion on travel worldwide. More than a million people fly in the American skies each day. And at lea...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches...

Reducere. Pretty Prairie, dating from the late 1880s and somewhat before the advent of settled agriculture, was linked to the larger world by its location on...

Reducere. DescriptionTravel is all about adventure. It's about trying new things and meeting new people. This book shows you how to be a confident and happy ...

Reducere. Before the development of the first self-governing windmill, settlement of the upland areas of the American West was almost impossible. Windmills w...

Reducere. "Llamadme Ismael" es una de las primeras frases más recordadas en la historia de la literatura. Así comienza Moby Dick, la gran obra maestra de Her...

Reducere. Fiction. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. A linguist-traveler arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis...

Reducere. Are you planning a trip to the USA? Always been in love with the United States of America and everything American? Or are you an American and looki...

Reducere. "Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary." The Christian Science Monitor The modern...

DescriptionA fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation indust...

Reducere. An illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The America...

Reducere. DescriptionYou've heard the tales, you've watched the movie, but have you seen The Green Book?During the dangerous days of Jim Crow segregation, it...

DescriptionExasperated by the small-minded tyranny of his hometown, Skyler Faralan travels to Southeast Asia with $500 and a death wish. After mont...

Reducere. On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the President, promising...

An American-born traveler to one of Istanbul's oldest communities receives an unexpected welcome in this heart-warming and romantic debut Fanis is ...

Reducere. In his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that "spoke the loudest and most power...

Extract: "The little girl came into her papa's study, as she always did Saturday morning before breakfast, and asked for a story. He tried to beg o...

Reducere. Blast off to space with Snoopy, Sally, and Charlie Brown in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read that celebrates a collaboration between Peanuts and NASA Sal...

Reducere. This is an exact facsimile of the first guidebook of its kind to the full length of the famous Route 66, from Chicago to Los Angeles. It was first ...

Reducere. The riveting story that inspired Kipling's classic tale and a John Huston movieThe true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first...

DescriptionWhat is it about the desolate far North American wilderness that calls the intrepid traveler to uncover its sanctifying and deadly secre...

After hitchhiking from Paris to Jerusalem, Jordan in 1967, Iris Keltz had to wait three days for permission to cross a U.N. checkpoint into Jerusal...

Reducere. A college freshman finds herself stranded in Arizona with no place to stay and nowhere to run. Cabin fever closes in on an isolated park ranger, as...

Reducere. From her birth in a one-room cabin the 1930s on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana, Ann Strange Owl's memoir chronicles her remarkable li...

Reducere. Walks in Hemingway's Paris is the perfect travel companion to the most romantic and fascinating of cities for those who want to experience Paris be...

Reducere. Disc: 1 1. Unknown Soldiers 2. The Moors 3. Crystal - Joshie Armstrong, Yolande Bavan, Chapman Roberts 4. Second Sunday In August 5. Vertical Invad...

Joseph Werlin's diary pages are full of remarkable observations of France, Germany, Russia, and America in 1928. Allowed into Moscow on a study vis...

The north Georgia city of Winder developed from the double log cabin that inspired its earlier name of Jug Tavern. Evolving from the vision and det...

Reducere. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a...

Reducere. A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adams's destiny was foreordained. He was not only The Greatest Traveler of His Age, but his country's most gifted l...

El Salvador's roads are less traveled compared to other Central American countries, making for a destination which retains that elusive quality tra...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Washington IrvingIslamic rule, though fragmented, extended over the bulk of Iberia for centuries, even as Christian warlord...

Description" A] future cult classic." --The New York Times Book Review"There's Borges and Bola o, Kafka and Cort zar, Modiano and Murakami, and now...

This guide describes how to use common wild plants to help treat injuries and backcountry maladies. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights o...

Reducere. Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics as an experiment into how far literature, writ...

In his essays, criticism, screenplays, autobiography, and novels, Graham Greene explored a territory located somewhere on the border between despai...

Reducere. Uncommon Hero: The John Seagraves Storyinvolves the life of one African-American youngster, who during his rise from poverty to prosperity, encount...

Reducere. A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and sexuality Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in the Evening charts the emotional ...

Hints of S.P. Peredo's Mexican American upbringing appear in Marco's Journey and Other Stories as he draws from personal experiences to present ric...

Reducere. A collection of nonfiction -- personal essays, travel writing, thoughts on contemporary education -- by Paul Frederick Kluge. P.F. Kluge is an Amer...

In his "Ten O'Clock Lecture" in 1885, American James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) presented himself as an artist set apart from the public, bearing...

Reducere. Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participatio...

For those who dream of exploring the magnificent Pacific coast, contemplating the infinite beauty of the Andes and immersing themselves in the boun...

Reducere. Mountain Interval (1916) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Having gained success with his first two collections, both publish...

Reducere. Hiking North Florida and the Panhandle describes 30 hikes designed to highlight some of the best natural areas throughout the region. The hikes in ...

Reducere. "Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller." --Daniel Alarc n, author of Lost City Radio and The King Is Always Above the People"It is not often th...

The adventures of an American hacker in Medieval England continue as Martin Banks takes his next step on the journey toward mastering his reality-a...

Reducere. In her long awaited new novel, Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon continues the remarkable story of Claire and Jamie Fraser that began with the classi...

Contributor(s): Author: Kim Stanley RobinsonRed Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bests...

Contributor(s): Author: Dale Ray PhillipsRichard is like a traveler or pilgrim, moving from Haw River, North Carolina, to Arkansas to the Texas Gul...

Reducere. Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scor...

Reducere. On any given day, in any given city, countless people are arriving and departing...to visit grandma, to close a business deal, to hook up with a lo...

Reducere. Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Washington, D.C. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals...

Samurai Jack meets Back to the Future in Alison Wilgus's Chronin Volume 2: The Sword in Your Hand, a thrilling conclusion to a time-bending graphic...

Aim e Crocker was an heiress to gold and railroad fortunes and a daughter of Judge Edwin B. Crocker (1818-1875), legal counsel for the Central Paci...

Reducere. Join award-winning writer Jim Duffy as he ventures out in search of the heart and soul of the storied Delmarva Peninsula--wandering along backroads...

Reducere. Newly updated & expanded for the 2020s Much more than a traditional travel guide, "Eastern Shore Road Trips #1" is full of tales from days gone by ...

In early 1790, a young Virginia frontiersman and former medical student travel to the Ohio Country to serve as a scout for the U.S. Army in the Nor...

Reducere. "When I first committed to three full months in El Salvador, the feeling that I was signing up for the equivalent of marriage and reproduction was ...

Reducere. Bob Denhardt first "penned up" The Quarter Horse and had it printed in Houston in 1941. It was the first book ever published about this then-new br...