Today's (2/8/2010) New Book Releases on Travel

Gardens To Visit 2010 is the eighth edition of the full color guide to gardens that are open to visit in the British Isles. The 2010 edition features more than 200 of the very finest British gardens. Divided into counties, each garden featured in the book is given a full page description with a brief history of the garden and details of the plants that are grown. Each garden has a fact file detailing the opening times, the admission charges, the facilities including disabled access. The location and the contact details of each garden - including the web address and email - are also included.

"This is riveting stuff . . . unputdownable."
--O, The Oprah Magazine

In 1986, Susan Jane Gilman and a classmate embarked on a bold trek around the globe starting in the People's Republic of China. At that point, China had been open to independent backpackers for roughly ten minutes. Armed only with the collected works of Nietzsche and Linda Goodman's Love Signs, the two friends plunged into the dusty streets of Shanghai. Unsurprisingly, they quickly found themselves in over their heads--hungry, disoriented, stripped of everything familiar, and under constant government surveillance. Soon, they began to unravel--one physically, the other psychologically. As their journey became increasingly harrowing, they found themselves facing crises that Susan didn't think they'd survive. But by summoning strengths she never knew she had--and with help from unexpected friends--the two travelers found their way out of a Chinese heart of darkness.

UNDRESS ME IN THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN is a flat-out page-turner, an astonishing true story of naïveté, friendship, and redemption told with Susan's trademark compassion and humor.

The atlas contains comprehensive coverage of the countries and oceans of the world, together with an eight-page world statistical section. There are clear and colorful continental thematic maps illustrating a variety of subjects as well as world maps on motivating topics such as cyberspace, globalization, alliances, and the world's most exciting holiday destinations. Easy-to-use features include a multi-access contents page, a two-color index of place names, and flags of the world at a usable size. This is an ideal resource for geography.

The must-have guide to traveling through the Caribbean by sailboat

Legendary for its tropical climate, white sandy beaches, and glassy waters, the Caribbean is a tourist's paradise all year-round. For anyone sailing the waters of the North Caribbean from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Guadelupe, here is the ideal guide to safe navigating and enjoyable sight-seeing. The book includes clear pilotage directions (with aerial photos and color charts detailing harbor approaches) to various harbors and anchorages, as well as essential info on local cuisine, restaurants, wine cellars, shops as well as the history and culture of the islands.

• Includes priceless tips on the best places to eat, shop, and visit while island hopping
• Offers useful info on local facilities, chandlers and engineers
• Covers the U.S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua, St. Martin, St. Kitts, Guadelupe, and more

With its superb photography and practical advice, here is the one-stop guide to making a nautical Caribbean vacation truly extraordinary.

Whether you’re an experienced mountaineer, a hardened climber, or about to embark on your first expedition, nothing is more critical than anticipating, understanding, and preparing for the adversities and accomplishments that await you and your team.

 

In Mountaineering: Training and Preperation, Carlton Cooke, Dave Bunting, and John O’Hara, along with the members of the British Army Everest West Ridge Expedition team and sport and exercise scientists from LeedsMetropolitan University, share their insights, experiences, and expertise on these aspects of mountaineering:

·    Selecting the right team for each expedition

·    Physical conditioning and training programs to ensure success

·    Nutritional strategies for your training and expeditions

·    Team safety, climbing precautions, and first aid

·    Preparing for and surviving in extreme conditions

 

From the technical aspects of a climb to the leadership and teamwork skills so essential to success, this comprehensive guide covers all of the essentials for a safe and successful expedition.

 

Mountaineering: Training and Preperation is must-read for every mountaineer. Read it before your next expedition.

 

The campstead is an American institution. After the Civil War, with neo-colonialism, environmentalism, and arts-and-crafts on the rise, some families sought rural locations for rustic camps. There they raised their children in the summertime. Around Squam Lake, after some eight generations, twenty-one such camps remain in these families.

The Squam area thus becomes a natural place to study relationships of persons and places, families and landscape, and humans and the world. Our present concerns for environmental stewardship, open space protection, and core values instead of consumerism, make this a good time to revisit the simple American Campstead.

Rustic camping itself revisited aspects of the American frontier. Just as the western frontier was disappearing, some families resorted to remnants of the first frontier among mountains and lakes of the Northeast. Through campsteads, these families preserved elements of the frontier ethos. Campsteads facilitate particular experiences involving nature and family. Brereton investigates campstead experience, and through it the nature of human experience generally.

This book is the first detailed account of campsteading, the first application of critical realism in anthropology, and the first anthropological use of John Dewey's evolutionary model of experience. Building on Dewey, the author further analyses experience into its levels, orders, and features.