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Geography, politics, and other factors have allowed Cuba to preserve the region’s most pristine coast and offshore marine environment. Deep Cuba recounts Bill Belleville’s month-long journey around the island in the company of American and Cuban marine biologists and a Discovery Channel film crew. It was the first, and so far only, United States submersible research expedition in Cuban waters. From coral reefs to mangrove swamps to a submerged volcanic mountain, the… More >>

Deep Cuba: The Inside Story of an American Oceanographic Expedition

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Indispensable for railfans who travel, this guide takes you to 100 of the busiest, most interesting train-watching sites across the U.S. and Canada. Each spread includes a color photo and authoritative text about the site written by train-watching experts all over North America. Contributing Editor J. David Ingles. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; 208 pgs.; 200 color photos; softcover…. More >>

Guide to North American Railroad Hot Spots

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Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in the American Southwest!

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Fodor’s American Southwest, 1st Edition

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Just like modern literary life, The American Poet Who Went Home Again expands beyond the safety of pages bound by predictability to explore and often confirm exciting creative possibilities. A shimmering collage of memoir, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, and dizzying flights into poetic observation, this is the amazing story of one writer’s rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and himself. From the celebrated “Return to Savanna… More >>

The American Poet Who Went Home Again

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“Reefer Charlie” Fox rode the rails from 1928 to 1939; from 1939 to 1965 he hitched rides in automobiles and traveled by foot. From Indiana to British Columbia, from Arkansas to Texas, from Utah to Mexico, he was part of the grand hobo tradition that has all but passed away from American life. He camped in hobo jungles, slept under bridges and in sand houses at railroad yards, ate rattlesnake meat, fresh California grapes, and fish speared by the Indians of… More >>

Tales of an American Hobo

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Large scale atlas for the entire state of North Carolina. Includes major roads, points of interest, mileage charts, cities, counties and towns. Fully indexed. Includes detailed enlargements of Asheville, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Durham, Fayetteville, Gastonia, Hickory, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Greenville, High Point, Raleigh, Winston-Salem and more. List Price: $14.95… More >>

American Map North Carolina State Road Atlas

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Visit the places of America”s past, the places where real people led their lives and made American history. Places in Time takes readers to twenty sites that have shaped our national story. Each stopping point is a birds-eye view of a moment in time: Hear the Great Sun call out to his people at Cahokia, ride with General Benedict Arnold at Saratoga, step out of a sedan chair at Independence Hall, and join the Fergusons as they move into “the city as new as tomorrow…. More >>

Places in Time: A New Atlas of American History

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A fascinating way to explore cities is through historic maps and views. It is while deciphering its creation and development that one uncovers the true spirit of a city. American Cities features nine of this country s greatest metropolises; cities that are thriving urban centers today with colorful histories rich in graphic representation: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, St Louis, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. Rare or previously … More >>

American Cities: Historic Maps And Views

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In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. The unflinchingly observant narrator of this memoir reveals his missionary parents’ struggles in a sometimes hostile country. Sent reluctantly to boarding school in the capital, young Tim finds that beyond the gates enclosing that peculiar, isolated world, conflict roils Ethiopian society. When secret riot d… More >>

Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia

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Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the “middle passage,” but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages, award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly recounts more than two centuries of African Am… More >>

Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005