Chronicling the author's 10,000-mile "Great Lakes Circle Tour," this travel memoir seeks to answer a burning question: Is there a Great Lakes culture, and if so, what is it?

Michelin's midsize North American Road Atlas is designed for the way you drive with its easy-to-use tiled format. Enroute navigation is a snap with the continuous layout approach, particularly well-suited for highway driving: maps flow directly from page to page. Detailed index with large-scale city maps. Convenient city-to-city distance charts. Color-coded pages for faster organization. Compact s...

There is nothing extraordinarily special about author Ruth Tolerton and her husband, aside from their individual talents as human beings. They'd traveled to parts of the world and felt comfortable on foreign soil for a week or even a month at a time. They diligently and competently performed middle-class jobs and lead middle-class lives with middle-class frustrations and successes. But in 2001, th...

There is nothing extraordinarily special about author Ruth Tolerton and her husband, aside from their individual talents as human beings. They'd traveled to parts of the world and felt comfortable on foreign soil for a week or even a month at a time. They diligently and competently performed middle-class jobs and lead middle-class lives with middle-class frustrations and successes. But in 2001, th...

Whether your idea of a restorative vacation is a leisurely trail-ride across an alpine meadow bursting with wildflowers, the sun on your face and cool mountain air at your back, or putting in a full-day’ s work alongside real cowboys gathering and branding cattle, there’ s a guest ranch that will fit you and your family like a boot in a stirrup. Barn dancing, campfire sing-alongs, rive...

Hundreds of North America's most amazing places and events to take your children are featured in this 320-page full color coffee-table book. From the Statue of Liberty to Alcatraz, with stops in every state as well as Canada and Mexico, this book presents captivating photos and interesting text, highlighting the most impressive features and providing fascinating tidbits. A comprehensive resource d...

Lodge at a historic lighthouse! If you've ever wanted to spend a night, a week, or longer at a lighthouse, this book is your guide. This book offers Lighthouse Lovers 94 Lighthouse in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Bahamas and Jamaica with overnight accommodations. You will have pictures, Physical address, Phone & Fax #'s, a description of the property, a brief history of the Lighthouse an...

A lively celebration of the Tiki obsession in bars and clubs across the United States. Photos.

A series of provocative letters, included with Henry James' foreword to the collection on its publication in 1916, which are as much a portrait of the gifted young poet, with all his own prejudices, as they are of two young, optimistic countries at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Spark your Dream is a true Story of personal inspiration that explrores the inconveniences and the solutions that are presented at the beginning of a dream. Through this incredible journey the reader will live the risk, the sensation of freedom, the passion, the pain of a death, the birth of a son, frustration, life, and succes. And surely, upon getting to the destination you won't like to stop, b...

You don't have to be a "rock star" to top out on these routes--and you can fit them in anytime you have a day or two free. More than 300 trad and sport climbs from 5.0 to 5.10a.

Leocha's Ski Snowboard America (19th Edition) is a complete guidebook that provides all the information to make intelligent choices and the phone and fax numbers to make reservations and plans. It takes no advertising, has no ax to grind, and is written by Leocha together with an international team of prize-winning ski and snowboard journalists.The writers let skiers and snowboarders know whether ...

The Tour Book for Antique Car Buffs tells you what there is to see in the US and Canada and where to see it! Listings Include: Antique Car Museums and Displays, Antique Truck Museums and Displays, Motorcycle Museums, Race Car and Motorsports Museums, Antique Car Dealers, Antique Car Salvage Yards, Auto-Oriented Restaurants, Homes of Automotive Personalities... and more!

With over 600 gorgeous color photographs, this book highlights what makes the outdoors so wonderful. Rustic vacations can include horseback riding, fishing, hiking, white-water rafting, canoeing, wildlife viewing, and much more.