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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. For a start there's...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Takes readers on a journey through the grasslands of Africa, showcasing the landscape and wildlife, including monitor lizards, impalas, lilac-breasted rollers, baboons, and baobab trees.
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This 2016 follow-up to the 2006 documentary mini-series "Planet Earth" examines the natural features and wildlife found in various parts of the world, each of the six episodes corresponding to a different category of natural or man-made terrain (e.g., island, mountain, jungle, urban area, et cetera).
Travelling through jungles, deserts, mountains, islands, grasslands and cities, this series explores the unique characteristics of Earth’s most iconic...
Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Description
"Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since...
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