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The province of Chiang Mai, with its cooling mist-shrouded mountains bursting with dense jungle, has long enticed visitors. Highlights of the region include the laid-back city of Chiang Mai, with its moated, partially walled old city; its celebrated ancient temples; and a traveller-friendly scene. Activities such as cycling, hiking, elephant trekking, bird-watching and river rafting offer an escape from the steaming plains.
This guide is the result of research by dedicated authors and local experts who immersed themselves in Chiang Mai province, finding unique experiences, and sharing practical and honest advice, so you come away informed and amazed. This guide includes up-to-date reviews of the best places to stay, eat, sights, cultural information, maps, transport tips and a few best kept secrets - all the essentials to get to the heart of Chiang Mai.

Coverage includes:

• Understand Thailand, Thailand Today, History, Directory, Transport and Glossary, The People & Culture, Thai Temples, Festivals, Eating in Thailand, Environment & Wildlife.
• Chiang Mai, Northern Chiang Mai Province, Mae Sa Valley & Samoeng, Chiang Dao, Doi Ang Khang, Fang & Tha Ton, Southern Chiang Mai Province, Bo Sang & San Kamphaeng, Mae Kampong, Hang Dong, Ban Wan & Ban Thawai and Doi Inthanon National Park.

Lonely Planet's Thailand guide is researched and written by: China Williams, Mark Beales, Celeste Brash, Alan Murphy, Brandon Presser, Tim Bewer and Austin Bush.

Opening on November 20, 2009, as a major motion picture, starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw.

You’ll travel Fiji like a pro with our candid advice and handy Active Vacation Planner. Also included are a detailed history of the nation and culture, accurate regional and town maps, an online directory that makes trip-planning a snap, up-to-date advice on finding the best package deals, and suggested itineraries on how to explore this island nation in 1 week and 2 weeks, with additional itineraries for families, outdoors enthusiasts, and honeymooners!

In this ebook, you'll get the same candid reviews and insider tips that you'll find in all Frommer's guides. Plus, we've added planning and background information as well as our signature "Best of" features.

Note: The electronic version of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating eBook-exclusive illustrations by the author.

At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer.  This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early  rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias.  In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must.

From the Hardcover edition.

Gunsmithing: Rifles takes a look at al major rifle types and gives you practical information on how to make repairs, improve performance and modify your rifle to fit your needs.

In additional to practical information about keeping every rifle ready to shoot, Gunsmithing: Rifles provides specific projects to improve:

• Mauser actions
• AR-15s and their clones
• The Ruger 10/22
• The Remington Model 700
• The Winchester model 70
• Lever-action Rifles

As a practicing gunsmith for the past 20 years, Sweeney also knows enough to tell you what not to try. If an operation requires an expert, he'll tell you. He'll also tell you what questions to ask to help you make sure the person you hire is qualified.

Archaeologist Sarah Baxter had a clear directive: travel back to nineteenth century London to retrieve the measuring device she left behind. But her bungled attempt at thievery left an English Earl dead and his brother bent on revenge. Sarah must once again go back in time to find the device and return to her own time before her tragic mistake puts a noose around her neck. Unfortunately, the only way to get close to the device is to befriend the very man who wants her dead.

Eric, the new Earl of Earnston, was determined to catch the woman who killed his brother, but she’d disappeared without a trace. Twelve months on and there are still no clues to her whereabouts. As luck would have it, he finds a distraction. A new family have arrived in town and Miss Sarah Baxter is a delightful diversion among the stale debutantes in the ton.

Sarah knows it is madness to seduce the man who would want her dead should he know who she was, but the Earl is an alarmingly persistent gentleman. Can Sarah procure the device without her secret being revealed? And what will the Earl do when he finds out the woman he’s in love with is not the woman he thought he knew?

Sensuality Level: Sensual