DJ has always been the best at everything-sports, school, family-so climbing Kilimanjaro is just another thing he'll accomplish almost effortlessly. Or so he thinks, until he arrives in Tanzania and everything starts to go wrong. He's...
Voyages and travels
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Auteur:Garcia, KamiSommaire:You can't hide from fate... While looking through her grandmother Emmaline's keepsakes, Lena Duchannes comes across a little blue book with a big history--a book that changed Macon Ravenwood's life and saved Lena's....
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Auteur:Jordan, TerrySommaire:Been in the Storm So Long is a story of one man’s journey from the East Coast of Canada to New Orleans and back, from whaler to thief, murder accomplice to father and husband, alive to dead and back (more than once). The...
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Auteur:Lockwood, IngersollSommaire:Ingersoll Lockwood invented the fictional character Baron Trump in 1890 for a two-part sci-fi/fantasy series about a privileged boy who undertakes a sequence of fantastic voyages. The style of the Baron Trump series-a mix of fantasy and...
- Auteur:LASENBY, JackSommaire:
Aunt Effie and her many nieces and nephews are off in search of treasure in the pirate-infested waters of the Hauraki Gulf and the Waikato River. Meanwhile back in Auckland, One Tree Hill has sprung a leak and Rangitoto Island is...
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Auteur:Foer, JoshuaSommaire:It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders-the dazzling...
- Auteur:Chokshi, RoshaniSommaire:
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the breathtaking conclusion to Roshani Chokshi's New York Times best-selling Pandava quintet. Will the Sleeper gain immortality or be stopped once and for all? *"Chokshi spins a...
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Auteur:Salmon, Lynn J., MacFarlane, John M.Sommaire:For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore....
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Auteur:Marsha Forchuk SkrypuchSommaire:This easy chapter book tells the story of a group of Armenian refugee boys who made the journey from Corfu, Greece, to Georgetown, Canada, after the Armenian genocide in the early 1900s. The story, based on the experiences of one of...
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Auteur:VanderMeer, JeffSommaire:Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. After eleven unsuccessful expeditions to survey the area--most of which ended in death--the twelfth expedition is set to go. Area X delivers the unexpected, but it...
- Auteur:Bauer Mueller, PamelaSommaire:
A year has passed since puppy raiser Diego handed Aloha’s harness over to her blind partner Kimberly Louise. Now Diego is traveling to Georgia to visit his beloved friend again! This heartwarming story follows the exciting cross-country...
- Auteur:McIsaac, M. J.Sommaire:
In this high-interest accessible novel for middle readers, thirteen-year-old Ridge goes on a boat trip through the legendary Bermuda Triangle.
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Auteur:BRYSON, BillSommaire:The longest continuous foot-path in the world, a length of 2200 miles, the Appalachian Trail stretches along the east coast of the U.S. from Georgia to Maine. In the company of friend Stephen Katz, Bryson negotiates the remote...
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Auteur:Díaz, NataliaSommaire:An introduction to the world's diversity follows the journeys of a young boy who visits friends in thirteen different countries and explores their respective cultures, languages, foods, geography, wildlife, and landmarks.
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Auteur:Torkells, ErikSommaire:One of the things I love most about our 'True Stories' section (and by extension, this book) is that readers are so willing to laugh at themselves—they send in what are sometimes very embarrassing stories, because we all know that that'...
- Auteur:Roberts, JasonSommaire:
He was known simply as the "Blind Traveller"--a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the...
- Auteur:HOWELLS, William DeanSommaire:
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family traveling from England to Italy, has a sharp eye not only for scenery and architecture, but for...
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Auteur:Hartt-Snowbell, Sarah, Bradford, JuneSommaire:When Sandy’s daddy leaves for work in the morning, he blows Sandy a kiss. What follows is a wild adventure through the town, the countryside, the bogs and the marshes of the Land of Everywhere… to try to catch up to Daddy’s kiss!
- Auteur:Martin, George R. R.Sommaire:
Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family...
- Auteur:Martin, George R. R.Sommaire:
In this sequel to A Game of Thrones, George Martin pursues the embattled Seven Kingdoms through a bitter 10-year winter in which good and evil contend for power. When cruel Queen Cerisi's son takes the Iron Throne following the death of...
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