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281) Embrace of the Wild
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking but in everything it exceeds all my dreams. "
Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904)
Some people live to travel; Isabella Lucy Bird traveled to live. Dare to saddle up with this equestrian explorer on her way to becoming the best-loved travel writer of her day. Set off on a voyage from England to the South Seas. Jump ship in Honolulu, then hop on board the Kilauea steaming its way to sleepy Hilo....
283) Gulliver's travels
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Formats
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the tale of the voyages of an Englishman that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; and a country ruled by horses.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"After a year of close shaves, Doctor Chelli Aphra is taking it easy and lying low. Probably herding banthas or something. She's smart like that, right? No, not really. The galaxy's shadiest archaeologist is back doing what she does best: busting into alien temples to steal horrifying weapons for huge profit. She just can't stop herself. But plenty of other people cou ld. Powerful factions are watching closely: Rebel and Empire, familiar and strange...
Author
Series
GhostWalker volume 19
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Gideon “Eagle” Carpenter is used to rolling with the punches life has thrown at him. It’s the only thing that’s kept him alive. He and his team of GhostWalkers have seen and experienced it all. He does his best to live with all the sins written on his soul. Then he hears the laughter of a woman with the ability to erase—even for a few precious moments—the darkness of his past.
Laurel “Rory” Chappel has always been a nomad. She’s...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for truth carried him around the globe. Herzog's personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries and film clips, encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals, and the mysteries stitching together life on earth.
287) Journey
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"In the game the player controls a robed figure in a vast desert, journeying towards a mountain in the distance. Other players on the same journey can be discovered, one at a time, along the way; the two players can assist each other, but cannot communicate via speech or text and are not shown each other's names. The only form of communication between the two players is through wordless "singing". This noise also imbues floating pieces of cloth found...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
If love is in the form of a circle, what lines would you cross to be with your soulmate? In this gripping, near-future love story directed by Oscar winner John Ridley, Nick and Janine live in marital bliss, until Janine's ex-husband warps time to try to tear them apart using Nick's college girlfriend. As Nick's memories and reality disappear, he must decide what he's willing to sacrifice in order to hold onto, or let go of, everything he loves. Can...
289) A Canterbury Tale
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent. It centers on three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant (Sweet), a resourceful British sergeant (Price), and a melancholy landgirl (Sim). While enroute to Canterbury, they are waylaid and forced to solve a bizarre village crime: the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
290) Queen of the desert
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the legendary T.E. Lawrence.
291) Gulliver's travels
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
The tale of an 18th-century physician who takes eight years to travel through a variety of fantastical lands, only to have everyone but his wife take him for a madman when he returns home.
293) The long riders
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Long riders: A sympathetic portrayal of the members of the Jesse James gang in which four pairs of actor brothers portray real-life siblings.
Stagecoach: A determined driver and his passengers -- including a pregnant women, a drunken dentist, a bank manager with a case of stolen money, a gambler, and the infamous Ringo Kid -- travel through Apache territory despite warnings from the Cavalry.
Way west: Senator William Tadlock leads a wagon train...
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Polly Letofsky walked 14,124 miles over 5 years through 22 countries on 4 continents around the world for breast cancer. From her September 11 walk through Muslim villages in Southeast Asia, a determined adventure into India, and a lonely rain-soaked path through Europe, Polly tackled a rapidly changing world and educated thousands of women one step at a time.
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Adventures of a teenage dragonslayer: Branded as a "nerd" and harassed by school bully, 12-year-old Arthur is rescued by a magical troll who knows that the boy unwittingly holds the secret to defeat an evil dragon.
Gulliver's travels: Helped and hampered by the excitable town crier Gabby, shipwrecked Gulliver comes to terms with living in Lilliput where the people are no bigger than his thumb.
Alice of Wonderland in Paris: After her adventures in...