Archive for 'Books on travelling'

0470287160 New Prices From :- $9.95 Product DescriptionThe Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy has been lauded by the New York Times, Financial Times, and reviewers worldwide. Translated in fourteen languages, Travels has received numerous awards for its frank and nuanced discussion of global economic realities.  Now updated and revised–including a discussions of [...]

0141439491 New Prices From :- $4.01 Product DescriptionShipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver’s encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift’s fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of [...]

1568584350 New Prices From :- $5.27 Product Description Travel connects people with people. It helps us fit more comfortably and compatibly into a shrinking world. And it inspires creative new solutions to persistent problems facing our nation. We can’t understand our world without experiencing it. Traveling as a Political Act helps us take that first [...]

The Art of Travel

Dec. 26, 2009 No Comments Posted under: Books on travelling

0375725342 New Prices From :- $7.85 Product DescriptionAny Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the [...]

0812992180 New Prices From :- $8.61 Product DescriptionVagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life—from six weeks to four months to two years—to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. [...]

0061688711 New Prices From :- $10.08 Product Description Imagine a world without late planes, missed connections, lost luggage, bumped passengers, cramped seating, high fees and higher fares, surly employees, and security lines. . . . Ordinary travel is an extraordinary ordeal. Yet despite the high prices and huge hassles, travel is essential—along with the need [...]

Travel Team

Dec. 26, 2009 No Comments Posted under: Books on travelling

0142404624 New Prices From :- $1.94 Product DescriptionDanny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court, but no one has a bigger love of the game, or a better sense of how to hit the open player with the perfect pass. Then the local travel team—the same travel team Danny’s dad, Richie Walker, [...]

0761136916 New Prices From :- $5.89 Product DescriptionIt’s a traveler’s life list, a guide, an inspiration, a memory book. Open it to check out where you’ve been, and where you should go next. What to see and what to do and what to show the kids. Where to eat and where to stay. And how [...]

0756630738 New Prices From :- $21.36 Product DescriptionAnswering the difficult questions that today’s adventurous travelers ask-where’s the best place for a beach holiday in March? What are my options if June is the only time I can take a holiday? I’m getting married in November, where would be the perfect place for a honeymoon?-this is [...]

0756615453 New Prices From :- $18.80 Product DescriptionItaly offers an extraordinary kaleidoscope of regions and experiences for all visitors. Packed with photographs, illustrations and maps the Eyewitness Travel to Italy has mapped out all of the remarkable flavors of Italy. Use this guide to help you decide where to stay, eat, relax, and shop. Every [...]