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Journey Across the Life Span: Human Development and Health Promotion
Elaine U. Polan, Daphne R. Taylor
F. A. Davis Company, 2007
Journey across the lifespans
I was very pleased with this book it was exactly what it discribed and shipped very fast. thank you Nina Johnson-Cook
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Of Woods and Water: A Photographic Journey Across Michigan (Quarry Books)
Ron Leonetti, Christopher Jordan
Quarry Books, 2008
An absolute must-have for nature photography enthusiasts
Photographers Ron Leonetti and Christopher Jordan present Of Woods and Water: A Photographic Journey across Michigan, a coffee table photography compendium displaying more than 100 breathtaking, full-color images of forests, prairies, savannas, wetlands, the shorelines ...
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A Little House Traveler: Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Journeys Across America
Laura Ingalls Wilder
HarperCollins, 2006
Buy it!
This book contains "On the Way Home" and "West from Home," which I (and most other die-hard fans) already own and have read. However, this book is worth purchasing if only for the never before published "The Road Home." The journal of Laura's trip back to De Smet is ...
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Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape:Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's ...
Bill Mckibben
Crown, 2005
A Connection to the Land
I have spent much of my recreational time in the two places Bill McKibben writes about in this book -- The Adirondacks of New York and the Champlain Valley of Vermont. They both offer some of the most beautiful, pastoral scenery in the US. From Lake Champlain itself ...
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Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Illegal Migrants
Ted Conover
Vintage, 1987
Read it!
As good as a journalistic effort can get...
Like Orwell's Down and Out in London and Paris, times TWO!
Should be on the shelves of anyone with an opinion on immigration, pro or con.
Should be on the shelves of and journalist to teach them what it is all ...
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Over the Hills:: A Midlife Escape Across America by Bicycle
David Lamb
Crown, 1996
A sleeper
Mr. Lamb's writing is one of those books that starts out very quietly, but by the fifth page, you're travelling with him. He isn't out to impress us, just to tell us about his trip. His writing style reflects his journey; it reads like poetry. Along the way, he tells ...
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Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest
Douglas Preston
University of New Mexico Press, 1999
Cities of Gold: A journey across the American Southwest
I thought this was an outstanding book, so well researched before their trip and so well written describing the areas, the problems encountered and their combined solutions to those situations. I've met Walter Nelson, Mr. Preston's partner on the trip, and that made me ...
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Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847 (Dear America Series)
Kristiana Gregory
Scholastic Inc., 1997
Early Americans Faced Many Perils!
I purchased this book for my middle school daughter. Boy did it show how hard life was for early Americans traveling across the Oregon Trail. This book is a great way to show today's kids how easy they really have it!
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La Clinica: A Doctor's Journey Across Borders (Literature and Medicine)
David P. Sklar
University of New Mexico Press, 2008
A moving and inspiring story
The call of the healer what David Sklar heard when he left his New Mexico home to cross the border. "La Clinica: A Doctor's Journey Across Borders" is his story. With nothing left to lose in his hometown, he answers a letter to volunteer in a run down medical clinic in ...
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Another Man's Sombrero: A Conservative Broadcaster's Undercover Journey Across the Mexican Border
Darrell Ankarlo
Thomas Nelson, 2008
Way to go brother!
This is a must read for those sitting on the fence regarding illegal immigration. Ankarlo gives a firsthand accounting of what is it like to simply walk across the border into the US. He then goes on to provide details and statistics on the real price of illegal ...
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Across The Nightingale Floor, Episode 2: Journey To Inuyama (Tales of the Otori, Book 2)
Lian Hearn
Puffin, 2005
Great book
This caught my interest very quickly and I breezed right through it! I couldn't find the second book at the bookstore so I'm waiting on bated breath for this one.
It's a great read.
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Zero 3 Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane
Mariana Gosnell
Touchstone, 1994
wonderful yarn about flying across the United States
The Luscombe isn't my favorite lightplane, but it is Gosnell's, and she writes about it with such affection that I'd like to fly one. The trip evidently takes place in the late 1970s, because Jimmy Carter is president. (She visits Plains GA and the largest ...
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A Hunter's Road: A Journey with Gun and Dog Across the American Uplands (An Owl Book)
Jim Fergus
Holt Paperbacks, 1993
Highly Recommended
As a fellow bird hunter and conservationist, I am just going to say that I am thankful for writers such as Jim Fergus who in this book explores the ethics of hunting in a modern world while traveling around the country on a five-month long hunting trip with his beloved ...
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Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
William Langewiesche
Vintage, 1997
Dune Physics and Five Kinds of Thirst
Nothing lives for hundreds of miles in the vast Tanzenrouft of Adrar, where the annual rainfall is less than an inch, the daily temperature is 128oF, there is no shade, and the sky is nearly white. The Great Eastern Erg of El Oued is a literal sand sea, uninhabitable ...
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The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2
Peter Jenkins, Barbara Jenkins
William Morrow & Company, 1981
Great adventure
I read 'A Walk Across America' and 'The Walk West' a number of years ago. Both proved to be exciting. I liked 'The Walk West' best since it covered areas I have visited. I began staying at Vickers Ranch at Lake City Colorado due to this book. I took my book with me ...
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