Travel Garden

This book is your guide to making some really useful mosquito and ant repellents at home. The best products out there are those that are made at home with natural and organic stuff, and this book is all about that. If you have been using different sprays and repellents to keep different insects, ants, and mosquitoes away from you and your family, then you should know that they are not healthy. They can cause damage to your health and to the environment. They are to be replaced with some better options.

Two hundred years ago China's imperial rulers sensed a threat to a past-oriented society in the dynamism of the West and tried to frustrate foreign entry.

An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed - where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns - by an American writer and food stylist who spent years working alongside artisans.

From the Lambic breweries of Belgium, where beer is fermented with wild yeasts drawn down from the air around the brewery, to the aquifers below Burton-on-Trent, where the brewing water is rumored to contain life-giving qualities, Miracle Brew tells the full story behind the amazing role each of these fantastic four - a grass, a weed, a fungus, and water - has to play.

Lauren Watt took her 160-pound English Mastiff to college - so of course after graduation, Gizelle followed Lauren to her first, tiny apartment in New York. Because Gizelle wasn't just a dog; she was a roommate, a sister, a confidante, a dining companion, and everything in between.

Elsa Navarrete, una mamá viajera, periodista y experta en viajes nos platica acerca de algunos consejos para viajar con niños; destinos recomendados y los miedos que hay que trascender.

Travel to Bhutan, Canada, Ireland, Greece the Bronx and more as you embark on adventures in the saddle. In this book you will find out what it's like to be apart of a "saddle club" friendship whilst growing up in Australia. You'll race the Grey Ghost against your childhood rivalry, and you'll knock on strangers doors in Ireland as you complete your 400 mile journey across a country. This heartwarming book is full of inspirational stories written by a variety of authors whose friendships with their horses, themselves and their friends have formed impeccable bonds.

Steven Spurrier is one of the wine trade’s most important figures. Over the years, he took the role of wine merchant, buyer, wine educator, and lecturer; he wrote books, wine courses, and over 300 columns for Decanter magazine. He set up the breakthrough "Judgement of Paris" in 1976—a tasting in which outsider wines from California were pitched blind against Bordeaux’ finest, and won—which still sends reverberations through the wine trade today.

For far too long, the real history and legacy of Tennessee whiskey has been hidden from whiskey fans. It's a history that not only predates Kentucky Bourbon but also the Whiskey Rebellion. From its early days, it is filled with amazing stories, legends, and villains. The Lost History of Tennessee Whiskey will take you back to the very origins of the spirit, while introducing you to the amazing people who brought Tennessee into being.

Orsino Orsini, ilegítimo, deforme y con un solo ojo, cuya esposa fue seducida por el Papa Alejandro VI, construyó un 'parque de sexo y violencia' para así poder reflejar sobre este su odio (hacia el papa, su infiel esposa y un mundo que se rehúsa a aceptarlo). Mientras Haasse intenta interpretar el simbolismo del parque con sus veinte monstruosas estatuas, nos lleva con ella al laberinto de Cnossos en Creta, a los 'rituales y adoraciones al sol de los inicios de la historia' y a las disputas entre las familias Borgia y Farnese durante el siglo XVI.

La responsabilidad de los comensales es preguntarse de dónde viene el producto que consumen en sus mesas. La gastronomía es una fuente de empoderamiento social, nos comentan Benjamín Castro y Gabriela Rentería, dos activistas.

After watching a documentary about a fifty-year-old unsolved crime, an otherwise ordinary guy finds himself both blessed and burdened by the ability to travel through time and space, but not in the physical sense, and only as it may relate to that unsolved crime. Braving the debilitating physical effects of his space time continuum journeys, he faces 1970s Mob bosses and their cronies, and murder and deceit, from both sides of the law.

Desde la recolección hasta el momento en que llegan al plato, platicamos con Josefina López Méndez, chef oaxaqueña, acerca de la práctica ancestral de comer insectos y su importancia en la alimentación.

This comprehensive guide offers insights on travel hacking, van building, adventuring, and more, equipping you to live life on your own terms. Your journey starts here.

Meet Sarah Jane, a woman with a reputation for culinary catastrophe, who tries to keep her family fed in challenging circumstances in rural France. Frugal living was not part of the plan when they arrived from Australia to undertake the renovation of a quaint cottage in the Charente. However, when life threw them a curveball, the challenge was set: How to survive in France with very little money and two Australian cattle dogs.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Eat like a Local–Bangladesh by Author Sofia Kamal offers the inside scoop on food in Bangladesh. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate.

Greater Than a Tourist's Winter Garden Florida USA by Lesa Boutin offers the inside scoop on Winter Garden and Central Florida. 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. This guide book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours, but instead gives you knowledge that you may not find in other travel books. Slow down and get to know the people with this invaluable guide.

Here eminent food historian Jeffrey M. Pilcher narrates the brewing traditions and contemporary production of beer across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Latin America—from the fermented beverages of precapitalist societies to the present. Unique local products, often homebrewed by women, were transformed into homogenous global commodities as giant brewing factories exported their beers using new refrigeration technology, railroads, and steamships.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, composer, essayist, and adventure writer. "The Silverado Squatters" is a travelogue of his honeymoon in the Napa Valley. "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" (1879), one of his earliest published works, is considered a milestone of outdoor literature. The short story "A Lodging for the Night" (1877) was Stevenson's first published fiction, at the age of 27, while Kidnapped (1886) is an historical novel set in 18th-century Scotland, about the Appin Murder.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new while traveling? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is just for you. Greater Than a Tourist - The Garden Route, South Africa by Li-Anne McGregor van Aardt offers the inside scope on The Garden Route, situated in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination.