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The Call of Antarctica
Author: Leilani Raashida Henry
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ™
ISBN: 9781728411675
Category: Young Adult Nonfiction
Page: 128
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Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, highest, driest, and most remote part of the world. It’s the world’s largest polar dessert. Antarctica is a true wilderness. Author Leilani Raashida Henry, daughter of George W. Gibbs, Jr., the first person of African descent to go to Antarctica, recounts her father’s expedition while
Language: en
Pages: 210
Pages: 210
If you give a mom a marathon, she'll hit a wall. It happens to all marathoners, not just mothers. Still a new runner when that first happened in 2007, Michelle has now run more than 140 additional 26.2-mile races. But for Michelle, those races mean much more than a collection
Language: en
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Books about Sailing Directions for Antarctica
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this extraordinary book, the world’s most extraordinary distance swimmer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself. Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympic coach, swimming five to twelve miles each day
Language: en
Pages: 164
Pages: 164
The Antarctic Treaty, set up in 1961 to provide a means for managing international relations in Antarctica, was reviewed in 1991. The book considers the question of the region's future with the ever growing international interest in the area as a source of important mineral resources. In this survey, a
