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Matt Goulding introduces you to the sprawling culinary and geographical landscape of his adoptive home, and offers an intimate portrait of this multifaceted country, its remarkable people, and its complex history. Fall in love with Barcelona's tiny tapas bars and modernist culinary temples. Explore the movable feast of small plates and late nights in Madrid. Join the three-thousand-year-old hunt for Bluefin tuna off the coast of Cadiz, then continue...
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Globe Trekker Megan McCormick travels to Barcelona in the Spanish region of Catalunya and discovers a culture that prides itself on being different. With its sun kissed beaches and Gothic palaces, Barcelona is an Olympian city worthy of the gods and the modernist capital of the world where some of the greatest artists on earth found their fame.
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When Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe's oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been walked by millions in the history of Christendom.
Off the Road is an unforgettable exploration of the sites that people believe God once touched: the strange fortress said to contain the real secret Adam learned when he bit into the apple, the sites...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 430 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Chef Anthony Bourdain continues to traverse the globe and discover other people and cultures through their cuisines. From chowing down on ox tails in Madrid during the World Cup to sampling Pakistani dishes and skiing indoors in Dubai, Bourdain always finds the new and exciting in every destination he travels to.
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3 videodiscs (645 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Anthony Bourdain has explored every corner of the globe trying to satisfy his curiosity about the international cultural landscape. You'd think he'd seen it all by now. But in this collection of No Reservations, Tony pushes himself even more, in destinations like Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua. Things are going to be a little more difficult for Tony this time around, and perhaps even for the viewer. Political, moral, class or philosophical issues trouble...
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In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguayó, hunting for sources of gold and...
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x, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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This book tells the story of an army of would-be conquerors who came to the New World on the heels of Cortés. Bound for glory, they landed in Florida in 1528. But only four of the four hundred would survive: eight years and a 5,000-mile journey later, three Spaniards and a black Moroccan wandered out of the wilderness to the north of the Rio Grande and into Mexico. The survivors brought nothing back other than their story, but what a tale it was....
14) México
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902 pages : illustrations, maps, color ; 20 cm.
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Lonely Planet Mexico is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the ancient Maya world, go horse-riding through fragrant pine forest, and experience Mexico City's hopping cultural scene; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Mexico and begin your journey now!
15) Cuba
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543 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm + 1 pull-out map.
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Everyone has experienced hot days in which it's hard to move without sweating. Readers will realize those days were cool compared to some of the sweltering locations vividly described within the pages of this volume. Death Valley, the Sahara, and Ethiopia are highlighted in text and on maps in this trip around the globe in search of Earth's hottest places. Why some locations are so hot, different ways of measuring temperature, and the health risks...
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266 pages ; 23 cm
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A journey to the heart of human nature through three short masterpieces. "Novels written by Guatemalans are, by definition, exotic. Guatemalan novels set in the jungles of Petén, in North Africa, or in the south of India might not have the charm of strangeness, but strictly speaking, they should be called exotic," declares the author in the introduction to this memorable volume.
19) In search of Domínguez & Escalante: photographing the 1776 Spanish expedition through the Southwest
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232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 x 29 cm
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20) México
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48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
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Examines the geography, history, economy, culture, and daily life of the Central American nation of Mexico.
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