Travel just a few miles beyond Acadia National Park and you will find a little known and seldom visited patchwork of quaint fishing villages, rocky coastlines, wild blueberry fields, and vast stretches of forestland reaching all the way to the Canadian border, a hundred miles away.
Marjorie Standish is an iconic figure in the world of traditional New England cooking, known for her popular column, ';Cooking Down East' for the Maine Sunday Telegram.
This updated compendium of facts, observations, discoveries, reviews, serendipities, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well.
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriends hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognize same-sex marriage.
This newly updated compendium of facts, observations, discoveries, reviews, serendipities, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well.
A New Guide to Old Florida Attraction, 2nd edition is a nostalgic journey through old Florida where mermaids still perform in the waters of Weeki Wachee Springs and the carillon bells of the Bok Towers continue to echo across Iron Mountain near Lake Wales.
From Amelia Island to the Keys to Pensacola in the Panhandle, the coast of Florida is dotted with lighthouses of all sizes, shapes, materials, and - best of all histories.
International hotelier, Worth Avenue Association Historian and Palm Beach aficionado Rick Rose releases the 2nd edition of his best-selling guide: Palm Beach: The Essential Guide to America's Legendary Resort Town.
Using iconic images and many not so well-known illustrations, Nostalgic Florida is apictorial history of all that has come to represent Florida in print media.
Cathedrals of War tells the story ofFlorida's coastal fortifications from Amelia Island on the Florida/Georgia border, to Key West, the Dry Tortugas, an atoll midway between Key West and Havana, Cuba and Pensacola on Florida's west coast.
This unique guidebook, organized in chronological order, is a richly illustrated description of more than 100 sites in and around Tallahassee FLorida that together reveal the place of the city and region in history.
'Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals' suffering is something that each person must decide for themselves - as they must decide whether the taste of a steak justifies the death of a cow.
El Diario de a bordo de Cristóbal Colón —transcrito por Bartolomé de las Casas— nos descubre a un personaje fascinante y contradictorio, que pasa del entusiasmo a la desconfianza o a las especulaciones geográficas más aventuradas (la confusión, por ejemplo, de Cuba por Cipango, el nombre que los europeos daban a Japón durante el Medioevo).
Recuerdos de viaje por Francia y Bélgica en 1840-1841, de Ramón de Mesonero Romanos, es un ejercicio de apertura a la realidad europea del momento: "Los españoles, aunque más afectos en general a los antiguos usos, no hemos podido menos de participar de esta metamorfosis que se deja sentir tanto más en la corte por la facilidad de las comunicaciones y el trato con los extranjeros…"
La Relación de un viaje al Río de la Plata es un relato del viaje de Acarette du Biscay, aparecido en Londres en 1698, y entonces se tradujo con el título de Relación de los viajes de Monsieur Ascárate du Biscay al Río de la Plata.
Viaje de Boston a Portsmouth relata un viaje de Francisco de Miranda por los Estados Unidos… Miranda traza aquí un fresco de la sociedad americana del siglo XVIII.
Covering nearly all of the wilderness trails in the Wind River Range and offering suggestions for day hikes, extended trips, and off-trail exploration, this revised edition contains detailed descriptions and National Geographic maps to get you to the trailheads and help you plan your trip.
In 2005, Dennis Van Norman climbed into a kayak for the first time to spend an afternoon Huck Finning down the Mississippi River with his son and grandson.
In 2005, Dennis Van Norman climbed into a kayak for the first time to spend an afternoon Huck Finning down the Mississippi River with his son and grandson.
Covering nearly all of the wilderness trails in the Wind River Range and offering suggestions for day hikes, extended trips, and off-trail exploration, this revised edition contains detailed descriptions and National Geographic maps to get you to the trailheads and help you plan your trip.
