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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of when Dick Proenneke first broke ground and made his mark in the Alaskan wilds in 1968, this special edition of the best-selling memoir features an all-new foreword by Nick Offerman plus color photographs not seen in print for over 20 years. To live in a pristine land unchanged by man . . . to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed . . . to choose an idyllic site, cut trees, and build a log...
642) Growing up in Japan
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80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
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Japanese youth grow up in a unique culture that is unlike any other in the world. Young people are surrounded by a mix of modern technology and ancient customs and traditions. Featured is an overview of the country, as well as insights into how Japan's youth experience home and family, education and work, social life, and more.
Presents an overview of growing up in Japan, discussing family life, social life, gender roles, education, and the role...
643) Growing up in Russia
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80 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
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Young people in Russia live in a society with many strict rules about free speech. But through education, the arts, and athletics, many young Russians continue to find ways to express themselves and reach for their potential. Russia is a country with a tumultuous history and an uncertain future. It also has an extremely diverse population, with most young people living in cities, and others living in very rural, simple villages. Featured is an overview...
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vii, 166 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Presented in a chronological style, this book interweaves history and description of the historic Lewis and Clark expedition with discussions of their cooking methods. Includes recipes using food stuffs common in the 19th century, wild foods found along their journey, and some Native American foods.
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440 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940, journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City -- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In 2012, Preston joined a team of scientists using classified...
647) Growing up in China
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80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
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As China continues to grow as a world power, its youth find themselves attracted to western culture but still holding on to older Chinese values. Many young people in China live amid increasing wealth and opportunity even while the government continues to restrict most political freedoms. Featured is an overview of the country, as well as insights into how China's youth experience home and family, education and work, social life, and more.
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"As a boy, Robert Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline -- increasingly cosmopolitan cities...
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480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Douglas Preston's Cities of Gold is a riveting account of his journey in the footsteps of Coronado, the legendary 16th-century explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition through the American Southwest. Preston and a friend, Walter Nelson, set out on horseback across one thousand miles of vast deserts and unknown mountains retracing Coronado's search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold. Forced to battle extremes of heat and cold,...
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viii, 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their 30 boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter. The so-called 'winter pasture' occurs in a remote region that stretches from the Ulungur River to the...
653) Persephone's garden
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270 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm
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"A children's song inspires a love of Greek mythology in a young girl. A young woman finds a career in archeology and illustration. A young mother sees her daughter become a woman, as her own mother's memories are lost. Persephone's Garden is a deeply personal story and an inventive study of girlhood, womanhood and motherhood, through memory, history and mythology."--Amazon.
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xii, 316 pages ; 25 cm
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"An intimate voyage into Japanese culture and spirituality, culminating in one of Japan's most sacred places. Marie Mutsuki Mockett's family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the burial of her Japanese grandfather's bones. At the same time, Mockett grieved for her American father, who had died unexpectedly. As Japan mourned thousands...
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283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Details the other revolutions during 1776, including the reaction of the native residents of San Francisco in the wake of the first European settlement there and the devastation of the Aleutian Islands by the Russians' hunt for sea otters.
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xxiii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Rio de Janeiro is a city of extremes: from Carnaval's hedonistic delights, to the poverty of the favelas, to the softly seductive samba beat. But there's a dark side to this beautiful city: for years, Rio was ravaged by inflation, drug wars, and crooked leaders, and the legacy of decades of corruption can be seen in the very real struggles the city faces today. Now, Rio is ready to remake itself, this time into a global, modern capital ready for its...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This film, like many from director Werner Herzog, is a poem of oddness and beauty. Investigating the lives of the "professional dreamers" who conduct research at the bottom of the world in Antarctica, he finds a happily cynical lot, who regard climate change and the potential extinction of Homo sapiens in rather a different light than most people. They study penguins, seals, volcanoes, miniscule underwater creatures, and the shifting ice patterns....
660) The walk
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155 pages : map ; 22 cm
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"Set on the small farm in a New Mexico mountain valley that the author has tended since 1976, the book explores how personal history and natural history interweave in a familiar landscape. Three interrelated essays move from conflict and loss in the author's life to a place of acceptance"--Provided by publisher.
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