Assassination Vacation

Related Books on Cassette Products

• Made in America
  
  In this sequel to his history of the English language, "Mother Tongue", Bryson takes an informed and fond look at the history of Americans through their popular culture and language. He explains why they drive on the right, say "lootenant", and call a certain type of sandwich a "hamburger".
• The City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
  
  William Dalrymple and his wife Olivia spent a year living in Delhi. Through stories of their troubles with bureaucracy and the eccentricity of their landlord, this book offers an insight into a fascinating city.
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
  
  In 1960, when he was almost 60 years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. Accompanied only by a distinguished french poodle named Charley, he travelled across the United States in a three-quarter-ton pick-up truck equipped with a miniature ship's cabin and named Rocinante.
• The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean (Penguin Audiobooks)
  
  In this modern version of the Grand Tour, Paul Theroux sets off from Gibralter, one of the Pillars of Hercules, his destination the southern pillar. Instead of crossing the straits, he chose to travel the long way, up the coast of Spain along the Riviera, and by ferry to Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily an...
• French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew
  
  A joyous exploration and celebration of the infinite gastronomic pleasures of France.Ranging far from his adopted Provence, Peter Mayle now travels to every corner of the country, armed with knife, fork, and corkscrew.
• Down Under; Abridged
  
  After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents.
• Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy
  
  Happiness? The color of it must be spring green, impossible to describe until I see a just-hatched lizard sunning on a stone. That color, the glowing green lizard skin, repeats in every new leaf. The regenerative power of nature explodes in every weed, stalk, branch.
• In Tuscany
  
  From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, landscapes, and art.
• Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
  
  "Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire, I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town."So begins Bill Bryson's hilarious book A Walk in the Woods.  Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bryson decided to reacquaint hims...
• I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
  
  The master humorist and bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods now guides us on an affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities.After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (...
• Blue Highways
  
  This runaway 1983 bestseller is Least Heat-Moon's masterful view of the diversity of America--on a 13,000-mile, 38-state, automobile trek down the country's fascinating backroads. 2 cassettes.
• Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
  
  Bestselling laugh-master Dave Barry is back with an all-new, all-hilarious look at the lighter side of travel.Going out of town for business or pleasure? Now, in this tongue-in-cheek guide to globe-trotting, Dave Barry provides the information you need to take your trip with "a minimum of unpleasant...
• Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
  
  When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion.
• The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks
  
  Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky ...
• Beyond Codependency: Getting Better All the Time
  
  In the companion volume to her popular book, Codependent No More, Beattie teaches individuals how to do more than just survive. She teaches them to grow and to realize that recovery from codependency is a lifelong journey of self-care.
• Route 66: The Mother Road
  
  Here is the definitive story of the most famous road in American history. Wallis has woven a tapestry that chronicles the road from its founding to its demise eight decades later and its current revival. 2 cassettes.
• Cape Cod
  
  Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea. With an introduction by Paul Theroux. This is one of the first titles in Penguin's new Nature Library series.
• Looking For Alaska
  
  More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoir of what he found, A Walk Across America, captured the hearts of millions of Americans.Now, Peter is a bit older, married with a family, and his...
• Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
  
  With the same disarmingly unguarded prose that won her critical acclaim for Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller tells of her unusual friendship with “K”—a white African and veteran of the brutal, racially divided Rhodesian War.

  • ISBN13: 9781402575891
  • Condition: New
• Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Com
  
  The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.
• Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them (Library Edition)
  
  “I told God that if he would let us survive this night, I would make it mean something worthwhile. And then, somehow, I felt calmer than I have ever felt. Unreasonably so. Irrationally so.
• Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
  
  Bound on a lecture trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator, an evocative and highly unique American portrait of nineteenth-century travel and customs.
• The Tree Where Man Was Born (Library Edition)
  
  In this classic volume, Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully and magically portrays the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years: the daily lives of herdsmen and hu...
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
  
  This lyrical, evocative, thought-provoking journal of a man's quest for truth -- and for himself -- has touched and changed an entire generation. At its heart, the story is all too simple: a man and his son take a lengthy motorcycle trip through America.
• A Trip to the Beach
  
  This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise - and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls.
• Swedish (Berlitz Cassette Pack)
  
  Learn Swedish with this Berlitz audio cassette and phrase book. The cassette, recorded by native speakers, contains over 400 essential expressions to explore dialects and vocabulary. The book contains phrases, grammar and language tips plus a 2300 word bilingual dictionary.