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61) Tasmania
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Welcome to your Voyage Experience guide: "Tasmania – Australia's Treasures Island" which we hope will help you discover this beautiful Australian island that totally overwhelmed us with its beauty. Still little frequented by foreign tourists, this fabulous island is home to spectacular nature, breathtaking landscapes, an omnipresent fauna that will delight young and old and amaze them: kangourous, wallabies, pademelons, wombats, Black swans,...
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"Takes the sweeping size, bustle, and chaos of Tokyo and makes it small, introspective, and personal," Independent Publisher.
"Captures the essence and allure of Tokyo." Feathered Quill.
"A memoir to be savored like a fine red wine," Publishers Daily.
Motions and Moments captures the ceaseless flow and brief momentary dramas of the biggest city in the world with gentle humor and rich detail. As in his first two books, this third memoir of life in...
64) Martinique
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Would you like a slice of paradise with gorgeous sandy beaches and cristal waters?So... Welcome to Martinique, the paradise island in the Caribbean Sea with a French touch!Do you think that exotic tourism, ever-sunny beaches, incredible flowers and nature, gastronomy are not for you?Make no mistake: this is possible!Our guide Voyage Experience will definitely change your mind.We have been traveling all around the world since our studenthood and have...
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I am here in San Diego against my will; however, that doesn't mean I can't continue to save and invest. It's tough to budget for success here in California. Living in a high-cost-of-living area requires a mindset that most people cannot fathom. First, I rent a room and drive a $17,000. Those two items are how I keep my expenses low from the start. Next, I give myself $50/day for food, gas, and miscellaneous items. I can stay under budget reasonably...
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One of the world's foremost writing teachers invites readers on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku.
A haiku is three simple lines. But it is also, as Allen Ginsberg put it, three lines that "make the mind leap." A good one, he said, lets the mind experience "a small sensation of space which is nothing less than God." As many spiritual practices seek to do, the haiku's spare yet acute noticing of the immediate and often ordinary...
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A wondrous and haunting deep-dive into landscape and culture.
"Countless are they, the people who for one reason or another – or for no reason at all – have met their fate on the beach."
This fascinating essay collection, translated from Swedish, walks global shores, looks to the sea and transcends the everyday. Beaches have shadows. They are places of tragedy that look upon the unfathomable abyss of the ocean.
Per Högselius skirts our history,...
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Shortlisted, 2018 Taste Canada Awards and 2018 Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction
Longlisted, 2018 RBC Taylor Prize
Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he...
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Train travel is having a renaissance. Grand old routes that had been canceled, or were moldering in neglect, have been refurbished as destinations in themselves. The Rocky Mountaineer, the Orient Express, and the Trans-Siberian Railroad run again in all their glory.
Pamela Mulloy has always loved train travel. Whether returning to the Maritimes every year with her daughter on the Ocean, or taking her family across Europe to Poland, trains have...
70) Fleeting Moments
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Step aboard a timeless journey across continents and decades in Michelle da Silva Richmond's captivating memoir, Fleeting Moments.
Travel back to the Golden Age of air travel with Fleeting Moments, a compelling memoir from Michelle da Silva Richmond. Experience the world through the eyes of a Pan Am stewardess during the thrilling launch of the Boeing 747, as this iconic aircraft transformed the way we explored our planet.
Follow Richmond's global...
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A comprehensive food-lover's guidebook to New York City from Eater, the online authority on where to eat and why it matters.
Eater City Guide: New York is your go-to source for getting immersed in NYC's famously vibrant and diverse dining culture. Offering context on how the local scene has been shaped by history, immigration, agriculture, and tradition, the guide offers vibrant, incomparable insight into the City That Never Sleeps and its one-of-a-kind...
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For those who love sailing and you-are-there travel literature. Also for those who enjoy studying the life and times of the Apostle Paul. But definitely for those who love adventure, or at least reading about it! Seafaring isn't for the faint of heart. It wasn't for the Apostle Paul in the first century A.D.-shipwrecked, imprisoned, and often a stranger in foreign lands. And it turned out to be a heart-stopping task some two thousand years later,...
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Lourie completed his trip. It took him three weeks and marked the first time anyone has traveled from the source of the Hudson to the mouth in a single vessel. The Hudson proved to be a very changeable river. It includes seven locks and nine power dams. The northern half is a true river with strong current, but the lower half is tidal, a sunken river from the days of glaciers. In its first 165 miles, it drops more than 4,000 feet to Albany. The second...
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When Alana and Roland, a spirited Canadian couple with an insatiable desire to live life to the fullest, embark on an epic yearlong travel adventure around the world with their newborn son and ten-year-old daughter, they think they're prepared for whatever might come their way.
They soon discover that this is not entirely true.
This charming family love story, sure to inspire wanderlust, is peppered with funny parenting mishaps, thrilling adventures,...
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