| Amanda - a Daughter of the Mennonites
| The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Mennonites; History / General; Religion / Christianity / Mennonite; Travel / General; Travel / Essays
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| How I Travel to Europe Every Year on a Teacher's Salary
| Every year I travel to Europe, and I do it on a teacher's salary. This short guide will give you all the tips and tricks I use to manage to travel on such a tight budget in a no-frills format. Every tip in here is easy to implement and, most importantly, every tip works!What others have to say: The first trip I ever took abroad, with my dear friend Kristie Dean was to England and Scotland. I wanted to go to Ireland, but the airfare for this trip was absolutely incredible & could not be passed up...More
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| How NOT to RV; The Rvers Guide to RVing in the Absurd (The How NOT To Guides)
| How NOT to RV is a fast-rising bestseller. Here's what some have said:- "I had a great time reading (and laughing out loud)"- "hard to put down, easy to pick up"- "funniest bumpy ride ever ... stand-up comics take note"- "Hilarious mishaps and thought-provoking reflections"- "I was fascinated from beginning to end" (comment from the HowNOTtoRV.com blog")RVs, RVing, and how (NOT) to RV by a recovering New York psychoanalyst on a trip to nowhere in particular. Whether you're a woman traveling alon...More
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| Disney World Cash Hacks: 49 Hidden Tricks for Saving Tons of Cash at Disney World
| Disney World Cash Hacks is a list of 49 original tips and tricks for saving dough on your next trip to Walt Disney World. Tricks range from ways to save money on food and drinks at Disney World, ways to get coupons and passes at a discount, and how to enjoy free activities and free transportation. Find out the cheapest ways to fly and how to save big bucks on hotels in Orlando.The list offers specific restaurant names, festival and event names, addresses of off-site stores/restaurants and variou...More
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| Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
| This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a bal...More
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| Fast Times in Palestine
| Pamela Olson, a small town girl from eastern Oklahoma, had what she always wanted: a physics degree from Stanford University. But instead of feeling excited for what came next, she felt consumed by dread and confusion. This irresistable memoir chronicles her journey from aimless ex-bartender to Ramallah-based journalist and foreign press coordinator for a Palestinian presidential candidate. With dizzying speed she finds herself attending Yasser Arafat's funeral, sharing a holiday dinner with ...More
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| Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.
| This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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| The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
| The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners¿ desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
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| Bumped to Berlin
| It all started with a dream. During a semester abroad in Europe, Savannah Page visited Berlin, got lost in a former East German neighborhood, and made a discovery…and a promise. She was enamored of the multikulti city that offered her everything she wanted in a home: big city-life, rich history, on continental Europe, and a diverse community. She was determined to call Berlin home some day.Five years later, she and her husband found themselves making the giant jump from the heart of America in...More
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| A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition
| This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science.In A Short History of Nearly Everything, beloved author Bill Bryson confronts his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as his territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, ...More
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| The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 (Unofficial Guides)
| This best selling and definitive guide to Disney World is bigger and better than ever!Exhaustively researched and packed with insider advice that will save you both time and moneyTried and tested touring plans that save as much as four hours of standing in line in a single dayTips, advice, and opinions from hundreds of Walt Disney World guests in their own wordsAlmost 250 hotels rated and ranked for quality and value, including the top non-Disney hotels for familiesA complete Dining Guid...More
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| Into the Wild
| In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.Immediately...More
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| For 91 Days in Savannah
| Photos, advice and anecdotes from our three months in Savannah, Georgia. We're two travelers who spend 91 days in various cities around the world, capturing the history, local flavor and way of life. Over the course of three months, we were able to explore the best of Savannah: the touristic highlights, all the historic squares, easy day trips, great restaurants and hidden gems. Read about all our experiences in this e-book, which also includes a wealth of images of this incredibly photogenic ci...More
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| Roughing It [with Biographical Introduction]
| Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical travel memoir, "Roughing It" was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to "Innocents Abroad", in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise, "Roughing It" documents Twain's early days in the old wild west between the years 1861-1867.
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| Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
| When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero for having piloted the first flights over the North and South Poles. His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone near the bottom of the world, gathering weather data and indulging his desire “to taste peace and quiet long enough to know how good they really are.” But early on things went terribly wrong. Isolated in the pervasive polar night with no hope ...More
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| Twenty Centavos: A Mystery Set in San Miguel de Allende (Murder in Mexico)
| Twenty CentavosDoes an artist really see things differently? Painter Paul Zacher, preparing for a gallery show in the Yucatan, is unwillingly drawn into a murder investigation in his home town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. A prominent antiques dealer has been shot in the head, and a twenty centavo coin found in his mouth. Zacher draws on the help and expertise of his Mexican girlfriend, Maya Sanchez. and his retired detective friend, Cody Williams, to comb the prosperous expatriate community...More
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| Free Air (Annotated)
| - Transcribed word-for-word by hand- With full navigation- Annotated"Free Air" is one of the emblematic road trip novels of the early twentieth century, later serving as a model for Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."As with most travel literature, the journey of the hero and heroine can be seen on many levels, including journeys of self-discovery, inner change, class consciousness and liberation. As a literary homage to Sinclair Lewis, "Free Air" is also the book that the fictional character Jimmy Da...More
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| MY CRUISE HOLIDAY FROM HELL- How My Shipwreck Nightmare Came True
| 5.0 out of 5 stars "Gripping", 27 Jan 2012 statesideskier An utterly gripping account, I could almost imagine myself on the lifeboat with Dennis and Arleen. How incredibly brave they both were and such a terribly tragedy that Arleen should not recover from the ordeal. The shipping company should be ashamed, it is quite unbelievable how they behaved . Everyone who is thinking of taking a cruise should read this first. 5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating true story, 24 Jan 2012 By T. Chamberlain - Publ...More
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| Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries
| Everyone wants to escape their boring, stagnant lives full of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run -- run away from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment on the other side of the world where they don't understand anything and won't be expected to. The world is full of cowards. Tim Anderson was pushing thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan, “where my status as a U....More
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| John Muir's Yosemite
| John Muir, the father of conservation, found his calling in the California wilderness now known as Yosemite, writes award-winning journalist, author, and frequent National Public Radio contributor Tony Perrottet.
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