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Planning a trip doesn't have to be hard, and taking that trip doesn't have to be stressful. Regardless of work commitments, family obligations, or finances, your travel dreams can become realities. Get Away! provides the confidence and step-by-step guidance you need to design a transformative travel experience, perfectly tailored to your preferences.
Let expert world traveler David Axelrod equip you with the essential tools, checklists, and mindset...
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Are you ready to travel solo?
There has never been a better time to travel solo and whether you are planning your very first trip, are a seasoned solo or a solo pro, A Female Guide to Solo Travel is the travel companion you shouldn't leave home without.
Empowering and inspiring, this book will dispel any travel myths you have about going solo and help you to overcome any roadblocks that are blocking your path to your dream trip.
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Two years before this story begins, the Liawep were living deep in the jungle of Papua, New Guinea, long forgotten by the outside world. Numbering seventy-nine men, women, and children, the tribe worshipped a mountain, dressed in leaves, and hid when planes flew overhead, believing them to be evil sanguma birds. Their discovery by a missionary hit the headlines in 1993. Galvanized by the reports of people living in Stone Age conditions, Edward Marriott...
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Join Carole Jean for a wild ride that starts in Oakland, California and winds through Paris, London, Frankfurt, Ireland, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Most of the trips were fun; some, not so much. In addition to hauling vacationers to Hawaii, Tahiti, and Las Vegas, Trans International Airlines flew Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, airlifted refugees and troops out of Angola, Cuba, and Vietnam. Carole Jean tells the stories with raw honesty...
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Get the Summary of Andrea Lankford's Ranger Confidential in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Ranger Confidential" by Andrea Lankford offers an intimate look into the lives of park rangers, including the author's own experiences. It begins with Lankford handling a medical emergency in the Grand Canyon, highlighting the complex challenges rangers face. Lankford's journey as a ranger started after college, with her...
67) The Year We Roamed: A Father-and-Son Trip Around the World: A Father-and-Son Trip Around the World
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For fourth grade, Pete and Baraka decided to homeschool.
Except they didn't stay home.
Thirteen months later they completed their circumnavigation of the globe. Along the way, they learned many great lessons about the world, themselves, and each other. Join them as they set out from home in Puerto Rico and voyage through Florida, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, London, Denmark, Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, India, the Philippines, China, Japan, and Northwest...
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Stephens' two expeditions to Mexico and Central America in 1839 and 1841 yielded the first solid information on the culture of the Maya Indians. The books in this two-volume set relate his archeological discoveries and exploration of ruined cities, monuments, and temples with penetrating and exciting narrative. Remarkably realistic illustrations by Frederick Catherwood double the appeal of the books.
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Have you considered planning a family trip to Europe with your teens or older children before they are grown? This book provides information and inspiration for you to plan a family trip to Europe of your own.
To Europe with our Teens and Tween is part how-to guide and part travel memoir. It details trip planning on a budget, planning in order to make the most of each day, and tips for both parents and teens. Follow the adventures of the Messer family...
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First inexpensive edition of great travel classic offers detailed, sharply observed portrait of 17th-century Persia. Vivid record of life at court of Shah: lavish banquets and entertainments, diplomatic negotiations, intrigues and cruelty, more. Also, soil and climate, flora and fauna, manners and customs, trade and manufacture, and many other aspects. 9 illustrations.
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Few sailors have had a more varied and adventurous six years at sea than Dennis Puleston did from 1931-1937. Working as a teller in a London bank, he thirsted for adventure. After pooling his savings with a friend, he quit his job and went to sea on a 31 foot yawl. After a brief sail down the Portuguese coast they crossed the Atlantic and spent a pleasant season among the Caribbean islands until their money gave out. At that point they found work...
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What better way to kick-start your second half-century than by announcing to friends and family that, 'At some point in the future, I shall be cycling solo round the world for two years'? After all, this is not only the province of macho males in their mid-twenties; middle-aged mums in mid-menopause also deserve a look-in. Eighteen months after this confident announcement, ignoring the imploring pleas from her frantic (grown-up) children and prising...
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Tripfulness son las crónicas y reflexiones de Xavier F. Vidal tras haber viajado en solitario a más de 30 países entre 2016 y 2021. A Vidal, mucho más que los monumentos en sí, le interesa saber qué hay detrás de ellos. Porque «lo que vemos» no deja de ser una forma de entender el mundo llevada a la práctica por parte de las diferentes culturas. Busca no solo visitar, sino también conocer cómo es el pensamiento de un pueblo, por qué y...
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When Terry Mulligan's sons, Brennan and Colin set off on separate around the world journeys, she has a hunch her life is going to get stressful-it does. One son runs out of air while scuba diving; the other flies head over heels off a motorcycle. Then, Terry gets a call saying, "Colin needs you to wire him the $3,000 in his savings account."
Partly through emails and letters, readers join these explorers in seventeen countries, on three continents,...
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Angus Bell is innocently working in the Montreal magazine industry when, taking advantage of a psychic's vision, he sets off to discover the secret cricketing world of Eastern Europe. From tournaments on ice in Estonia to university leagues in the crumbling Crimea, and from a Croatian military island to communist Belarus, Bell learns how Slavs play the Englishman's game. Encounters with fingerless Tamil Tigers in Prague, a bomb-plotter in the Austrian...
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True Travel Tips is your "Gateway to Money Saving Travel" . There are many money saving websites for airfare, hotels, condos, cruises and car rental. I refer to these money saving websites as "Money Saving Tools". I want to help guide you to maximize savings while navigating these Travel Websites. The individual websites can not be the least expensive all of the time. It is a fact, they just cannot offer you the lowest price all of the time. Your...
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In the best adventures, the intrepid explorer returns home to banner headlines and a hero's welcome. . . but what of the men and women who don't return home? This collection proves their stories are just as compelling. From the disappearance in Utah of cowboy roamer Everett Ruess to the loss of billionaire explorer Michael Rockefeller in the wilds of New Guinea, the tales ring with mystery, intrigue, and excitement. Whether murdered, drowned, or eaten...
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El Primer viaje alrededor del mundo, relatado en su libro por Antonio Pigafetta, ya había sucedido a principios de aquel siglo y terminó en septiembre de 1522.
Sin embargo, Martín Ignacio de Loyola décadas después soñaba con darle vuelta al mundo. Loyola inició su Viaje alrededor del Mundo el 13 de junio de 1581, en dirección a México.
Llegó, finalmente, a Filipinas en 1582, junto a otros treinta y un misioneros franciscanos. De Filipinas...
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"Suppose you were a quiet, respectable, sedentary business or professional man, and the captain of a tramp steamer bound to South America and up the Amazon suddenly dropped into your peaceful office, invited you to go along with him, got your acceptance by a clever trick, and had you at sea before you could stop to think-wouldn't you expect to find 'something doing'?" Thus begins this classic of travel literature, in which a London journalist sets...
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One of the most important ocean voyages in history was the circumnavigation of the world by the survey ship HMS Beagle in the early 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard as ship's naturalist. Darwin's account, published in 1839 as Voyage of the Beagle, has never been out of print. Voyage of the Harrier, is the story of the first detailed re-enactment ever made of the Beagle's famous voyage. Between 2001 and 2012 the author in his small sailing yacht Harrier...
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