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I dreamed of Africa
Par Kuki Gallmann. 1991
The author, born and raised in Italy, moves to Kenya at the age of 25 with her husband. Interwoven with…
descriptions of the landscape and local natives is the author's account of her struggle to deal with the deaths of both her husband and son. 1991.A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Par Bill Bryson. 1997
Bryson relates the adventures and misadventures of two totally unfit hikers as he and longtime friend Stephen Katz traverse the…
2,100-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Returning from more than twenty years in Britain, he set out to rediscover his homeland, but the two men find themselves awed by the terrain and stymied by the unfamiliar local culture. His gruelling yet fascinating trek gave him a rare perspective on American life. Some strong language. Bestseller. 1997.Wild: a journey from lost to found
Par Cheryl Strayed. 2015
At 26, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family disbanded and…
her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk 1,100 miles of the west coast of America - from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington State - and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise - a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet. 2015.The lost city of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon (Vintage Departures Ser.)
Par David Grann. 2009
An investigative reporter examines the strange disappearance in 1925 of fifty-seven-year-old explorer Percy Fawcett and his team, who were searching…
for the ruins of a mysterious lost civilization in the Amazon Basin. Grann's research takes him on his own adventures into the jungle. Bestseller. 2009.Wild: [récit]
Par Cheryl Strayed. 2013
Lorsque sur un coup de tête, Cheryl Strayed boucle son sac à dos, elle n'a aucune idée de ce qui…
l'attend. Tout ce qu'elle sait, c'est que sa vie est un désastre. Entre une mère trop aimée, brutalement disparue, un divorce douloureux et un lourd passé de junkie, Cheryl vacille. Pour tenir debout et affronter les fantômes de son passé, elle choisit de s'en remettre à la nature et de marcher. Elle part seule pour une randonnée de mille sept cents kilomètres sur le Chemin des crêtes du Pacifique, un parcours abrupt et sauvage de l'Ouest américain. Au fil de cette longue route, elle va surmonter douleurs et fatigue pour renouer avec elle-même et finalement trouver sa voie. 2013.Uganda be kidding me
Par Chelsea Handler. 2015
Whenever Chelsea Handler travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in…
this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most hilarious stories ever. On safari in Africa, it's anyone's guess as to what's more dangerous, the wildlife or Chelsea. But whether she's fumbling the seduction of a guide or wearing a bathrobe into the bush because her clothes stopped fitting seven margaritas ago, she's always game for the next misadventure. Wickedly funny and always absurd, "Uganda Be Kidding Me" has Chelsea taking on the world, one laugh-out-loud incident at a time. 2015.The motorcycle diaries: notes on a Latin American journey (Che Guevara Publishing Project Ser.)
Par Ernesto Guevara. 2004
The story of a road journey, in the words of a 23-year-old medical student known as "Che". There are fights,…
parties, and serious drinking, and moving examples of Guevara's idealism and solidarity with the oppressed. A record of Guevara's thoughts as he journeyed around South America in the early 1950's. 2004. Uniform title: Notas de viaje.The man-eaters of Tsavo (Peter Capstick's Library)
Par J. H Patterson. 1907
In colonizing Africa, Lt.Col. Patterson and his comrades traveled through desert and jungle to build roads and bridges. In 1907…
Patterson wrote of his encounters with man-eating lions who terrorized his work crew. A film, "The ghost and the darkness" is based on Patterson's adventures. 1996, c1907.Old Possum's book of practical cats
Par T. S Eliot. 1974
The innocents abroad
Par Mark Twain. 1872
Based on letters Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, "The…
innocents abroad" (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. 1872.Seven years in Tibet
Par Heinrich Harrer, Richard Graves. 1953
The author escaped from internment in India in 1943, and found shelter and work in the sacred city of Lhasa,…
to which few Europeans have penetrated. He stayed there for seven years, learned the language and acquired a greater understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans. He became friend and tutor to the young Dalai Lama and finally accompanied him into India when he was put to flight by the Red Chinese invasion. 1953. Uniform title: Sieben Jahre in Tibet.Roughing it
Par Mark Twain. 1913
A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Par Bill Bryson. 1997
Bryson relates the adventures and misadventures of two totally unfit hikers, as he and longtime friend Stephen Katz traverse the…
2,100-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Returning from more than twenty years in Britain, he set out to rediscover his homeland, but the two men find themselves awed by the terrain and stymied by the unfamiliar local culture. His gruelling yet fascinating trek gave him a rare perspective on American life. Some strong language. Bestseller.Behind our eyes: the second literary anthology of stories, poems and essays by writers with disabilities
Par Kate Chamberlin, Writers Disabilities. 2013
Anthology of memoirs, stories, poems, and essays by authors with disabilities. In "Banging the Drum Loudly" Peter Altschul describes how…
he performed with his school's marching band. In " A Prickly Tree" Robert Feinstein recounts his Jewish mother buying him a Christmas tree. 2013T4: a novel in verse
Par Ann Clare LeZotte. 2008
Paula Becker, who is deaf, is thirteen years old when the Nazi party takes control of Germany. It is a…
time when people with disabilities are ordered to be killed in Hitler's Tiergartenstrasse 4, nicknamed T4. She escapes a raid, but her new world is one of fear, desperation, and uncertainty as she struggles to survive. Her stories are told in free verse. For grades 6-9The sound of letting go
Par Stasia Ward Kehoe. 2014
At seventeen, Daisy feels imprisoned by her brother Steven's autism and its effects and her only escape is through her…
trumpet into the world of jazz, but when her parents decide to send Steven to an institution she is not ready to let him go. For junior and senior highThe heart of the dragon
Par Alasdair Clayre. 1984
Ada Twist, scientist (The Questioneers)
Par Andrea Beaty. 2016
Ada Twist’s head is full of questions. Like her classmates Iggy and Rosie, Ada has always been endlessly curious. Even…
when her fact-finding missions and elaborate scientific experiments don’t go as planned, Ada learns the value of thinking her way through problems and continuing to stay curious. 2016. For grades K-3Flipping Forward Twisting Backward
Par Alma Fullerton. 2022
A diagnosis of dyslexia could change everything for an aspiring fifth-grade gymnast struggling at school in this authentic, high-energy novel…
in verse. The print edition of this title is set in a font developed to be easy to read.The gym is where Claire shines and she’s on her way to qualifying for the state championships. But at school, she’s known as a troublemaker—which is fine with her since it helps her hide her reading problem. Claire has never been able to make sense of the wobbling jumble of letters on a page.When a sympathetic principal wonders if she’s acting out because she may have dyslexia, she’s stunned. Claire has always assumed she’s dumb, so she’s eager to get evaluated. But her mother balks. Afraid Claire will be labeled “stupid,” she refuses testing. Can Claire take on both her reading challenges and her mother’s denial? Is it worth jeopardizing her dream of the state championships?Told in clear and poignant verse and featuring black and white illustrations, Claire’s struggle with something that seems to come easily to everyone else will resonate with readers and have them cheering her on.We are all so good at smiling
Par Amber McBride. 2023
This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is We Are All So Good…
at Smiling. This program is read by the author. They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride. Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the marrow of their bones. And when Faerry and his family move to the same street, the two start to realize that their lifelines may have twined and untwined many times before. They are both terrified of the forest at the end of Marsh Creek Lane. The Forest whispers to Whimsy. The Forest might hold the answers to the part of Faerry he feels is missing. They discover the Forest holds monsters, fairy tales, and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years. A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends.