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  • Madrid: How the City Lives

    Series Book 21 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is a fresh kind of travel series – equal parts cultural deep dive, literary city portrait, and gloriously digressive conversation with a smart friend who’s done their homework and bought the drinks. No listicles, no bland overviews – just richly human, often hilarious, and occasionally poetic dispatches from the world’s most complex cities.–––Madrid: Where ... Read more

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  • Sydney: How the City Lives

    Series Book 10 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is a series of rich, witty, and immersive urban portraits – each one a passport into the real life of a city, far beyond the brochure gloss. Think: big ideas in backstreets, lyrical detours, and local secrets you won’t find in your travel agent’s PDF.–––Sydney may be all blue skies and golden beaches on the outside, but don’t be fooled – it’s what lies ... Read more

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  • Paris: How the City Lives

    Series Book 7 - Global Cities
    What if travel books were written for people who live in cities, dream of cities, or simply want to understand how the world really works – one metropolis at a time? Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is an immersive nonfiction series that blends history, culture, daily life, and urban oddities into unforgettable portraits of the world’s greatest cities.–––Global Cities: Paris takes you far ... Read more

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  • Tokyo: How the City Lives

    Series Book 9 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is a bestselling nonfiction series that tosses the guidebooks, ignores the listicles, and dives deep into the real heartbeat of the world’s greatest cities. Each volume is a witty, immersive, culturally soaked portrait of a place – and the people who wake up there every morning.–––Tokyo is not what you think it is. It’s stranger, subtler, sweeter, louder, ... Read more

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  • London: How the City Lives

    Series Book 1 - Global Cities
    Welcome to Global Cities: How the World Really Lives – a series that takes you beyond postcards and clichés to explore how the world’s most iconic cities actually work, eat, argue, dream, and survive. Each volume blends history, culture, and lived experience into a rich, witty, and deeply human portrait of a single city – told not from a tour bus, but from the pavement.–––London: a city of fog and ... Read more

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  • São Paulo: How the City Lives

    Series Book 18 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is not your average travel series. These aren’t guidebooks or history lessons – they’re immersive portraits of the world’s great cities told with curiosity, wit, and insider soul. Think cultural deep dives with street-level detail, big ideas, and better jokes. Come for the urban anthropology, stay for the coxinha.–––Global Cities: São Paulo is a 360-degree ... Read more

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  • Shanghai: How the City Lives

    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is a vivid, voice-driven series that explores the soul of the world’s most electrifying cities. Blending street-level storytelling with cultural deep dives, each volume unpacks how locals eat, build, argue, flirt, hustle, dream – and how cities become more than the sum of their skylines.–––Shanghai isn’t just a city – it’s a performance in perpetual ... Read more

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  • Beijing: How the City Lives

    Series Book 4 - Voyages & Ventures
    From emperors to noodle vendors, skyscrapers to spirit money, the Global Cities: How the World Really Lives series explores how cities feel – not just how they look on a map. Each volume offers a smart, immersive, and often witty portrait of one global capital, filtered through deep history, lived experience, and local color.–––In this unforgettable literary journey through China’s storied capital ... Read more

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  • Toronto: How the City Lives

    Series Book 14 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is a genre-blurring, city-hopping nonfiction series that goes far beyond guidebooks and glossy clichés. Each volume is an immersive portrait of one great city told through lived experience, layered history, overheard jokes, transit delays, strange snacks, public rituals, and the poetry of everyday life.–––Toronto: How the City Lives is a deep dive into the ... Read more

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  • Milan: How the City Lives

    Series Book 12 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is not your average travel series. These are smart, funny, culturally rich deep-dives into the world’s most fascinating cities – equal parts immersive storytelling, urban anthropology, and sharp-eyed love letters. Think Bill Bryson with better shoes and fewer lists.–––Forget gondolas and Vespas – this is Italy with its shirt tucked in. Global Cities: Milan ... Read more

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  • New York: How the City Lives

    Series Book 2 - Global Cities
    The Global Cities: How the World Really Lives series offers smart, vivid portraits of iconic cities – not as tourists see them, but as locals live them. Blending history, culture, food, and future trends with wit and nuance, each volume explores how people actually move, eat, argue, dream, and survive in the world’s most unforgettable urban jungles.–––What is it really like to live in New York ... Read more

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  • Dubai: How the City Lives

    Series Book 8 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is not your average travel series. These are immersive, witty, and culturally rich deep dives into the beating hearts of modern cities – not guidebooks, not Wikipedia rewrites, but lived portraits full of stories, contradictions, overheard conversations, and sensory overload. One city per volume. Many truths per page.–––Welcome to Dubai – where the desert ... Read more

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