Peter Jenkins
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Language
English
Description
Set early in 2010, an alien intelligence revisits planet earth. While updating his knowledge, he witnesses the birth of a child, Emily. He gifts the child with the ability to communicate telepathically. Emilys family and friends become embroiled in a fraud being perpetrated by a member of a terrorist cell, that was responsible for bombing London during the early 1970s. The reader is taken on a thrilling, helter-skelter run through the whole gambit...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Looking for Alaska" is Jenkins' account of a year-long odyssey in America's last wilderness. From fishing expedition with some of Alaska's Native leaders to an ocean-kayaking trip in the glacier-ridden waters off the northwestern coast, Jenkins delivers a memorable diary of discovery--both of this place that captures maginations, and of himself, all over again.
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Language
English
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Scottish-born naturalist and writer John Muir undertook a daring adventure in 1867, just a few years after the Civil War. After recovering from an injury at a saw mill, Muir decided that he wanted to explore the world. He left his life in Indiana and walked one thousand miles to Florida. Without any real direction or purpose other than to study the flora and fauna, Muir trekked south through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida...