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Book SynopsisThe Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument covers 1.7 million acres in southern Utah, offering the hiker an experience of deep solitude surrounded by a wealth of geological, biological, and archaeological treasures. Hiking the Escalante opens the door to exploration of this highly scenic area of meandering canyons with relatively few marked trails.It lists fifty hikes by degree of difficulty and includes directions to trailheads, instructions for how to follow particular routes, choices of side canyons along the way, suggestions for loop hikes, and occasional alternative destinations. Along with hike descriptions, the book provides information on the geology, natural history, and human history of the area. This new edition contains seven new hikes, new photographs, and updated information about hike terrain.

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Book SynopsisThese seventeen pieces on travel in Africa by leading African authors take readers to places at once homelike and foreign. Against the tropes of travel writing, this book offers the acuity of vision of particular types of travellers. These are travellers whose mother tongue may find the hint of familiarity across otherwise unintelligible languages and for whom a foreign land isn’t necessarily strange; in it they perceive vestiges of the familiar. For them, the act of travelling extends a canvas on which to depict someone else’s reality - a reality never too distant from their own.What makes these writings coalesce is a reflection about the act of being in motion, about reconfiguring place; a consciousness of how geography redirects the focus of one’s gaze and, in turn, how that altered gaze filters inward. Having absorbed the landscape, inhaled the scents, paid heed to accents, and accepted the condition of being out of place, these travelers reconstitute individual consciousness and join a collective sense of existing beyond borders.Place inhabits this renewed sense of self; literature enables its expression. An inviting introduction to travel writing on Africa, The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports is absorbing reading for travellers and students of literature alike.

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Book SynopsisSea turtle populations around the world are endangered, and in recent years tourism has been a critical element in worldwide efforts to save them. More travelers seek meaningful experiences that bring them close to nature and wildlife, and opportunities to interact with and help sea turtles now exist at locations around the globe, from remote beaches to urban labs.In A Worldwide Travel Guide to Sea Turtles, a scientist, a conservationist, and a journalist have come together to provide a guide to the places where people can view sea turtles and participate in authentic conservation projects. Covering five continents and including the South Pacific and Caribbean, the authors direct readers to the parks, reserves, and research sites where they can responsibly observe turtles in the wild, especially nesting beaches where people can see female sea turtles lay eggs and hatchlings make their harrowing journey from nest to sea. Options for on-site lodging and other amenities are included, if available, as well as details of other nearby attractions that travelers may wish to include in their itineraries.

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Book SynopsisIf you are interested in birdwatching, wildlife viewing, orstargazing; flowers, geology, or water; nature centers, festivals, orphotography, a destination in Texas awaits you.From the desert gardens of Big Bend to hawk watching on theGulf Coast to caving and bat watching in the Hill Country, natureoriented travel in Texas also includes lesser known getaways, suchas a photo ranch, rare plant preserve, and bluebird trail.Organized by the seven official state travel regions, Explore Texas features descriptions of almost one hundred nature-orientedsites, including information about the best time to visit andwhy it’s worth going; location, fees, and other logistics; and a“learn” section on the observations and natural phenomena avisitor might expect to experience. Photographs by professionalphotographer Jeff Parker accompany the accounts, and handycolor-coded icons help guide readers to the activities of theirchoice. Perfect for planning the family’s next outing or vacation, this book also contains a message of how nature tourism helps to protect biodiversity, promote conservation, and sustain the state’s tourism economy.

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Book SynopsisEminent French literature professor R. Howard Bloch has become renowned for his insider tours of Paris, given to college students abroad. Long sought after for his encyclopaedic knowledge of French cathedrals, Bloch has at last decided to share his intimate knowledge with a wider audience. Here, six cathedrals—Saint-Denis, Chartres, Sainte-Chapelle, Reims, Amiens and Notre-Dame—are illumined in magnificent detail as Bloch, taking us from the High Middle Ages to the devastating fire that set Notre-Dame ablaze in 2019, traces the evolution of each in turn. Contextualising the cathedrals within the annals of French history, Bloch animates the past with lush evocations of architectural splendour—high-flying buttresses and jewel-encrusted shrines, hidden burial grounds and secret chambers—and thrilling tales of kingly intrigue, audacious architects and the meeting of aristocratic and everyday life. Complete with the author’s own photographs, Paris and Her Cathedrals vitally enhances our understanding of the history of Paris and its environs.

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Book SynopsisThere is much natural and cultural diversity to be found in the heart of one of the country’s most notable and beloved states. This guide focuses on beautiful, vibrant, and distinct Austin, San Antonio, and the Hill Country. Texas is known for its strong sports teams and lively music scene, but take a closer look at cities like San Antonio and Austin and you’ll find that there’s more than meets the eye. Austin boasts acres of parks, bike trails, and beautiful natural wonders. San Antonio offers a pedestrian-friendly, fun-filled downtown area that celebrates its Native American and Mexican influences with delicious food and unique architecture. Once you’ve had enough of urban living, the Hill Country is the perfect place to unwind. Spend a day at one of this region’s vineyards, fields of lavender, or state parks. With this comprehensive guide in hand, you’ll experience a whole other side of Texas—and maybe more!

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Book SynopsisReturning in its eighth edition, this fully updated guide provides details of Adirondack Park’s history and geography, as well as the cultural, lodging, dining, and recreational opportunities that abound here and in its gateway cities (including Saratoga Springs and Glens Falls). Complete with reviews and recommendations from authors immersed in the region, detailed maps and gorgeous photography throughout, this is an invaluable guide for your next trip.

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Book SynopsisExplorer’s Guide Maine is back for the 19th time, providing readers with everything they need to know for making their next trip to Maine the best one yet. This comprehensive, fully up- to- date edition guides travelers of all interests, whether they are looking to explore wildlife wonders or cultural hubs. Featuring hot spots from the southern coast (like Ogunquit and Wells), Casco Bay (Freeport), the Midcoast and the islands (Boothbay Harbor region), and Down East (Acadia area) to the western mountains and lakes region (Bethel area), the Kennebec Valley (Augusta and mid- Maine) and the Maine highlands (Aroostook County)— Explorer’s Guide Maine offers suggestions for dining, lodging, outdoor activities, art and music events, museums, and must-see sights. Whether readers are looking to soak up the sun at Old Orchard Beach, traverse the Appalachian Trail, or observe Porter Bridge over the Ossippee River, Explorer’s Guide Maine proves there is something for everyone at any time of year in the beautiful Pine Tree State.

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Book SynopsisWondrous scenery, incomparable wildlife viewing, riveting geology, and the chance to observe a natural environment hard at work all await travelers at Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. And if readers are looking for a thrill, these parks won’t disappoint—below the serene, peaceful surfaces of these parks are megatons of pent- up geothermal fury, just waiting to explode. That’s right, the entire region could be obliterated in a cataclysmic instant—so this vacation destination should be at the top of your list! A complete guide for an explorer’s next visit to the Yellowstone and Grand Teton area, this book includes detailed tips for traversing the spring, geyser, and travertine terrace-filled parks, the best dining options nearby, and suggestions for places to lodge overnight. Paired with clearly marked maps and beautiful photographs, this guidebook helps travelers make the most of their time at Yellowstone and Grand Teton.

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Book SynopsisIn the last few years, Paris has undergone a huge transformation. It’s fostered one of the coolest creative scenes in Europe, some of the continent’s best nightlife and a “bistronomy” movement that has influenced dining around the globe. Yet while millennial travellers pour into the city, travel guides continue to focus on a staid checklist approach to Paris’s big attractions. There’s currently no book on the market aimed at younger (perhaps more budget-conscious) visitors that truly captures the city’s revived energy—until this one. Paris: A Curious Traveler’s Guide will direct readers to the best paintings in the Centre Pompidou and tell them how to beat the lines at the Orangerie. It will guide them to quirky, little-known museums and secret squares. It will tell them how to find the city’s coolest speakeasies, best neo- bistros and most unusual boutiques. Informative yet opinionated, it is an insider’s guide to Paris without pretension.

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Book SynopsisThe most detailed and trusted guide to Cape Cod and its surrounding vacation sites has been revamped for its 12th edition. Explorer’s Guide Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket offers helpful and organized information on all the natural beauty and entertaining attractions the Cape and its islands have to offer—no matter your taste or budget. Read hundreds of dining reviews ranging from America’s best clam shacks to elegant four-star bistros. Plan an unforgettable whale-watching excursion, satisfy your nostalgia at an old drive-in theater, or simply find the perfect beachside spot to enjoy that local Cabernet. Each section features must-see sites and curated day-trip itineraries to surpass the hopes of any Cape journey. Whether you’re interested in a serene retreat, an outdoor adventure, or local culture, the Explorer’s Guide series is unparalleled in its tradition of giving travelers the tools and information they need to discover every corner of their next destination.

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Book SynopsisThe definitive guide to Salem’s architecture, now available in a new edition. Salem, Massachusetts is home to one of the largest extant collections of historical architecture in the entire nation. In this long-awaited new edition, noted architectural historian Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., presents an illustrated guide and walking tour covering more than three centuries of building styles and types. The book discusses over 350 buildings and complexes, with individual entries and photographs of nearly 230 structures. The material has been arranged according to eight tour districts, each accompanied by an introduction and a map. A joy for the avid walker and arm-chair enthusiast alike, this book is an essential guide to the architecture of Salem from the early seventeenth century through the Georgian, Federal, Victorian, modern, and contemporary periods. Updated with new maps; color illustrations; a preface by Lynda Roscoe Hartigen, executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum; and a foreword by Steven Mallory, manager of historic structures and landscapes at the Peabody Essex Museum.Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceMaps of Tour DistrictsIntroductionList of SymbolsA. Salem CommonB. Derby StreetC. City CenterD. Upper Federal and Upper Essex StreetsE. Chestnut and Broad StreetsF. South SalemG. North SalemH. Outlying BuildingsBibliographyAppendix I: Buildings Open to the PublicAppendix II: Buildings Listed by NameGeneral Index

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Book SynopsisAt any given moment in our history Australia has been in the middle of a mining boom. This book is a history of iconic Australian towns that have emerged as a result of these booms: Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie and Kambalda. It covers past and present, showing that while some of these towns have declined they have all had thriving local communities. Unlike many mining books this is not limited to a single material like coal or gold, but traces the fortunes of a range of towns throughout Australia that have been at the centre of very different mining booms. Eklund is especially interested in the communities that have formed around these places, and tells how they started and how well they have fared. Sadly, the current 'fly in fly out' mining culture means we won't see the like of them again, which, as the author shows, is a great loss.

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Book SynopsisAny place you have experienced first-hand is a museum of memory, one whose exhibits conjure up, in widening ripples of association, a whole city: a red paddle-boat, a photograph of three childern on a hot day, a marble Venus fetchingly half-naked in the shade.A painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in parliament, concert tickets, tourist maps …Kerryn Goldsworthy’s acclaimed Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a personal guide to the city through a collection of objects, iconic and everyday. Adelaide navigates her southern home, discovering its identifying curios and passing them to the reader to touch, inspect and marvel at. These objects explore the beautiful, commonplace, dark and contradictory history of Adelaide: the heat, the wine, the weirdness, the progressive politics and the rigid colonial formality, the sinister horrors and the homey friendliness. They paint a lively portrait of her home city – as remembered, lived in, thought about, missed, loved, hated, laughed at, travelled to and from, seen from afar and close up by assorted writers, citizens and visitors – but mainly as it exists in her memory and imagination.Now with a new Afterword in which Goldsworthy ponders ten years of changes and revelations since Adelaide was first published in 2011 including, inevitably, the record-breaking heat of a 46.6 degree day. A truly unique and revealing way of looking at a city – throughthe small-scale lens of individual objects and events, personal andpublic Part of the classic City Series where leading writers of fiction andnon-fiction reflect on their home city Billed as ‘travel books where no-one leaves home’ Goldsworthy is a highly respected veteran of Australian literatureand criticism; regular fortnightly review column in the SydneyMorning Herald and The Age New edition of a classic with a new Afterword in which Goldsworthytakes in storms, rising temperatures, more recent attempts tofind the Beaumont children, new trams, bridges, ovals and otherdevelopments since her book was first published in 2011 Trade ReviewAdelaide is a text that will give visitors, both actual and armchair, real insight into this city, a naviga-tional device with which they may discern the complex map of narratives and sensibilities that lies beneath the simple geometry of the Adelaide grid... Adelaide is a work of dazzling beauty and clarity that provides the reader with a vision of this city as unique and profound as any that has helped to shape it."" — The Adelaide Review

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Book SynopsisExplore behind the tourist facade of the world's most visited city. In this book, Paris-based writer and Invisible Paris blogger Adam Roberts provides a concise and informative portrait of the iconic metropolis. He uncovers the story of how a provincial backwater rose up to become the richest and most powerful city in Europe, and a world leader in fashion, the arts and gastronomy - and why it continues to dazzle today. In short, illustrated chapters, Roberts casts his eye over 2,000 years of turbulent history, from a time when roaming Celtic tribes first set up camp to the present day: he covers the rise and fall of royalty, uprisings and invasions, destruction and magnificent redevelopments, and he explores the city's contributions to the world, including Gothic architecture, city planning, mammoth museums and urban art. A section on the city today - perceptive essays and observations on topics ranging from Parisian Sundays to the inside workings of a historic hotel - reveal the twenty-first-century city.Roberts also offers travellers a diverse selection of tips on places to visit, from a vintage sweet shop to a museum of romantic life, a relaxing hidden garden in a hospital, and a converted hairdressing salon where you can play table tennis. Recommended for those planning a trip to the city or simply for anyone who loves Paris, this book offers a unique overview of one of the world's most fascinating cities.Trade Review'The Paris within Adam Roberts' Paris combines the intellect with the emotional and does so in a style that is both engaging and alluring. The rich history that belongs to the city - stone by stone, bridge by bridge, ruler by ruler, era by era - comes alive within these pages, giving vast meaning to each step and to each breath taken by today's visitor. In the end, one is left with an historical and a present moveable feast.' - Robert Wheeler, author of Hemingway's Paris: A Writer's City in Words and Images

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon his own travel experiences and those of others, Keith Forrester interrelates travel writing, tourism and serious commentary to produce an account of the delights, challenges and excitement of visiting old and new India. Banyan Tree Adventures: Travels in India is not the usual travelogue or tourist guide to India. It is a book that not only discusses the Indian experiences and views of non-domestic travellers in their explorations and adventures, but also a text that helps understand the simple question of why tourists keep returning to the country. What is it about India that prompts the interest and loyalty of returning tourists? Where do they go and why? What areas do tourists visit and what aspects of Indian culture, policy and history interests them? How do overseas tourists cope with and understand the shocking evidence of poverty while travelling around the country? Few countries embody the blending of tradition and the ancient with the new and the modern. So yes, it is a good time to be interested in and thinking about India. It’s an even better time to be travelling around the country.

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Book SynopsisIn the course of Pat Spain’s time filming wildlife-adventure TV series, he’s gotten pretty used to being uncomfortable. There’ve been rabid raccoon attacks, days spent in the baking equatorial African sun, and consumption of many revolting local delicacies like fermented mare’s milk. And then there was Sumatra. On the Hunt in Sumatra details the two weeks Pat spent soaking wet with a National Geographic film crew tracking the legendary Orang Pendak through the forests of Indonesia, while tigers, leeches, amorous orangutans, Coldplay fans, a guide named Uncle Happy, two shaman, car demons, and rogue cameramen tracked them. It is, without a doubt, the most inhospitable terrain Pat’s ever encountered, with the highest likelihood of grievous bodily harm. But the payoff is the theory he reached about Orang Pendak, and a 5 a.m. EDM Tai Chi party.

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Book SynopsisPat Spain was living the life he had always dreamed of. He had just finished filming his first National Geographic TV series Beast Hunter, put in an offer on his first house with his girlfriend, was in the best physical shape he’d ever been in, had paid off the massive debt he’d incurred filming a web-based wildlife series and was getting to hang out with his TV and punk-rock idols like Harry Marshall, Henry Rollins and Brady Barr when he started getting stomach pains. A diagnosis of stage-3 colon cancer brought Pat’s world crashing down around him in an instant. He went from planning a press tour and an appearance on The Tonight Show to learning how to change an ostomy bag, re-learning how to walk, and finding out if he liked pot brownies. On the Hunt in Manitoba is the darkly comedic story of how Pat became a wildlife TV host, lost his dream job, almost lost his life and came back from the depths the only way he knew how - covered in 200,000 snakes.

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Book SynopsisPat Spain is not a very good dancer. Nor is he a person used to wearing bikini briefs, or wrestling in front of hundreds of nomads and an international TV audience. He is certainly not a person you would expect to find wearing said bikini briefs while dancing in front of said audience, but here we are: On the Hunt in the Gobi Desert. Pat and a National Geographic film crew are searching for the truth behind stories of the Mongolian Death Worm, and to crack this legend Pat will have to wrestle a giant while risking indecent exposure, brave the worlds’ most disgusting long-drop bathroom, eat and drink toxic 'delicacies', wrangle a very jumpy electric eel and testy spitting cobra, avoid the temptation to smuggle archeological artifacts and deal with bed-bug and camel-tick infestations while they traverse the least densely populated country in the world, Mongolia.

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Book SynopsisPat Spain is used to doing things that he acknowledges are not normal — such as lying in a pit of 200,000 snakes or having a pygmy village take excessive interest in his bathroom habits. /Sea Serpents: On the Hunt in British Columbia/ chronicles the coolest thing this host of multiple wildlife-adventure TV series has done yet — traveling 1,000 feet underwater in a three-man sub. Follow Spain, and the National Geographic film crew that went with him, as he sets sail on a commercial fishing boat with a dozen angry men; plays a dangerous, absolutely bonkers sport; almost falls off a mountain while drunkenly hiking; and then some. Spain puts his marine biology degree to good use by getting drunk off the fumes of a pickled specimen of the largest bony fish on Earth, all in an effort to track down the truth behind stories of a giant Canadian sea serpent. The answer to the mystery probably isn’t what you’re thinking.

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Book SynopsisOn the Hunt in West Africa finds Bostonian Pat Spain, an inexperienced but enthusiastic traveler and wildlife biologist, on the first shoot of his new National Geographic TV series in Cameroon, the Congo, and the Central African Republic. He was told it would be his “trial by fire” for the world of wildlife TV, and soon finds that to be literally true after their decrepit pick-up truck catches fire while doing 100 MPH on a dirt road. Things only get more uncomfortable for Pat from there as he experiences the wildlife (getting charged by a silverback gorilla and having a killer bee land on his exposed penis), the food (eating rat and face-meltingly hot peppers), and some local traditions (he’s almost arrested, accidentally married, and inadvertently invites an evil forest spirit to live in the Pygmy village he’s staying in), and somehow manages (in his mind, at least) to solve the mystery of Mokele M’Bembe - a supposed living dinosaur in the riverways connecting these three countries.

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Book SynopsisStudents in Elon University’s first adventure-based learning course to Tanzania hiked to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro - millennial style. Then they wrote a book about it. The 22 upper-level students in the Core Capstone course authored this book in order to share what they learned from their adventure, and provide helpful information for those who follow in their footsteps. Most travel adventure books about Kilimanjaro are written by older adults, and tend to focus on the individual's “peak experience." Those reading Kilimanjaro, Millennial Style will quickly grasp the different ways young adults perceive their world, how their relationships are deepened, where they find adventure, and what it means to have an authentic experience together. As one of the authors wrote, "I would never want to hike to the top of Kilimanjaro again. Not because it wasn't the most amazing experience I have ever had, but because it wouldn't be with the people that made my experience so extraordinary."

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Book SynopsisThree decades ago, the hypermobility of tourists from the days before the global pandemic was truly unthinkable in Eastern Europe. The borders were closed and the region isolated from the rest of the world. Despite an extraordinary transformation of tourism in the area since, Eastern Europe remains under-explored in tourism studies. This book fills the gap by outlining contemporary strategies for tourism development in post-socialist countries, considering the opportunities and challenges as well as the initiatives and approaches to sustainability. Reviewing tourism development and planning across Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania, this book:- Offers a contemporary and insightful outlook of Eastern Europe tourism, with a wide range of case studies from inter-disciplinary and single-disciplinary perspectives; - Uses varied methodological approaches and research methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, informal conversations, document analysis, netnography, questionnaires and secondary data, to form an interesting and diverse treatise;- Considers post-COVID tourism and the significant role of tourism stakeholders in its re-development.Illuminating the various economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts that tourism has created, this book is a valuable reference for researchers and students of tourism and related disciplines, as well as anyone interested in the development of Eastern Europe.

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Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the pandemic, author Tim Ward and his wife, Teresa, decided to leave their home and professional careers in the US to spend a year in Europe as flâneurs. The French word "flâneur" means one who “wanders without purpose, observing society.” As the French literary critic Sainte-Beuve explained it, to flâne “is the very opposite of doing nothing.” Indeed, it is to give yourself the gift of time: permission to live an unstructured life and, by so doing, discover something about the world, and about yourself.

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Book SynopsisRiding up hills is the ultimate challenge for a cyclist. This guide is a compliation of some of the best hills in London and the South East. It's not just a definite list of the Top 50 toughest climbs; instead, author Adrian Bond has selected some of the most iconic, the most thrilling, the most interesting, varied and, of course, toughest, hill climbs that this region has to offer. Hopefully, there's something here for everyone, whether you're a 'Weekend Warrior' or a serious road racer. Just get out there and enjoy the ride.

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Book SynopsisThe history of Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is told through the stories of those who are buried there. The book is organized into sections, such as artists, fur traders, and Civil War generals, which feature biographies of individuals. Besides being a history of a significant place, this book functions as a guidebook to St. Louis and its notable residents. Because so many of St. Louis’s leading citizens (such as William Clark, James Buchanan Eads, Susan Blow, and Adolphus Busch) are buried in Bellefontaine, the book is a tale of the city. Cemetery records and interviews with such insiders as the cemetery’s superintendent and gatekeeper inform the research. The contributions and controversies that make up St. Louis history are revealed, and the architecture and landscape of the cemetery are celebrated as significant to the region.

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Book SynopsisThis volume, edited by Joan Piggott (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), includes fourteen essays, originally written in Japanese and here interpreted in English. It introduces readers to a broader array of historical and archaeological research on center-periphery relations than has ever before been available to English readers. Each essay has been translated, annotated, and introduced by a specialist who selected it for its invaluable contribution to his or her own work, and who here renders it into English for a non-specialist audience. The book features thirteen newly created maps, and also includes an exhaustive list of sources (including Chinese characters). Together with its readable and well-annotated text, extensive glossary, rich bibliography, and comprehensive index, these combined tools make for a valuable resource to scholars and students interested in premodern Japan. Researchers whose work has been interpreted include Tsude Hiroshi, Kobayashi Yukio, Hara Hidesaburō, Inoue Tatsuo, Takahashi Tomio, Takeda Sachiko, Hotate Michihisa, Morita Tei, Sasaki Muneo, Toda Yoshimi, Miyazaki Yasumitsu, Motoki Yasuo, Ishimoda Shō, and Koyama Yasunori. Scholar-interpreters include Mikael Adolphson, Michiko Aoki, Bruce Batten, Walter Edwards, Karl Friday, Jan Goodwin, Gustav Heldt, and Joan Piggott.Trade ReviewParticularly for those interested in the complex and often inaccessible world of Japanese historiography for what the translators label "the classical age." This volume will prove a handy guide.... [It] will allow Anglophone historians a look at the assumptions, methods, and interpretations of our Japanese colleagues in all their intricacy. * Monumenta Nipponica *

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Book SynopsisFor the last ten years Grandmaster Lev Alburt has been writing a very special monthly column for the U. S. Chess Federation’s magazine, Chess Life. Nontitled readers are asked to contribute their most instructive games, with generous annotations. From dozens of entries, Lev chooses for his column one he considers to be of greatest value for CL’s readers, adding his own comments and advice. For this book, Lev has selected forty of his best columns, arranged by theme, and has added some new material, all to make A Fresh Look at Chess truly instructional and also fun to read and learn from. Most chess books have been written by grandmasters and use only the hard-to-understand games of grandmasters to help amateurs. This book uses a new, complementary—and very effective—approach: amateur games reveal the mistakes your opponents will make, and show you how to capitalize on them.

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Book SynopsisTwenty thousand copies of the first edition of this book were sold. An attractive and comprehensive guidebook, it has been completely revised and updated by the author. The reader will find an easy-to-use text which details the natural history of the plants and animals found in the Galapagos Islands. Management and conservation of the Galapagos National Park is discussed, and visitor information and notes about the various tourist sites are given. An index and checklist of plants and animals with page references and a glossary of technical terms are provided.Trade Review"Jackson tells delightful little stories through this unusual natural history guide. This is unusual because it's so uplifting. The Galà pagos Islands are a place of wonder, with such rich, abundant wildlife and natural history that readers will yearn to experience them first-hand and not just through a book. But this guide will do for a start. [Here] is the kind of book that belongs in every nature lover's library." -- Margaret Mironiwicz, The Globe and Mail "The book is more than a simple guide, it contains information gleaned from the extensive literature existing on the Galà pagos Islands, combining it with first-hand experience of the author, who worked in the archipelago as a naturalist guide and as a zoologist." -- Marinus HoogmoedThe book is more than a simple guide, it contains information gleaned from the extensive literature existing on the Galápagos Islands, combining it with first-hand experience of the author, who worked in the archipelago as a naturalist guide and as a zoologist. Marinus HoogmoedTable of Contents Preface GalÁpagos National Park Rules Acknowledgements 1. Historical Background 2. Environmental Setting 3. Colonisation, Evolution, and Ecology 4. Plant Life 5. Reptiles 6. Seabirds 7. Coastal Birds and Migrants 8. Land Birds 9. Native Mammals 10. Terrestrial Invertebrates 11. Intertidal and Marine Life 12. Conservation in the Islands 13. Visiting the Islands Selected Bibliography Appendix 1: Checklist of Plants and Animals Appendix 2: Glossary of Terms Appendix 3: Units and Conversions Appendix 4: Information for Supporters of GalÁpagaos Conservation Index

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Book SynopsisWell established as ‘the East Coast yachtsman’s bible’, this 20th edition of Jan Harber’s classic cruising companion marks the book’s 60th anniversary. Dating back to 1956 when Jack Coote, Jan’s father, produced the first black and white edition, East Coast Rivers, now extending from Lowestoft to Ramsgate, continues to cover the rivers, curlew-haunted creeks and intricate shoals and swatchways of the Thames Estuary and surrounding rivers. Comprehensive pilotage and nautical information based on years of local knowledge is complemented by port information and local maritime history, helping cruising sailors to make the most of their visit to the East Coast. The text is illustrated throughout with updated charts and photographs, including spectacular aerial shots of a number of the rivers and entrances that make up this cherished cruising ground. Not only a pilot guide, this is the memoir of a family’s history; exploring, capturing and celebrating this extraordinary sailing area.Trade Review"Essential information is complemented by quotes, local history, family history and additional photographs to provide the reader with a greater insight into the nature of this cruising area." (Little Ship Club) "To read this guide is to go on a journey with someone who is steeped in the East Coast Rivers and knows intimately its swatchways, creeks, mud and sandbanks." (The Deben Magazine) "The pilotage is descriptive and full of local colour including extensive quotations that give a real flavour of the East Coast" (Practical Boat Owner) "Years of experience shine through in the well-thought-out use of photographs and chartlets." (Classic Boat) "Well established as 'The East Coast Yachtsman's Bible'...highly regarded guide" (Boat Mart) "...excellent aerial photographs, simple and clearly illustrated chartlets...a useful new guide to navigate distances." (Yachting Monthly) "...very much a 'cruising companion', with patches of history, anecdote, quotation and detail of shoreside facilities...well illustrated..." (Sailing Today) “For those who prefer an interesting read to a technical guide, East Coast Rivers is full of good local knowledge.” (Yachting Monthly). "The old favourite for this area and has been in publication since 1956. Years of experience shine through in the well-thought out use of photographs and chartlets." (Classic Boat).Table of ContentsPREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Lowestoft; CHAPTER TWO: Southwold; CHAPTER THREE: Orford River; CHAPTER FOUR: The River Alde; CHAPTER FIVE: The River Deben; CHAPTER SIX: Harwich Harbour; CHAPTER SEVEN: The River Orwell; CHAPTER EIGHT: The River Stour; CHAPTER NINE: Walton Backwaters; CHAPTER TEN: The River Colne; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The River Blackwater; CHAPTER TWELVE: The River Crouch; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The River Roach and Havengore; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The River Thames; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Medway; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Swale; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Cross Estuary Routes; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Ramsgate; CHAPTER NINETEEN: Sixty Years of East Coast Rivers; TIDAL CONSTANTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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