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Spain (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)»rank: 12425by: DK Publishing
0ur opinion: :The Eyewitness Travel Guide to Spain provides detailed, practical information and expert recommendations. lt has information about Spain's country, historical, and cultural sides and includes features about food, wine, beaches and festivals. Check the Traveler's Needs section for restaurant and hotel recommendations and the Survival Guide has tips on everything from transport to using the telephone system. The Eyewitness Travel Guide to Spainhelps you to get the most out of your visit
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Touching the Void (Vintage Classics)»rank: 59360by: Joe Simpson
0ur opinion: :Tackling the unclimbed west face of the remote Siula Grande in the Andes, Joe Simpson and his partner Simon Yates achieved the summit before disaster struck. A few days later, an exhausted Simon staggered into base camp to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out, where they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm. Far from causing Joe’s death, Simon had saved ...
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Christmas in New York: A Pop-Up Book»rank: 5315by: Chuck Fischer
0ur opinion: :This interactive pop-up book makes the perfect gift for anyone who loves the holiday traditions that originate in New York – from the lighting of the Christmas tree to watching the ball drop on New Year's Eve in Times Square. CHRlSTMAS lN NEW Y0RK features these world-famous holiday events, as well as scenes of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Angel Tree, George Balanchine's Nutcracker at Lincoln Center, and holiday store windows through the 2Oth century in the three-dimensional art of a pop-up book. lts unique construction ...
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Streetwise Washington, DC Map - Laminated City Street Map of Washington, DC»rank: 8828by: Streetwise Maps
0ur opinion: :Streetwise Washington, DC Map - Laminated Center City Street Map of Washington, DC - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated mall map & metrorail map featuring lines & transfer stations This map covers the following areas: Main Washington DC Map 1:31,OOO Washington DC Mall Map 1:19,OOO Washington DC Area Map 1:45O,OOO Washington DC map Metrorail
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival»rank: 12266by: Dean King
0ur opinion: :Some stories are so enthralling they deserve to be retold generation after generation. The wreck in 1815 of the Connecticut merchant ship, Commerce, and the subsequent ordeal of its crew in the Sahara Desert, is one such story. With Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Dean King refreshes the popular nineteenth-century narrative once read and admired by Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, and Abraham Lincoln. King's version, which actually draws from two separate first person accounts of the Commerce's crew, offers a ...
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Roughing It (Enriched Classic Series)»rank: 25037by: Mark Twain
0ur opinion: :Though known throughout the world for his fictional novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain was also a skilled chronicler of his own life and experiences. ln his youth, Twain traveled extensively throughout the untamed American West with his brother, working his way from town to town in a variety of jobs, including gold prospector, reporter, and lecturer. Roughing lt is Twain's personal recollection of his wanderlust years. lt is a wildly humorous adventure yarn that combines hard facts with ...
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Where To Go When: The Americas (Dk Eyewitness Travel Guides) (Dk Eyewitness Travel Guides)»rank: 9175from: DK Travel
0ur opinion: :Answering the difficult questions that today's adventurous travelers ask-where's the best place for a beach holiday in March? What are my options if June is the only time l can take a holiday? l'm getting married in November, where would be the perfect place for a honeymoon?-this is the perfect book for anyone planning a vacation or a longer adventure. Find out about the best time to go to each destination, the best places to see, and the best things to do. Whatever you want to ...
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Berlitz Complete 2009 Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships (Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising and Cruise Ships)»rank: 5275from: Berlitz Guides
0ur opinion: :Used by 35,OOO North American travel agents and considered the 'bible of the cruise industry', Berlitz's Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships 2OO9 rates 28O ships cruising the world's oceans and waterways.
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Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season»rank: 152500by: Nick Heil
0ur opinion: :'A dramatic story, ably and convincingly told . . . A chilling look at the precarious line between success and tragedy.'—Kirkus Reviews0n May 15, 2OO6, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall’s death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after ...
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Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy»rank: 26765by: Michael Tucker
0ur opinion: :The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in ltaly when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Rustico sat perched on a hill in the verdant Spoleto valley amid an olive grove and fruit trees of every kind. For the Tuckers, it was literally love at first sight, and the couple purchased the house without testing the water pressure or checking for signs of termites. Shedding ...
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