Following the equator : a journey around the world / by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Following the equator, a journey around the world, by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Grassland, forest, and historical settlement : an analysis of dynamics in northeast Missouri / by O'Brien, Michael J. 1950-

Floods : a science activity book / by Ward, Pat

Pacific passages : an anthology of surf writing /

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Monumental lies : early Nevada folklore of the wild west / by James, Ronald M.

Table of Contents: “…Ghosts and Tommyknockers -- 10. Hank Monk and Mark Twain -- 11. Sex, Murder, and More Monumental Lies -- 12. …”
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Cultural artifacts and the production of meaning : the page, the image, and the body /

Table of Contents: “…Political maps : the production of cartography and chorography in early modern England / Howard Marchitello -- From typology to type : agents of change in eighteenth-century English texts / J. Paul Hunter -- Mark Twain : texts and technology / Hamlin Hill -- "Why don't they leave it alone?" …”

Verging on extra-vagance : anthropology, history, religion, literature, arts ... showbiz / by Boon, James A.

Table of Contents: “…AnThoreaupology: an invitation -- Rehearsals -- An endlessly extra-vagant scholar: Kenneth Burke -- A similar genre: opera -- Plus Melville, Cavell, commodity-life; showbiz -- Re menses: rereading Ruth Benedict, ultraobjectively -- Of foreskins: (un)circumcision, religious histories, difficult description (Montaigne/Remondino) -- About a footnote: between-the-wars Bali: its relics regained -- Interlude: essay-études and Tristimania -- Cosmopolitan moments: as-if confessions of an ethnographer-tourist (echoey "cosmomes") -- Why museums make me sad (eccentric musings) -- Litterytoor 'n' anthropolygee: an experimental wedding of incongruous styles from Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss -- A little polemic, quizzically -- Against coping across cultures: self-help semiotics rebuffed -- Errant anthropology, with apologies to Chaucer -- Margins and hierarchies and rhetorics that subjugate -- Evermore Derrida, always the same (what gives?) …”
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Cultural analysis of mobile communities on board cruise ships : aboard and abroad / by Symes, Colin

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The river reader /

Table of Contents: “…Gone back into the earth (from Crossing open ground) / Barry Lopez -- from Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain -- This savage land (from The book of Yaak) / Rick Bass -- from Down an unknown river / Theodore Roosevelt -- And the salmon sing / Louise Wagenknecht -- The Allegash and East Branch (from The Maine woods) / Henry David Thoreau -- Flood (from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) / Annie Dillard -- from Exploration of the Colorado River and its canyons / John Wesley Powell -- Reversing the tides / Lisa Couturier -- from Travels of William Bartram / William Bartram -- from Downriver: a Yellowstone journey / Dean Krakel -- from Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Tanner Trail and mesquite thickets (from Downcanyon: a naturalist explores the Colorado River through Grand Canyon) / Ann Haymond Zwinger -- from Missouri River journals / John James Audubon -- Along the delta (from Reading the river: a voyage down the Yukon) / John Hildebrand -- The best rainbow trout fishing. …”

Historical dictionary of golf / by Mallon, Bill

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Without the banya we would perish : a history of the Russian bathhouse / by Pollock, Ethan, 1969-

Destination Dixie : Tourism and Southern History / by Cox, Karen L., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Persistence of Fiction : One Hundred Years of Tom Sawyer at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home ; From "Lawrence County Negro" to National Hero : The Commemoration of Jesse Owens in Alabama ; Saving "The Dump" : Race and the Restoration of the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta ; "A Tradition-Conscious Cotton City" : (East) Tupelo, Mississippi, Birthplace of Elvis Presley -- Race & Slavery. …”
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Christmas in Nevada / by Cafferata, Patricia D., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- ""A Christmas Carol"" -- Preachers and Presents Everywhere -- Mark Twain's Mentor in Virginia City -- O Tannenbaum! …”
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Last king of the sports page : the life and career of Jim Murray / by Geltner, Ted

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The ocean reader : history, culture, politics /

Table of Contents: “…/ Benjamin Labaree -- Surviving the Slave Trade / Olaudah Equiano -- Hating the China Trade / Frederick Law Olmsted -- About All Kinds of Ships / Mark Twain -- Loving Cape Horn / Irving Johnson -- "Bitter Strength" : the International "Coolie" Trade / The Chinese Cuba Commission Report of 1876 -- The Container Ship / Roz Hamlett -- The Epic Galley Battle of the Ancient Sea / Herodotus -- The Crest of Islamic Sea Power / Matthew Merighi -- Elizabethan England's Plausibly Deniable War in the Pacific Ocean / Francis Pretty -- The Iconic Tactic of the Age of Sail / Godfrey Basil Mundy and Gilbert Blane -- Captain Marryat's War / Frederick Marryat -- World War I Beneath the Waves / Captain Baron Edgar Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim -- The Far-Flung Battle of Midway / Office of Naval Intelligence -- The Barents Sea, Most Dangerous Waters of World War II / Jack Bowman -- The Unfinished Cold War at Sea / Anatoly Miranovsky -- China Returns to the Ocean / The U.S. …”
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