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  Songs & Sounds Volume One

  Robert Gerald Porter

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  Birding can be an acoustic experience as much as a visual one. Songs & Sounds follows birding guide and nature recordist Rob Porter through various songbird and waterfowl habitats around southern Ontario during the course of a year. Recorded entirely outdoors in both natural and manmade habitats, this audiobook is like any other: you won't just hear about the birds, you will hear from the birds themselves during breeding season, migration, and wintering.With a mix of guided birding walks and pure soundscapes, Songs & Sounds will teach you about birds' songs and calls at a relaxed pace and show how any time of year can be a good time to get outside and enjoy nature.

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  The Kingdom by the Sea - A...

  Paul Theroux

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  This “interesting, insightful book” by the author of Deep South reveals “a side of Britain few visitors see” (The New York Times Book Review). After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey. Whether in Cornwall or Wales, Ulster or Scotland, the people he encountered along the way revealed far more of themselves than they perhaps intended to display to a stranger. Theroux captured their rich and varied conversational commentary with caustic wit and penetrating insight. “A sharp and funny descriptive writer . . . Theroux is a good companion.” —The Times (London)

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  Campus Ghosts of Norman Oklahoma

  Jeff Provine

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  A study of supernatural activity in the halls of higher learning from the author of Haunted Oklahoma City.   Since Norman’s inception more than 120 years ago as a college town, it has gathered a shadowy history and more than a few residents who refuse to leave. Ghostly organ music and sinister whispers fill school buildings in the night. Patients walk the surgical suites of the old infirmary, which was once a quarantine ward for polio victims. Long-deceased sisters still occupy their sororities—one even requiring an exorcism—and dorms are notorious for poltergeists and unexplainable sounds. Professor Jeff Provine sheds light on some of the darker corners of this historic campus and the secrets that reside there.

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  National Trails Guide

  William Robert Buck

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  For the first time, the 30 routes of the National Trails System are profiled in a guidebook: National Trails Guide: America’s Hidden Wonders (Global CPR, Sausalito) is the only book available profiling all 30 national scenic and historic trails. The audio book includes detailed information on where to go and what to see: 
  	Many bold stories from the trail, with detailed information on places across America 
  	Introduction to 136 national park units, 89 national forests, and 141 wilderness areas with national trails 
  	With companion website( www.nationaltrailsguide.com ) including a large color US map	 
  “National parks are destinations; national trails are journeys,” says author William Robert Buck.These trails offer visceral examples of colliding cultures, a quest for livelihood in uncertain times, passionate stories of victory and defeat, and the celebration of human achievement and possibility.” 
  A modern-day champion of the National Trails System, Buck set out across the country to document all 30 trails. Over the course of eight years, with multiple road trip partners, he visited 50 states, taking 10,000 photographs, hiking segments of all the 30 national trails. Join the adventure...

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  Norwegian Trivia Book -...

  Alex Anderson

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  Did you know Norway, like Sweden, has a unique law, "Freedom to Roam," that allows you to hike, camp, or ski on any public land, swim in public lakes, and access all beaches? This includes freely picking as many mushrooms, flowers, and berries as you want! 
  Norway is often considered one of the most beautiful countries in the world, with its fjords dotting the landscape and the wondrous beauty of the Northern Lights, but Norway has a lot more to offer than nature.  
  In this Norwegian Trivia Book, you'll get a bunch of interesting trivia and fun facts about Norway, divided into four broad categories:Norwegian culture and society.Norwegian history.Norwegian geography.Trivia about Norway's tourist attractions (perfect for you if you plan to visit Norway!). 
  Be ready to learn some fun facts about Norway that will impress your friends and family! 

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  Blank on the Map - Pioneering...

  Eric Shipton

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  'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination - Across this blank space was written one challenging word, "Unexplored"'
  In 1937 two of the twentieth century's greatest explorers set off to explore an unknown area of the Himalaya, the breath-taking Shaksgam mountains. With a team of surveyors and Sherpas, Eric Shipton and H.W. Tilman located and mapped the land around K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. It was their greatest venture, and one that paved the way for all future mountaineering in that area of the Himalaya. For Shipton and Tilman, exploration was everything, with a summit a welcome bonus, and Blank on the Map is the book that best captures their spirit of adventure.
  With an observant eye and keen sense of humour, Shipton tells how the expedition entered the unknown Shaksgam mountains, crossing impenetrable gorges, huge rivers and endless snow fields. There's a very human element to in Shipton's dealings with his Sherpa friends, and with his Balti porters, some of whom were helpful, while some were less so. The expedition uncovers traces of ancient cultures and visits vibrant modern civilisations living during the last days of the British Empire. Only when all supplies are exhausted, their clothes in tatters and all equipment lost do the men finally return home. A mountain exploration classic.

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