The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson s valentine to his adopted country of England In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the United States. The book about that trip, Notes from a Small Island, is uproarious and endlessly endearing, one of the most acute and affectionate portrayals...

In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India...

A new concept in reality-based entertainment. Catch beautiful Anastasia on her wild adventures globetrekking as she explores new cultures. Also a brand new look at these wonderful tourist destinations.

This updated edition of Birnbaum's Disneyland Resort, the most respected and well known name in Disney guides, takes readers through Walt Disney's first theme park with ease and flair. Since our guide is the only guide that's official, this book includes the most accurate and current information on prices and attractions.

Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent--a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific--Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...

Pacific Coasting is an artful travelogue and guidebook to planning the ultimate road trip up the Pacific Coastline, including the best places on the coast-or not too far off the coast-to stop along the way: Southern California's La Jolla tidepools, Venice Beach, and the Getty Villa; Northern California's Big Sur and Muir Woods; Oregon's lighthouses, charming Brookings, and Bandon's beaches; and Washington State's Forks (setting for the Twilight series)...

Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.

"Successful businessman John Silverwood and his wife, Jean, both experienced sailors, decided the time was right to give their four children a taste of the thrilling life on the high seas. And indeed their journey aboard the fifty-five-foot catamaran Emerald Jane would have many extraordinary and profound moments ... Yet rather than flourishing amid the new freedoms and responsibilities thrust upon them, the children were sometimes confused, frightened,...

Richard Yaco gives a close-up and personal description of the 32 Chocolate Soup Portraits he sketched in pencil and charcoal in the 1970s that are being exhibited at the SLO County Historical Museum, 696 Monterey Street.