Cassady, Carolyn
Summary: "This book illustrious Carolyn is a charming narative filled with heartfelt advice for adventurers and weary travelers alike! Evoking a bygone era of elegance and international travel that bursts with beauty and wonderment, you are invited to take a leisurely journey with a savvy mother and daughter team as they soak in the sites, culture and deliciousness of each stop on an extended European...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Book Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CASSummary: Including contributions from Dave Eggers, Pico Iyer, Richard Ford and Jane Smiley, more than 20 well-known writers share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Publications 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 INNBaggett, Jennifer.
Summary: Three friends at a crossroads in their twenties quit their high pressure New York media jobs, leave their friends and everything familiar behind, and embark on a year-long backpacking adventure around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910.4 BAGSevigny, Melissa L.
Summary: "The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: More than a laugh out loud travel memoir, Dear Bob and Sue: Season 2 will bring to life the joy of discovery, the pure satisfaction of accomplishment, and the humor that comes with experiencing new places and activities. Season 2 is the follow-up to Dear Bob and Sue, a charming and sometimes irreverent chronicle of a middle-aged couple as they visit each of the country's fifty-nine national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Matt and Karen Smith 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 SMIBond, Marybeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.0454 BONDWalker, Alice
Summary: "Sweet People Are Everywhere, an illustrated picture book featuring a poem by internationally renowned writer and activist Alice Walker, is a powerful celebration of humanity. The poem addresses a young boy getting his first passport, taking the boy--andthe reader--on a journey through a series of countries around the globe where 'sweet people' can be found"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tra Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALSummary: In the not too distant future, a man and his robots are trapped on the Satellite of Love, where evil scientists force them to sit through the worst movies ever made while they monitor his mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MYSShaffer, Tanya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.03 SHAFFER, TANYA SHASmith, Matt
Summary: "DEAR BOB AND SUE chronicles the journey of Matt and Karen Smith, who took a mid-career break to travel to all 58 U.S. National Parks. Written as a series of emails to their friends, Bob and Sue, they describe their sense of awe in exploring our national parks, and share humorous and quirky observations. The national parks are among the most stunning places in America - pristine wilderness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Matt and Karen Smith 2017
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Summary: Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird ,and novelist Catherine Hubback--who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 WHESummary: Four features from the television series shown in 1990-1993, America's only show that makes fun of really bad B movies from the comfort of a spaceship floating above earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MYSMorris, Mary
Summary: "From the author of the classic memoir Nothing to Declare, a new travel narrative examining healing, redemption, and what it means to be a solo woman on the road."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORRIS, MARY MORNeuman, Andrés
Summary: "Un viajero enigmático. Una ciudad en forma de laberinto de la que parece imposible salir. Cuando el viajero está a punto de marcharse, un insólito personaje lo detiene, cambiando para siempre su destino. Lo demás será amor y literatura: un amor memorable, que agitará por igual camas y libros; y un mundo imaginario que condensará, a pequeña escala, los conflictos de la Europa moderna."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC NEUBell, Gertrude Lowthian
Summary: "A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia. One of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century and the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I, Gertrude Bell turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, GERTRUDE BELKnudsen, Michelle
Summary: Introduces young readers to the life of the pioneering investigative reporter, her record-breaking trip around the world, and her undercover work on behalf of the mentally ill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021
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Summary: "A contributor-based, female-focused resource that helps women travel safer, smarter, and more mindfully"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.82 VARSummary: "The best travel writing essays of 2019 are collected in this volume that explores what it means to travel somewhere new"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020