Beginnings for You

Author: Bill Burke
Publisher: Travelers' Tales Guides
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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A guidebook with a decidedly different approach, Mousejunkies! is a collection of humorous travelogues and insider how-to secrets compiled after scores of trips to Walt Disney World. The book draws on the insights of a panel of Disney fanatics -- The Mousejunkies. This third edition brings everything up to date with countless new tips, tricks, and tales. Told through personal accounts, all of the most important topics are covered: when to go, where to stay, what to do, and where to eat. Readers also learn how to avoid melting down under the Florida sun, how to extract your family from Fantasmic with your sanity intact, where to catch a mid-afternoon catnap, and even how wrong things go when "Epcrotch" strikes. Mousejunkies! is more than one travel writer's experiences: The Mousejunkies have found themselves inexplicably drawn to Walt Disney World, again and again. Each has taken his or her own path, finding his or her way separately. The stories -- wry, humorous, and told with an affection gained through years of Disney addiction -- paint vivid portraits of a creatively engineered world, where unexpected surprises create lasting memories. The tips are told with a sly wink and the desire to share the secrets.

Author: Mikkel Aaland
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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“Any attempt at peace must be attended by a knowledge of self,” discovers writer and photographer Mikkel Aaland, who grew up with a bomb shelter for a bedroom, in terror of nuclear war. At the height of the Cold War, Aaland finds himself drawn into a mysterious Shinto priest’s plan to save the world. Traveling from Norway to the Philippines, Iceland to South Africa, he places pieces of a sacred Shinto sword in key power spots around the world. Along the way, he comes face to face with his deepest childhood fears of war and destruction, encounters the compelling and mysterious Shinto religion, struggles with the uncertainties of love, and learns to face life with an open heart. The Sword of Heaven tells the extraordinary true story of a journey in which all boundaries are pushed—geographical, cultural, and personal—and in which the healing of the world and the healing of one man appear to be inextricably linked.

Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. Sweat, suffer, and fall in love in Guyana, meet a traveler who conducts his own detente in Russian baths, and encounter the light of a stranger in Burma. Further tales include methods on comprehending the nuances of bargaining in Senegal and an archaeologist who digs up her own past in Greece.

Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Best Travel Writing 2010 is the seventh volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. In The Best Travel Writing 2010 readers will explore the mysteries of superstition in Cameroon, discover the meaning of life with an Irish carpenter on a long flight, take adopted children to Korea on a Homeland Tour, delve deep into a sacred Japanese pilgrimage, travel solo in Panama's forbidding Darien jungle, comprehend the nuances of bargaining in Senegal...and much more.

Author: Allen Noren
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Begun as a grand adventure, Storm tells the story of a trip that quickly became a tumultuous test of endurance. When the Baltic States of the former Soviet Union opened up, Allen and his girlfriend Suzanne were drawn to the prospect of traveling together once again. Setting out on a motorcycle, the two seasoned travelers rode through Germany, Denmark, and Sweden to the Arctic Circle, then on to Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Though they’d been together for seven years, and thought they knew what to expect from an extended road trip, they couldn’t foresee the unrelenting natural elements, shifts in once-shared dreams, or fissures in their relationship that lay ahead. Often darkly humorous, Storm reveals a couple’s love and the fragility of human connections as it recounts the journey that became a test of both riders’ physical and emotional endurance.

Author: Jeff Greenwald
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Jeff Greenwald's classic travelogue follows his quest for the "perfect" Buddha statue. At turns hilarious and moving, his quest features a cast of amazing characters — from a passionate palmist to a flying lama — who provide unforgettable glimpses into the daily life and culture of the former kingdom (including a wild ride on Kathmandu’s very first escalator). Greenwald doesn't shy away from Shangri-la’s darker side. Along with colorful descriptions of Hindu and Buddhist mythology, the book tells of the rampant corruption, art smuggling, assassination attempts and human right abuses that would ignite Nepal’s violent "People Power" Revolution in April 1990. A new afterword by the author recounts Nepal's tumultuous recent history — including the massacre of the royal family — in vivid detail. And a new preface introduces this 25th anniversary edition with some thoughts about how Nepal, and travel writing, have evolved since the book’s first publication. Shopping for Buddhas remains a must-read for anyone who has visited, or plans to visit, Nepal.

Author: Emil Richard Johnson
Publisher: International Polygonics Limited
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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When someone rips off a shipment of drugs and the evidence seems to point to a cop as the guilty party, the drug dealer sets out to regain his property by killing off police officers, one by one, and it is up to Detective Lonto to stop him

Author: Steven B. Ster
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Category : Ocean travel
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Whether sailing the Caribbean or the Mediterranean, exploring the glaciers of Alaska or the fjords of northern Europe, readers can rely on this, the most detailed and user-friendly guide to cruise holidays. Veteran seafarer and luxury-travel expert Steven B Stern personally inspects more than 280 ships every year and rates them in all categories, including: vital statistics: the layout, physical details, and history of each vessel; on-board attractions: restaurants, shopping, and recreation; travel necessities: concierges, technology, and medical facilities; ports of call: including how to make the most of an eight-hour visit. The Star Awards help readers to evaluate quality and value as they plan their cruise vacations. The numerous photographs, actual shipboard menus, and daily activity programs combine with the annually updated text to make this the most comprehensive cruising guide available.

Author: Robert Lesser
Publisher: Dutton Books
Category : Comic art paraphernalia
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Author: Steven B. Stern
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Steven B. Stern is the ultimate authority on luxury travel, especially cruise vacations. Whether readers are sailing the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, the South Seas, Alaska, southeast Asia, or the waterways of Europe, this is the most comprehensive guide available, with details on all aspects of cruise-ship travel. Updated annually, this edition lists descriptive information for all major cruise ships, including each vessel's history, vital statistics, appearance, itineraries, price range, and sport, dining, and medical facilities. Stern evaluates every detail by bestowing overall Star Awards as well as ratings in eleven specific categories. More than two hundred photographs of ships, decks, and interiors are included, along with actual shipboard menus and daily activity programs for every cruise line. This valuable guide not only assists you in intelligently selecting the ship best suited to your tastes but also advises you on how to prepare for your cruise and what to expect once you are onboard. Stern also discusses every major port of call in the world, listing details on attractions, beaches, hotels, restaurants, shopping, sports, and other recreation. He even includes guidelines on how to make the most of an eight-hour stay in port. A resident of Florida, Steven B. Stern has sailed on more than 750 cruise ships, visited every major port of call in the world, and personally inspected virtually every ship currently in operation. He is also the author of Stern's Guide to the Greatest Resorts of the World. Book jacket.