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Teresereading
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#schoolspirit
#team
Antarctic exploration - the ultimate team survival
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

Eggs Fascinating 👏🏻🤗🙌🏻 1mo
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dabbe
Stowaway | Karen Hesse
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#middlegrademonday
@karisimo

From the Newbury winner for OUT OF THE DUST (my favorite YA book of all time): Eleven-year-old Nicholas Young is about to embark on the journey of his life. In August 1768, he sneaks on board the H.M.S. Endeavour , piloted by famous explorer Captain James Cook, only to find that the ship is destined for an exciting adventure around the world.

Daisey This is one I was thinking about as well. Good choice! 3mo
Karisimo Sounds great!!! Thanks for sharing! 3mo
dabbe @Daisey 🤩🤗😊 3mo
dabbe @Karisimo 🤩🤗😊 3mo
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Kinniska
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This is a pretty lively summary of readings about discoverers and “discoverers”, explorers and mapmakers. Inherently a volatile mix of political chicanery, the hubris of men that think it‘ll be fun to sail off the edge of the world, scurvy, occasional deaths by polar bear, and the vicissitudes of pre-industrial economics, expansionism, and mercantilism, I found myself grimly laughing at all these misadventures.

Read it.

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JoeMo
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Pickpick

This is a detailed account of Peter Freuchen, a legendary polar explorer. He had one of the more ridiculous, badass, and gross survival stories from his days of exploring Greenland. Outside of polar exploration, his life was filled with a variety of unique adventures and twists and turns.

#bookspinbingo
@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5mo
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brushlo
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Pickpick

great read…mind blowing the type of risks these explorers took.

Texreader Yes it‘s great!! 9mo
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sarahgreatlove
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Pickpick

This was a pretty fascinating bit of narrative non fiction. I‘m interested in the lost city / lost world theme so when I heard about this on a podcast it sounded excellent. Gruesome, but excellent. For a lighter tone, watch the Disney movie Jungle Cruise after reading it 🤣 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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MommyWantsToReadHerBook
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Pickpick

Another excellent Litsy recommendation that I thoroughly enjoyed. I would not have fared well on any expedition into the Amazon 😂

Tamra This was a fun, albeit tragic, read! 13mo
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peaKnit
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I could get behind this.

Texreader Ha! Yes! 2y
Hooked_on_books Me too! I adore him! 😍 2y
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Hooked_on_books
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Pickpick

Explorer Percy Fawcett took many trips to South America to explore within #Bolivia and Brazil before ultimately disappearing in 1925, searching for an advanced, ancient city he was sure existed. Grann tells this story alongside his own adventure of learning about Fawcett. Terrific read with a really satisfying ending.

#ReadingAmericas2023

Librarybelle In my to read list! 2y
Suet624 I really liked a book I read by him. I still talk about it. I forgot I wanted to read more of his work. 2y
Hooked_on_books @Suet624 That‘s the book that got me going with his writing. It‘s so good! 2y
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Lindy
Girl on a Motorcycle | Amy Novesky
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Julie Morstad‘s delicate, whimsical illustrations capture the free spirit of a French woman who made a solo trip on a motorcycle around the world in 1973. The text is by Amy Novesky, who interviewed Anne-France Dautheville at her home near Paris before writing this, and includes the challenges she faced like mechanical trouble, falls & harsh weather. But the people she met were wonderful. (Dautheville wasn‘t a girl btw; she was 29.) #kidlit

tpixie I hate how ‘Girl‘ is used for adult women. But the book sounds great! 2y
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