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Winter Away from HomeAround the end of the 16th century, several expeditions had undertaken to establish a north-east passage, but sea-fogs, pack-ice and the confusing geography of the coast of Russia consistently frustrated them. No-one pursued the idea of a north-east passage with such tenacious skill as...
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The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian TaigaA meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude. Winner of the Prix M dicis for nonfiction, The Consolations of the Forest is a Thoreau-esque quest to find solace, taken to the extreme. No stranger to inhospitable places,...
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The German Way the German Way: Aspects of Behavior, Attitudes, and Customs in the German-Spaspects of Behavior, Attitudes, and Customs in the German-For All Students Ideal for a variety of courses, this completely up-to-date, alphabetically organized handbook helps students understand how people from German-speaking nations think, do business, and act in their daily lives.Author: Hyde FlippoPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 05/11/1996Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.05h x 6.01w...
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Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide Map, Revised and Expanded EditionThis full-color map of the mountain, printed on waterproof and tear resistant paper, has been updated to accompany the Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide, Revised and Expanded Edition.Author: Mike ColtrinPublisher: University of New Mexico PressPublished: 04/01/2019Binding Type: FoldedWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 8.41h x 7.85w x 0.15dISBN: 9780826360748Not...
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Hiking to History: A Guide to Off-Road New Mexico Historic SitesWith more than 13,000 years of human habitation, New Mexico offers a wealth of historic sites located on vast tracts of land well off the beaten path. As author Robert Julyan observes, not much history has been made from a speeding car, and locations...
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Reshaping Our National Parks and Their Guardians: The Legacy of George B. Hartzog Jr.This biography of the seventh director of the National Park Service brings to life one of the most colorful, powerful, and politically astute people to hold this position. George B. Hartzog Jr. served during an exciting and volatile era in American history. Appointed in...
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This High, Wild Country: A Celebration of Waterton-Glacier International Peace ParkFor centuries, the spectacular landscapes now protected in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park have amazed and inspired us. Historian-naturalist Paul Schullery and artist-illustrator Marsha Karle bring us a new and richly textured portrait of this magnificent region and reveal why Waterton-Glacier is a world treasure.Through...
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Protecting Yellowstone: Science and the Politics of National Park ManagementYellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by wild bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park's winter silence, and some tourist villages are located in prime grizzly bear habitat....
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Mark Twain in Paradise: His Voyages to BermudaFor Mark Twain, it was love at first landfall. Samuel Clemens first encountered the Bermuda Islands in 1867 on a return voyage from the Holy Land and found them much to his liking. One of the most isolated spots in the world, Bermuda offered...
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The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their OriginsThe Street Book contains brief biographical sketches for more than one hundred of Manhattan's well- and lesser-known streets. With photographs, period drawings, and reproductions of old newspapers, The Street Book is a visual treat as well. The detailed topographical maps of Manhattan provide an...
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36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in JapanIn 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women's university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and...
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A Photographer's Guide to OhioIn A Photographer's Guide to Ohio Ian Adams, Ohio's foremost landscape photographer, guides you to some of the most photogenic sites in the Buckeye State.With 3,600 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, more than 120 state parks and nature preserves, and the...
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Riding the Demon: On the Road in West AfricaIn Niger, where access to rail and air travel requires overcoming many obstacles, roads are the nation's lifeline. For a year in the early 1990s, Peter Chilson traveled this desert country by automobile to experience West African road culture. He crisscrossed the same roads...
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A Literary Guide to Flannery O'Connor's GeorgiaFlannery O'Connor spent most of her life in Georgia. Most of O'Connor's fiction is also set in the state, in locales rich in symbolism and the ambience of southern rural and small-town life. Filled with contemporary and historical photos, this guide introduces O'Connor's readers...
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Marching Through Georgia: My Walk Along Sherman's RouteIn 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman made Civil War history with his infamous March to the Sea across Georgia. More than a century later, Jerry Ellis set out along the same route in search of the past and his southern and Cherokee heritage. On Ellis's...
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Storyville, USAWhat is a Storyville? Whether you're in Toast, North Carolina, Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky, or Winner, South Dakota, a Storyville is a real town you can find on a map, with a tale behind its quirky name. Covering 20,000 miles of U.S. roads, Dale Peterson...
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The River Home: A Return to the Carolina Low CountryThe American river has a rich literary heritage, extending from Twain and Thoreau to the more recent journeys of John Graves and Jonathan Raban. Following in this great tradition, Franklin Burroughs chronicles a canoe voyage through the Carolinas, visiting his ancestral homeland and the...
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Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good LifeWhen as a child she first saw a canoe gliding on Lake Alexander in central Minnesota, Sue Leaf was mesmerized. The enchantment stayed with her and shimmers throughout this book as we join Leaf and her family in canoeing the waterways of North America,...
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Runes of the NorthIn Runes of the North Sigurd Olson explores his feelings about the haunting appeal of the wilderness. He recounts how the legends of the northern vastness of Canada and Alaska have influenced him.In the introduction, Olson writes, "My runes have come from the wilderness,...
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Off-Trail Adventures in Baja California: Exploring Landscapes and Geology on Gulf Shores and IslandsBaja California is one of the Earth's last great wilderness areas that is easily accessible to travelers. Whether you enter from the United States to the north or from Cabo San Lucas to the south, it doesn't take long to find yourself passing through...
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