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  A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf

  John Muir

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  Muir was a preservationist and naturalist.   His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. 
   
  In early March 1867, Muir was injured while working as a sawyer in a factory that made wagon wheels: a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye.  This accident changed the course of his life.  He was confined to a darkened room for six weeks, worried whether he’d ever regain his sight. When he did, "he saw the world-and his purpose-in a new light," writes Marquis. Muir later wrote, "This affliction has driven me to the sweet fields. God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons." From that point on, he determined to "be true to myself" and follow his dream of exploration and study of plants. 
   
  A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf recounts Muir's walk of about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Indiana to Florida. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find."  This journal is the earliest of Muir's writings and autobiographically bridges the period between The Story of my Boyhood and Youth and My First Summer in the Sierra.  (Summary from Wikipedia and Introduction)

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  Iconic Chicago Dishes Drinks and...

  Amy Bizzarri

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  A celebration of Chicago food that goes far beyond deep-dish pizza—filled with recipes, photos, and local history!   The food that fuels hardworking Chicagoans includes such local classics as Spinning Salad, Flaming Saganaki, Jumpballs, Jim Shoes, Pizza Puffs, and Pullman Bread. The restaurants, bakeries, taverns, and pushcarts of the city, cherished from one generation to the next, offer satisfying warmth in winter and sweet refreshment in summer.   From the city that created the Cape Cod Room’s Bookbinder Soup and the Original Rainbow Cone, as well as Andersonville Coffee Cake and Taylor Street’s Italian Lemonade, this combination of cookbook and culinary history is a treat for Chicagoans, visitors, and anyone who loves hearty Midwestern fare.

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  Polish Phrase Book: Over 1000...

  Simple Language Learning

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  Did you know that all Polish women’s first names end with the vowel “a”, except for the ones with foreign origin? 
  If you are reading this, you have probably made an important, life-changing decision to learn a foreign language.  
  Poland has around 38 million Polish speakers but many immigrants in countries such as the USA, UK, Germany, Norway or Ireland are Polish. The Polish Community Abroad includes, for example, more than one million Poles in the UK and nearly one million in the States. So your decision to learn Polish will definitely pay off! 
  In this book, you will learn all the important phrases you'll need for your trip to Poland and for communicating with Polish people. You will also get an explanation when it comes to grammar and pronunciation so you know the basics. This book covers many different areas and topics, so you have everything in one package.  
  You'll find phrases for finding accommodations, getting along in the city, speaking to strangers, shopping and much more.  
  Along with learning the language, you will also discover the Polish culture—a very close yet completely different world. 
  In this audiobook, you’ll get phrases for:Greetings and Basic Everyday ExpressionsTransportationAccommodationDifferent Kinds of Shopping - From Food to ClothesAsking For and Expressing OpinionAt the Doctor’sEntertainmentAnd much, much more! 
  So if you want to learn the Polish language fast and also get a collection of the most useful Polish phrases, then scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!

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  National Park Mysteries &...

  Steve Stockton, Bill Melder

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  Some of the most visited national parks in the country have a dark side.Aside from crowds of hikers, campers, and general tourists, there’s a dark side to many that can be found in the great states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. From strange disappearances, grisly murders and bone-chilling paranormal hauntings and ghost sightings; these pristine locales have a lot more to offer than just serene hiking trails or camping. In this third installment of National Park Mysteries & Disappearances, Steve Stockton, along with Bill Melder, presents the listener with a side to these locations you've never heard before.So, put aside your nature guidebooks, forget about the pretty leaves, and the relaxing streams as well as the miniature golf, the funnel cakes and all the other "tourist traps" and prepare for a wild ride on the dark side of these major national parks.

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  The Bonanza Trail - Ghost Trails...

  Muriel Sibell Wolle

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  This classic account of Old West mining camps and gold-hunting prospectors is “a successful digging of a rich historical vein . . . phenomenal” (The New York Times). This colorful blend of history, reference, and travelogue brings to life the frenzied search for precious metals in nineteenth-century America through a tour of mining camps and former boomtowns, many now abandoned. It reveals the unbelievable privations men endured in the high Sierra and the Rockies and in crossing the desert wastes of Arizona, Utah and Nevada; the mines first discovered in New Mexico by Coronado and his men four centuries ago; and the first great rush that hit California in 1849. She follows the miners who poured in successive waves into the golden gulches of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, climbed to the deeper mines high in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, and dared at last to penetrate the hostile Black Hills of South Dakota. In personally following the trails of the pioneering prospectors, Wolle stumbles upon mute evidence of past bloodshed, lust, and struggle, and recreates the excitement of the period. A gifted artist, she also includes maps and “more than a hundred poignant sketches conveying the loneliness, melancholy and crumbling dryness of ghost cities which throbbed once with the hopes of many people” (The New York Times).“The fascinating and definitive book on the ghost and near-ghost towns of the Old West.” —Lucius Beebe, The Territorial Enterprise“Good popular history and [a] useful reference work.” —Library Journal

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  The Last of the Plainsmen

  Zane Grey

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  Travel along as Mike Vendetti aka miketheauctioneer narrates an outstanding true account of a trip made in 1909 by Zane Grey and a plainsman, Buffalo Jones, through the Grand Canyon to lasso a cougar. That’s right lasso. Throw a rope around. That’s equivalent to catching one by the tail.As I narrated this book, I found fact to be as exciting as fiction. This part of the west was relatively wild and untamed at this time. Wolves, wild horses, buffalo and other wildlife were quite prevalent, and the Indians were not that friendly.This adventure would never make it to “Animal Planet”, or as a National Geographic special, because there is quite a lot of what we would consider cruelty to animals, but this is a true story, and life as it was at the turn of the last century. Parts of this story will offend the sensibilities of some, but it is a glimpse into a world that no longer exists. I was definitely drawn into this story, as I hope the listener will be. (Summary by Mike Vendetti)

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