Product Description: Gillnetter, mariner, and naturalist Holly Hughes has experienced first-hand the practical and philosophical consequences of navigating difficult waters. In Sailing by Ravens, she gathers wisdom gained from thirty seasons working off Alaska’s shores, weaving personal experience and her love of the sea with the history and science of navigation...read more

Coverage will be global, including food festivals, farmer's markets, cooking schools, street food, wineries, wine trails, and restaurant wine lists-as well as the world's best restaurants in several price ranges and categories throughout the world, including: Open-air markets, farms, culinary festivals, and street food Cookbook and kitchenware shops Gourmet and specialty food stores Food vacations, including inns/resorts, cruises, and cooking schools Vineyards, breweries, and distilleries Must-visit restaurants, coffee bars, and dessert places The book includes contact and Web site information, plus details on accommodations and services to help with trip-planning. Black-and-white photographs bring the places and experiences to life, while geographical and topical indexes make it easy to find information quickly.

Presents some five hundred different vacation options that are perfect for children and their parents, covering sports shrines, active vacations, exotic destinations, cultural heritage sites, historic landmarks, and other trips.

Product Description: In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie, who lives at the Red Buttes Pony Express station in the Nebraska Territory, asks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabatoging her favorite pony Magpie.

Product Description: Best Food Writing 2008 once more authoritatively and appealingly assembles the finest culinary prose from the past year’s books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and Web sites. This anthology features both established food writers and rising stars addressing everything from celebrated chefs to the travails of the home cook, and from erudite culinary history to food-inspired memoirs...read more

An eighth annual installment of top-selected culinary prose covers a wide array of topics from the travails of home cooking and food-inspired memoirs to equipping a kitchen and food sourcing at green markets, in a volume that includes pieces by such writers as Robb Walsh, Ruth Reichl, and Calvin Trillin. Original.

Offers information on kid-friendly hotels, restaurants, hands-on museums, shopping, parks, and family-oriented attractions and walking tours.

Culled from the past year's top books, periodicals, and Web sites, a seventh installment of an annual anthology of food writings ranges from a visit to a farmers' market and tips on equipping a kitchen to culinary histories and personal memoirs. Original.

A sixth annual edition features top writings from the past year's books, periodicals, and Web sites, in a volume that includes pieces by such figures as Robb Walsh, John Thorne, and Calvin Trillin, and explores such topics as culinary history, food sourcing at a greenmarket, and equipping a kitchen. Original.

The fifth anniversary edition of this class collection of food writing culls last year's books, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and web sites for selections by Toby Walsh, John Thorne, Calvin Tillin, Ruth Reichl, Colman Andrews, and many others. Original.

The author collects the very best writing about food in the fourth installment of this wonderfully crafted annual collection of culinary essays that includes the work of John Thorne, Amanda Hesser, and Calvin Trillin, among others. Original.