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Adventurers and explorers, Travel and geography, Asian travel and geography
The author recounts her expedition into the forests of Borneo in search of a reclusive primatologist, who has devoted her… life to protecting orphaned orangutans. Describes the beauty of the island, the local society, and the despoilment of natural resources through poaching, deforestation, and misguided ecotourism. 1998.
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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Born in Connecticut in 1739, Peter Pond volunteered for the colonial Connecticut and New York regiments that fought against the… French for control of North America. Soon after, drawn by the promise of wealth and adventure, Pond paddled into the wild territory of the Indians to the west with only a canoe, some trade goods and a few French Canadians to aid him. What he returned with is the stuff of legend. 2014.
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Adventure and exploration, Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Sports and games
At the age of 50, the author, one of the world's best-known mountaineers, reached the summit of Mount Everest in… 1985 after four attempts. He chronicles his Everest expeditions and the ascent of Mount Vinson in the Antarctic with Frank Wells. 1987.
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Adventurers and explorers, Sports biography, Sports and games
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Adventure and exploration, Adventurers and explorers, Travel and geography
In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke set out to Melbourne at the head of the… most ambitious expedition of his age. Up until this point Australia had remained a truly dark continent, but times were changing. On 20 August Burke and his team of eighteen men made a confident start - journeying north towards the Gulf of Carpentaria. Accompanied by William Wills, a shy English scientist, he was prepared to risk everything to cross the continent. Meanwhile, John McDouall Stuart, a dour Scotsman with a fondness for the bottle, was already trekking north from Adelaide. The race was on. 2003.
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Literature biography, Adventurers and explorers, True crime
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Sports and games, Baseball
Follows the Cubs' early days as the first powerhouse baseball team, winners of the 1907 and 1908 World Series; their… storied players, such as Billy Sunday, the 2nd baseman who became the most popular preacher in America; their old stadiums; their owners, from chewing gum magnate William Wrigley to Thomas Ricketts, CEO of Ameritrade; and their time between the two World Wars; all of it leading up to the momentous last World Series appearance and the breaking of the famed curse. 2017.
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Biography, Sports biography, Baseball
Pitcher Dirk Hayhurst is not a superstar, never even a 'Top Prospect', and in the game of baseball, if you… don't fit in either of those categories, it can almost be as if you don't exist. Hayhurst tackles this issue - the issue of labels and identity and the problems that come along with them - but also writes about seeing ballplayers as more than just numbers on the backs of jerseys, and about life, with baseball as the backdrop. Descriptions of sex, explicit strong language. Bestseller. 2010.
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Adventure and exploration, Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Christianity, Sports and games, Travel and geography
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Adventurers and explorers, Canadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, Canadian history, European history
Under orders from Queen Elizabeth I, Privateer Martin Frobisher took up the search for a northwestern route to Asia. On… July 14, 1576, he sighted the most easterly tip of Arctic North America. Over the next three summers the area would be the scene of an adventure involving the fruitless search for a northwest passage, the first attempt by the British to establish a settlement in the New world, and the first major gold-mining fraud in North American history. 2001.
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Biography, Adventurers and explorers
Circumnavigate the globe with Sir Francis Drake, spread the gospel in Africa with David Livingstone, survive the wilds of Jamestown… with Captain John Smith, penetrate the wilderness with Daniel Boone, capture Mexico with Hernán Cortes, fight the British with John Paul Jones, and search for gold with Hernando De Soto. Grades 5-8. 2017.
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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Travel and geography, Travelogues
C'est en tandems que Jean-Christophe Perrot et Diego Audemard ont choisi de réaliser leur projet "Raconte-moi la Terre" découvrir l'Afrique,… pendant toute une année, guidés par des personnes non et mal- voyantes. Avec leurs 27 copilotes, ils ont pédalé sur 13 500 kilomètres à travers douze pays, gravi à pied quatre sommets de plus de 4 000 mètres d'altitude, et réalisé qu'au-delà du défi physique, ils vivaient un véritable partage des sens. Le témoignage d'une expérience authentique, menée pour le plaisir de voir avec d'autres yeux. Une aventure où il faut être deux pour avancer, un aveugle et un voyant, un autochtone et un étranger. 2007.
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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Asian travel and geography
L'auteur raconte comment il s'est évadé de prison, pendant la guerre de 1939-1945, pour gagner le Tibet où il a… séjourné cinq années au cours desquelles il a conseillé le jeune dalaï-lama, et s'est trouvé témoin impuissant de l'invasion chinoise. Paru en 1952, le récit a été traduit en cinquante langues. 1983.
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Sports and games, Baseball
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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Travel and geography
A passionate angler, Chris Tarrant's interest in bears was first triggered by sightings of grizzlies whilst fishing in the wilds… of Canada. For years he harboured a plan to mount an expedition in search of their most ferocious cousins, polar bears. They are to be found in greatest numbers in the extreme north of Norway, about 400 miles south of the pole, near Svalbard. This is a record of that trip, and a homage to the power and beauty of one of the most ferocious predators left on earth. 2005.
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Biography, Literature biography, Adventurers and explorers, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian travel and geography
Sid Marty presents a collection of true Rock Mountain tales drawn on his own memories and those of friends and… former colleagues. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase up a cliff; the stranded snowshoer who was rescued between rounds of beer in a Banff tavern; the man who catered to hungry grizzlies; an opinionated packrat with a gift for larceny; and a horse named Candy whose heart was as big as a stove. 1999.
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Adventure and exploration, Adventurers and explorers
Worsley was the captain of the Endurance, the boat Ernest Shackleton and his men were on while attempting an Antarctic… expedition in 1914. When the Endurance became trapped in ice, which eventually crushed the ship, the expedition became one of survival as the crew camped on a giant drifting ice floe. Eventually, Shackleton took five men, Worsley included, on an 800-mile journey on the open seas to get help on inhabited South Georgia Island. 2001.
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Adventure and exploration, Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Journals and memoirs, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Christianity, Travel and geography
For his Ph.D. dissertation, Kull built a cabin in the Patagonian wilderness with the intention of studying the effect of… deep wilderness solitude on a human being. He describes a tradition of solitaries and hermits and surveys the various cultural understandings of solitude, as well as providing his physical explorations and observations of the surrounding area. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2008.
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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Nature
The uplifting and often humourous story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness. The author describes her experiences as… she builds a cabin in the wilderness and relates the complications of the "simple life" - how she breaks trails by snowshoe, encounters grizzly bears, builds a stone oven and learns to bake bread - and spotted dick. 2003.
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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Women biography
Biography of Beryl Markham who made the first solo flight west across the Atlantic Ocean. She was raised in Kenya… alongside the son of Nandi hunters. Strikingly beautiful and uninterested in motherhood, she could take apart an airplane or fly across the Sahara with a stuttering engine. 1987.