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  Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip . . . with Recipes! (Food Network)

 
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip . . . with Recipes! (Food Network) under Travel in The Books Store
Price: $19.95
Sale: $11.68
 
Manufacturer: William Morrow Cookbooks
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Guy Fieri::Ann Volkwein
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Dewey Decimal Number: 647.9573
Publication Date: 2008-11-01
Reading Level: 256
 
Description:

Food Network star Guy Fieri takes you on a tour of America's most colorful diners, drive-ins, and dives in this tie-in to his enormously popular television show, complete with recipes, photos, and memorabilia.

Packed with Guy's iconic personality, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives follows his hot-rod trips around the country, mapping out the best places most of us have never heard of. From digging in at legendary burger joint the Squeeze Inn in Sacramento, California, baking Peanut Pie from Virginia Diner in Wakefield, Virginia, or kicking back with Pete's "Rubbed and Almost Fried" Turkey Sandwich from Panini Pete's in Fairhope, Alabama, Guy showcases the amazing personalities, fascinating stories, and outrageously good food offered by these American treasures.


 

  Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips

 
Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips under Travel in The Books Store
Price: $40.00
Sale: $23.98
 
Manufacturer: National Geographic
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
Publication Date: 2007-10-16
Reading Level: 400
 
Description: No one knows the world like National Geographic—and in this lavish volume, we reveal our picks for the world's most fabulous journeys, along with helpful information for readers who want to try them out.

Compiled from the favorite trips of National Geographic's travel writers, Journeys of a Lifetime spans the globe to highlight the best of the world's most famous and lesser known sojourns. It presents an incredible diversity of possibilities, from ocean cruises around Antarctica to horse treks in the Andes. Every continent and every possible form of transport is covered.

A timely resource for the burgeoning ranks of active travelers who crave adventurous and far-flung trips, Journeys of a Lifetime provides scores of creative ideas: trekking the heights of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania... mountain biking in Transylvania... driving through the scenic highlands of Scotland... or rolling through the outback on Australia's famous Ghan train... and dozens of other intriguing options all over the world.

Journeys of a Lifetime also features 22 fun Top 10 lists in all sorts of categories. What are the world's top 10 elevator rides, bridges to walk across, trolley rides, ancient highways, or underground walking adventures? Readers will love evaluating and debating the selections.

Each chapter showcases stunning photography, full-color maps, evocative text, and expert advice—including how to get there, when to visit, and how to make the most of the journey—all packaged in a luxurious oversize volume to treasure for years to come.

 

  The Atlas of the Real World

 
The Atlas of the Real World under Travel in The Books Store
Price: $50.00
Sale: $31.25
 
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Daniel Dorling::Mark Newman::Anna Barford
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Dewey Decimal Number: 912
Publication Date: 2008-10-27
Reading Level: 416
 
Description: 366 cartograms cover a vast array of subjects, providing a definitive reference on how regions and countries compare in resources, production, consumption, and more.

Advances in technology have made widespread and detailed data gathering easier, resulting in a deluge of statistics on subjects as diverse as literacy rates, military spending, overweight children, television viewing figures, and endangered species. But how do we represent and compare data from one part of the world to another in a useful way?

Here, sophisticated software combined with comprehensive analysis of every aspect of life represents the world as it really is. Digitally modified maps depict the areas and countries of the world not by their physical size but by their demographic importance on a vast range of topics.

The rainforests of South America, with thirty percent of the world's fresh water, make the continent balloon in an analysis of water resources, whereas Kuwait, dependent on desalinated seawater, disappears from the map. Fuel use, alcohol consumption, population, malaria: here are hundreds of key indicators to the way we live.

This innovative and exceptionally accessible reference work will be an indispensable tool for journalists, economists, marketers, politicians, financiers, environmentalists, and scholars. Its cartograms are augmented by graphs, tables, and full commentaries. 366 color maps.

 

  SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea

 
SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea under Travel in The Books Store
Price: $19.95
Sale: $11.13
 
Manufacturer: Collins
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: John Lofty Wiseman
Publisher: Collins
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
Publication Date: 2004-03
Reading Level: 576
 
Description:

The SAS Survival Handbook is the Special Air Service's complete course in being prepared for any type of emergency. John 'Lofty' Wiseman presents real strategies for surviving in any type of situation, from accidents and escape procedures, including chemical and nuclear to successfully adapting to various climates (polar, tropical, desert), to identifying edible plants and creating fire. The book is extremely practical and is illustrated throughout with easy-to-understand line art and diagrams.


 

  Spain...A Culinary Road Trip

 
Spain...A Culinary Road Trip under Travel in The Books Store
Price: $34.95
Sale: $18.40
 
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Mario Batali::Gwyneth Paltrow
Publisher: Ecco
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5946
Publication Date: 2008-10-21
Reading Level: 384
 
Description:

From Mario Batali, superstar chef and author of Molto Italiano and Italian Grill, comes an eating tour throughout Spain with his friend Gwyneth Paltrow.

Spain...A Culinary Road Trip is the companion book to the prime-time public television series Spain...On The Road Again. The premise is simple: Mario Batali and Mark Bittman are single-minded, food-obsessed friends who are constantly on the lookout for the food, wine, and cooking that is unique to Spain—and in this series they will find it. Gwyneth Paltrow and the Spanish actress Claudia Bassols are eager to enjoy all the pleasures the country has to offer, and each pair will be lured into the worlds of the other.

The foursome take the ultimate road trip adventure, showcasing the pleasures of Spain, the country's regional cuisine, art, history, and culture, as they've never been seen before. Hundreds of gorgeous and candid photos, anecdotes, and more than seventy recipes from Mario appear in this scrapbook of the dream vacation through Spain.


 

  1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List

 
1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List under Travel in The Books Store
Price: $19.95
Sale: $6.49
 
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Patricia Schultz
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.202
Publication Date: 2003-05-22
Reading Level: 972
 
Description: Introducing the Eighth Wonder of travel books. A joyous, passionate gift book for travelers-both the real and the armchair variety-1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE delivers exactly the promise of its an around-the-world, continent-by-continent listing of places guaranteed to give you shivers, the unique and wonderful places you must see on and off the beaten track.

Take a safari into Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest oasis, where "if you see 10 percent of what sees you, it's an exceptional day." Sail the Grenadines, 32 islands and hundreds of dotlike cays strung like a necklace of gems across 40 miles of pristine waters. Tour the covered souks of Aleppo, where the labyrinthine streets seem straight out of A Thousand and One Nights and frankincense and myrhh are still sold. Hike the Tasman Glacier. Climb the Tuscan hills to San Gimignano. Stay at the Hassler in Rome, or Paris's Crillon-you must, at least once. There's Canyon de Chelly, Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market, the backwaters of Kerala, Ipanema beach, the Buddhas of Borobudur, Mesa Verde's cave dwellings, the Oaxaca Saturday market, Ballybunion Golf Club.

The prose is gorgeous, seizing on exactly what makes each entry worthy of inclusion. And, following the romance, the nuts and bolts: addresses, phone and fax numbers, web sites, costs, best times to visit. Of special interest are subject-specific indexes-gorgeous beaches, destination restaurants, world-class museums-making the guide entirely user-friendly, no matter if you're dreaming or going.


 

  State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America

 
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America under Travel in The Books Store
Price: $29.95
Sale: $18.15
 
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
Reading Level: 608
 
Description:

From the bestselling editors of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup comes an American road trip in book form: original writing on all 50 states by 50 of our finest novelists, journalists, and essayists

Inspired by the example of the legendary WPA American Guide series of the 1930s and '40s, now 50 of our foremost writers have produced original pieces of reportage and memoir that capture the 50 states in our time, creating a fresh portrait of America as it lives and breathes today.

At turns poignant and funny, and always insightful, these 50 writers tell us something lasting and revealing about each state through personal memory or contemporary reporting that captures the essential qualities that make each state its own. With an array of revealing facts and figures comparing the 50 states in a range of surprising measures (toothlessness, military enlistment, suicide), State by State is more than an anthology: It is a classic American road movie in book form.

Featuring original writing on all fifty states

Alabama by George Packer
Alaska by Paul Greenberg
Arizona by Lydia Millet
Arkansas by Kevin Brockmeier
California by William T. Vollmann
Colorado by Benjamin Kunkel
Connecticut by Rick Moody
Delaware by Craig Taylor
Florida by Joshua Ferris
Georgia by Ha Jin
Hawaii by Tara Bray Smith
Idaho by Anthony Doerr
Illinois by Dave Eggers
Indiana by Susan Choi
Iowa by Dagoberto Gilb
Kansas by Jim Lewis
Kentucky by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Louisiana by Joshua Clark
Maine by Heidi Julavits
Maryland by Myla Goldberg
Massachusetts by John Hodgman
Michigan by Mohammed Naseehu Ali
Minnesota by Philip Connors
Mississippi by Barry Hannah
Missouri by Jacki Lyden
Montana by Sarah Vowell
Nebraska by Alexander Payne
Nevada by Charles Bock
New Hampshire by Will Blythe
New Jersey by Anthony Bourdain
New Mexico by Ellery Washington
New York by Jonathan Franzen
North Carolina by Randall Kenan
North Dakota by Louise Erdrich
Ohio by Susan Orlean
Oklahoma by S.E. Hinton
Oregon by Joe Sacco
Pennsylvania by Andrea Lee
Rhode Island by Jhumpa Lahiri
South Carolina by Jack Hitt
South Dakota by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Tennessee by Ann Patchett
Texas by Cristina Henríquez
Utah by David Rakoff
Vermont by Alison Bechdel
Virginia by Tony Horwitz
Washington by Carrie Brownstein
West Virginia by Jayne Anne Phillips
Wisconsin by Daphne Beal
Wyoming by Alexandra Fuller

and an afterword on Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Edward P. Jones


 

  1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die

 
1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die under Travel in The Books Store
Price: $19.95
Sale: $7.38
 
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Patricia Schultz
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.304929
Publication Date: 2007-05-14
Reading Level: 1200
 
Description: It's a traveler's life list, a guide, an inspiration, a memory book. Open it to check out where you've been, and where you should go next. What to see and what to do and what to show the kids. Where to eat and where to stay. And how to change your life.

Covering the U.S.A. and Canada like never before, here are 1,000 spectacular, compelling, essential, offbeat, utterly unforgettable places. Pristine beaches and national parks, world-class museums and the Corn Palace, mountain resorts, salmon-rich rivers, scenic byways, Chez Panisse and the country's best taco, lush gardens and Holden Arboretum, mountain biking on the Maah Daah Hey trail, historic mansions, vineyards, hot springs, the Talladega Superspeedway, classic ballparks, and more. Includes more than 150 places of special interest to families, and, for every entry, the nuts and bolts of how and when to visit.

 

  Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey

 
Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey under Travel in The Books Store
Price: $27.99
Sale: $15.74
 
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Edition: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.3
Publication Date: 2008-10-29
Reading Level: 592
 
Description: About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads--those colored blue on maps--he uncovered a nation deep in character, story, and charm.
Now, for the first time since Blue Highways, Heat-Moon is back on the backroads. ROADS TO QUOZ is his lyrical, funny, and touching account of a series of American journeys into small-town America.

 

  The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2009 (Unofficial Guides)

 
The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2009 (Unofficial Guides) under Travel in The Books Store
Price: $19.99
Sale: $11.08
 
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Bob Sehlinger::Len Testa
Publisher: Wiley
Edition: Revised
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.06875924
Publication Date: 2008-09-02
Reading Level: 864
 
Description: More than 4 million copies sold! This series is the only one that offers evaluations based on reader surveys and critiques, compiled by a team of unbiased inspectors.

• Hotels, attractions, and restaurants in all price categories

• Extensive information on shopping, nightlife, and sports

• Easy-to-use, two-color design

• Detailed, 2-color maps

From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World

"A Tourist's Best Friend!"
Chicago Sun-Times

"Indispensable"
The New York Times

Five Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide:

  1. Exclusively patented, field-tested touring plans that save as much as four hours of standing in line in a single day
  2. Tips, advice, and opinions from hundreds of Walt Disney World guests in their own words

  3. Almost 250 hotels rated and ranked for quality and value, including the top non-Disney hotels for families

  4. A complete Dining Guide with ratings and reviews of all Walt Disney World restaurants, plus extensive alternatives for dining deals outside the World

  5. Every attraction rated and ranked for each age group; extensive, objective, head-to-head comparisons of the Disney and Universal theme parks


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