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  19 Year Old World Traveler -...

  HowExpert, Briana Grenert

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  What began as a wild idea turned into the adventure of a lifetime - this is the story of how I traveled around world at age 19, and who I met on the journey. Cult members and college students, chain smokers and cameramen, this story recounts a slew of traveling adventures and misadventures. It’s about holding your cool while detained in airports, extreme and convoluted economizing, and getting lost at all hours of the night. It includes everything from hitchhiking at five a.m. to trying on a $1,140 dress on a dare. 
  Gratitude and wonder are the hallmarks of my voyage, both for the opportunity to see and experience iconic sites (Louvre, Great Wall of China, Leaning Tower of Pisa) but also for the chance to meet so many wonderful people (and some strange ones, too). It’s being overwhelmed in the Vatican and petting kangaroos on Mount Fuji, but it’s also making friends on airplanes and being so engrossed in conversation that you don’t notice an entire night slip away. This 225-day adventure was the fruit of months of planning, years of working, and a lifetime of dreaming - and no amount of preparation could have helped me anticipate all the outlandish and lovely experiences that awaited me along the way.A trip around the world in 225 days described in about 25,000 words.This story spans three continents, beginning/ending in Philadelphia, PA, and going through Hawaii, Japan, China, Vietnam, England, Wales, France, Italy, the Vatican, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Hungary. It includes places that were familiar to me (Hawaii, Japan) and places that were brand new and overwhelming (e.g., the Vatican).Everywhere I went, I managed to be both awed and a little homesick - not just for my home but for the places and people I had already left behind. 
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  Alibis - Essays on Elsewhere

  Andre Aciman

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  This program is read by Earphones Award–winning narrator Edoardo Ballerini."Edoardo Ballerini reads my books exceptionally well. He gets my pacing, the inflections of muted irony, the anxiety of loss, the search for meaning that my prose on paper isn’t always able to convey—he gets it all. He gets me. A writer couldn't be luckier." —Andre AcimanA Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011. Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner, Alibis reminds the reader that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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  Missouri - Latter-day Saint...

  Mary Jane Woodger, Casey Paul...

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  Walk in the footsteps of the first Latter-day Saints with this spiritual guide to Church historical sites. 
  This immersive guide draws from first-hand accounts and the expertise of leading Church historians to guide you through the rich history of significant locations of the Restoration. For these sacred sites, authors Casey Griffiths and Mary Jane Woodger provide the background knowledge behind each site, the importance each property has in Church history, and a short devotional that prompts reflection and invites the Spirit. 
  With this guide you canunderstand the early Saints' vision for the city of Zion and the persecutions that forced the Saints to leave their beloved city.explore the past, present, and future of the Savior's Church in the chosen land of Missouri.see Far West, once the Church's headquarters and one of largest and fastest growing cities in all of Missouri, and examine the remnants of the lost temple there.explore the massacre at Hawn's Mill and the trials faced by Joseph Smith and other Church leaders in Liberty Jail. 
  Immerse yourself in the spiritual history of the Restoration. You've never traveled like this before!

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  One Hundred Miles from Manhattan

  Guillermo Fesser

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  A unique tour of the US: “Who better than a kind-hearted foreigner to help you marvel at our own land and learn something about your fellow Americans?” —Bloomberg Businessweek   In 2002 Guillermo Fesser quit his morning radio talk show in Madrid, and moved with his family to Rhinebeck, NY, for a sabbatical year. Finding himself in a rural community 6,000 miles from home and 100 miles from New York City, Fesser began to discover an America he had never imagined existed.  One Hundred Miles from Manhattan is a fresh, funny, positive and affectionate portrait of life in small-town America—and beyond. This book is filled with the stories of the people Fesser met, the places he visited and the things he learned during his year in Rhinebeck, from the German neighbors who welcome in the New Year by jumping back and forth from the couch to the coffee table to a Texan rancher who follows Native American traditions in the raising of bison; from a guide who leads fishing expeditions into Alaska’s Kuskokwim Mountains to the engineer responsible for the steam conduction system in Manhattan’s underbelly; and from a former follower of Reverend Moon turned track coach to the man who created Big Bird.

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  NPR Road Trips: Postcards from...

  NPR

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  With generous splashes of popular culture and human interest, the NPR Road Trips series introduces you not only to far-off locations and unusual destinations, but to the people who inhabit them—and seek them out. Each story focuses on real locations, real people, and real history in the thought-provoking, imaginative and entertaining way you’ve come to expect from NPR.Meet Colin Angus and Julie Wafael, who spent two years circumnavigating the globe using their hands and feet. Turn on the radio in Katmandu and hear music from the 70s. Learn how robot jockeys are solving a human rights problem in Dubai. (It has to do with camel races.) Get ready for carnival in Rio. And walk through old Beijing before it’s demolished for high-rise development. NPR has correspondents all over the world. As listeners learn, most meet with friendliness and hospitality, even in the most out-of-the-way places.Includes “Adventurers Cross the Globe by Foot and Hand ”  “1970s Nostalgia Thrives in Katmandu” “Robot Jockeys Give Camel Racing a Modern Twist”  “Listener Sends ‘Postcard’ from Rio’s Carnival”  “A Walk Through Beijing’s Vanishing Hutongs” And more.

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  Led Through The Jungle!

  Sally Cook

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  Led Through The Jungle is a true story about time I spent travelling through Colombia which inluded walking through a jungle near the border with Venezeula. It was a time of some risk in Colombia but   my Colombian friend's careful planning enabled me to experienve small wild monkeys in that park as well as  involvement with other native animals including cuddling a three toed sloth, seeing a large caypybara up close as well as holdihg a macaw and seeing iguanas and chameleons. The experience is tinged with the lively festivities of the local people and  includes fireworks, rubber rafting, walkiing amongst butterflies and emersion in a waterfall filled pool - not to mention celebrating with a mariachi band and falling out of a seaside hammock. The story is enhanced by sound effects including local music, cries if domestic animals , the tolling of church bells and more.

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