PrairyErth
PrairyErth

Author: William Least Heat-Moon

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2014-03-11

Total Pages: 637

ISBN-13: 0547527470

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This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review). William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase County—a sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansas—exploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe. Called a “modern-day Walden” by the Chicago Sun-Times, PrairyErth is a journey through a place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road. “A sense of the American grain that will give [PrairyErth] a permanent place in the literature of our country.” —Paul Theroux, The New York Times

Overbooked
Overbooked

Author: Elizabeth Becker

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-02-23

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1439161003

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"Travel is no longer a past-time but a colossal industry, arguably one of the biggest in the world and second only to oil in importance for many poor countries. One out of 12 people in the world are employed by the tourism industry which contributes $6.5 trillion to the world's economy. To investigate the size and effect of this new industry, Elizabeth Becker traveled the globe. She speaks to the Minister of Tourism of Zambia who thinks licensing foreigners to kill wild animals is a good way to make money and then to a Zambian travel guide who takes her to see the rare endangered sable antelope. She travels to Venice where community groups are fighting to stop the tourism industry from pushing them out of their homes, to France where officials have made tourism their number one industry to save their cultural heritage; and on cruises speaking to waiters who earn $60 a month--then on to Miami to interview their CEO. Becker's sharp depiction reveals travel as a product; nations as stewards. Seeing the tourism industry from the inside out, the world offers a dizzying range of travel options but very few quiet getaways"--

Popular Science
Popular Science

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1978-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Business Travel Atlas
Business Travel Atlas

Author: American Map Corporation

Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishing Group

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780841617841

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United States, Canada, Mexico. All new digitized maps. Detailed city _vicinity maps. Detailed downtown city street maps. Same page state map indexing. Special business reference section including: USA statistics; time zone; zip code and area code maps; U.S. and international area code listings. Mileage and driving time charts.