Bourdain, Anthony
Summary: "A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 BOUStevenson, Seth
Summary: The author describes his travel around the world, undertaken without taking to the air.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 STEKeyes, Scott
Summary: The founder of Scott's Cheap Flights explains why we're searching for airfare all wrong, shares the strategies that have saved his two million newsletter subscribers a collective $500 million on airfare, and presents a bold new approach for how to see the world while never overpaying for flights again. When Scott Keyes booked flights to Italy for $130 roundtrip and Japan for $169 roundtrip, he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rose, Caroline Starr
Summary: In 1889, New York reporter Nellie Bly, inspired by Jules Verne's book Around the World in 80 Days, began an around-the-world journey that she hoped to complete in less time. Her trip was sponsored by her employer, the newspaper The World. Just hours after her ship set out across the Atlantic, the publisher of The Cosmopolitan magazine put writer Elizabeth Bisland on a westbound train. Bisland...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROSTwain, Mark
Summary: A tramp abroad (1880) is based on Twain's travels in Europe from April 1878 to August 1879, blending autobiography and fiction. Presented with the author's original sketches, Twain provides a humorous travelogue with commentary on Old World customs, Wagnerian opera, and the German language interlaced with American reminiscences. Following the equator (1897) chronicles Twain's 1895...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 TwainFrankopan, Peter
Summary: "Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 909 FRABiskup, Agnieszka
Summary: "On November 14, 1889, newspaper reporter Nellie Bly set out on the trip of a lifetime. Equipped with just one small bag of necessities, she planned to circle the globe in a mere 75 days. In a time of steamships, locomotives, and horse-drawn carriages, few thought she could do it. But bravery and determination carried her through. How did Bly complete her historic journey, and what is its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLYSides, Hampton
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SIDSchmidt, Shannon McKenna
Summary: "On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT SCHGreenberg, Peter.
Summary: Presents a selection of vacation destinations to avoid, with advice to travelers on steering clear of places that are vulnerable to such vacation-ruining elements as crime, natural disasters, and overpriced or overrated venues.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 GREMeyer, Michael
Summary: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was the words of President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! that brought the Cold War to an end. Meyer disagrees, and in this compelling account, explains why.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.0009 MEYWeiner, Eric
Summary: In The Geography of Genius, acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. He explores the history of places, like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley, to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity. And, with his trademark insightful humor, he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 WEIBergreen, Laurence.
Summary: Publisher's description: Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, interweaving a variety of candid, first-person accounts, some previously unavailable in English, brings to life this groundbreaking and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 BERMessner, Kate
Summary: Ranger the time-traveling Golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth-graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MESButcher, Tim
Summary: "On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip, started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.311 BUTGoodman, Matthew.
Summary: Documents the 1889 competition between feminist journalist Nellie Bly and "Cosmopolitan" reporter Elizabeth Bishop to beat Jules Verne's record and each other in a round-the-globe race.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 GOOLiebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph)
Contents: The road back to Paris -- Mollie and other war pieces -- Uncollected war journalism -- Normandy revisited.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 LIEMcDougall, Christopher
Summary: "While researching Born to Run, Chris McDougall encountered the story of Pheidippides, the legendary ancient Greek 'all-day runner.' Later, when McDougall met a dedicated amateur historian, he saw a connection to one of the most fascinating mysteries of World War II: how did a small band of Resistance fighters surrounded by German troops kidnap a top German general? What he discovered is that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 MCDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 MCDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Adv McDougallDennehy, Kevin
Summary: "For families of the heroes who fought on the beaches of Normandy during World War II, for fans of Saving Private Ryan, or for traveler interested in history, here is the complete guide to visiting one of the world's most historic battlefields. The D-Day Visitor's Handbook includes everything you need to know to plan and make your visit to the site of the biggest seaborne invasion in history....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Travisano, Thomas J.
Summary: "Poets of the twentieth century Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that 'Elizabeth had more talent for life--and for poetry--than anyone else I've known.' This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life withher talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose, and letters--a remarkable body of work that would make her one of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BISHOP, ELIZABETH TRATregillis, Ian.
Summary: "12 May 1940. Westminster, London, England: the early days of World War II. Again. Raybould Marsh, one of "our" Britain's best spies, has travelled to another Earth in a desperate attempt to save at least one timeline from the Cthulhu-like monsters who have been observing our species from space and have already destroyed Marsh's timeline. In order to accomplish this, he must remove all traces...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREBlumenfeld, Jeff
Summary: "Travel is now more open to a greater number of people than ever, and travelers are often looking for new adventures and experiences. Yet with crises developing constantly around the planet, many travelers want to explore the world and do good at the same time. This book shows them how."--Back cover. Some people want a meaningful role when they travel. They want to explore the world and help...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.3 BLUThomas, Nicholas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 ThomasStarks, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyon's Press 2004