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3) Asia
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Explores the geography, climate, wildlife, people, and culture of Asia. Examines how people live on this continent and includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
4) Tennessee
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Takes readers on a tour of Tennessee, visiting fifteen attractions and describing the state's history, culture, and economy along the way; and includes unique facts, color maps and photos, the state song, and lists of state symbols, famous people, and further resources.
6) Africa
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Explores the geography, climate, wildlife, people, and culture of Africa. Examines how people live on this continent and includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
7) Australia
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Explores the geography, climate, wildlife, people, and culture of Australia. Examines how people live on this continent and includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
8) Antarctica
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Explores the geography, climate, wildlife, and natural resources of Antarctica. Examines how people study this continent and includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
9) Europe
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Explores the geography, climate, wildlife, people, and culture of Europe. Examines how people live on this continent and includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
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In the wake of her mother's death, Cheryl Strayed's family scattered and her marriage was destroyed. Four years later, twenty-six years old with nothing to lose, Cheryl made the decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert to Washington State - alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker and the trail was little more than an idea. But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.
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Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The "AT" offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with Bryson's comic genius, it also provides endless opportunities to test his own powers of ineptitude and to witness the majestic silliness...
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Thirty-five years ago, when "searching for America" was not yet the cliche it has since become, Steinbeck hit the highways with his French poodle, Charley. In a custom-built camper he named Rosinante after Don Quixote's steed, the two traveled the country--10,000 miles and 34 states. Their varied experiences comprise several slices of small-town, back-roads Americana. Steinbeck laments the rise of plastic-covered everything, the vacuousness of "sad...
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"In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in--or spent time--in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city's inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations,...
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about her book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled
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Provides inside information on where to visit, what to see and do, where to stay, great places to eat, and how to get around quickly and economically, along with a close-up look at local culture, self-guided walking tours, fun side trips and excursions, colorful maps, and more.