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Emotionally wrung-out from her divorce, the painful ending of a subsequent love affair, and a general, long-standing feeling of malaise, novelist and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert decides to recharge herself through a year's worth of travel, believing that her return to happiness could be found through exploring both physical gratification and spiritual peace and then determining an appropriate balance between the two. She pursues the first part of her program (eating, drinking, and talking) in Italy, the second in India (joining an ashram), and the third in Bali (studying with a medicine man).
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In the last years of the twentieth century, longtime journalist Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious, and violent countries in the world. For thirty-two years, it had been paralyzed by the grip of the dictator and mystic General Suharto, but now the age of Suharto was coming to an end. Would freedom prevail, or merely lawlessness? On the island of Borneo, tribesmen embarked on a savage war of headhunting and cannibalism. Vast jungles burned uncontrollably; money lost its value; there were plane crashes and volcanic eruptions. After the tumultuous fall of Suharto came the vote on independence from Indonesia for the tiny occupied country of East Timor. And it was here, trapped in the besieged compound of the United Nations, that Lloyd Parry reached his own breaking point. A book of hair-raising immediacy and a riveting account of a voyage into the abyss, In the Time of Madness is an accomplishment in the great tradition of Conrad, Orwell, and Ryszard Kapuscinski.
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"Rousseau`s prescription for us, who have drifted so far from our origins, was to make two journeys, one to a place where life is still uncorrupted, and another into the self." In The Follow, novelist Linda Spalding travels to Borneo, first with her two daughters and later alone, in search of the famed orangutan scientist Birute Galdikas. What she finds instead is an unholy mix of foreign scientists, government workers, tourists, loggers, descendants of Dayak headhunters, Javanese gold miners, captive and wild orangutans. Her journey is the equivalent of a "follow," during which a tracker watches, over a course of time, an orangutan`s movements and the effect of the animal on the surrounding environment. Spalding`s follow takes her from Galdikas`s Orangutan Foundation International offices in Los Angeles to her subject`s original research station on the crocodile-infested Sekonyer River in Kalimantan. What unravels along the way is a story of relationships among women, people and animals, and natives and eco-tourists. Woven through these reflections is Spalding`s own incredible story of her journey up the Sekonyer River and what she learns along the way.
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Text and photographs introduce the geography, history, natural resources, culture, and people of this island nation in south-eastern Asia.
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Blackbirch Press is proud to introduce Spanish-language versions of our highly popular Jeff Corwin Experience series. Fifteen million viewers tune in to Jeff Corwin every month. His enthusiasm for nature combined with his fun-loving personality have made him a favorite of kids everywhere. Now, for the first time ever, the magic of The Jeff Corwin Experience is available in book form for young readers whose primary language is Spanish. In a landmark cooperative effort with Discovery Communications, the team at Blackbirch Press has created high-interest, fact-packed books on animals and habitats that also capture all the fun and excitement of the television program.
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Each illustrated volume in this series explores the lives of children in a particular country. The combination of letters and non-fiction text make these useful titles to support both the geography, citizenship and literacy work at Key Stage 1 and for less able pupils at Key Stage 2.
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