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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
175 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Celebrate America's grandeur and diversity with more than 75 National Geographic maps, more than 350 color images, 50-plus attention-grabbing graphics, and more. Each state has its own detailed, easy-to-read map plus a brief essay, facts at a glance about population, state capital, statehood date, and the state flag, bird, and flower, as well as highlights unique to the state"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
What's the connection between Ken Kesey and Nancy's Yogurt? How about the difference between a hoedad and a webfoot? What became of the Pixie Kitchen and the vanished Lambert Gardens?
The Oregon Companion is an A–Z handbook of over 1000 people, places, and things. From Abernethy and beaver money to houseboats, railroads, and the Zigzag River, an intrepid public historian separates fact from fiction — with his sense of humor
...Author
Language
English
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Description
This volume presents the author's assertion that the fleets of Chinese Admiral Zheng visited the Americas prior to European explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, and that this same Chinese fleet circumnavigated the globe a century before the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan. The author presents a series of vignettes describing his travels around the globe, examining what he claims is evidence for his "1421 hypothesis", interspersed with speculation...
8) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
111 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Take a tour of America's great outdoors and discover the beauty and diversity of its most iconic and majestic national parks. Explore Florida's river-laced Everglades, travel down the white water rapids of the Grand Canyon, trek across the deserts of Death Valley and scale the soaring summits of the Rocky Mountains with this book that brings you up close to nature's greatest adventures. Packed with maps and fascinating facts about the flora and fauna...
10) Places
Series
Takelma language primer volume 2
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
[14] pages : color illustrations ; 14 x 14 cm.
Language
North American Indian
Author
Publisher
Published in North America by Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
Contains over 100 pages of up-to-date topographic and political maps and satellite imagery as well as detailed maps of the ocean seafloors. Captures recent changes to the world's geography with updated tables and world statistics providing data on climate, population, and area. Includes an index with over 58,000 locations.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic odyssey-by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel-through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mount Sinai to touching the burning bush, Bruce Feiler's inspiring journey will forever change your view of some of history's most storied events.
14) Bible lands
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text document life in Biblical times, surveying the clothing, food, and civilizations of a wide variety of cultures, including the Israelites, Babylonians, Persians, and Romans.
Author
Publisher
Days of Wonder
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 game (1 board map of North American train routes, 240 train cars, 110 cards, 30 destination tickets, 1 summary card, 5 wooden scoring markers) : cardboard, plastic, color ; in container 30 x 30 x 8 cm + 1 rule booklet (4 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm)
Language
English
Formats
Description
Players attempt to gain the most points through claiming routes and completing paths of routes through North America.
17) Explorer
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Looks at the worlds of Amelia Earhart, Jacques Cousteau, Marco Polo and other famous explorers, sharing real-life photographs of their equipment and personal possessions as well as objects they found
Author
Language
English
Description
One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of...
20) Alaska
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Readers journey through Alaska as they learn about its history, cities, land features, animals, industries, sports, famous people, and more! A "Tour Book" spread highlights kid-friendly things to do in Alaska. Other features include a table of contents, fact boxes, a timeline, regional and state maps, a facts page with vital information, a glossary with phonetic spellings, and an index
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