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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Kai-lan's aunt, Gu Nai Nai, invites her and her friends to visit China where they will meet a real baby panda and try new things ; When a super sunny day turns into a rainy day, Kai-lan thinks of exciting new ways to play in the rain, like jumping in puddles and sliding on lotus leaves ; Kai-lan and her friends help build a new swing for the ants' playground, but it is way too big for them.
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306 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"In her hardcover debut, bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman describes a very different kind of back-packing trip to China in which she and her college friend set out to conquer the world only to be conquered by it"--Provided by publisher.
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xx, 195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"The Art of Patience is an account of an expedition to the mountains of Tibet in search of the elusive snow leopard. After recovering from an accident, adventurer Sylvain Tesson and his traveling companions embraced the virtues of patience and silence, and were rewarded when the snow leopard revealed itself"--
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Ming gets lost in time in the Forbidden City and meets a young emperor. Together, they explore the wonders of the palace and ride on a bronze dragon that takes them high up in the sky. The past and the present come together in this beautifully illustrated book of another of Ming's adventures"--Page 4 of cover.
While on a visit to the Forbidden City in Beijing, Ming travels back in time, meets the young emperor, and the two of them fly around the...
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xxi, 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm
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English
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Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows 3,000 miles, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. In this surprising book, radio journalist Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes Route 312 from its start in the boomtown...
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ix, 278 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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It is the Everest of rivers, a maelstrom of water and rocks, gradient and flow. It is the world's last great adventure prize, remote, forbidding, and hidden from Western eyes. Long considered unrunnable, the Tsangpo River has drawn extreme kayakers since the sport was born. It's killed them too. One group did it. A mammoth, old-school adventure team led by a young, fiery river cowboy battled the white water, their Sherpa, and a Himalayan winter to...
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