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  Tender Maps - Travels in Search...

  Alice Maddicott

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  'Of all the places where I feel the translucency of things, places that are thin for me, bluebell woods are first among them.'
  Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, or to see a city's sights or a place of history. Others, like Alice Maddicott, travel in search of a particular scene, feeling or atmosphere, often inspired by music, literature and art. Taking us deep into our emotional and creative responses to place, this extraordinary book explores the author's relentless travelling, from the heat of Sicily to the mountains of Japan. With her uniquely lyrical approach to psycho-geography, Maddicott explores the relationship with landscape that is the very essence of human creativity.
  From seventeenth-century salons of Paris to the underground culture and crumbling balconies of modern Tbilisi, through writers as diverse as Italo Calvino and L. M. Montgomery and artists like Ana Mendieta and eighteenth-century girls embroidering their lives, Tender Maps is a beautifully evocative book of travel, culture and imagination that transports readers in time and place.
  'A rich and beguiling work of literary travel memoir that nimbly tracks the wider contours of the world in terms of feeling, memory, introspection and the imagination.' - Travis Elborough, author of Atlas of Vanishing Places

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  Senior Living: Senior Housing:...

  Ace McCloud

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  Would you love to live carefree and happy in your golden years?Whether you want to discover great places to live in the USA and around the world that are inexpensive, set your home and social life up for optimal enjoyment, or explore the many ways you can live happily and productively in retirement, this audiobook will teach you everything you need to know.Choose wisely how you retire.As you prepare to ramp down from full-time employment, now's the time to think through what your life will look like when you're retired. Take steps now to plan a lifestyle that accommodates the activities and relationships that are important to you and that bring joy into your life.Plan ahead for comfort.Learn strategies for living comfortably in your retirement years. Plan for a healthy balance of social interaction and solitude, physical activity and rest.Live where you want.Whether you prefer to stay put or you've been just itching to get out of town, this audio book will help you weigh your options. Included are tips for adjusting to retirement in your own home, making the move to another city, or enjoying your sunset years in an entirely different country.Live a full life in retirement.Get some of the best strategies in the world to prepare yourself for a meaningful life after retirement. Discover a host of practical wisdom to help you choose how you will enter your next stage of life.Make your retirement years truly golden: Buy It Now!

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  Awesome Arizona - 200 Amazing...

  Roger Naylor

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  Which state has the most national monuments? Where in America can you find one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World? Where is the largest contiguous forest of ponderosa pine? In Awesome Arizona, Roger Naylor, "the Dean of Arizona Travel Writers," has amassed 200 amazing facts and fascinating commentary about his beloved state. This is the fast-paced, funny encyclopedia that lovers of Arizona have been craving.Awesome Arizona captures the essence of the sixth-largest state, from its rowdy past to its epic landscape bulging with mountains, slashed by canyons, and blown apart by volcanoes. Learn about trees that once shaded dinosaurs, the West's most legendary gunfight, the world's largest antique, the best-preserved meteor crater on earth, where the post office still delivers mail by mule, the longest poker game in history, how Arizona saved the unicorn, and so much more.

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  South Toward Home - Travels in...

  Margaret Eby

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  A literary travelogue into the heart of classic Southern literature.  
  What is it about the South that has inspired so much of America's greatest literature? And why, when we think of Flannery O'Connor or William Faulkner or Harper Lee, do we think of them not just as writers, but as Southern writers?  
  In South Toward Home, Margaret Eby - herself a Southerner - travels through the South in search of answers to these questions, visiting the hometowns and stomping grounds of some of our most beloved authors. From Mississippi (William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright) to Alabama (Harper Lee, Truman Capote) to Georgia (Flannery O'Connor, Harry Crews) and beyond, Eby looks deeply at the places that these authors lived in and wrote about.  
  South Toward Home reveals how these authors took the people and places they knew best and transmuted them into lasting literature. Side by side with Eby, we meet the man who feeds the peacocks at Andalusia, the Georgia farm where Flannery O'Connor wrote her most powerful stories; we peek into William Faulkner's liquor cabinet to better understand the man who claimed civilization began with distillation and the "postage stamp of native soil" that inspired him; and we go in search of one of New Orleans's iconic hot dog vendors, a job held by Ignatius J. Reilly in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. From the library that showed Richard Wright that there was a way out to the courtroom at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird, Eby grapples with a land fraught with history and mythology, for, as Eudora Welty wrote, "One place understood helps us understand all places better."  
  Combining biographical detail with expert criticism, Eby delivers a rich and evocative tribute to the literary South.

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  Fuerteventura in a different...

  Andrea Müller

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  3rd edition 2020 With over 3000 hours of sunshine, endless sandy beaches and crystal clear turquoise waters, the paradise of Fuerteventura is at your feet. The travel guide Fuerteventura in a different way! 2020 is the best and most up-to-date travel guide with the guarantee of pure holiday happiness. With extended maps and detailed location information you can easily find all the sights. Up-to-date background information lets you immediately immerse yourself in current and historical island events. In addition, 5 incomparable panoramic routes round off your holiday.To the north, discover the small, naturally protected island jewel of Los Lobos and head from the bustling Corralejo to the breathtaking shifting sand dunes and beautiful beaches of Playas Grandes. If you want even more sand under your feet, visit the long playade Sotavento, the popular Playas de Jandía and the secluded playa de Barlovento in Cofete. On no account should you miss the yet undiscovered popcorn beach. During city walks you will be immersed in the historical island history in La Oliva, Betancuria and La Ampuyenta. Walk in the footsteps of the natives through La Atalayita, see secret rock carvings in Casa Alta de Tindaya and learn about traditional country life in the open-air museum La Alcogida.Your excursion programme should also include a visit to the Faro de Tostón lighthouses with the Fisheries Museum, the picturesque Faro Punta de Entallada and the Faro de Jandía on the southern tip of Fuerteventura. You are guaranteed to be impressed by the numerous windmills, as well as the Molino de Antigua and the mill museum in Tascamanita.You will have fabulous views from the astronomical Mirador de Sicasumbre, the Morro Velosa above Betancuria and the Mirador Guise y Ayose, whose oversized statues are dedicated to the kings of the natives. Take a break and go shopping in the capital Puerto del Rosario in the island's largest shopping centre Las Rotondas, or browse for typical souvenirs at the handicraft and African markets. Visit the award-winning goat cheese dairies La Pared and Maxorata and taste the fine cheeses.Even as a family with children you will get your money's worth. Sunbathe and swim in the tranquil Caleta de Fueste bay, crown an unforgettable day at Oasis Wildlife Park with a camel ride, see and pet goats, visit the turtle nursery, or have fun at Acua Water Park in Corralejo.Don't miss any highlights and make your holiday an unforgettable experience: Dream beaches- Sahara- dune landscapes- popcorn beach- lonely bays- sightseeing- museums- historic towns and villages- viewpoints- handicraft markets- Africa- markets- cheese dairies and goat cheese- aloe vera- windmills- adventure tours- daily updated information of the Fuerteventura newspaper and activities for children.

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  Saint-Germain-des-Pres - Paris's...

  John Baxter

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  For many years, Saint-Germain-des-Prés has been a stronghold of sans culottes, a refuge to artists, a paradise for bohemians. It's where Marat printed L'Ami du Peuple and Thomas Paine wrote The Rights of Man. Napoleon, Hemingway, and Sartre have all called it home. Descartes is buried there. Now bestselling author and Paris expert John Baxter takes listeners on a narrative tour of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, which is also where Baxter makes his home.Tucked along the shores of the Left Bank, Saint-Germain-des-Prés embodies so much of what makes Paris special. Its cobblestone streets and ancient facades survive to this day, spared from modernization thanks to a quirk in their construction. Traditionally cheap rents attracted outsiders and political dissidents from the days of Robespierre to the student revolts of the 1960s. And its intellectual pedigree boasts such luminaries as Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Simone de Beauvoir, Gertrude Stein, and Albert Camus.Part-history, part-guidebook, Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a fresh look at one of the City of Light's most iconic quarters, and a delight for new tourists and Paris veterans alike.

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