Great Escapes North America
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This revised and updated edition scours the North American continent for the most extraordinary, elegant, and inspiring places to rest your head. From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters, be inspired by the hotels, inns, guesthouses, ranches, wigwams, and more.
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Great Escapes South America
A revised and updated edition of the most inspiring South American hotels. From beachside idylls in Bahia, Brazil, to a converted monastery in Peru, each luxurious getaway is presented with interior and exterior photographs; pricing, services, and contact information; as well as the perfect novel for each location.
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100 Getaways Around the World (A-I)
Even the greyest, dullest day will be immeasurably enlivened by a flick through this compendium of some of the world’s most enticing holiday destinations. Whether you’re planning your next vacation or simply idly dreaming of one, lose yourself in this collection of 100 beautiful locales from Abu Dhabi to Vietnam, Lake Garda to Utah.
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The Book of Palms
After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru, German botanist von Martius compiled an unsurpassed catalogue of all known genera of palm. This exquisite encyclopedic treasury is a jewel of 19th-century botany, as remarkable for its meticulous classification, as it is for its maps, color landscapes, and cross-sectioned diagrams showing the architecture of these majestic trees.
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Tree Houses
Gardens designed for refined pleasure and spiritual relaxation were first perfected in ancient China. Western travelers from Marco Polo onwards saw them, and marveled at their intricacy, their elaborate garden buildings, their subtle design, and their assured use of plants, water, and natural materials. Yet for many centuries Westerners found them hard to understand and could not use the skills and concepts that they contained.
