Wonders of the Land

Wonders of the Land
Author: Kendall Haven
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2006-02-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780897899864

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Renowned storyteller Kendall Haven brings his expertise to the authorship of this fourth book in the 4-book series, Wonders of Nature: Natural Phenomena in Science and Myth. Intended for teachers to use with students in the upper elementary and middle school grades, it focuses on natural phenomena of the earth (volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.) through the eyes of ancient myth, and then looks at the actual modern day science that explains each myth, using an interdisciplinary style of teaching. Using knowledge gained as a former research scientist, Haven integrates science curricular with the study of myth. Students are encouraged not only to appreciate the magic in myth and science, but to understand the commonality of all human experience with nature over all time. The book contains myths from several different cultures, and accompanying scientific explanations. Bibliographies, recommended Web sites, student projects, and discussion and activity ideas are also included, while illustrations and diagrams enhance student interest. The book is to be used by teachers and librarians with students, and by students in libraries and classrooms. Grades 4-8.

Wonders of the Land

Wonders of the Land
Author: Kendall Haven
Publsiher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2006-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1417748680

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A book intended for teachers to use with students in the upper elementary and middle school grades looks at such natural phenomena as earthquakes, glaciers, and volcanoes.

Wonders of Land and Sea

Wonders of Land and Sea
Author: Graeme William
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 556
Release: 1914
Genre: Curiosities and wonders
ISBN: UIUC:30112089495813

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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Author: Paul Jordan
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781317868859

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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and all sorts of mysteries attaching to them, have intrigued people since the second century BCE. Why were these particular creations chosen and when? And why did the ancients want to draw up such a list in the first place? What were the technical and cultural factors involved in the creation and listing of the Wonders? The Seven Wonders still rival many of the phenomenal products of both nature and mankind in their size, majesty, and beauty. Six of them no longer stand, having been destroyed by natural disaster or by human intervention. From the Pyramids at Giza to the Colossus of Rhodes, from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Lighthouse of Alexandria, from the Temple of Ephesus to the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have never ceased to fascinate down the ages.

Wonders of the Holy Land

Wonders of the Holy Land
Author: Carlo Giorgi
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN: 8854406090

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A millennial land where history, faith, and tradition are so deeply rooted as to fuse into a single cultural horizon. A country, a crossroads of people and armies, contested since its beginnings and inflamed by political and religious conflicts. Sacred places, places of faith, marvelous archaeological sites, resorts outfitted to satisfy the needs of mass tourism, arid deserts, verdant agricultural regions. And a city, Jerusalem, sacred to the three principal monotheistic religions. This and many other aspects make the Holy Land a place unique in the world. The splendid images published in this book will introduce readers to it and help them appreciate it. AUTHOR: Carlo Giorgi is a journalist and editor of the Italian magazine Terrasanta (Holy Land), published by the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land. He has traveled to the Middle East numerous times to report on the lives of local Christians. ILLUSTRATIONS: colour throughout

Yellowstone Land of Wonders

Yellowstone  Land of Wonders
Author: Jules Leclercq
Publsiher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781496211705

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In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world's first national park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers, majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He also recorded the considerable human activity, including the rampant vandalism. Leclercq's account of his travels is itself a small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions, scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the park's long-rumored fountains of boiling water and mountains of glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.

Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders
Author: Victor Appleton
Publsiher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781775413066

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Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders is the 20th book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading." "These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good." This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".

On the Wonders of Land and Sea

On the Wonders of Land and Sea
Author: Roberta Micallef,Sunil Sharma
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 0674073347

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On the Wonders of Land and Sea is a comparative study of travel writers in the eastern Islamic world from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Situating texts in their socio-historical contexts, the essays study works by male and female Muslim and Parsi/Zoroastrian travelers in the Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Europe.