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ISBN: PB: 9784865050981, Nippan IPS, November 2017
160 pp., 29.4x21 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus., language: English

You will see hot springs bubbling up everywhere in Japan. In fact Japanese people have been enjoying them for hundreds of years, mainly for health benefits and socializing. Bathing at hot springs is a great way to enjoy Japan, not just to experience...

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Writing Abroad A Guide for Travelers

Chilson Peter, Mulcahy Joanne B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226444499, ISBN: HB: 9780226444352, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Tell me all about your trip!" It's a request that follows travelers as they head out into the world, and one of the first things they hear when they return. When we leave our homes to explore the wider world, we feel compelled to capture the experie...

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Alaskan Lonely Hearts Club And Other Unlikely Travel Tales

Gogarty Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781909930544, Signal Books, October 2017
154 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! In "Alaskan Lonely Hearts Club" one of the UK's best-known travel writers shares his life on the road in 26 A-Z stories recording his very particular engagement with some highly eccentric characters. An eclectic range of destin...

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Cartography

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Captain Cook and the Pacific Art, Exploration and Empire

McAleer John, Rigby Nigel

ISBN: HB: 9780300207248, Yale University Press, September 2017
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geogr...

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Europe

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Backpack Ambassadors How Youth Travel Integrated Europe

Jobs Richard Ivan

ISBN: PB: 9780226462035, ISBN: HB: 9780226438979, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 1 line drawing

Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In "Backpack Ambassadors", Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the...

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St Petersburg

Kent Neil

ISBN: PB: 9781909930490, Signal Books, May 2017
256 pp., 20.2x13.5 cm, colour illus.

For sale in CIS only! St Petersburg is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Most of its baroque and neoclassical palaces and churches are modelled on those of Italy and France, in turn inspired by the temples of classical Greek and Rome. Yet it...

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Architecture

Design

Bauhaus Travel Book

Kern Ingolf, Knorr Susanne, Welzbacher Christian

ISBN: HB: 9783791382531, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
304 pp., 23x13.5 cm, 122 black&white illus.

A comprehensive travel guide dedicated to Germany's Bauhaus architecture, this book takes an in-depth look at over 100 locations that can still be visited today. Established in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus college for design influenced one of the wor...

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Sansovino's Venice

Hart Vaughan, Hicks Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300175066, Yale University Press, April 2017
392 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 60 colour illus., 90 black&white illus.

This is the first English translation of Francesco Sansovino's (1521-1586) celebrated guide to Venice, which was first published in 1561. One of the earliest books to describe the monuments of Venice for inquisitive travelers, Sansovino's guide was w...

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Medieval

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Medieval Invention of Travel

Legassie Shayne Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226446622, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During...

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Children's Books

Alaska on the Go Exploring the Alaska Marine Highway System with Children

Kirkland Erin

ISBN: PB: 9781602233157, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 maps

Every year, nearly two million tourists visit Alaska, and at least half of them spend time exploring the state's waterways. For families that want to do so in a more independent fashion than a cruise ship or guided tour would allow, Erin Kirkland has...

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