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English
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In an outrageous tour Down Under, Bryson dodges jellyfish while learning to surf at Bondi Beach, discovers a fish that can climb trees, dehydrates in the deserts in 140 degree temperatures, and tells the true story of the rejected Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Beryl Markham's classic, engrossing memoir — a triumph of the pioneer spirit and an adventure-charged chronicle of a life lived to the fullest Beryl Markham's life was a true epic, complete with shattered societal expectations, torrid love affairs, and desperate crash landings. A rebel from a young age, the British-born Markham was raised in Kenya's unforgiving farmlands. She learned to be a bush pilot at a time when most Africans had never seen...
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Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed — and what hasn’t. Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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“Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,” writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey through the continent he knows and loves best. Theroux first came to Africa as a twenty-two-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, and the pull of the vast land never left him. Now he returns, after fifty years on the road, to explore the little-traveled territory of western Africa and to take stock both of the place and of himself. His odyssey takes him...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Chris McCandless walked into the deep woods of Alaska in April 1992 and was never again seen alive. Through diaries, interviews with family and acquaintances, and accounts of witnesses, John Krakauer traces the young man's fatal adventure and the life journey that led him to his death in an abandoned bus.
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English
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Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution. Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vast infinity. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores—whether...
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Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
x, 230 p. : maps (on lining papers) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thailand today is a mysterious hybrid of East and West, Buddhism and garish materialism, temples and prostitution, a revered Royal Family and a booming tourist industry. Yet the former kingdom of Siam was for seven hundred years the only country in Southeast Asia not to be invaded by a foreign power. With his characteristic blend of 'anecdote, history, travelogue and analysis', Richard West evokes all the exoticism of the country and its people and...
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Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xi, 196 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
Thirty years ago, celebrated American writer Edward Hoagland, in his early fifties and already with a dozen acclaimed books under his belt, had a choice: a midlife crisis or a midlife adventure. He chose the adventure. Pencil and notebook at the ready, Hoagland set out to explore and write about one of the last truly wild territories remaining on the face of the earth: Alaska. From the Arctic Ocean to the Kenai Peninsula, the backstreet bars of Anchorage...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux fearlessly drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes a look at what it's like to live and work in Antarctica, following people who work to keep the stations and equipment running so scientists can complete their work.
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Series
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English
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When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell's family's experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes,...
15) California
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Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
790 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Insider tips on what to see, where to buy and how to get around ; theme parks, water parks, national parks, the best outdoor activities all over the state.
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Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 311, 16 p. : ill., music ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide. Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies and customs and superstitions of great cultural...
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Publisher
Heyday Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection as broad as the Great Basin and as dynamic as California's coastline fiction and essays by Wallace Stegner Literary critic Charles E. Cascio compared reading Wallace Stegner's short fiction to entering a great community, one that invites readers into a larger conversation, not through soaring prose or gimmicky plots, but with writing that is as real as the moment and as enduring as history. In his nonfiction Stegner explores with equal...
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Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
296 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of a walking tour through England's East Anglia, Sebald's home for more than twenty years, The Rings of Saturn explores Britain's pastoral and imperial past. As the narrator walks, a company of ghosts keeps him company-- Thomas Browne, Swinburne, Chateaubriand, Joseph Conrad, Borges--conductors between the past and present. The narrator meets lonely eccentrics inhabiting tumble-down mansions, and hears of the furious coastal battles...
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