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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.982 RABRidley, Scott.
Summary: Four years after the Revolutionary War, America's independence was still in doubt. The new nation needed money and a vital surge in trade. In 1787, a group of Boston merchants decided to send two ships on a desperate mission around Cape Horn and into the Pacific Ocean, to establish new trade with China, settle an outpost on territory claimed by the Spanish, and find the legendary Northwest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENDRICK, JOHN RidleyIlgunas, Ken
Summary: It started as a far-fetched idea--to hike the entire length of the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline. But in the months that followed, it grew into something more for Ken Ilgunas. It became an irresistible adventure--an opportunity not only to draw attention to global warming but also to explore his personal limits. So in September 2012, he strapped on his backpack, stuck out his thumb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.54 ILGDana, Juliette Starr
Contents: "Worth a Pilgrimage": July 15-July 20, New York State -- "The Mad Tumult": July 21-July 23, Niagara -- "Lost in the Distance": July 23-July 28, Lakes Erie and Huron, Detroit -- "A Fatiguing Scramble": July 28-July 31, Mackinac -- "Wild Looking Places": August 1-August 3, Sault Ste. Marie -- "Boundary of Civilization": August 4-August 15, Lake Superior -- "Very Rough": August 16-August 22, Lake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DANSummary: A collection of stories, poems, and essays about people and places of the Great Lakes Region by a variety of authors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Trav USA McClellandDennis, Jerry.
Summary: Jerry Dennis discusses his experiences with the Great Lakes during a particular winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.704 DENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DEN1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: REF NEL 817.7 DEN
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.704 DENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Nature DennisDutton, Fred W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.70 DUTNiewenhuis, Loreen
Summary: This book chronicles Loreen Niewenhuis's latest adventure: a second 1,000-mile walk, this time along stretches of the shorelines of all five Great Lakes. The book takes the reader on a ground-level walk through the beauty, the history, and the tender ecology of Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, Superior, and Ontario. A 1,000-Mile Great Lakes Walk also leads us on an exploration of self, as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 NIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 910 NIEJokinen, Kristen
Summary: "Explorers Kristen and Ville Jokinen met scuba diving in Vietnam and fell in love. She was a real estate agent from Oregon, and he a financial analyst for Toyota in his native Finland. After hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from the border of Mexico to Canada they decided their next adventure would be a two-year cycling trip covering 18,000 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 JOKKemper, Steve.
Contents: Preparations -- Invitation to Africa -- At the edge of the desert -- First steps -- Stalled in Murzuk -- The palace of demons -- To Aïr -- Plundered -- Days and nights in Tintellust -- Desert port -- Separate ways -- "The celebrated emporium of Negroland" -- An ending -- The kingdom of Bornu -- A mystery solved -- "The horde of the Welad Sliman" -- Razzia -- Captive in Bagirmi -- Letters from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012