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Armchair Travel April 2021
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| Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika JaouadWhat happened: Recent college grad Suleika Jaouad moved to Paris to start a dream job -- but a leukemia diagnosis soon sent her home to the U.S., where she spent years recovering. Once cancer-free, she took a 33-state road trip with her dog, visiting friends she'd made while documenting her illness and treatment for The New York Times.
Read this next: For other moving, acclaimed books that ponder life and death and feature solo women travelers, try Maggie Downs' Braver Than You Think or Shannon Leone Fowler's Traveling with Ghosts. |
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Always Italy
by Frances Mayes
The author of Under the Tuscan Sun and a New York Times travel writer provide a full-color, illustrated tour of the Italy that only locals know, offering visitors insider secrets and off-the-beaten-path recommendations for places to stay, eat and tour. Illustrations. Maps.
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Becoming Odyssa : Adventures on the Appalachian Trail
by Jennifer Pharr Davis
What it's about: After graduating from college, Jennifer isn’t sure what she wants to do with her life. Though inexperienced and unprepared, she feels drawn to the Appalachian Trail and sets out along on the long-distance footpath that stretches 2, 175 miles from Georgia to Maine. The next five months are the most physically and emotionally challenging of her life—coping with blisters and aching shoulders, hiking through endless torrents of rain and a blizzard, facing unwanted company and encountering tragedy.
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Take a walk : Seattle : 120 walks through natural places in Seattle, Everett, Tacoma and Olympia
by Sue Muller Hacking
Walking trails in Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Tacoma, and Olympia can take you to scenic beaches, old-growth forests, and hilltops with spectacular views. This classic guide to greater Puget Sound has been thoroughly updated and expanded to include 120 of the best routes and destinations, including such gems as Meadowdale Beach Park in Lynnwood, Union Bay in Seattle, Watershed Preserve in Redmond, Fort Steilacoom near Tacoma, and Frye Cove Park in Olympia. Each route described includes distances and notes steepness of the trail. Highlighted are recommended walks for birders, art lovers, beachcombers, history buffs, gardeners, and those who seek disabled access. It turns out the best way to enjoy the Puget Sound area is on foot.
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Magnetic city : a walking companion to New York
by Justin Davidson
"For nearly a decade, Pulitzer prize-winning critic Justin Davidson has explained New York, the city, to his readers at New York, the magazine. He has visited new and preserved buildings, explored neighborhoods in mid-transformation; interviewed architects, developers, and urban thinkers; and tracked the city's constant change. Now, he distills those experiences into Magnetic City, an ambler's guide to New York--the city around us, the one that's lost, and the one that's still to come. Essayistic in form, historical in scope, and filled with references to literature, music, art, and architecture, Magnetic City offers first-time visitors and lifelong residents a new way to see New York" Book annotation.
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No dream is too high : life lessons from a man who walked on the Moon
by Buzz Aldrin
The beloved American astronaut shares the wisdom and guiding principles he has gleaned throughout his historical career, sharing accompanying anecdotes and memories on such topics as his initial rejection as an astronaut, the NASA protocol change that rendered him the second man on the moon and his 80th birthday Galapagos dive.
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Walking the Americas : 1,800 Miles, Eight Countries, and One Incredible Journey from Mexico to Colombia
by Levison Wood
"Levison Wood's famous walking expeditions have taken him from the length of the Nile River to the peaks of the Himalayas, and in Walking the Americas, Wood chronicles his latest exhilarating adventure: an 1,800-mile trek across the spine of the Americas, through eight countries, from Mexico to Colombia. Beginning in the Yucatán--and moving south through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama--Wood's journey takes him from sleepy barrios to glamorous cities to Mayan ruins lying unexcavated in the wilderness. Wood encounters indigenous tribes in Mexico, revolutionaries in a Nicaraguan refugee camp, fellow explorers, and migrants heading toward the United States." Book annontation.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Warren County Library 2 Shotwell Drive Belvidere, New Jersey 07823 908-818-1280www.warrenlib.org |
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