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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 16 cm.
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Exploring all there is to the Land of Enchantment, this childrens board book features depictions of the city of Albuquerque and the Explora Science Center, the Albuquerque Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, and the Sandia Peak tramway. Kids can visit the states natural wonders, including the Carlsbad Caverns and the Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway, then say goodnight to the Rio Grande Botanic Garden and the Rio Grande Zoo. Beautiful Santa...
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xxi, 351 pages : color photographs ; 23 cm.
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Slow travel is the secret to opening doors, meeting people, participating in surprising events, experiencing joy, and making each trip -- no matter how short or long -- deeper, richer, and an adventure that is uniquely yours. Award-winning travel journalists and Santa Fe residents Judith Fein and Paul J. Ross crisscross New Mexico, finding unforgettable adventures readers can personally experience such as painting with an abstract artist on the Navajo...
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"The world is burning and the seas are rising. How do we navigate this new age of extremes? In A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World, David Gessner takes readers on an eye-opening tour of climate hotspots from the Gulf of Mexico to the burning American West to New York City to the fragile Outer Banks, where homes are being swallowed by the seas. He does so with his usual sense of humor, compassion, and a willingness to talk to anyone, providing...
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329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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John Brandi's selection of writings over the last four decades opens with his awakening to landscape and poetry during his upbringing in California, his counterculture years in the Sixties, and his Peace Corps work with indigenous farmers in the Andes. Essays on his multiple visits to India, Sikkim and Nepal, with vivid descriptions of Khajuraho's erotic temples, the ritual dances of Kerala, the monasteries of the Himalaya, move from the physical...
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290 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...
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