Tourism | Tourism
Jul.13.2009
The caves of Patal Bhubneshwara, situated in Uttaranchal, India, are unique not only because they are mysterious and unexplored but also because of the ancient stories connected with them.
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Jul.02.2009
During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by...
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Apr.01.2009
"The Harlem Renaissance Way Down South" had its official beginnings as a lecture called The Harlem Renaissance in Savannah delivered by author-poet Aberjhani on August 28, 2004, at the Carnegie Branch Library in Savannah, Georgia, to commemorate the re-opening of the library. The branch...
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Nov.06.2008
A narrative history of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. "A happy blend of the dramatic, the colorful, the outlandish and the monumental," said Paul Theroux in his review of the book for the New York Times. "Quite simply, the most entertaining history about our part of the...
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Sep.29.2008
Travel-gift-souvenir book of photographs by Narumi Yasuda with text by Leza Lowitz.
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Sep.01.2008
Victim or perpetrator? That's what New Mexico's favorite public relations maven, Sasha Solomon can't figure out about her niece Gabi . . .
At once a topically flavored whodunit and a realistic, evocative portrayal of the way families join together -- or don't -- in a crisis, The Socorro Blast is...
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Jan.16.2008
This is an enticing travel book about the sights of San Francisco, with neighborhood/historical background.
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Dec.21.2007
The Paris Left Bank neighborhood of St. Germain is most often connected to the era from the 1940s through the 1960s, when Sartre, de Beauvoir and others gathered in its cafes to discuss existentialism and listen to jazz; and the district has also long been associated with American expatriates from...
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