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The Travel Book, Square Edition  •   Lonely Planet Publications
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 960 PAGES
A diminutive, six-and-a-half-inch square edition of Lonely Planet's winning and winningly illustrated roundup of every country on the planet. (TVL462, $24.99)
  The Travel Book, Square Edition
Frommer's 500 Places to See Before They Disappear  •  Holly Hughes
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 230 PAGES
A carefully chosen index by the former executive editor of the Frommer's travel guides. This collection includes not only natural landmarks in danger, but also man-made ones: ruins, architecture, and even neighborhoods. (WLD155, $19.99)
  Frommer's 500 Places to See Before They Disappear
Journeys of a Lifetime  •   National Geographic Society
REFERENCE •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 400 PAGES
The savvy editors of National Geographic present their favorite, once-in-a-lifetime voyages, treks and trips in this lavishly illustrated compendium. (TVL129, $40.00)
  Journeys of a Lifetime
First Class, Legendary Train Journeys Around the World  •  Patrick Poivre D'Arvor
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 360 PAGES
An illustrated celebration of the elegance and regency of great trains of the past and present, including the Orient Express, the Trans-Siberian and the California Zephyr. (WLD126, $35.00)
  First Class, Legendary Train Journeys Around the World
The Art of Travel  •  Alain de Botton
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
A digressive, philosophical riff on desire, happiness and the experience of travel by the author of "How Proust Can Change Your Life." What is the point, after all, of traveling? Read this book, in part a manual of how best to experience a place, and find out. In five sections, arranged by category: Departure, Motives, Landscape, Art and Return. De Botton, a philosopher, enlists painters, writers and other historical figues as guides in each essay, covering wide-ranging topics from airports, landscapes and museums, to holiday romances and shopping. (TVL13, $13.95)
  The Art of Travel
100 Places Every Woman Should Go  •  Stephanie Elizondo Griest  •  Holly Morris
ANTHOLOGY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 331 PAGES
Opening with a section of great women through history and the places that are associated with them (Joan of Arc, Catherine the Great and Grace O'Malley), Elizondo Griest's dream book and guide celebrates women and travel. She's includes spas, adventure vacations, boutiques, bazaars and simply wonderful places to visit from Andalucia and San Cristobal de las Casas and Chengdu. (TVL135, $16.95)
  100 Places Every Woman Should Go
Rough Guide Ultimate Adventures  •  Greg Witt
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES
An illustrated compendium of adventure by the savvy editors at Rough Guides. (GEN461, $24.99)
  Rough Guide Ultimate Adventures
 

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Destination Wildlife  •  Pamela K. Brodowsky   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN APRIL  •  This guide to seeing wildlife worldwide relies on the expertise of the National Wildlife Federation. (CON49, $20.00)
 
 
Lonely Planet's Best in Travel  •   Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An oversized, illustrated annual roundup of the biggest, best, newest and greatest in travel as chosen by Lonely Planet staff and writers. (TVL93, $22.99)
 
 
Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean: A Guide to Extraordinary Adventures for the Seasoned Traveler  •  Don Mankin  •  Shannon Stowell   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Mankin reeled in a group of friends to join him on 50 dream trips, the sorts of once-in-a-lifetime trips like hiking the Inca Trail or tracking mountain gorillas that require time and money, and then wrote a book describing them all in down-to-earth detail. Lucky dog! (TVL455, $18.95)
 
 
Ski Atlas of the World  •  Arnie Wilson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This lavish, inspiring guide celebrates 80 established resorts and up-and-coming places to ski both in Europe and North America. With double-page maps, hundreds of photographs and profiles of history terrain and facilities. (WLD153, $50.00)
 
 
The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life  •  Pam Grout   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Pam Grout's roundup of quirky and out of the ordinary vacations around the globe. (TVL456, $19.95)
 
 
The Smart Traveler's Passport, 399 Tips from Seasoned Travelers  •  Erk Torkells   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This collection of columns from the savvy editors at Budget Travel, cleverly made up as a real passport, covers packing and preparations, safety, shopping and a host of other invaluable suggestions. (TVL133, $14.95)
 
 
Where To Go When, The Americas  •  Joseph Rosendo   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A oversize photographic compendium of favorite destinations in the Western Hemisphere from the visual masters at DK Publishing. A great resource for planning a trip. (NAM47, $40.00)
 
 
Where to Go When, The Best Destinations All Year Round  •  Jospeh Rosendo   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An oversize photographic compendium of favorite destinations from the visual masters at DK Publishing. With 30 different destinations per month, in-depth itineraries and suggestions, planning information and important "do's and don'ts." (WLD124, $40.00)
 
 
Frommer's 500 Places for Food & Wine Lovers  •  Holly Hughes   • FOOD • COMING IN MARCH  •  Featuring a roundup of festivals, farmer's markets, cooking schools, street food, wineries and wine trails, shops, inns, restaurants and food vacations. (WLD157, $19.99)
 
 
Light at the Edge of the World  •  Wade Davis   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic Davis surveys the global diversity of peoples and cultures in this meditative account of travels from the Arctic to the Amazon to Borneo. (WLD34, $16.95)
 
 
The Art of Pilgrimage, The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred  •  Phil Cousineau   • RELIGION  •  Cousineau draws on his own experiences, mixing quotes and excerpts from classic accounts in this soulful guide to the art of travel. (TVL11, $16.95)
 
 
In Ruins: A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature  •  Christopher Woodward   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  In this infectiously compelling book, art historian Woodward meditates on the allure, majesty and history of our fascination with antiquities, mixing his own observations with those of writers, painters, and architects. (TVL37, $14.00)
 
 
The Archaeology of Tomorrow, Architecture and the Spirit of Place  •   Price, Travis  •   Wyner, Ken  •  Wade Davis   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • FAVORITE  •  Travis Price's spirited survey of great architecture from ancient to modern, with 160 gorgeous full-color photographs by Ken Wyner. (WLD144, $45.00)
 
 
The Past from Above  •  Georg Gerster   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  A celebration of World Heritage, Gerster's dazzling low aerial photographs depict exceptional archaeological sites, castles and sanctuaries from the Great Wall of China to Stonehenge, the Acropolis, Borobudur, Aleppo and the fortified town of Carcassonne. (WLD88, $39.95)
 
 
1,000 Places to See Before You Die  •  Patricia Schultz   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A tantalizing collection of destinations, each nicely described with essential travel details. (TVL23, $19.95)
 
 
A Year in the World, Journeys of a Passionate Traveler  •  Frances Mayes   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A warm account of mostly Mediterranean travels -- Spain, Portugal, Greece, Sicily, Capri, Sardinia, the Turkish Coast, Naples, Burgundy, Scotland -- arranged by season. (TVL109, $15.00)
 
 
Burton Holmes Travelogues  •  Genoa Caldwell   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • NEW  •  A glorious selection of hand-colored photographs of monuments, peoples and cultures, all taken from the collections of Holmes, the dynamic performer who invented the word "travelogues" to describe his wildly popular early 20th-century slide shows. (TVL116, $59.99)
 
 
Fly-Fishing the 41st, From Connecticut to Mongolia and Home Again  •  James Prosek   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A lively, fish-filled memoir of Prosek's global circumnavigation along the 41st parallel, through Spain, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, China and Japan. Along the way he shares some of the best fishing in the world with a host of eccentric and memorable characters. (FSH09, $14.95)
 
 
My Favorite Place on Earth, Celebrated People Share Their Travel Discoveries  •  Jerry Camarillo Dunn   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • COMING IN APRIL  •  In this engaging survey, diverse figures-- from Sandra Day O'Connor to Jerry Seinfeld to Donald Trump-- answer the question "what is your favorite travel discovery?" (TVL465, $22.95)
 
 
The Travel Book, A Journey Through Every Country in the World  •   Lonely Planet   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A big, glossy overview of what the world's got to offer travelers from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. (WLD50, $30.00)
 
 
The World's Finest Railway Journeys  •  Martin Kers   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Martin Ker's striking photographs capture the romance of travel aboard celebrated rail lines from Europe to Australia, the Andes and Siberia. (TVL461, $65.00)
 
 
Visions of Paradise  •   National Geographic Society   • EXPLORATION  •  A visually thrilling compilation of heavenly images from the archives of National Geographic. Photographers write of their encounters with earthly paradise. (NAT155, $35.00)
 
 
Women Travelers, Adventurers, and Trailblazers 1850-1950  •  Alexandra Lapierre  •  Christel Mouchard   • EXPLORATION  •  One hundred years of intrepid women, with 200 black-and-white and color illustrations. (EXP50, $45.00)
 
 
The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys, Great Writers on Great Places  •  Klara Glowczewska   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Twenty-one transporting tales by Simon Winchester, Pico Iyer, William Dalrymple, Patricia Storace, Edna O'Brien, Jan Morris and other favorite writers published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Conde Nast Traveler. (TVL127, $16.00)
 
 
Worlds to Explore, Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic Magazine  •  Mark D. Jenkins  •  Simon Winchester   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Jenkins tapped 50 National Geographic articles dating from the turn of the century to the 1950s for this marvelous compilation of adventures by Roy Chapman Andrews, Richard Byrd, Edmund Hillary and others today less known. (TVL103, $15.95)
 
 
100 Animals to See Before They Die  •  Nick Garbutt  •  Mike Unwin   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Wildlife photographer Garbutt partnered with the London Zoological Society for this compelling compendium of critically endangered mammals worldwide. The superb selection of photographs is accompanied by maps, information on where to see each species, and details on natural history, threats and habitats. (BST108, $24.99)
 
 
Earth From Above  •  Yann Arthus-Bertrand   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A terrific, thought-provoking portrait of Planet Earth -- as documented in nearly 200 spectacular and often witty color photographs (GEN159, $60.00)
 
 
Living Light  •  Kevin Schafer   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Veteran naturalist and colleague Kevin Schafer's stunning collection of 100 favorite wildlife and landscape photographs from all across the globe, organized thematically, with accompanying essays and tales of the stories behind the pictures. Schafer was recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Nature Photographer award by The North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA). This is his Magnus Opus. (NAT154, $45.00)
 
 
The Monkey in the Mirror, Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human  •  Ian Tattersall   • SCIENCE  •  A lively, literate collection of essays on evolution, evolutionary change and the diversity of hominids. (ATP11, $14.00)
 
 
WWF Global 200, 200 Places Which Should Never Die  •  Fulco Pratesi   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A spectacular, oversized visual catalog of threatened natural areas worldwide, from the Patagonian steppe and Siberian taiga to Borneo's rainforests and Antarctica's Wedell Sea. (WLD122, $29.95)
 
 


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