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Item Details
| Title:
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JUNGLE ISLANDS
MY SOUTH SEA ADVENTURE |
| By: |
Debora Pearson, Maria Coffey |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1550375962 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781550375961 |
| Publisher: |
ANNICK PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
2 September, 2000 |
| Pages: |
88 |
| Description: |
A true travel adventure story for children 8 and up by two kayakers who explored the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The book is illustrated with color photos and maps throughout, with sidebars of cultural facts and an index. |
| Synopsis: |
An adventure by kayak through the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean and the third book in Annick Press' award-winning "Adventure Travel" series. The Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean are full of sharks, malaria, giant centipedes and crocodiles, and are also the home to lush jungle, beautiful cockatoos, waist-high orchids, and tropical butterflies. Maria Coffey and husband Dag love to kayak. Their adventure begins in Honiara, the capital city of the Solomon Islands, where Maria and Dag first encounter Pidgin English and men with mouths stained red from chewing betel nuts and lime. They snorkel incredible reefs alive with the rich blues, greens and reds of hundreds of fish, coral and clamshells -- and the odd lagoon shark! During their travels, they visit Skull Island, which houses the heads of dead chiefs; they learn to cook traditional food like taro and cassava roots; they witness the incredible, huge leatherback turtles burying their eggs in the sand and making decoy nest holes to fool the local monitor lizards. They even get lost among small, remote, uncharted islands. Yet everywhere Maria and Dag go, the locals welcome them with generosity and kindness. Ever wonder about giant fruit bats, what a bathroom in the jungle looks like or what are the top ten uses for coconuts? Sidebars recount fascinating cultural facts and information from around the Islands. Maps are dispersed throughout the text with spectacular photography, enabling the reader to follow the kayak along its journey. An index is included for easy reference. |
| Illustrations: |
colour illustrations, colour maps, colour photographsm |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
Annick Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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