"This selection of Arizona hikes takes you from 'backyard' trails in Phoenix, Tucson, Prescott, Flagstaff, and Sedona to rambles along the Grand Canyon's Rim Trail to expeditions through remote corners like Aravaipa Canyon and the Chiricahua Wilderness. Enjoy a range of hikes for every season through a spectacular variety of landscapes. More than half of these hikes are ones that almost any family can handle. Whether strolling, bouldering, or backpacking,...

Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble--foundations shift, marble ornaments fall--even as efforts to preserve them are underway. This book opens in 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house, a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective--inquiring...

"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate

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"John Muir, author, naturalist and land preservation advocate, chronicles three of his foot journeys into Alaska's wilderness"--Provided by publisher.

Covers mule rides, Phantom Ranch, whitewater rafting, Indian settlements, and the beauty of the canyon.

The only plan for Christopher Somerville's walk across Crete was to begin in the East at Easter and finish at Whitsun in the extreme West, at the Monastery of the Golden Step. During the three hundred-mile walk he tackled four mountain ranges and the numerous gorges of the West. Speaking only basic Greek and following a poorly marked path, he relied on his instincts to guide him through shepherding country where villages are few and each night's

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