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Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
85 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 38 cm.
Description
"Explore seven continent maps packed with hundreds of activities and challenges to inspire armchair travelers of any age. Whether you're visiting the penguins of Antarctica, dancing the samba in Brazil, or steering a gondola in Venice, this book brings together epic adventures from the remotest corners of the globe and discoveries to be made on your own doorstep"--Unedited summary from the book.
8) The blue
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"They found paradise... what would they do to keep it? [A] spine-tingling adventure novel about a group of friends whose journey around the world on a yacht turns from a trip to paradise into a chilling nightmare when one of them disappears at sea. Lana and her best friend Kitty leave home looking for freedom-- and that's exactly what they find when they are invited onto The Blue, a fifty-foot yacht making its way from the Philippines to New Zealand....
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
119 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Reeling from the news that his doctor is giving him only one month to live, fifty-year-old Ambrose Zephyr and his loving wife, Zipper, embark on a whirlwind tour from A to Z of all the places he has ever loved or has ever wanted to visit.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"In 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered and his wife is left to manage his affairs on her own. But as she starts to piece together his life, she realizes that everything was not as he had said. Infused with details from letters and diary entries, the [book] twists forward and backward through time, revealing a lost world of fake identities,...
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Zombie chasers volume 7
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
219, 6 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Traveling across the world, Zack Clarke and his zombie-fighting team search for an antidote that will stop the outbreak forever.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
414 pages : chiefly illustrations (color illustrations) ; 31 cm
Description
From navigating the class-five rapids of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to sandboarding the slopes of a volcano in Nicaragua to dogsledding in the Arctic, this beautiful and comprehensive book offers trips of a lifetime for explorers and adrenaline junkies alike. Filled with more than 300 vivid photographs, this inspirational guide reveals over 225 of the planet's best destinations for hikers, skiers, divers, rafters, and more. You'll...
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"A misunderstanding in Morocco. A Cuban con. A family reunion in Italy. An epiphany in the Czech Republic. Some of the world's best-loved writers share the travel experiences that made them the people they are today. Join them in their bittersweet tales of innocence lost."--P. [4] of cover.
15) Joe Boat
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Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Joe the tugboat dreams of traveling around the world but, realizing how much his help is needed in the harbor, decides his voyage can wait for another day. Includes facts about boats, a related activity, and word list.
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Description
Carrying the famous biologist Charles Darwin, the Beagle set sail from Plymouth Sound in December of 1831 and returned in October of 1836-completing its journey across the world. This journal kept by Charles Darwin contains his notes from the journey and his commentary on the discoveries that were made. It also includes illustrations of the wonders that they encountered and in-depth discussions about life on the sea.
18) Magellan's world
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Series
Publisher
Mikaya Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
Description
A biography of Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan, the man who discovered the Americas for the rulers of Spain.
19) How to be a family: the year I dragged my kids around the world to find a new way to be together
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Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
324 pages
Description
"In this eye-opening, heartwarming, and very funny family memoir, the fractious, loving Kois' go in search of other places on the map that might offer them the chance to live away from home-but closer together. Over a year the family lands in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and small-town Kansas. The goal? To get out of their rut of busyness and distractedness and to see how other families live outside the East Coast parenting bubble."--Amazon.com....
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