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  Plan Safe Travel Solo

  Alex Starr

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  Do you want to travel the world but feel overwhelmed and unclear where to begin? Don't let fear stop you. Filled with useful advice and tasks, Plan Safe Travel: Solo is a straightforward 5-stage planning process that transforms your dream into a safe reality: assess: Set your travel needs, concerns and budget, design: Decide trip style, itinerary and accommodation, including how to meet other travellers, Adapt: Fine-tune your design, by answering important questions, Prepare: Make practical choices, like luggage, insurance, money and mobile coverage, Travel: Read safety tips. For five years, I have travelled as a female, solo traveller. People ask how I do it. Pre-trip decisions instil confidence. Let my knowledge help you experience this world. Use Covid times to plan for lifelong memories. City hopping, gap year, career break, or once-in-a-lifetime trip, create your perfect journey with Plan Safe Travel: Solo.

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  Along the Amber Route - St...

  C.J. Schüler

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  'Timely and powerful.' Financial Times  Portable and expensive, amber has always been a desirable commodity. C.J. Schüler follows the historic Amber Route from St Petersburg to Venice through three millennia of history. Throughout his journey, current politics and his own family's experience of persecution and flight are never far from his mind.As he traces the greatest fault lines of European geopolitics and explores lands contested by Romans and Vandals, Teutons and Slavs, empires and the former Iron Curtain, Schüler must also confront his family history, Nazism and the Holocaust.

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  Walking D-Day

  Paul Reed

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  This WWII battlefield guide offers twelve walking tours covering all the major sites of the D-Day landings in Normandy with in-depth historical context. 
   
  D-Day the momentous first step in the Allied liberation of France and the rest of northwest Europe. The places associated with the Normandy landings are among the most memorable that a battlefield visitor can explore. In Walking D-Day, military historian Paul Reed takes visitors through all the major sites, from Pegasus Bridge, Merville Battery, Ouistrehem and Longues Battery to Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah Beaches, Pointe du Hoc and Sainte-Mre-glise.  
   
  Each of the twelve walks includes a vividly detailed historical introduction. Information on the many battlefield monuments and the military cemeteries is included, and there are over 120 illustrations. Walking D-Day introduces the visitor not only to the places where the Allies landed and first clashed with the Germans defenders but also to the Normandy landscape over which the critical battles that decided the course of the war were fought.

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  Russian in 40 Minutes: Learn to...

  Collins Collins

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  Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Russian language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. 
  Essential words, Asking for things, Numbers, I'd like …, At the café, In a shop, Basic foodstuffs, Quantities, Tickets, Where is …? When is …? Days of the week, Problems, About yourself.

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  Ladies of the Brown - A Women's...

  Debra B. Faulkner

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  “Amusing and little-known anecdotes” about the hotel’s female guests including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joan Baez, Helen Keller, and others (The Denver Post).   Since the day it opened in 1892, Denver’s Brown Palace Hotel has been the Mile High City’s foremost destination for high-powered business travelers, celebrities, royalty and politicians. In Ladies of the Brown, hotel historian and archivist Debra B. Faulkner introduces readers to some of the hotel’s most fascinating and famous female visitors, residents and employees. From Denver’s “Unsinkable” Molly Brown and Romania’s Queen Marie to Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mamie Eisenhower and many, many more, these intriguing characters play leading roles in true tales of romance, scandal, humor and heartbreak. This collection of stories is integral to the history of the Brown Palace and Denver, offering a glimpse into the lives of generations of women from all walks of life.  “Crafted by Brown Palace historian and archivist Debra Faulkner, this well written, well-researched and thoroughly entertaining book presents amazing stories one can hardly believe are true.” —Colorado Country Life, “The Year’s Best Books” “What fun we had learning about this amazing assortment of characters, all real, and this building so well-appointed and enduring.” —Mountain States Collector

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  Learn Spanish Like a Native for...

  Learn Like A Native

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  LEARN THE SECOND MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD AND HAVE REAL-LIFE CONVERSATIONS WITHIN LESS THAN A MONTH EVEN IF YOU´RE A COMPLETE BEGINNERSo, it’s settled... your next vacation is going to be in Spain!Your mouth begins watering as you book your trip. You’ll start in Barcelona, making your way down the east coast, catching the beaches and islands...But then you discover something you weren’t expecting… 65% of people in Spain don’t speak any English at all. And of the remainder, very few speak it well. What!?This is going to make getting around tougher than you anticipated. 4 weeks out from your trip, you wish you knew Spanish.The good news is that with a targeted application, like travel, you can pick up the essentials quickly.Learn Spanish Like a Native for Beginners covers topics of practical interest to adults, straight out of the gate, while also providing learning modules to get you up to speed quickly.Here’s a select sample of what you’ll discover in Learn Spanish Like a Native for Beginners:•  Presented in both audio and written format, designed for easy navigation and use during commutes•  Dialog drills build your conversational muscles to formulate original responses effortlessly•  Narrated by a Spanish native speaker so you can pick up the perfect accent•  Just-in-Time Expertise - pick and choose subject-based chapters based on upcoming situations and needs•  Break the ice with structured exercises that facilitate conversations and speaking practice•  Special attention to travel and workplace situations with detailed vocabulary lists and suggestions for effective communicationAnd Much, Much More.IF YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO CONVERSATE FLUENTLY IN SPANISH, THEN SCROLL UP, GET THIS AUDIOBOOK, AND START LEARNING TODAY!

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