Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest
10 best books like Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest (Sy Montgomery): The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, Ring of Bright Water, Memory of Water, The Secret Hum of a Daisy, The Harmless People, The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, Swim the Fly, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: College: College, Iraq War
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375867821 |
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia Lost; The Lincolns)...
| Author | Gavin Maxwell |
| ISBN | 0140249729 |
I wanted to read this after having a go at Miriam Darlington’s Otter Country, which in many ways revolved around this book and the landscape described by Gavin Maxwell. He got much closer to the animals than Darlington, so perhaps it’s not surprising that his account is more interesting and vital....
| Author | Emmi Itäranta |
| ISBN | 0062326155 |
Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like...
Twelve-year-old Grace and her mother have always been their own family, traveling from place to place like gypsies. But Grace wants to finally have a home all their own. Just when she thinks she's found it her mother says it's time to move again. Grace summons the courage to tell her mother how she...
| Author | Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review
In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account...
The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife
| Author | Kobie Krüger |
| ISBN | 0345444264 |
Everyone warned Kobie Krüger that being the wife of a game warden at a remote ranger station in South Africa's largest national park would be an arduous move. The heat was unbearable, malaria would be a constant danger, her husband would have to be away for long stretches, there were no schools or nearby...
| Author | Danna Staaf |
| ISBN | 1611689236 |
Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods—the ancestors of modern squid and Earth’s first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act...
Three adolescent boys with a single goal: see a real live naked girl. The result? Razor-sharp, rapid-fire, and raunchy, of course. And beyond hilarious.
Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live...
| Author | Jennifer Worick |
| ISBN | 0811842304 |
The college years are a time of noble pursuit of knowledge, self-betterment—and unending peril! Students are at risk from the moment they receive their acceptance letters. Fortunately, the authors of the phenomenally best-selling Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series have come to the...
| Author | Rodney P. Carlisle |
| ISBN | 0816056277 |
Have you ever wondered what the world has been doing in the middle east? Well The Iraq War by Rodney Carlisle will give any reader a good idea on the war. Now you can be informed on facts of the war. Obviously this book will talk about the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. But gives a lot history on the build up to the war....
Sensational Trials Of The 20th Century
William Blake: The Gates of Paradise
Journey back to the 1700s to meet one of the most fascinating people in history. Dreamer, craftsman, poet, madman, and genius -- William Blake. Born in 1757 in London, as a boy he apprenticed as an engraver and began a career that would include masterpieces of art.
Blake lived during times of...
