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[2022]
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English
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"Under the Radar Michigan is an Emmy award winning PBS television series that features the cool people, places, and things that make Michigan an awesome place to live, work, and play. Chapter by chapter, we take you along fifty episodes and discover great Michigan cities, interesting people, incredible restaurants, romantic spaces, and great places to vacation with the whole family. In this (our third) book, we take on the challenge of charter fishing,...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The host and producers of Under the Radar Michigan, a PBS television series, provide the travel destinations of their first 50 episodes. "If you're looking for great Michigan places to explore, vacation, eat, live, start a business or just relax, this book is for you. Chapter by chapter, we take you along on our first fifty episodes and discover great Michigan cities, interesting people, incredible restaurants, romantic spaces and great places to...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Under the Radar Michigan" is an Emmy award winning PBS television series that features the cool people, places and things that make Michigan a great place to live, work and play. If you're looking for awesome Michigan places to explore, vacation, eat, live, start a business or just kick back and relax, this book is for you. In this, our second installment, chapter by chapter we take you along with us on our 'next' fifty episodes. Get ready to discover...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Embark on a scavenger hunt to the unknown and unusual corners of Chicago. This endlessly interesting city is home to tales as tall as our skyscrapers and secrets as deep as our pizzas. Explore a side of Chicago you've never seen, from a grave in a junkyard to a pool under the Loop. Discover where you can picnic on a nuclear pylon or snorkel a Lake Michigan shipwreck. Visit the site of the Western Hemisphere's largest mass grave or run away to the...
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English
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Ghosts! Curses! Hoaxes! Unsolved mysteries! Paranormal events! Take a walk on the creepy side of North America's National Parks! Andrea Lankford, a 12-year veteran ranger with the National Park Service, has written a thoroughly investigated yet often tongue-in-cheek guidebook that takes the reader to the scariest, most mysterious places inside North America's National Parks.
Lankford shares such eerie tales as John Brown's haunting of Harper's
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English
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A Selection of the Progressive Book Club From the sites of famous sit-ins, marches, and strikes to the locales of events that led to landmark Supreme Court decisions, this inspiring travel guide journeys to more than 400 of the places in the United States that are important to progressive politics. Organized by state, it includes the stories of hundreds of women and men of action who, through creativity and hard work, changed American society for...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This isn't your average travel book--and these aren't your average tourist destinations! Take a wild ride through hidden Windy City history--often dark, sometimes inexplicable, and occasionally glamorous. Meet the gangsters, ghosts, serial killers and celebrities that only Chicago could produce. This journey into eclectic Chicago lore includes: 19 spine-tingling creepy sites (Resurrection Mary, Lonely Ghost of Lake Forest, St. Rita's and so many...
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
Description
Massachusetts and weird: not too much of a stretch, some would say. But the authors dug a little deeper and found all kinds of local legends, bizarre beasts, surprising cemeteries, and uncovered the best kept secrets from all over the Bay State. If it's unusual or unexplainable or fantastic, and in the Bay State, you'll find it all here.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Chicago is famously a city of neighborhoods. Seventy-seven of them, formally; more than 200 in subjective, ever-changing fact. But what does that actually mean? The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook, the latest in Belt's series of idiosyncratic city guides (after Cleveland and Detroit), aims to explore community history and identity in a global city through essays, poems, photo essays, and art articulating the lived experience of its residents. Edited...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An American writer of Argentine, Syrian and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel García Márquez's territory - rumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompox - as much as that of the Middle Eastern immigrants who run fabric stores by its banks. Following the river from its source high in the Andes to its mouth on the...
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[2009]
Language
English
Description
Provides detailed, practical travel information to help make your dream food pilgrimage a reality--from building pastrami sandwiches in one of New York's bustling delicatessens to learning to cook delicious Chinese dumplings in Beijing or munching on hand-picked apples amid Vermont's fall foliage. Features recipes you can try at home
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After Spiegel bestselling author Adam Fletcher is accidentally tear gassed in street protests in Istanbul, he goes on a journey to change his humdrum life. Taking his eccentric German girlfriend Annett along with him, this quest to better understand themselves (and everyone else) will threaten his worldview, sanity, and their relationship. Whether freezing in a blizzard in China, ruining a mass dance in North Korea, experiencing the corruption of...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit and a distinctive style, Craig Storti infuses his own experiences traveling the world for 30+ years with quotations, insights, reflections and commentary from famous travelers, great travel writers, historians and literary masters. Storti's vast knowledge of the literature makes him an expert curator...
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