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Museums, Identity and Family Practices locates museum participation and meaning making in the realm of everyday family practices, which are central to the understanding the role museums play in family social life.

Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to expand futures thinking in communities, including developing capabilities to envision and enact more prosperous, equitable and sustainable futures.

Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to expand futures thinking in communities, including developing capabilities to envision and enact more prosperous, equitable and sustainable futures.

This fascinating and well-researched collection of spine-tingling accounts of paranormal phenomena focuses on the restless spirits that haunt Upstate New York's rustic and weathered region known as the North Country. What makes these stories so chilling is that each one of them is factual. The haunted sites covered in this book range from centuries-old mansions to mobile homes, and even commercial establishments such as bars, diners, and fraternity houses. Guaranteed to send a chill or two up your spine, this book is ideal for anyone who has ever encountered a ghostly apparition or wondered what it would be like to spend a night in a haunted house.

Whether you want to hike along South Rim trails, take a rafting trip on the Colorado River, or discover the Canyon’s fauna and flora, the local Fodor’s travel experts on the Grand Canyon are here to help! Fodor’s In Focus Grand Canyon National Park guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This brand new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.In Focus Grand Canyon National Park travel guide includes:AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and doMULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your timeMORE THAN 10 DETAILED MAPS to help you navigate confidentlyCOLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust!HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, lodges, and campsites, outdoor activities, scenic drives, hiking and biking trails, and morePHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “12 Ultimate Experiences,” Flora of the Grand Canyon,” “Fauna of the Grand Canyon” and moreTRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and moneyHISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the the Grand Canyon’s stunning geographical features, its historic lodges, and moreSPECIAL FEATURES on the “Best Hikes of the Grand Canyon,” “The Grand Canyon with Kids,” and “Grand Canyon Itineraries”LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gemsUP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: the South Rim, the North Rim, the West Rim, and gateway cities and towns including Flagstaff, Williams, and Tusayan, and much more Planning on visiting more national parks? Check out Fodor’s National Parks of the West, InFocus Zion and Bryce Canyon and InFocus Great Smoky Mountains National Park *Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition.ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor’s has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. For more travel inspiration, you can sign up for our travel newsletter at fodors.com/newsletter/signup, or follow us @FodorsTravel on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We invite you to join our friendly community of travel experts at fodors.com/community to ask any other questions and share your experience with us!

Guidebook to walking the Fife Pilgrim Way, a 103km (64 mile) path to the pilgrimage town of St Andrews, Scotland. Starting on the Firth of Forth at Culross or North Queensferry, both of which are within easy reach of Edinburgh, this waymarked six-day route crosses flat or gently rolling terrain, making it an ideal introduction to multi-day walking.

The essential guide to the finest dining experiences in the South West of England.

'A modern-day Freya Stark' - Tatler'Roberts' writing is beguiling' - The i'Roberts is a wonderfully lyrical writer' - ObserverFrom the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey tracing a colonial-era African expedition. In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa's resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephants - if only he could train them. And so he commissioned the charismatic Irish adventurer Frederick Carter to ship four tamed Asian elephants from India to the East African coast, where they were marched inland towards Congo. The ultimate aim was to establish a training school for African elephants. Following in the footsteps of the four elephants, Roberts pieces together the story of this long-forgotten expedition, in travels that take her to Belgium, Iraq, India, Tanzania and Congo. The storytelling brings to life a compelling cast of historic characters and modern voices, from ivory dealers to Catholic nuns, set against rich descriptions of the landscapes travelled. She digs deep into historic records to reckon with our broken relationship with animals, revealing an extraordinary - and enduring - story of colonial greed, ineptitude, hypocrisy and folly. ............................................... Praise for The Lost Pianos of Siberia· An extraordinary encounter with a wildly fascinating and astonishingly ill-known region... This is a wonderful book. - Sunday Times· The ultimate quest for the oddest objects - pianos - in the most unlikely place - Siberia. But Roberts makes it much more than that, an elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book. - Paul Theroux· An impressive exploration of Siberia's terrifying past. - Guardian· An exuberant, eccentric journey through Russian vastness, European history and Russian culture, The Lost Pianos of Siberia is a quixotic quest, a picaresque travel adventure and a strange forgotten story, all wrapped into one fascinating book. - Simon Sebag-Montefiore· What shines through in this book is Roberts' genuine, humane affection for and fascination with the people she meets in Siberia. - Literary Review

A recently translated text (from original Thai) of the travel journal HRH Prince Damrong Rajanubhab of his journey to Angkor in 1924.

Think you''ve traipsed around every worthwhile destination the city has to offer? Think again. This is a handbook to London''s most perplexing points of interest and hidden corners: visit the Victorian mausoleum supposedly containing a time machine, go shopping for Viking supplies, get crafty at a squirrel taxidermy workshop and then enjoy dinner and a cowbell show at an ersatz alpine lodge. There''s plenty of weirdness in London. Lucky for you, we''ve sorted the best from the... better avoided. So come with curiosity and an open mind, and get ready for some shock, amusement and plain unusual intrigue.

Wyatt Earp and Tombstone, Wild Bill Hickok and Deadwood, George Custer and the Little Big Horn, Davy Crockett and the Alamo, Bat Masterson and Dodge City; Names and locations forever linked to the legacy and myth of the Old West. Through hundreds of photographs and illustrations, O'Connor delivers a concise, light-hearted yet accurate depiction of a pivotal event in the settlement of the American frontier, and what the location offers today's visitor, with particular attention devoted to surviving structures, including authentic saloons!Whether planning a road trip, or simply interested in America's Old West history and culture, the reader is provided an entertaining, and informative look into the locations that shaped the history and myth of the Wild West.

I Will Pay to Make it Bigger is a novella and photobook by poet and visual artist Ahren Warner. Through text and image, the book searches for a way through a network of related subjects, ideas and feelings: the consumption of pleasure, freedom and hedonism; the purchase of feeling; the construction of (particularly male) identity as a cultural product, and the fragility of that construction; the fine, blurry lines between acquisition, enjoyment, love and desire, and the way any and all of these can be used to fill holes in our selves, even if only momentarily, and even if destructively. The book is also a work of both autofiction and docufiction. The photographs were produced during three months documenting 'party hostels' in Thailand. Yet, for all that these photographs might seem to exist as the documentation of 'moments', they are in fact quite painstakingly constructed: almost always beginning their lives as several still frames from film footage which have been composited and processed at length to reintroduce an artificial sense of movement, to become both a record of movement and hedonism, and a fictionalised artefact of impulse, drive and motion, that speaks directly, and on a level of materiality, to the concerns of the novella, whilst never illustrating, and only very rarely interacting directly, with the text itself.

Teatime at Peggy's: a warm, humorous and evocative travel narrative celebrating one of India's fastest-dwindling communities, the Anglo-Indians (mostly descendants of British men and Indian women). Comprises culturally fascinating vignettes of time-warped encounters with eccentric residents, mainly in the railway town of Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh.

The latest revised and updated edition of Australia's favourite travel guidebook.

A comprehensive guide to dog-friendly travel, accommodation and experiences in Australia

Gravel Rides Peak District showcases 15 gravel bike rides in the Peak District National Park. Written by Peak local Hetty Kingston, the routes feature Ordnance Survey maps and easy-to-follow directions. Also includes a detailed appendix and downloadable GPX files.

Russ Williams was raised on Wales's stories, like the one about a mountain that would send you mad or turn you into a gifted poet if you camped out on it, the one about the lost civilisation drowned by the sea and the one about the bottomless lake leading down to the Welsh Otherworld. Stories of witches and giants and heroic kings, dragons and mad doctors, ghostly women, giant beaver monsters, vampire furniture and pirate-fighting monks. As entertaining as it is informative, Where the Folk follows Russ Williams as he travels in Griff, his creaky red Fiesta, in search of places associated with Wales's legends, folklore and urban myths. In this joyful travelogue, not only does Russ recount some of Wales's most interesting stories; he also explores the origins behind the myths, talking to experts and storytellers to find out how and why they might have come about, and what they tell us about Wales past and present.

Steve Davison has chosen 15 of the best short walks around Ivybridge, Haytor Rocks and southern Dartmoor. Each walk comes with easy-to-read Ordnance Survey maps, clear route description and lots of images, plus information on local beauty spots and tasty refreshment stops. No challenging terrain or complicated navigation means walks can be enjoyed by everyone.