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  • The C&O Canal Companion

    A Journey through Potomac History

    by Mike High ...
    An indispensable guide to a regional treasure—now thoroughly updated and expanded.A comprehensive guide to one of America's unique national parks, The C&O Canal Companion takes readers on a mile-by-mile, lock-by-lock tour of the 184-mile Potomac River waterway and towpath that stretches from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland, and the Allegheny Mountains. Making extensive use of records at ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • The Brooklyn Experience

    The Ultimate Guide to Neighborhoods & Noshes, Culture & the Cutting Edge

    Series series Rivergate Regionals Collection
    From Paris to Rio, everyone’s curious about hot, new Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Experience, Ellen Freudenheim’s fourth comprehensive Brooklyn guidebook, offers a true insider’s guide, complete with photographs, itineraries, and insights into one of the most creative, dynamic cities in the modern world.Walk over the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn or sunset, discover thirty-eight unique Brooklyn neighborhoods, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Wicked Ulster County

    Tales of Desperadoes, Gangs & More

    Uncover Ulster County's hidden history of unsavory characters and stories of its wicked past.Situated in the scenic Hudson Valley, Ulster County is a lovely location to make a home and raise a family, but it wasn't always so pleasant. Unsavory characters and immoral events have sullied its name. In the 1870s, the Shawangunk Mountains inspired fear rather than awe, as groups like the Lyman Freer ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charm City

    A Walk Through Baltimore

    With a writer’s keen eye, a longtime resident’s familiarity, and his own sly wit, acclaimed novelist Madison Smartt Bell leads us on a walk through his adopted hometown of Baltimore, a city where crab cakes, Edgar Allan Poe, hair extensions, and John Waters movies somehow coexist. From its founding before the Revolutionary War to its place in popular culture—thanks to seminal films like Barry ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Five-Star Trails: Finger Lakes and Central New York

    Your Guide to the Area's Most Beautiful Hikes

    by Tim Starmer ...
    Series series Five-Star Trails
    The Finger Lakes and Central New York are not known for rugged mountains and their panoramic vistas which are so commonly sought in the Adirondacks to the north. They hardly could be - the area was scoured clean by glaciers millennia ago. But don't let that fool you, the region is full of natural wonders of its own. Instead of mountains and ridges, the region is known for rolling drumlins, an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks

    by Peter Osborne ...
    Series series Images of America
    Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks recounts the history of two beautiful natural sanctuaries at the southwestern end of New Jersey�s Highlands. Managed as a single unit by the state park service, the two parks are Hacklebarney, 977 acres along the Black River corridor, and Voorhees, 640 acres of gently rolling farmland. Their stories are similar: both parks were created in the 1920s on ... Read more

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  • The Birth of the Jersey Shore

    The Personalities & Politics that Built America's Resort

    An encyclopedic collection of profiles of the people who shaped New Jersey's coastline—from architects and businessmen to sports figures and entertainers.The Jersey Shore evokes images of boardwalks and beach resorts, but its beginnings were far different. In the mid-nineteenth century, visionary entrepreneurs transformed the sleepy agrarian and maritime communities of the Garden State coast with ... Read more

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  • Legendary Locals of East Aurora

    Series series Legendary Locals
    Nestled along the banks of Cazenovia Creek, East Aurora is a cultural center of western New York State that has flourished because of the diverse talents of its people. Native Americans lived in East Aurora for thousands of years before the first settlers came to the area in 1804. One of the first pioneers, Martha Richardson Adams, carried her infant child on horseback all the way from ... Read more

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  • Storied Bars of New York

    Where Literary Luminaries Go to Drink

    by Delia Cabe ...
    Explore the fabled past and vibrant present of New York’s literary bar sceneWant to know what it’s like to pull up a stool with the likes of Hemingway, Updike, or Capote? Curious how Jay McInerney takes his martini, or where to find Colson Whitehead’s favorite neighborhood bar? For well-read drinkers and boozy bookworms everywhere comes Storied Bars of New York, a photographic and historical ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Gettysburg National Military Park

    Series series Images of Modern America
    The picturesque Gettysburg Battlefield has long been memorialized as an iconic landscape of America's national identity. The tumultuous Civil War battle and Abraham Lincoln's subsequent address transformed the country in profound ways that continue to echo throughout the ages. In the aftermath of the struggle, Gettysburg National Military Park was embraced by citizens not only as a shrine of ... Read more

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  • The Statue of Liberty

    by Barry Moreno ...
    Series series Postcard History Series
    The world's most famous sculpture, the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Enlightening the World, rises to a height of 305 feet from the base of her pedestal to the top of the golden flame of her torch. Conceived, designed, and originally built in France, she was unveiled on her new island home in 1886. The postcard trade, still in its infancy, embraced the icon, and Miss Liberty's commanding figure soon ... Read more

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  • Statue of Liberty, The (Spanish version)

    by Barry Moreno ...
    Series series Images of America
    Como el monumento estadounidense que mejor representa la libertad y la independencia, la Estatua de la Libertad ha vigilado el Puerto de Nueva York desde hace decadas. Su firme mirada ha visto crecer al pa's desde sus dias de mero observador de los asuntos mundiales, hasta su constitucion en la nacion m's poderosa en el mundo. Su brazo levantado ha saludado a los innumerables barcos que han pasado ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus