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De nieuwe wereld van Peter Stuyvesant    by Lucas Ligtenberg
Price: $5.99 USD. 93030 words. Language: Dutch. Published by Fosfor  on April 27, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

In heel Amerika hebben Nederlanders hun stempel op het land gedrukt en op vele plaatsen zijn tastbare herinneringen levend gehouden: tulpenfestivals en windmolentjes in de voortuin, aan Nederland gewijde musea, Nederlandse plaatsnamen, dijken en handgegraven kanalen. Dit boek is het verhaal van ondernemende landgenoten in het land van onbegrensde mogelijkheden. Rijk geïllustreerd.
New York buiten de gebaande paden    by Lucas Ligtenberg
Price: $7.99 USD. 113850 words. Language: Dutch. Published by Fosfor  on April 27, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

Lucas Ligtenberg kent New York als geen ander en weet dat de stad de wereld in het klein is én het centrum ervan. In die metropool leidt hij de lezer rond. Het is vooral een tocht door de geschiedenis en langs de mensen die de stad hebben gemaakt.
Smart Guide Italy: Italian Islands    by Alexei Cohen
Price: $3.99 USD. 49660 words. Language: English. Published on April 25, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

Smart Guide Italy explores the sights, sounds and flavors that make Sicily, Sardinia and islands in Tuscany, Campania and Puglia special. It includes historical overviews, details about major monuments, important local events, places to eat and sleep, practical information and directions for getting about each of the islands. Travelers will find everything they need for having a memorable holiday.
Back Roads of Spain    by Duncan Gough
Price: $5.00 USD. 36100 words. Language: English. Published on April 24, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

Every year from 2000 till 2010 I rode to Spain on my Moto Guzzi V10 Centauro. This book is largely about my experiences on those journeys, but also includes articles on more general motorcycling and travel themes as well as life and the way we experience it.
Americashire: A Field Guide to a Marriage    by Jennifer Richardson
Price: $7.95 USD. 40380 words. Language: English. Published by Seattle Book Company  on April 23, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Jennifer Richardson and her husband bought a cottage in the Cotswolds in the hopes of finding respite from their stressful London existence—but instead, their new rural life forced Richardson to confront her husband’s depression, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and a frightening medical diagnosis that threatened her whole world.
Beauty and Pleasure and Moderately Energetic Walking in the Lower Southern Alps    by Alan Hutchinson
Price: Free! . Language: English. Published on April 22, 2013. Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Exercise.

This text of about 90000 words starts with two examples: Alpine walking, which takes up half the book, and a little simple science. The last two chapters explore how the sensations of beauty and pleasure might have arisen, and how they influence behaviour. Two of the greatest pleasures are rational thought and understanding, and chat and good company. They lead in very different directions.
A Scot Returns - A Journey from Bali to Skye    by Alastair Scott
Price: $1.99 USD. 144720 words. Language: English. Published on April 22, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

The last of a trilogy, by turns comic and astonishing, of a remarkable five-year pilgrimage around the world. Travelling on foot, camel, elephant and public transport Scott slips, trots and lumbers through the cultures of the Far and Near East. He carries a notebook, a will to understand, a bent towards absurdities and…(ever the optimist)…a universal bath plug where there are no universal drains.
A Scot Goes South - A Journey from Mexico to Ayers Rock    by Alastair Scott
Price: $1.99 USD. 136680 words. Language: English. Published on April 21, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

Here is the sequel to Alastair Scott's highly acclaimed Scot Free, describing the next two years of his five-year odyssey, this time in Central and South America, Australia and New Zealand. He writes with the same infectious brio as in his first book, a photographer's eye enriching the writer's, seizing with delight upon the egregious and eccentric, the larger-than-life that turns out to be life.
West Papua Free!    by Frans Welman
Price: $4.99 USD. 91820 words. Language: English. Published by booksmango  on April 21, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

West Papua, part of Indonesia shows disparity with the land that annexed it after the Dutch abandoned a war which should have secured independence for the Papuans as the Netherlands had promised. Frans Welman in collaboration with Viktor Kasiepo travels through this forgotten land of high rise mountains and swampy coast dotted with beaches to experience culture and repression. Their aim is to make
West Papua Free!!    by Frans Welman
Price: $4.99 USD. 82000 words. Language: English. Published by booksmango  on April 21, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

West Papua, part of Indonesia shows disparity with the land that annexed it after the Dutch abandoned a war which should have secured independence for the Papuans as the Netherlands had promised. Frans Welman in collaboration with Viktor Kasiepo travels through this forgotten land of high rise mountains and swampy coast dotted with beaches to experience culture and repression. Their aim is to make