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From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or "workampers." Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover...
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Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vastness. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores, whether it was the Vikings, the Irish, the Chinese, Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south, the Atlantic evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water bounded by the Americas to the West, and by...
6) Geography
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Hundred of weird facts about maps, mountains, and everything in between.
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What is a country? Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton brings to life the origins and histories of fifty states that, lacking international recognition and United Nations membership, exist on the margins of legitimacy in the global order. From long-contested lands like Crimea and Tibet to lesser-known territories such as Africa's last colony and a European republic that enjoyed independence for a single day, Middleton presents...
10) Annihilation
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Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
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Timber Press
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2009
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English
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What's the connection between Ken Kesey and Nancy's Yogurt? How about the difference between a hoedad and a webfoot? What became of the Pixie Kitchen and the vanished Lambert Gardens?
The Oregon Companion is an A–Z handbook of over 1000 people, places, and things. From Abernethy and beaver money to houseboats, railroads, and the Zigzag River, an intrepid public historian separates fact from fiction — with his sense of humor
...14) Me on the map
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2018.
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English
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A child describes how her room, her house, her town, her state, and her country become part of a map of her world.
15) Georgia
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The Child's World
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[2018]
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English
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Learn interesting facts about the state of Georgia, such as its history, places of interest, and great historical figures.
16) The Blues: natural history of the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington
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Keokee Books
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[2018]
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English
18) Texas
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The Child's World
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[2018]
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English
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Learn about the different places to visit in Texas, such as San Antonio's Mission, the state capitol in Austin, and the Space Center in Houston.
19) North Carolina
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The Child's World
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[2018]
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English
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Learn about places of interest in the state of North Carolina.
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