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The Land of Little Rain (1903) is a collection of essays and short stories by Mary Hunter Austin. Originally published with photographs taken by acclaimed American photographer Ansel Adams, The Land of Little Rain is a classic work of nature writing. Austin is now recognized as an early feminist and conservationist who understood the intricacy and fragility of ecosystems as well as the extent to which human civilization threatens their continued existence.
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2) Roughing it
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His The works of Mark Twain volume 2
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Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical travel memoir, "Roughing It" was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to "Innocents Abroad", in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867, "Roughing It" conversely documents Twain's early days in the old wild west between the years 1861-1867. Employing his characteristically humoristic wit and flare for regional dialect,...
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The book that made Mark Twain famous and introduced the world to that obnoxious and ubiquitous character: the American tourist Based on a series of letters first published in American newspapers, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's hilarious and insightful account of an organized tour of Europe and the Holy Land undertaken in 1867. With his trademark blend of skepticism and sincerity, Twain casts New World eyes on the people and places of the...
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1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Includes all 6 half-hour Rick Steves' Europe TV shows on Italy's great cities, produced from 2000 to 2009: Venice (serene, decadent ans till kicking), Venice side trips (the best of Veneto), Melan and Lake Como, Florence (City of art), Caesar's Rome, Rome (baroque, after dark), Naples and Pompeii.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Beginning in Istanbul, Ian Wright visits the Suleymaniye Mosque to experience the grandeur of the Ottoman Empire and learn about its ambitious Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent and his ambitions to expand the Ottoman Empire West into Europe. Then after a quick dip in the world's largest thermal lake in Hungary his journey ends in Vienna, home of Mozart and Sigmund Freud, and also where he discovers how crucial the city's bakers were to surviving the...
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Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author's transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place "not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world." In Maine he comes in contact with "rocks, trees, wind and solid earth" as though he...
7) The road
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In this postapocalyptic novel, a father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Discover the six islands of Kauai, Hawaii, Lanai, Molokai, Maui, and Oahu (program 1). Go back hundreds of years to a time when Polynesian explorers and their families left in search of a land free of strife, hunger, and persecution to find Hawaii (program 2). Shows how the 19th and 20th centuries introduced disease, greed, and violence to the islands. Post World War II Hawaii becomes a popular vacation destination, as the state struggles to protect...
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1 videodisc (49 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Film discusses how Native Americans believed the land itself was alive. Relates how the land with its harshness and beauty has shaped all those who have lived there. It is a land of generosity, spirit, heart and voice--a land of enchantment.
11) Belize
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Lonely Planet's Belize is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Dive the Blue Hole, explore Maya villages, and discover Garifuna culture; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Belize and begin your journey now!
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Globe Trekker's Holly Morris discovers two South American countries that share a similar name but couldn't be more different, Uruguay and Paraguay. In Uruguay's capital Montevideo, Holly discovers its colonial Spanish history and charm and tries the local cuisine. She travels down to the beach to get a taste of the annual carnival festivities. On to Paraguay, Holly heads to its capital Asuncion to learn about its colonial and political past, before...
14) Nepal
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nepal, the birthplace of Buddha, is draped along the Himalayan Range between India and Tibet. It continues to attract travelers to this unique and beautiful Shangrila. Ian Wright's journey takes him from the traveler's mecca of Kathmandu, to the western reaches of the country and then on a popular trek through the mountainous regions. He ends his trip in Pulma, the most remote region of Nepal.
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xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with his childhood, his first intimations of the melancholy awareness...
16) Venezuela
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ian Wright travels throughout Venesuela visiting the state of Merida, Hato Pinero, Los Roques, Gran Sabana.
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xxiv, 388 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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A profile of Antarctica and its indigenous life traces the history of regional exploration and the science currently being conducted there while explaining how Antarctica reveals key insights into the planet's environmental future.
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