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Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest,...
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest,...
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Will the War's End Bring the Highwood Family Together Again? When a disastrous decision by the new wagon master forces Jesselynn Highwood and her companions to separate from the wagon train, she races back to Fort Laramie to find a guide to take them to Oregon. But the guide has a far different plan, and following her heart, Jesselyn agrees to join him, her rag-tag band in tow. The ensuing journey is fraught with hardship and danger. Is hope for the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Bryson share his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend. The two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way.
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...
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Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
286 pages : map ; 21 cm.
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English
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English
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In the early seventies, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe-in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. He was accompanied by an unforgettable sidekick named Stephen Katz (who will be gloriously familiar to readers of Bryson's A Walk in the Woods). Twenty years later, he decided to retrace his journey. The result is the affectionate and riotously funny Neither Here Nor There.
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English
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When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men--men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn't even possess. Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel's worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian, had appeared...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 173 p. : ill. ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the nation's first road trip by Horatio Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor who drove his car from San Francisco to New York on mainly unpaved roads in 1903.
11) The Oregon trail
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English
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Presents an account of a young Eastern journalist's travels on the Oregon Trail and in 1846.
12) Full circle
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home ; BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (488 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Palin's fascinating journey around the 18 countries on the Pacific Rim.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publisers
Pub. Date
c2001.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Letters and journal entries from a visit to Antartica, the windiest, coldest, most forbidding region on earth.
17) Angel train
Author
Series
Wagon wheel series volume 4
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
324 p. : 23 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Jesse and his family are with a wagon train traveling from Indiana to Oregon when they stop to celebrate the Fourth of July, but Jesse is too young to go hunting with the men so he comes up with his own contribution to the festivities.
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English
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It has been nearly five decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. Now Shirley is back - with her most breathtakingly powerful and unique book yet. The Camino is the story of a riveting odyssey that began with a pair of anonymous handwritten letters imploring Shirley to make a difficult pilgrimage along the Santiago de Compostela Camino in Spain. Throughout...
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