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- Location:
- Seattle, WA, 98103
- Phone:
- (206) 634-3453
- Mon - Sat:
- 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
- Sun:
- 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
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- Ukraine with Andrew Villone
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Tuesday, December 1 at 7:00pm - Solo Travelers
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Saturday, December 5 at 9:00am - Peru
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Tuesday, December 8 at 7:00pm - Washington and Oregon Curiosit...
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Tuesday, December 15 at 7:00pm - Gutsy Women
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Saturday, December 19 at 7:00pm
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Wide World Books & Maps This informal gathering is for women to meet and learn from each other's travel experiences and share wisdom learned on the road. Bring your coffee and your questions! This group meets each month on the 3rd Saturday.
Time:7:00PM Saturday, December 19th
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
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Washington and Oregon are home to some truly curious things, including the world's largest egg, the world's smallest park, an airport runway that disappears twice a day, and museums dedicated to hats, vacuum cleaners, and toilet paper. Harriet Baskas documents more than 400 of these unusual people, places, and things i...n her books Washington Curiosities and Oregon Curiosities. For the Dec 15th presentation, we'll take a guided tour of some of her favorite places.
with author Harriet Baskas
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, December 15th
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
Wide World Books & Maps The astonishing breadth and beauty of Peru is unsurpassed: glistening 20,000 ft. Andean peaks that tower above crystalline glacial lakes, the majestic heritage of the Inca civilization, and the famed citadel of Machu Picchu. Join Sandra Braun, founder of Adventure Associates and world travel guide, for a slide presenta...tion of the ultimate Peruvian adventure. Visit ruins of Cusco, "the Archeological capital of the Americas", explore Sacred Valley handicraft markets and the villages of Pisac and Ollantaytambo, participate in the re-enactment of the sun festival “Inti Raymi”, learn about family life on Lake Titicaca, and experience our classic five day trek along the ancient footpaths of the Incas. Join us for an evening of photographs and stories as we traverse a magnificent walkway of stones, stairways, and tunnels until we reach Machu Picchu and explore the wonders of the "Lost City of the Incas."
Wide World Books & Maps Join us for an informal gathering of travelers as they meet and learn from each other’s travel experiences and share wisdom learned on the road. This group meets each month on the 1st Saturday.
Time:9:00AM Saturday, December 5th
Location:Wide World Books and Maps
Wide World Books & Maps
Join Andrew Villone of Roads Less Traveled as he takes you around the varied regions and cultures of the Ukraine. We'll visit Kiev, Ukraine's capital and the cradle of ancient slavic culture; wander the old town streets in Lviv, one of Central Europe's most charming cities; learn about Tatar culture, Yalta's historic p...alaces, and cave cities in exotic Crimea; and explore painted monasteries and crumbling fortresses in the Bukovina countryside.
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, December 1st
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
Wide World Books & Maps This informal gathering is for women to meet and learn from each other's travel experiences and share wisdom learned on the road. Bring your coffee and your questions! This group meets each month on the 3rd Saturday.
Time:9:00AM Saturday, November 21st
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
Wide World Books & Maps Join us for our monthly travelers book club for a lively discussion of this month's selection, Marco Polo Didn't Go There, by Rolf Potts. The club meets the third Thursday of each month and the book club selection is 20% off throughout the month. "Potts is one of the best travel writers to emerge in the last decade. ... Intrepid and thoughtful, he's a Paul Theroux for the backpacker generation, and Marco Polo reflects this" - San Francisco Chronicle.
Time:7:00PM Thursday, November 19th
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
Wide World Books & Maps In 2007, Erin and her husband Hig set out from their Seattle home on an expedition to the Aleutian Islands-via foot, skis, and packraft. In her new book A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft and Ski, McKittrick chronicles the 13-month journey that led them through difficult ocean crossings, incessant storms, tow...ering glaciers, giant trees, and hidden waterfalls. As their trip progresses, a year of sleeping outside, visiting villages and staying with rural families gives the couple a new perspective on both the wilderness and their own lives.
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, November 18th
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
Wide World Books & Maps Join Moon Handbook author Liz Hamill Scott to learn why California is a great budget-friendly vacation destination for Washington residents. Liz will answer your questions and sign one of her Moon guidebooks, including Moon California, Northern California, Southern California, and Coastal California. Liz's aim is to ...inform and entertain her audience, serving as a well-traveled friend from California who has plenty of opinions about where you should (and shouldn't!) go on your next trip to the Golden State.
Time:7:00PM Thursday, November 12th
Location:Wide world Books & Maps
Wide World Books & Maps Back by popular demand for the month of June, we are hosting our informal gathering for women to meet and learn from each other’s travel experiences and share wisdom learned from the road. Bring your coffee and your questions!
Time:9:00AM Saturday, June 20th
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
Wide World Books & Maps Local Seattle guy, world traveler, frequent KUOW contributor and avid recycler Willie Weir joins us to celebrate his latest book, Travels with Willie. It is a book is about finding adventure & facing fear, embarrassing blunders & language barriers, ice cream & kindness, the world’s steepest street & the world’s cheapes...t engagement ring, catching a thief & losing a zebra, a father’s touch & a farmer’s embrace, buying time & spending another night. And, of course, it’s about bicycles. Please join us tonight when we listen, learn, and laugh with the energetic and entertaining Willie Weir as he performs his stories from the road.
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, June 10th
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
Wide World Books & Maps Yes, tonight we wrap up our 10th season of WWB presentations and that means it’s time for Slides & Tell, where YOU get to be the star of the show. We invite customers to bring in five slides or digital images in a projectable format and the story that goes with them. We’ll also have our annual geography quiz complete w...ith BIG prizes. Just call ahead so we know how many to plan for and where you’ll be taking us. We can answer any questions about using our digital projector. 206-634-3453 or email us at travel@speakeasy.net. Come, be part of the fun!
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, May 26th
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
Wide World Books & Maps Matt Harding, the YouTube sensation with more than 20,000,000 views, has just published a book of the story behind his dancing/traveling phenomenon. Dancing Matt Around the World, a celebration of his arm- swinging, knee-pumping, infectious dance of joy, is a full-color travelogue with a behind the scenes look at the p...laces and people he has met and its affect on him. Put on your happy feet, come travel the world and leave touched by Matt’s zest for life.
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, May 19th
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
Wide World Books & Maps Join us for an informal gathering of travelers as they meet and learn from each other’s travel experiences and share wisdom learned on the road. Whether you’re preparing for your first solo journey or your hundredth, you’ll enjoy sharing your adventures with your fellow sojourners. Bring your coffee and your questions!
Time:9:00AM Saturday, May 16th
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
Wide World Books & Maps Discover the mountains of northern Greece! In the “hidden” region of Zagori you’ll find a landscape filled with lovely mountain villages connected by a network of stone-tiled pathways and bridges. Here also you’ll see high country meadows ablaze with crocus and ringed by towering limestone peaks along with one of the d...eepest gorges in the world. Thrill to the spectacle of the monasteries of Meteora perched precariously atop towering sandstone pinnacles. You’ll also have an opportunity to climb to the summit of Mount Olympus, legendary home of the Greek gods and the highest point in Greece. Your guides tonight are John and Amy Osaki, founders of Walking Softly Tours.
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, May 12th
Location:Wide World Books & Maps
