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English
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"From Massachusetts to Florida to Washington to California, 50 Great American Places takes you on a journey through our nation?s history. Sharing the inside stories of sites as old as Mesa Verde (Colorado) and Cahokia (Illinois) and as recent as Silicon Valley (California) and the Mall of America (Minnesota), each essay provides the historical context for places that represent fundamental American themes: the compelling story of democracy and self-government;...
Publisher
Wiley Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This book enables passionate travelers and the eco-conscious to learn about and plan a visit to see rare cultural, historic, and natural places before they are irrevocably altered or even gone forever. Here are one-of-a-kind landscapes, fragile ecosystems, rare bird habitats, places to see the last remaining species of big game in the wild, cityscapes in peril, vanishing cultural kitsch, petroglyphs, and 500 thoughtfully chosen treasures that will...
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Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the most famous Greek myths, on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way of seeing what we have done to our world. Fiennes walks through landscapes--stunning and spoiled--on the trail of dancing activists andArcadian shepherds, finds the 'most beautiful beach in Greece', consults the Oracle, and loses himself in the cities, remote villages and ruins of this storied land"--
10) Her right foot
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Language
English
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"If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you'd mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her? She's in New York. She's holding a torch. And she's in mid-stride, moving forward. But why? In this fun take on nonfiction, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
A kaleidoscopic tribute to San Francisco by a life-long Bay Area resident and co-founder of "Salon" explores specific city sites including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Land's End sea cliffs while tying his visits to key historical events.
12) Pilgrimage
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn't on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. A few months later, she went with her three young children to Niagara Falls. 'That's when I started making lists,' she says. She added the houses of Virginia...
Author
Publisher
Weiser Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Traveling through cities and sites across Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Kristen J. Sollaee--a second-generation witch herself--explores the witch as a figure of female power and persecution. By infusing an adventurous first-person narrative with extensive research and imaginative historical fiction, Witch Hunt captures the magic of travel to make an often-overlooked period of history come alive"--
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Publisher
Angel City Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Rev. ed.
Language
English
Description
"Take a spin down Paseo Cerveza or Alameda de las Pulgas... did you know you'll actually be driving down Beer Boulevard or Mall of the Fleas? Learn the stories behind these romantic-sounding but sometimes inaptly named locales in a comprehensive study of Spanish place names in use today in California"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Fish Finelli volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Fish Finelli and his friends set out to find Captain Kidd's treasure, rumored to be buried on nearby Lyons Island, but it seems like the local library director is looking for it as well--and finding the treasure may be the key to saving the island from developers.
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