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Unique Idaho: Exploring What Makes Idaho Truly Unique. We will look at the deepest gorge in North America. It Is even deeper than the Grand Canyon. We will explore the mighty river that has flowed through the gorge for thousands of years, carving out this amazing canyon. Find out about the waterfall on the same river that is higher than Niagara Falls. Idaho has over 3,000 lakes within its borders. One of these lakes is one of the deepest lakes in America. It is so deep that the trout grow to a world-record size and they swim around with Navy submarines!

From number one best-selling self-help, counseling, and travel author Pearl Howie - the audiobook of her mini-guide to visiting grey whales in Mexico....

Travel like a Local is a series of travel guidebooks written by local experts to help travelers explore new places like an insider. From learning about the culture and customs to finding the best restaurants and attractions, these guidebooks provide comprehensive information to ensure a hassle-free unforgettable journey.

Nineteen tips to make this the vacation of a lifetime without the stress or time it takes to dig into the park details on your own! So if you want the family vacation of a lifetime, then you need this audiobook today!

Two Brits, George and Mark, set off from New York City to explore the back roads of America. In this calamity-ridden travel tale, George sets out in true clichéd fashion to discover the real America. Throw in plenty of run-ins with the police, rapidly dwindling finances, and Josephine - the worst car in the world - and you have all the ingredients for a classic American road trip. Will George and Mark make it all the way to California? And then there is Rachel, George's girlfriend, left back in England.

Mezcal. In recent years, the oldest spirit in the Americas has been reinvented as a pricy positional good popular among booze connoisseurs and the mixologists who use it as a cocktail ingredient. Unlike most high-end distillates, most small-batch mezcal is typically produced by and for subsistence farming communities, often under challenging conditions.

Costa Rica is a land of true beauty and nobody can really argue against the country’s slogan that has made the rounds of all major tourism agencies selling Costa Rica packages: Costa Rica Pura Vida. This means “Costa Rica Pure Life” and with all the green eco systems, lush rainforest, natural beauty, and pristine beaches you will soon be able to understand where that came from. Let this book guide you to the many places that you must see in Costa Rica to not let your trip go to waste. This book is filled with suggested places to stay, from inexpensive to luxurious.

Whether you are trying to decide on a location for your next getaway or enjoy learning more about new countries, be prepared for this book to whisk you away to an exotic piece of land. You will learn all you need to know about the country of Belize. From geography and weather to entertainment and renowned Belize locations, you will get to know this small-in-size, but large-in-attraction, country like the back of your hand.

ಪೆರು ಕಣಿವೆಗೆಂದು ಹೊರಟು, ಪರವಾನಗಿ ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೂ ಅಕ್ಕಪಕ್ಕದ ದೇಶಗಳಲ್ಲೂ ಸುಳಿದಾಡಿದ ರೋಮಾಂಚನಕಾರಿ ಚಿತ್ರಣ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಎದುರಾಗುವ ಭಾಷೆಯ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯನ್ನು ತಮ್ಮದೇ ಕೈ ಬಾಯಿ ಸನ್ನೆಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ನಿಭಾಯಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು, ಅದೇ ರೀತಿ ಆಹಾರದ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಯನ್ನು ಬಗೆಹರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು, ನಮ್ಮ ಜನರಂತೆಯೇ ಆದರಿಸುವ, ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುವ, ಸ್ನೇಹಭಾವ ತೋರಿಸುವ ಜನರನ್ನು ಭೇಟಿ ಮಾಡಿದ ಅನುಭವಗಳನ್ನು ಲೇಖಕಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಾರಸ್ಯಕರವಾಗಿ ವರ್ಣಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಗೆಳತಿಯ ಜೊತೆಗೂಡಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟವೇರಿ, ಕಣಿವೆ ಇಳಿದು, ಅಮೆಜಾನ್ ನದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ರಾತ್ರಿ ದೋಣಿ ಪಯಣ ಮಾಡಿದ ರೋಮಾಂಚಕ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು, ಮಹಿಳೆಯರ ಅಪೂರ್ವ ಸಾಧನೆಯನ್ನು ನೇಮಿಚಂದ್ರ ಅವರು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕುತೂಹಲಭರಿತವಾಗಿ ದಾಖಲಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, what they mean to us, and what we mean to them.

This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its Western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.

In this abridgement of River-Horse, the pre-eminent chronicler of American back roads - who has given us the classics Blue Highways and Prairyerth - recounts his singular voyage through American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country and its rivers, lakes, canals, and landscapes.

American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals. You'll never see your state fair or street festival the same way again. Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a year working behind the scenes with the colorful characters and legends of carnivals. He shares stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last king of the sideshows.

A veteran dog musher, Dave Olesen finished the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race eight times. After a 15-year career as a sled dog racer, Olesen set out to fulfill a lifelong dream. In four successive winters he steered his dogs and sled on long trips away from his remote Northwest Territories homestead, setting out in turn to the south, east, north and west, and home again to Hoarfrost River. His narrative ranges from the personal and poignant musings of a dogsled driver to loftier planes of introspection and contemplation.

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry sets out in Roads on an automotive odyssey exploring America's highways and the culture that has grown up on either side of them. Crisscrossing America in search of the present, the past and himself, McMurtry's route is also his destination.

It is late August 1892, and Sophia Tims is coming home from a foreign Age, having risked her life in search of her missing parents. Now she is aboard a ship, with a hard-earned, cryptic map that may help her find them at long last. But her homecoming is anything but peaceful. Threatening clouds hang over the New Orleans harbor. Sinkholes have been opening in Boston, swallowing parts of the city whole. Rogue weirwinds tear up the Baldlands.

Journalist Susan Casey was in her living room when she first glimpsed this strange place and its resident sharks, their dark fins swirling around a tiny boat in a documentary. These great whites were the alphas among alphas, the narrator said, some of them topping 18 feet in length, and each fall they congregated here off the northern California coast.

"In mid-July of 1879, John Muir sailed for the first time through the sheer-walled fjords of Alaska's Inside Passage. 'Never before this,' he wrote, 'had I been embosomed in scenery so hopelessly beyond description.' During the previous 15 years, Muir had vanished into the north woods of Canada, walked a thousand miles from Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico, and nested himself in the granite heart of California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Wild nature burned with volcanic intensity in the core of John Muir's soul."

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Puerto Vallarta. Greater than a Tourist: Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, by author Lucia Julieta Palomera Leyva, offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit the friendliest city in the world, Puerto Vallarta. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Greater Than a Tourist: Montreal, Quebec, Canada by Elena Dimitrova offers the inside scoop on Montreal. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you tips and a bunch of ideas from someone who lives at your next travel destination. In this audiobook, you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your stay. Greater Than a Tourist is a series of travel books written by locals.