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Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the twentieth century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
64) Monkey business
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters. "Animal crackers": Captain...
Author
Publisher
NewSage Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Helen Thayer walked and skied for 27 days in the Arctic, pulling a 160-pound sled for 364 miles in order to become the first woman--and the oldest person at age 50--to travel on foot, unresupplied, to the magnetic North Pole. Her only companion was a 94-pound dog, Charlie, who was trained by the Inuit to warn of approaching bears. Thayer faced and survived seven confrontations with polar bears thanks to her own quick wits and the keen senses of Charlie....
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The iconic figures who explored and fought to claim the country's vast wilderness during its early, volatile years, from the American Revolution through the California Gold Rush. Where Daniel Boone, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, John Fremont, Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson set forth across uncharted land with determination and self-reliance."--
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Referenced by Winston Churchill as one of...the greatest books ever written in the English language..., “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” follows British Army Colonel T. E. Lawrence through his time during the First World War. Completed in 1922, the book was not published until 1926. An autobiographical account told in fantastical prose, this telling of historical events shows the Arab Revolt through Lawrence's eyes in vivid detail.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A remarkable piece of forensic deduction."—Margaret Atwood
The internationally-bestselling account of the Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition, and the thrilling scientific investigation that spurred the decades-long hunt for its recovery—now with a new afterword on the discovery of its lost ships: Erebus and Terror.
"Chilling . . . will keep you up nights turning pages."—The Chicago
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
“West with the Night” is a memoir by British-born author, aviator, and equestrian, Beryl Markham. Friend and fellow author Ernest Hemingway once wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins asking: "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night?... bloody wonderful work." Markham was one of, if not the first, female bush pilots in Africa, and her memoir details adventures in Kenya with a unique perspective both from the ground and the sky.
Markham...
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