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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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720 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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From the modern galleries of Berlin to the ancient ruins of Rome, Europe's capitals host a seemingly endless array of attractions. Venture outside the cities and you'll discover a diverse landscape ranging from snow-capped mountains to balmy beaches. Andall across the continent, a plethora of tantalizing cuisine tempts the taste buds.
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IN THE SUMMER OF 1849 there was in California one J. Ross Browne representing the United States Postal Service. In the course of his official duties he made a trip by "mule power and foot power" from San Francisco to San Luis Obispo. The tale of this trip is authentic, unusual Californian: the narrative combines the outlandish happenings of the journey-including a brush with outlaws, and a death battle between a bull and a huge bear-with a reporter's...
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Series
Fairy tale girl volume 3
Publisher
Vineyard Stories
Pub. Date
[2013]
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259 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Susan Branch and her husband Joe fulfill a lifetime dream by celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary by sailing across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2 and spending two months wandering the English countryside.
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"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy,...
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Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
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"Secrets of Disneyland reveals tons of behind-the-scenes tidbits about the theme park, along with fascinating facts that make it the Happiest Place on Earth. Filled with bright photos, fun quizzes, and information on everything from Main Street, U.S.A. to Mickey's Toontown and Frontierland..."--www.Amazon.com.
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Questar
Pub. Date
2002, c1996
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6 DVDs (ca. 6 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tom Bodett takes viewers through the routes used by the pioneers, mountain men, and gold hunters who worked and settled the American frontier, from New England's Old Post Road to the Natchez Trace and on to the Yukon Gold Rush Trail visiting historical landmarks along the way.
12) The Oregon Trail
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.
13) Hidden Hawaii
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Embark on a month-long expedition to explore stunning coral reefs, shallow water environments, and rare species in America's newest marine sanctuary, Papahanamokuakea Marine National Monument.
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Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Description
Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up?
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Janson Media
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In March 1940, the author John Stienbeck and his friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts, sailed down the coast of California and Mexico to the Sea of Cortez. Their stated purpose was to document the creatures that inhabit shallow waters and tide pools on the margins of the Sea of Cortez. But it became much more. In these mysterious, phosphorescent waters, they sought an understanding of mankind's relationship to the natural world, and a wellspring of...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
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viii, 436 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"REVOLUTIONARY ROADS takes readers on a time-traveling adventure through the crucial places American independence was won and might have been lost. You'll ride shotgun with Bob Thompson as he puts more than 20,000 miles on his car, not to mention his legs; walks history-shaping battlefields from Georgia to Quebec; and hangs out with passionate lovers of revolutionary history whose vivid storytelling and deep knowledge of their subject enrich his own....
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston takes readers on an adventure deep into the Honduran jungle in this riveting, danger-filled true story about the discovery of an ancient lost civilization"--
Recounts how the author and a team of scientists discovered a legendary sacred city, the Lost City of the Monkey God, hidden deep in the Honduran jungle.
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