Showing posts with label Exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exploration. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

West

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Davies, Carys .  West . New York: Scribner 2018 . Print. First Sentences: From what she could see he had two guns, a hatchet, a knife, his r...
Monday, June 26, 2023

River of the Gods

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Millard, Candice. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile . New York: Doubleday 2022 . Pri...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Give Me My Father's Body

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Harper, Kenn. G ive Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo . New York: Washington Square Press 1986 . Print ...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Kayaks Down the Nile

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Goddard, Robert.  Kayaks Down the Nile . New York: Holt 2019 . Print First Sentences: For those wondering why three men ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Running the Amazon

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Kane, Joe.  Running the Amazon . New York: Knopf. 1989. Print. First Sentences: Southern Peru, late August 1985. Beneath a r...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Underland

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MacFarlane, Robert.  Underland: A Deep Time Journey . New York: Norton 2019 . Print First Sentences: We know so little of t...
Monday, March 20, 2017

The Lost City of the Monkey God

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Preston, Douglas.  The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story . New York: Grand Central Publishing. 2017. Print. First Sentenc...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Alone on the Ice

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Roberts, David.  Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration . New York: Norton. 2013. Print. Fir...
Monday, August 22, 2016

The Unconquered

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Wallace, Scott.  The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes . New York: Crown. 2011. Print. First Sen...