Fedarko, Kevin
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the epic adventure tale The Emerald Mile comes the most dramatic and deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek. The Grand Canyon is an American treasure, visited by more than 6 million people a year, many of whom are rendered speechless by its vast beauty, mystery, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: "Explorers Kristen and Ville Jokinen met scuba diving in Vietnam and fell in love. She was a real estate agent from Oregon, and he a financial analyst for Toyota in his native Finland. After hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from the border of Mexico to Canada they decided their next adventure would be a two-year cycling trip covering 18,000 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 JOKMatthews-Daut, Carolyn
Summary: "Hike, sketch, repeat. This illustrated journal chronicles the incredible journey of one woman as she hikes every single step of the 2,193-mile Appalachian Trail. With a combination of vivid sketches and engaging storytelling, this book describes the full range of experiences that epitomize long-distance hiking. Through rainy shelters, sweeping views, food, flowers, and towns along the way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seacoast Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.51 MATGriffin, Joan, M
Summary: Three friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike "the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world," the John Muir Trail. From the outset, their adventure is complicated by self-inflicted accidents and ferocious weather, then enriched when they "adopt" a young hiker abandoned by her partner along the trail. The women experience the terror of lightning at eleven-thousand feet, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 2023
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Summary: "A rich and insightful travel book in the tradition that made Paul Theroux's reputation, Dark Star Safari takes us the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, forgotten train, and rusting steamer. Theroux confronts delay, discomfort, bullets, and bad food while encountering a remarkable mix of places and people. Beginning in Cairo and ending in Cape Town, he goes on the ultimate safari to the true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 916.04 THECotter, Tom
Summary: "Tom Cotter undertakes his most epic adventure in America's Greatest Road Trip. Launching from Key West, Florida, Cotter and photographer Michael Alan Ross pilot their Ford Bronco/Airstream camper combination nearly 9,000 miles to America's literal end of the road in Deadhorse, Alaska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motorbooks 2023
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 917.3 UNIKeahey, John
Summary: "A travel narrative following three ancient roads and looking at more than two thousand years of history of Ancient Rome through the modern eye. In 66 B.C., young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia. He borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient highway. It was a way to curry favor from Roman citizens in villages along the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937 KEAMigge, Thomas
Summary: Bursting with gorgeous photographs and abundant travel information, this book is a showcase of 60 of Italy's off-the-beaten-path towns and villages--some of which are only a short drive from the more popular tourist spots. Ranging in size and brimming with charm, these destinations feature historic town centers, quaint stores, villages atop rocky cliffs, castles, and streets bustling with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer 2023
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Summary: "An intimate, insightful, powerful, and endlessly pleasurable memoir of an intensely lived experience whose meaning and insight expands far beyond the personal narrative"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Life 2024
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Summary: The ultimate guide to the very best scenic and fun routes for camper vans and motorhomes around the mountains, coastlines and winding roads of beautiful Spain and Portugal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conway 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.6 SPAJanetti, Gary
Summary: "In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television writer, and producer takes us with him on travels across the globe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 793.73 JACCooper Jones, Chloé
Summary: "Moving through the world in a body that looks different than most, Jones learned on to factor "pain calculations" into every plan, every situation. She was born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, which affects both the stature and gait, and so her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as "less than."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
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Summary: "A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on "home," from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAYES, FRANCES MAYDeRuiter, Geraldine
Summary: "From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism. When celebrity chef Mario Batali sent out an apology letter for the sexual harassment allegations made against him, he had the gall to include a recipe-for cinnamon rolls, of all things. When Geraldine DeRuiter decided to make the recipe,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food DeRuiterHayden, Sally
Summary: "The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: "Hi sister Sally, we need your help." The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in one big hall...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.8096 HAYRose, Kacie
Summary: After a life-changing solo trip, Kacie Rose did the scariest thing she could think of: She moved from New York City to Italy. And it went perfectly! Just kidding--she made a lot of mistakes. In her tell-all memoir meets manifesto, Kacie champions travel and embracing the scary stuff, like immersing yourself in new cultures (and failling espically along the way) or jumping head-first into a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2024
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Summary: When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all, however, was the discovery that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Summary: "Bestselling author Jen Ruiz takes readers on a trip around the globe in 12 Trips in 12 Months, defying societal expectations of what a woman is supposed to be--and empowering others to do the same. The year before her thirtieth birthday, Jen Ruiz decided to change everything. Despite being professionally accomplished and contributing to the world as an attorney at a nonprofit, she had yet to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024