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  The City of the Sacred Well -...

  T. A. Willard

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  The dredging of the sacred cenote at Chichen Itza - the gold, the jade and the bones brought up from the well where the Maya threw offerings. Willard, a battery manufacturer and amateur archaeologist, wrote it up from Thompson's own accounts. This edition adds a gallery of 58 plates of painting, among them Turner, Church and Bierstadt, alongside 11 restored and coloured illustrations.

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  Arrested Song - a sumptuous...

  Irena Karafilly

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  Calliope is a young schoolmistress in the village of Molyvos when Hitler’s army invades Greece in 1941. Recruited by the Germans to act as their liaison officer, Calliope’s wartime duties bring her into close contact with Lieutenant Lorenz Umbreit, the Wehrmacht commander.

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  Retire & Refire - The continuing...

  Siobhan Daniels

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  In 2019, Siobhan Daniels – also known as the Retirement Rebel – made a life-changing decision: to stop waiting and start living life on her own terms. And she's never looked back. Travelling the UK and Europe in her motorhome Dora the Explora, Siobhan inspires thousands of women with her positive-ageing message.
  Now, in Retire & Refire, the follow-up to her popular debut book Retirement Rebel, Siobhan takes on her biggest adventure yet at sixty-six years of age: a 4,000-mile solo journey from Canada to Alaska along the legendary Alaska Highway. Leaving Vancouver, she hits the road in a rental RV heading north into the wild in freezing temperatures, yet absolutely ready and capable to face the unpredictability of life on the road. Because her message to women of all ages is this: your strength does not expire – do not let fear stop you as you get older
  Join Siobhan as she voyages into this awe-inspiring landscape of soaring peaks, frozen lakes, biting winds and raw beauty, battling the elements yet free from everyday anxieties. If you've ever wondered whether it's too late to change your life, Siobhan's story proves it isn't.

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  William Stanek's Mid-Atlantic...

  The Editors of Our American...

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  The Mid-Atlantic is a region of thresholds.
  
  Atlantic barrier islands meet tidal bays. Great rivers cut through ridges. Forested highlands rise beyond metropolitan corridors. Historic roads, canals, battle landscapes, mountain gaps, seashores, wetlands, and river towns bring public land into unusually close contact with dense human geography.
  
  William Stanek's Mid-Atlantic Coast, Rivers & Highlands treats those contrasts as the region's strength.
  
  The guide helps travelers move among shore, river, ridge, and historic landscape without turning them into disconnected weekend destinations. Traffic, tide, weather, distance, urban edges, seasonal pressure, and the availability of smaller restorative places become part of the field intelligence.
  
  For families, couples, solo travelers, photographers, walkers, history-minded readers, and road trippers, this is a guide to discovering how much wild and scenic America survives within reach of the nation's busiest eastern corridors.

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  A Road Running Southward -...

  Dawn Chapman

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  In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from Kentucky southward to Florida. One hundred and fifty years later, on a similar whim, veteran Atlanta reporter Dan Chapman recreated Muir's journey to see for himself how nature has fared since Muir's time. Channeling Muir, he uses humor, keen observation, and a deep love of place to celebrate the South's natural riches. 
   
   
   
  Each chapter touches upon a local ecological problem—moving between John Muir's vivid descriptions of a lush botanical paradise and the myriad environmental problems facing the South today. Along the way he talks to locals with deep ties to the land—scientists, hunters, politicians, and even a Muir impersonator—who describe the changes they've witnessed and what it will take to accommodate a fast-growing population without destroying the natural beauty and a cherished connection to nature. 
   
   
   
  A Road Running Southward is part travelogue, part environmental cri de coeur, and paints a picture of a South under siege. It is a passionate appeal, a call to action to save one of the loveliest and most biodiverse regions of the world by understanding what we have to lose if we do nothing.

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  Going with the Floe - Sights...

  Lorna Stuber

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  Immaqa: a Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) word meaning perhaps, possibly, or maybe, because often, in Greenland, you are dependent on the weather and have to go with the flow ... or floe. 
   
  A lifelong literary devotion leads travel and humour writer Lorna Stuber to the annual Iceland Writer's Retreat, where her favourite author, award-winning Canadian writer Will Ferguson, is presenting. The retreat links her adoration of him with a quest that is inspiring and self-deprecatingly comedic. 
   
  Join Lorna in Iceland as she snowmobiles across Europe's largest glacier, totters through the narrow crevasse between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, rides Icelandic horses through volcanic valleys, and learns how to bake rye bread in geothermal soil. Visit Greenland's sheep farming villages, view the Illulisat Ice Fjord's colossal icebergs, and don crampons to climb on Greenland's ice sheet with Lorna as she confronts physical challenges and embraces the Arctic weather and terrain. 
   
  This memoir celebrates curiosity, nature, and the transformative power of travel. Through her exploration of these two rugged islands, Lorna develops a great appreciation for the lifestyles and landscapes of the North while laughing at and rolling with the absurdities that arise when well laid plans collide with illness, injury, and unpredictable weather.

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