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L'Italia del grand tour : da Montaigne a Goethe / by De Seta, Cesare,1941-(CARDINAL)136449;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subjects: Art.; Visitors, Foreign; Travelers' writings, European;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The fourth part of the world : the race to the ends of the Earth, and the epic story of the map that gave America its name / by Lester, Toby.(CARDINAL)494964;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-435) and index.Awakening -- Old World. Matthew's maps ; Scourge of God ; The description of the world ; through the Ocean Sea ; Seeing is believing -- New World. Rediscovery ; Ptolemy the Wise ; the Florentine perspective ; Terrae incognitae ; Into African climes ; The learned men ; Cape of Storms ; Colombo ; The Admiral ; Christ-bearer ; Amerigo -- The whole world. Gymnasium ; World without end ; Afterworld -- The way of the world -- Appendix. The Stevens-Brown map.A chronicle of the early sixteenth-century creation of the Waldseemüller map offers insight into how monks, classicists, merchants, and other contributors from earlier periods shaped the map's creation.
Subjects: Maps.; Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519.; Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.; Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?; World maps; Cartography; Voyages and travels; Discoveries in geography; Travelers' writings, European.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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One thousand roads to Mecca : ten centuries of travelers writing about the Muslim pilgrimage / by Wolfe, Michael,1945-;
includes bibliographical references and index.The medieval period: three classic Muslim travelers, 1050-1326 -- Enter the Europeans: renegades, impostors, slaves, and scholars, 1503-1814 -- Nineteenth-century changes, 1853-1908 -- The early twentieth century, 1925-33 -- The jet age Hajj, 1947-90.
Subjects: Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Fellow travelers : Indians and Europeans contesting the early American trail / by Levy, Philip,1963-(CARDINAL)325094;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index.Introduction: Setting off on the trail -- The paradox of the conquistadors' trail -- "Upon proper terms" : the rewards of guidance -- "Quite contrary to the custom" -- None but the rattlesnakes! -- Sex, difference, and the ideal traveler -- Going out."When Europeans first arrived in North America, the continent was already crisscrossed by a well-trodden network of Native trails. The traders, missionaries, diplomatists, and naturalists who traveled these trails depended in no small measure on the skills, knowledge, and goodwill of the Native people who were squarely in colonization's crosshairs. In Fellow Travelers, Philip Levy examines Native and European travel companions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. He draws on anthropology and ethnohistory to convey how Indians and Europeans traveling together and seeing the same things might interpret them in very different ways." "Levy examines the writings of European travelers who took to trails and rivers from the Rio Grande to the Arctic and argues that travel relationships evolved from patterns of coercion and miscommunication to partnerships based on careful and constant negotiation. The shared trail was an arena of contested meanings. Levy explores the many forms such contests took and how they contributed to the larger shape and course of colonial travel."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Indian trails; Indians of North America; Indians of North America;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rick Steves' European Christmas [videorecording] / by Steves, Rick,1955-,host,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)157396; Griffith, Simon.; Griffith, Val,screenwriter.; Back Door Productions.; Oregon Public Broadcasting.(CARDINAL)219254;
Editor, Steve Cammarano ; writing, Rick Steves, Valerie Griffith ; photographers, Karel Bauer, Peter Rummel.Host, Rick Steves.Join Rick Steves as he celebrates European Christmas traditions and music in England, Norway, France, Germany, Italy, and the Swiss Alps.DVD, all regions.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Christmas;
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This road I ride : sometimes it takes losing everything to find yourself / by Buhring, Juliana,1981-author.(CARDINAL)425524;
D-Day -- European crossing -- The wrong way -- A ferry tale -- Rainbows, hobbits, and headwinds -- Kamikaze magpies -- The tough get going -- Finally Asia! -- The consequence of solitude -- Indian nightmares -- Turkish delights -- A long way home -- The impossible dream."One woman's solo journey around the world by bicycle"--Book jacket.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Travel writing.; Buhring, Juliana, 1981-; Bicycle touring.; Voyages around the world.; Women cyclists;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Alpine cooking : recipes and stories from Europe's grand mountaintops / by Erickson, Meredith,1980-author.(CARDINAL)397562; Bucheli, Samuel,creator of maps.; Holmes, Christina,photographer.(CARDINAL)353980;
"A lushly photographed cookbook and travelogue showcasing the regional cuisines of the Alps, including 80 recipes for the elegant, rustic dishes served in the chalets and mountain huts situated among the alpine peaks of Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and France." -- amazon.com.
Subjects: Cookbooks.; Recipes.; Travel writing.; Cooking, European.; Cooking;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The same river twice : a memoir of dirtbag backpackers, bomb shelters, and bad travel / by Mandel, Pam,author.;
Wecome to Israel -- Anywhere but here -- Graduation present -- Israeli exit strategy -- American girls, Israeli boys -- Language lessons -- No more baklava -- Mail call -- Lost boys and lost girls -- You can't go home again -- Electric Avenue -- Let's go -- Washed up -- Back to the land -- A second passport -- Off the map -- The hill towns -- To touch the sky -- Back to the gray -- Not quite home -- Back where I started -- The same rive twice.A product of beige California suburbs, Mandel was overlooked and unexceptional. When her father ships her off on a youth group tour of Israel, he inadvertently catapults his seventeen-year-old daughter into a world of angry European backpackers, seize-the-day Israelis, and the fall out of cold war-era politics. Border violence hadn't been on the birthright tour agenda. But then neither had domestic violence, going broke, getting wasted, getting sick, or getting lost. With no guidance and no particular plan, utterly unprepared for what lies ahead, Mandel says yes to everything and everyone, embarking on an adventure across three continents and thousands of miles, from a cold water London flat to rural Pakistan, from the Nile River Delta to the snowy peaks of Ladakh and finally, back home to California, determined to shape a life that is truly hers.
Subjects: Travel writing.; Autobiographies.; Mandel, Pam; Voyages and travels.; Travel writers; Jewish women; Kibbutzim.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Teenagers; Teenagers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Black earth : a journey through Ukraine / by Mühling, Jens,1976-Author(DLC)no2014125932; Hayworth, Eugene H.,1959-Translator(DLC)no2014130722;
Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody.' Mikhail Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev during the turmoil of the Russian Civil War. Since then Ukrainian borders have shifted constantly and its people have suffered numerous military foreign interventions that have left them with nothing. As a state, Ukraine exists only since 1991 and what it was before is controversial among its people as well as its European neighbours. Writing in a simple and vivid way, Jens Muhling narrates his encounters with nationalists and old Communists, Crimean Tatars and Cossacks, smugglers, archaeologists and soldiers, all of whose views could hardly be more different. Black Earth connects all these stories to convey an unconventional and unfiltered view of Ukraine - a country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia and the centre of countless conflicts of opinion.
Subjects: Travel writing; Mühling, Jens, 1976-;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Outlandish : walking Europe's unlikely landscapes / by Hunt, Nick,author.(CARDINAL)616658;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-274).Introduction: outlands -- Scotland's arctic -- Poland's jungle -- Spain's desert -- Hungary's steppe -- Epilogue: the last snow -- Afterword.In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true desert in Spain; and the fathomless grassland steppes of Hungary. From snow-capped mountain range to dense green forest, desert ravines to threadbare, yellow open grassland, these anomalies transport us to faraway regions of the world. More like pockets of Africa, Asia, the Poles or North America, they make our own continent seem larger, stranger and more filled with secrets. Against the rapid climate breakdown of deserts, steppes and primeval jungles across the world, this book discovers the outlandish environments so much closer to home - along with their abundant wildlife: reindeer; bison; ibex; wolves and herds of wild horses. Blending sublime travel writing, nature writing and history - by way of Paleolithic cave art, reindeer nomads, desert wanderers, shamans, Slavic forest gods, European bison, Wild West fantasists, eco-activists, horseback archers, Big Grey Men and other unlikely spirits of place - these desolate and rich environments show us that the strange has always been near.
Subjects: Travel writing.; Landscapes;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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