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Before independence from Mexico in 1836, the Catholic faith was the only religion settlers in Texas, known as Texians, could legally practice. To acquire land in Texas, then a part of Mexico known as Coahuila y Tejas, one had to be a member of the Roman Catholic Church or agree to convert to Catholicism. Although a few Protestant church buildings were erected before Texas's independence in 1836, most were erected after 1836 because of Mexico's strict...
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This new edition includes more than one thousand concise entries, organized by state and city, listing specific details on the location, hours, and history of each garden. For each state, gardens are located on a map. The focus is on historic gardens in existence for over seventy-five years. Some are outstanding examples of their era, many are associated with a distinguished person or historical event, and others are noteworthy for pioneering designs...
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Dice el dicho que viajar es vivir no lo s exactamente, pero realmente es una delicia. Ya sean viajes reales o imaginarios, entrar en contacto con otras culturas es una forma educativa y entretenida de adentrarnos en la propia humanidad, de la que somos parte.Reconocer tambin que tenemos un origen, dejamos el ombligo en algn lugar (donde nacimos) y es ah a donde vamos a volver. Reconocer lo nuestro (nuestra patria, no importa cul es nuestra visin de...
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There is nothing quite like hitting the road by yourself to awaken your senses, sharpen your mind, and build your confidence. In twenty-three beautifully crafted essays, women recount the thrills of traveling solo.
Despite threat-assessment levels and airport-security hassles, women of all generations are traveling more freely and independently than ever before. In that go-for-it spirit, “Go Your Own Way” spans the globe: adventure diva Holly...
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A different spin on pub crawls and Christmas markets
All too often we miss what is right in front of us. This book hopes to open the reader's eyes, not only to drinking establishments, Christmas markets (home and abroad), but to provide you with some interesting facts, traditions, history and trivia to boot.
Christmas and alcohol seem to have been in step for centuries, and this set of 'crawls' aims to make your trips to the Christmas markets a...
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This revised and updated comprehensive travel guide examines North America's most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. Important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast are exhaustively examined, from the weathered pueblos of the American Southwest and the medicine wheels of western Canada to Graceland and the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. Histories and cultural contexts are objectively surveyed,...
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Would you like to learn about magic?
Discover it the way I did. A longed for adventure after reading Anne of Green Gables as a child. Travelling from Sydney, Australia through unknown destinations to Prince Edward Island in Nova Scotia.
"It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?"
Anne Shirley's words came true for me.
Awaiting me was pure magic in a dusty mirror in a Green Gabled house.
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Comment penser l'association entre patrimoine mondial, développement et tourisme? Le tourisme, orienté autour de sites inscrits sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, peut être au service du développement des communautés. C'est à ce nouveau paradigme de tourisme durable que s'intéressent les auteurs, en examinant les acteurs et les bénéficiaires de ce développement local et les recompositions territoriales auxquelles celui-ci donne...
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Uncovering the past through the lens of sacred travel, this travel book includes both academic and popular religious perspectives, and is filled with photographs of both famous and lesser-known locales from every corner of the world. Each site-specific explanation of the significance of Goddess today and in centuries past deftly combines current trends, academic theories, and historical insights. From the Middle East, to Europe, Africa, and the Americas,...
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Pack your bags! A reassuring handbook geared toward women between the ages of 40 and 65 who are eager but apprehensive to take a solo adventure.Chicago, St. Louis, London, Vienna ... bestselling author Jayne Seagrave has traveled there, and she's done it solo. Now she wants her readers to know that not only can they do it too, they should.Seagrave shares her tips as a mature woman travelling solo in general including booking transportation and accommodation,...
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In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer's conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who inspired him both to pack his bags to travel and to pick...
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Der Wanderführer für traumhafte Ziele in Tirol
Die Seen der Tiroler Berglandschaft sind einzigartige Naturjuwelen, die das perfekte Ausflugsziel für den Urlaub oder das Wochenende sind. In diesem modernen Wanderführer findest du 30 Wanderungen in ganz Tirol verteilt. Dieses Buch bringt dich ohne lange Planung und Vorbereitung an die schönsten Seen Österreichs.
Seewanderungen in Tirol für alle Fitnesslevel
Die Wanderungen in diesem Wanderführer...
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"The wardens climbed into their truck, ready to leave. 'You'll need about seven cords of firewood. Concentrate on that. You'll have to get it all in before the snow grounds your truck.'"
"Though I didn't want to ask, it seemed important. 'What's a cord?'"
So begins Pete Fromm's seven winter months alone in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness guarding salmon eggs. After blundering into this forbidding errand as a college lark, Fromm gradually...
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In the best adventures, the intrepid explorer returns home to banner headlines and a hero's welcome. . . but what of the men and women who don't return home? This collection proves their stories are just as compelling. From the disappearance in Utah of cowboy roamer Everett Ruess to the loss of billionaire explorer Michael Rockefeller in the wilds of New Guinea, the tales ring with mystery, intrigue, and excitement. Whether murdered, drowned, or eaten...
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"Suppose you were a quiet, respectable, sedentary business or professional man, and the captain of a tramp steamer bound to South America and up the Amazon suddenly dropped into your peaceful office, invited you to go along with him, got your acceptance by a clever trick, and had you at sea before you could stop to think-wouldn't you expect to find 'something doing'?" Thus begins this classic of travel literature, in which a London journalist sets...
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Featuring 38 true-life stories of adventure and self-discovery, adrenaline, and honesty, a former professional NCAA downhill competitor reveals the soul skier's raison d'être: finding exhilaration, faith, grief, love, and everything that truly matters amid the gloriously tangible, tactile, break-your-leg-if-you're-not-careful rocks, trees, and gullies of the alpine world. These essays, collected from numerous glossy ski and lifestyle journals, including...
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The Sun Sets Anywhere is a collection of ten nonfiction stories that take place across six continents. Clara Pang weaves revealing narratives from the places she has lived and the experiences she has had in them-how easy it was to connect with the people in South Africa and how hard in India, how much work it took to be in a relationship with a surfer in Brazil, how a journey through the pristine desolation of Namibia exposed her to danger both emotional...
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The understanding of various business processes and of the concept of value chain management is a fundamental key to success and to determine the right strategy. Choosing the appropriate strategy is about as important as the selection of services and products for a company. Each strategy has the consequence that a major administrative expense is connected and affects the flexibility of a business to a large extent. Even with the option of a version...
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Who are the 21st-century expats? Do you wonder what motivates millions around the world to leave their homes, family and friends to immerse themselves in unfamiliar cultures, learn foreign languages and get to know new people? Have you considered joining them?
It's a movement; the number of expats grows as we become more global and mobile. While the ages, locations and experiences of these 31 internationals differ, their stories inform, inspire and...
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Messages From Viet Nam is a collection of 99 passages based upon three visits to Viet Nam in 1993, 1994, and 1995. The passages document the authors personal experiences; professional and social interactions with Vietnamese government and university officials and citizens; observations on daily life in Viet Nam; and memories evoked by images and events experienced. Messages From Viet Nam complements the authors daily diary recorded during his 1993...
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