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MARKETS OF PARIS
Written by Williams, Marjorie R
The food scene in Paris has changed dramatically since 2006, when Markets of Paris was first published. Yes, the same markets are held in the same locales as always--literally, for centuries--but many have undergone a remarkable transformation led by a young generation of purveyors focused, even more than their predecessors, on local and organic ("bio") produce.
FOOD WINE ROME
Written by Downie, David
Food Wine Rome is a tightly focused guidebook and traveler's companion to the culinary delights of Rome. For each neighborhood, listings are in three categories: 1) dining: restaurants, trattorie, osterie; 2) gourmet shopping: bakeries, markets, salami makers, cheesemongers, and more; 3) wine: shops and wine bars.
ISTANBUL
Written by Pamuk, Orhan
From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory. --The Washington Post Book World
111 PLACES IN VENICE YOU MUST NOT MISS
Written by Sievers, Gerd Wolfgang
The other side of the Serenissima - mystical, flabbergasting, and amusing. Do you know: - In which church an elephant once was held captive? - Where would you find a luxury hotel inside a madhouse? - Who lost his palazzo at a game of cards? The Serenissima, the fair Lady, is increasingly growing to be the Disney World of the super-rich - but isn't that what she always was?
111 PLACES IN FLORENCE & NORTHERN TUSCANY YOU MUST NOT MISS
Written by Kirchner, Beate C
Michelangelo's David, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the smooth cypress hills these are among the celebrated must-see sights of Tuscany. Yet the cultural landscape of Florence and the surrounding countryside is an inexhaustible trove of visual and historical gems if you know where to look, that is. Where, for instance, can you find 1,000 Masonic objects and symbols?
GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA
Written by Hemingway, Ernest
His second major venture into nonfiction (after "Death in the Afternoon, 1932), "Green Hills of Africa" is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933.
PROVENCE AND THE FRENCH RIVIERA 2015
Written by Fodor's Travel Guides
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I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF
Written by Bryson, Bill
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, it was clear my peo
WALK IN THE WOODS
Written by Bryson, Bill
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The classic chronicle of a "terribly misguided and terribly funny" (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body "The best way of escaping into nature."--The New York Times Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson
INTO THE WILD
Written by Krakauer, Jon
In April 1992 a 24-year-old from the Washington, D.C., suburbs named Chris McCandless walked into the Alaska wilderness below Mt. McKinley with a small-caliber rifle and a 10-pound bag of rice. Four months later, his emaciated corpse was found at his campsite by a moose hunter.
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