Publisher: Good Press
Palestine Or The Holy Land From The Earliest Period To The Present Time is a history work by Michael Russell. It present Palestine from a Jewish and cultural standpoint as well as describes important monuments in the holy land.
St. Croix is largest of the three Caribbean islands in the US Virgin Islands. We go off the beaten path on horseback and in a boat.Show book
Penelope Chetwode's middle-aged companion on her ride over the mule tracks and goat paths of Andalusia in 1961 was a twelve-year-old mare, La Marquesa. This treasured animal, borrowed from the Duke of Wellington's Spanish stables, brought her experience of native travel conditions to the expedition, which was otherwise inspired by the author's reading of those early British Hispanophiles George Borrow and Richard Ford, combined with her interest in the breeding of Spanish horses. Together the travellers brought out the best in their Spanish hosts, whether met on the road, in a crude country inn, a cave-house or during Penelope's frequent attendance in church. The result is a journey described with warmth and wit, lit up by an infectious fascination for horses, God and Spain.Show book
Gerry MacPherson is a travel authority, with decades of hotel, resort, inn and bed & breakfast visitation experience, Gerry has spent 1000s of nights in properties of all sizes and classes worldwide, conducting countless site inspections for a number of world-class tour & travel companies. This knowledge has given him a unique insight into the wants, needs and requirements of individual and group travellers, as well as, management & employees. Have you ever asked yourself these questions? “How do I open hotel, resort, inn or bed & breakfast?” or “How do I grow my hotel, resort, inn or bed & breakfast business?” You can find the answers in this audiobook but first, let me ask you a couple of questions.Does the idea of being your own boss in the hospitality property industry sound appealing?Is the thought of sharing your corner of the world with guests intriguing?Have you ever thought of opening or growing your own hotel, resort, inn or bed and breakfast but are not sure where to start? If you have answered YES to any of these questions, this audiobook is for you. This audiobook is designed to get you started and grow your business as a hospitality property owner or manager with more than just quick-fix tactics but instead help you develop successful long-term operation methods. I will cover:What is the Hospitality IndustryHotel Throughout the WorldSetting up Your OrganizationEmployee DevelopmentMarketing for SuccessHow to See Your Property as a GuestHow to Prepare for When Guests Return Post COVID-19 What you’ll learn will help you stay two steps ahead of your competition, increase your bookings and patronage, while enjoying a fun and fulfilled life as a hotelier/innkeeper.Show book
In this unique memoir, the adventuresome author combines stories of rural Kentucky and restless travel with tall tales of other worlds and bygone eras. Bob Thompson discovered his passion for storytelling on the front porch of his Granny's country store in McCracken County, Kentucky. Absorbing the tales and traditions he learned there, he kept them close as he went out in search of stories and life experiences of his own. In Hitchhiker, Thompson offers readers homegrown tales that interweave ghosts of the past with real and imagined worlds far beyond his grandmother’s porch. The stories progress from Bob’s Tom Sawyer-esque childhood in Western Kentucky through his restless wanderings as a hitchhiking hippie to his adulthood as an unrepentant adventurer following the footsteps of Hemingway and the Lost Generation across Europe. This collection brings together coming-of-age tales, family stories of bygone eras, and even true accounts of unsolved murders and mysteries. Hitchhiker is Huckleberry Finn meets The Twilight Zone, with just a taste of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.Show book
America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of America's western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally, aesthetically, mythologically, even technologically, an independent territory, defined less by distinct borders than by an aura of autonomy and a sense of unfurling destiny—this is the city-state of Los Angeles.Deeply reported and researched, provocatively argued, and eloquently written, Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles, nimbly interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others, from canonical L. A. literature to everyday citizens. Baldwin records the stories of countless Angelenos, discovering people both upended and reborn: by disasters natural and economic, following gospels of wealth or self-help or personal destiny. The result is a story of a kaleidoscopic, vibrant nation unto itself—vastly more than its many, many parts.Perhaps no better place exists to watch the United States's past, and its possible futures, play themselves out. Welcome to Los Angeles, the Great American City-State.Show book
The Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped, and politicked at the Château de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960. At the heart of dynamic group was the amazing Maxine Elliott, the daughter of a fisherman from Connecticut, who built the beautiful art deco Château and brought together the likes of Noel Coward, the Aga Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and two very saucy courtesans, Doris Castlerosse and Daisy Fellowes, who set out to be dangerous distractions to Winston Churchill as he worked on his journalism and biographies during his "wilderness years" in the thirties. After the War the story continued as the Château changed hands and Prince Aly Khan used it to entertain the Hollywood set, as well as launch his seduction of and eventual marriage to Rita Hayworth. Bringing a bygone era back to life, Mary Lovell cements her spot as one of our top social historians in this captivating and evocative new book.Show book
