NYT - Travel | Salina Public Library

1) The road to Little Dribbling: adventures of an American in Britain

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Bryson, Bill

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#3 on the Travel list for 2017-01-15.

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"Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed--and what hasn't. Following a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the...

2) Humans of New York, stories

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Stanton, Brandon

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#4 on the Travel list for 2017-01-15.

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"In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton began an ambitious project--to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. The photos he took and the accompanying interviews became the blog Humans of New York. Ever since Brandon began interviewing people on the streets of New York, the dialogue he's had with them has increasingly become as in-depth, intriguing and moving as the photos themselves. Humans of New York: Stories...

3) Speaking American*: *how y'all, youse, and you guys talk : a visual guide

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Katz, Josh

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#7 on the Travel list for 2017-01-15.

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"From the creator of the New York Times dialect quiz that ignited conversations about how and why we say the words we say, a stunning and delightful exploration of American language,"--Amazon.com.

4) Wild: from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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Strayed, Cheryl

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#8 on the Travel list for 2017-01-15.

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A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.