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A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains as fresh and revelatory now as on the day it was first published. Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to portray the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years. From the daily lives of wild herdsmen and the drama of predator kills to the field biologists...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course...
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2020.
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English
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"From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail "If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?" It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter...
25) Major impossible
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2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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An account of John Wesley Powell's expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
28) Samsara
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MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
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2 videodiscs (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Wordless global tour exploring the sights and sounds of the human condition.
29) Roughing it
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Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2002
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1 videodisc (185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Dramatization of Mark Twain's (Samuel Clemens) lively account of his adventures in the West during the 1860s, as civil servant, gold prospector, reporter, and lecturer.
30) Baraka
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MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
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2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Wordless global tour exploring the sights and sounds of the human condition.
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Quill
Pub. Date
2000
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viii, 237 p. ; ill., map ; 21 cm.
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English
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Sundeen's journey across the new West of low-rent trailer parks and high-dollar houseboats, of hot-springs singles scenes and beachfront ghost towns; a haven for pot growers and junk collectors, homeless river guides and hapless soul-searchers, for sun-beat old-timers chewing the cud of the land and survivalist teenagers hiding out from the Man.
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 11
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211 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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English
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Provides an account of the Shackleton expedition of 1914, during which explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven set out to cross the Antarctic continent on foot, only to have their ship, Endurance, break up eighty-five miles short of their destination, leaving them stranded for close to two years. Includes a photographic record of the adventure.
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Modern Library
Pub. Date
2000
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xx, 205 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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English
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In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in the pack ice of the treacherous Kara Sea-a misfortune grievously compounded by an incompetent commander, the absence of crucial nautical...
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HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
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314 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Bill Bryson's unsparing and hilarious account of his travels across America in search of the perfect small town. At the end of his journey, Bryson finds not the idyllic town of his dream, but a ture understanding of America--and a certainty that despite the poverty and ignorance, there is much good in the island
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English
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Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to...
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W.H. Freeman and Co
Pub. Date
c1994
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xviii, 392 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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What does a quark inside an atom have to do with a jaguar circling his jungle territory? What can the study of particle physics add to our understanding of natural selection, linguistics, child development, economics, and computers? Find out with Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann's personal account of his search for the connections between the universe's fundamental laws and nature at its most complex. 40 illustrations.
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The Inside Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska is winding, turbulent, and deep -- an ancient, thousand-mile-long sea route, rich in dangerous whirlpools, eddies, rips, and races. Here flourished the canoe culture of the Northwest Indians, with their fantastic painted masks and complex iconography and their stories of malign submarine gods and monsters. The unhappy British ship Discovery, captained by George Vancouver, came through these open reaches...
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