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First dive to shark dive
By Peter Lourie. 2011
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Travel and geography, Travelogues
Human-narrated audio
The true story of Peter Lourie and his twelve year old daughter, Suzanna, tells of their adventures scuba diving on the island of Andros. Grades 4-7. 2011.
Women of adventure (Profiles)
By Jacqueline A Kolosov, Jacqueline McLean. 2003
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Biography, Travel and geography, Adventure and exploration, Travelogues, Women biography
Human-narrated audio
Profiles seven courageous women of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes Mary Kingsley, a Victorian woman who traveled alone in…
Africa; Alexandra David-Neel, who risked prison to explore remote regions of Tibet; and Marguerite Baker Harrison, a journalist turned spy, who went on missions to Germany and Russia. For grades 6-9. 2003Destination gold!
By Julie Lawson. 2001
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Adventure stories, General fictionTravelogues, Science and technology
Human-narrated audio
Canada, 1897. Sixteen-year-old Ned Turner leaves his widowed mother and younger sister, Sarah, to seek his fortune in the Klondike…
gold fields. The next year Sarah undertakes the treacherous journey to find him. Along with Catherine, a runaway, she joins Ned and shares his adventures. For grades 6-9. 2000Caught by the sea: my life on boats
By Gary Paulsen. 2001
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Biography, Adventure and exploration, Sports and games, General non-fiction, Criticism, Literature biography, Travelogues
Human-transcribed braille
Author of Hatchet (BR 11525) relates how falling in love with the ocean at age seven evolved into a later…
love for sailing. Describes boats he has owned, his adventures up and down the Pacific Coast, and surviving a killer storm. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2001Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes
By Nick Hunt. 2021
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Nature, Travelogues, European travel and geography
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that shouldnot be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet…
seemingly belonging to far-off continents:a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primevalforest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true desert in Spain; and the fathomlessgrassland steppes of Hungary.From snow-capped mountain range to dense green forest, desert ravines to threadbare,yellow open grassland, these anomalies transport us to faraway regions of the world.More like pockets of Africa, Asia, the Poles or North America, they make our owncontinent seem larger, stranger and more filled with secrets.Against the rapid climate breakdown of deserts, steppes and primeval jungles across theworld, this book discovers the outlandish environments so much closer to home - alongwith their abundant wildlife: reindeer; bison; ibex; wolves and herds of wild horses.Blending sublime travel writing, nature writing and history - by way of Paleolithic cave art,reindeer nomads, desert wanderers, shamans, Slavic forest gods, European bison, WildWest fantasists, eco-activists, horseback archers, Big Grey Men and other unlikely spiritsof place - these desolate and rich environments show us that the strange has always beennear.