books about: travels     books:       Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe7 reviews National Geographic National Geographic, 2009 Great Book! This book is sooo cool! I have been to many of the places they write about, and find the book to be amazingly well researched. I plan to use it as a travel planner supplement for future trips because you can't get this kind of information out of a regular travel book. Plus, it a great daydreaming tool. One can flip the pages and imagine wonderful places to visit and eat. I especially ...             Magic Tree House Boxed Set, Books 5-8: Night of the Ninjas, Afternoon on the Amazon, Sunset of the ...46 reviews Mary Pope Osborne Random House Books for Young Readers, 2002 Majic Tree House Book Set Ordered, got the books within 4 days, and my 8yr old grandson has read all 8 books in less than a month. Now I have to order more of the series.             More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: A Drop-Top Culinary Cruise Through America's Finest and Funkiest Joints7 reviews Guy Fieri, Ann Volkwein William Morrow Cookbooks, 2009 www.jennifervido.com Guy Fieri, best-known as the bleach-blonde spiky hair chef on The Food Network channel, is at it again in his latest release MORE DINERS, DRIVE-INS AND DIVES. Winner of the second season of The Next Food Network Star, he took the network by storm with his vivacious personality and good-natured charm. What started out as a test drive has turned into stardom and fame for this fun-lovin' California ...             Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia1971 reviews Elizabeth Gilbert Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 A truly worthwile read I love this book beyond words! Written in a witty, honest, and heartfelt tone, Liz Gilbert's story is one that is both immensely touching and profoundly illuminating at the same time; I laughed, I cried, and at the end of the day I found myself forever altered by the wisdom that radiates from every page of this book... This is the stuff of Homerian epics, and its lesson is as simple as it is ...             Magic Tree House Boxed Set, Books 1-4: Dinosaurs Before Dark, The Knight at Dawn, Mummies in the Morning, and ...119 reviews Mary Pope Osborne Random House Books for Young Readers, 2001 Great intro to chapter books, even for the youngest readers My son is almost 4 and not reading yet, but I remember my mom reading chapter books to me from as young as I can remember. I decided to see how my son would take to chapter reading and he is hooked on these. Along with his preschool appropriate books, I read one chapter a night from these. We quickly moved to 2 chapters a night and he often asks me to keep reading. He gets a bit bored on the ...             National Geographic Image Collection4 reviews National Geographic, Michelle Anne Delaney, ... Focal Point, 2009 The gift book for all photographers. I spent the weekend reviewing the images in this book. What a treat it was. It's not just another collection of the same images we have come to see again and again. The book delves deep into to the archives of the National Geographic society to find images that represent all aspects of their collection. What a great variety of images, photographers and styles, all held together and presented in ...             Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip . . . with Recipes! (Food Network)169 reviews Guy Fieri, Ann Volkwein William Morrow Cookbooks, 2008 Winner, Winner Another great book. Even reviewed another Charlotte drive in. Love the show. Its nice to read more of these unique places, and get some of the recipes. Word is Guy was in Charlotte last week checking out 4 restaurants. We have alot of good ones.             An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Outlander)388 reviews Diana Gabaldon Delacorte Press, 2009 Leave's you begging for more! If you need to read a review of this book to decide whether to buy it, then you must not have read the first six. Why would you get this far and be undecided. Diana is an artist of words and within every novel beautiful pictures are created. My only regret is that I did not read the Lord John books before this one. It would have helped my understanding of his character as well as his ...             The Time Traveler's Wife2121 reviews Audrey Niffenegger Mariner Books, 2004 Beautiful Novel I was a bit skeptical about this novel because of the hype around it, but I was happily proven wrong! This is a fantastic book, it is a thriller and romance in one. It is a bit mushy though, so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't enjoy a good romance.             Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen319 reviews Christopher McDougall Knopf, 2009 Life Changing I'm sending this book to all my relatives and friends -- or at least to an many as my bank account can underwrite. Everyone, including health professionals and cancer researchers, coaches, any athlete, bookkeeper, journalist, members of Congress, mystery buff, teacher, mail carrier, couch potato -- anyone, should read this book. Running is the conduit through which an amazing history, mystery, ...             Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes6 reviews Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Tanya Bastianich Manuali Knopf, 2009 Another exquisite culinary journey through Italy! Once again, without any hesitation, this is a most fabulous cookbook/tour guide/education of the Italian experience through the most capable palate of Lidia and her daughter, Tanya. They are becoming synonomous with each other as this is another collaboration of love from this most lovely mother-daughter team of experts. For anyone who knows of Lidia, she does not just give you recipes and ...             Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities4 reviews Frank Jacobs Studio, 2009 If you like maps, you'll love this book Like the author, I like maps, but unlike me, he got bored with the standard variety. He began a web site with the most unusual maps he could find -- from which web site came this book. It is a remarkable collection. There are maps showing California as an island, of what Africa might have looked like if Germany had won its wars, of countries that never were, of countries that wanted to be ...             Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan20 reviews Jake Adelstein Pantheon, 2009 An Excellent Piece of Journalism An interesting book about a topic not many American readers are aware of. Tokyo Vice is written by the author as an autobiography of sorts spanning his career and life as a journalist. From his graduation at university through his rather hasty departure from Japan after angering the Yakuza, we get to view the seedy underbelly of the country and learn of his experiences. Along the way, many ...             National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States, 6th Edition10 reviews National Geographic National Geographic, 2009 An Excellent Book about National PARKS! This is an excellent guide to the fifty-eight national parks. It doesn't matter whether you are interested in week-long back-country hikes, overnight camping, a long hike in the woods, sight-seeing, or just driving through: this book is an in-depth guide to the parks, their history, their features, and what you need to see, bring, and know. The one-star review entitled "Not A Resource" is ...             Magic Tree House Boxed Set, Books 9-12: Dolphins at Daybreak, Ghost Town at Sundown, Lions at Lunchtime, and ...43 reviews Mary Pope Osborne Random House Books for Young Readers, 2003 Fabulous books! All of the Magic Tree House books have excellent story lines that keep the children engaged and they also learn real facts. It is hard to find books that are not overly violent or mature in content these days. These books do a good job at keeping the content interesting and adventurous without going over the top. My daughter started reading them in late first grade, and has re-read several of ...             Bicycle Diaries19 reviews David Byrne Viking Adult, 2009 Mr. Byrne's Wild Ride What a fun, fast, interesting read...whether or not you're into riding your bike. David Byrne is braver than most when it comes to choosing where to ride and where NOT to ride. I've spent some time in a few of the locations he covers (e.g. Berlin, New York), but I don't mind him taking the ride FOR me in a few of these distant cities. He obviously thinks more about his surroundings than your ...             The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon220 reviews David Grann Doubleday, 2009 Narcissist I am only about half way through but feel compelled to jot down a thought about the transparent narcissism of Fawcett. The author mentions two very specific symptoms of the disorder; lack of empathy and extreme sensitivity to criticism. What else can really explain the hubris of a man who repeatedly faces almost certain death thinking he was invincible? The difference between him and the other ...             Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips31 reviews National Geographic National Geographic, 2007 Inspiring Great Book...makes me want to travel and just keep checking off the pages when I get home!             Outlander1536 reviews Diana Gabaldon Delta, 1998 Memorizing A wonderful book that kept my attention to the end. What a wonderful compilation of romance, drama, action and history.             1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List324 reviews Patricia Schultz Workman Publishing Company, 2003 My Traveling Bible You can't please everyone with an ambitious book of this nature - it is one person's personal Life List. She is not writing it to please her readers but rather to share her favorite places around the world. You'd be hard pressed not to find a few hundred remarkable places to keep you busy for the next many years! (This is the third copy I have purchased because it makes a great gift for the ...              search for books afternoon, all-american, american, cartographic, collection, culinary, curiosities, daybreak, dinosaurs, dolphins, drive-ins, drop-top, everything, extraordinary, funkiest, geographic, greatest, indonesia, journeys, lifetime, lunchtime, midnight, national, obsession, outlander, regional, reporter, sabertooth, superathletes, traveler books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Lyrical Theatre home  impressum - about us