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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Raised among the Lemhi Shoshone, Sacajewea [sic] learns all the ways to survive. When her village is raided, she is kidnapped and then gambled away to Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper. Now she must learn to survive in a new world teeming with fur trappers and traders. When Lewis and Clark's expedition arrives, Sacajewea must cross a vast and brutal terrain with her newborn son, the white man who owns her, and a company of men who wish to conquer...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after...
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after...
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Sasquatch Books
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English
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Explore and celebrate the Pacific Northwest coast like a local with this visual treat of an adventure guide that includes activities, crafts and recipes.
From whale watching to squid jigging to making your own sea salt or fish prints, this adventure guide celebrates the wild beauty of the Northwest Coast. Learn how to catch and cook seasonal seafood, including recipes that can be prepared over a driftwood fire, enjoy beach activities...
From whale watching to squid jigging to making your own sea salt or fish prints, this adventure guide celebrates the wild beauty of the Northwest Coast. Learn how to catch and cook seasonal seafood, including recipes that can be prepared over a driftwood fire, enjoy beach activities...
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Levison Wood's journey was 4,250 miles long, and he walked every step of the way, camping in the wild, foraging for food, and fending for himself against multiple dangers. He passed through rainforest, savannah, swamp, desert, and lush delta oases and crossed seven very different countries. No one had ever made this journey on foot. In this detailed, thoughtful, inspiring and dramatic book is recounted Levison Wood's walk the length of the Nile, during...
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English
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A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with his childhood, his first intimations of the melancholy awareness...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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In the wake of her mother's death, Strayed's family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. With nothing to lose, she made an impulsive decision: to hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State. And she would do it alone. This is her story of the journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. -- adapted from back cover.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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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.
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Pilot Productions
Pub. Date
2011?]
Language
English
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The Netherlands - Join Brianna Barnes as she embarks across The Netherlands. Amsterdam City Guide 2 - Brianna Barnes and Jonathan Atherton explore Amsterdam, a city known for its progressive spirit, canals, bicycles, art, history, and culture.
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Levison Wood's most challenging expedition yet begins along the Silk Road route of Afghanistan and travels 1700 miles through five countries over the course of six months. Following in the footsteps of the great explorers, Wood walks the entire length of the Himalayas in an adventure of survival and endurance. In a personal story of perseverance and discovery, Wood forges bonds with local guides, porters, mountain men, soldiers, farmers, smugglers...
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A journey along the greatest land route on earth: out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor to the ancient port of Antioch. The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries splitting and...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating university," populated by some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet John Muir. Those aboard encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. More than a hundred years later, Alaska is still America's most...
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Distributed by] DVD Masters
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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From the souks of Tripoli to the medieval streets of Fes and the Valley of the Kings, Globe Trekker takes you on an exciting adventure through Northern Africa. Ian Wright and Megan McCormick trek deep into the desert in search of mummies, oases, Sufi mystics and Roman ruins.
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