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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Women in Texas	Ann Fears Crawford	This historic collection is the most complete and authoritative history of the women who have contributed to the life of the Lone Star State.	OL108123W
Peru	Bobbie Kalman,Carolyn Black,Tammy Everts,David Schimpky	Describes the geography, natural resources, trade and industry, cities, people, transportation, agriculture, and environment of Peru.	OL115237W
The city of Chester	Edward Harold Mason	Brief tourist guidebook.	OL12290854W
A travel guide to Al Capone's Chicago	Diane Yancey	Describes what a visitor to Chicago in 1929 would find to see and do, including providing references to famous gangster activities and haunts.	OL14870516W
East London	Walter Besant	“In my previous books on London I have found it necessary to begin with some consideration of the history and antiquities of the district concerned. For instance, my book on Westminster demanded this…	OL1487520W
Polar Mammals	Larry Dane Brimner	Describes such animals as the polar bear, ringed seal, caribou, arctic hare, and wolverine and the ways they have adapted to life in the frigid arctic regions.	OL15037657W
Indianapolis	W. R. Holloway	This volume contains a wide variety of information about Indianapolis and also reveals a lot about mid-19th century life in Indiana. At least half of it more resembles an encyclopedia than a history …	OL1619113W
Strange Lands Near Home	M. A. L. Lane	*Readers -- 1870-1950. ''Youth's Companion Series'' Used in the U.S.A. school curriculum: Geography.* The volumes of the *''Youth's Companion Series'' entitled ''The Wide World,'' ''Northern…	OL16885322W
On the way home	Laura Ingalls Wilder	Describes the sights and events a frontier family encounters travelling from South Dakota to the Ozarks.	OL1719797W
Into wild Africa	Jeff Corwin	Television personality Jeff Corwin takes the reader on an expedition to Namibia to learn about the diverse wildlife found there.	OL17886250W
Women explorers in Asia	Margo McLoone	Briefly describes the lives and travels of five women who explored such places as Tibet, Iran, and the steppes of Russia.	OL17969681W
Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea?	Gloria D. Miklowitz	*At fifteen, Andrea Cranston has everything -- good friends, a loving family, a summer job, a boyfriend. But her world falls apart in an instant -- she is raped.*** Not only is she shocked by the p…	OL1873928W
Aberdeen	W. A. Brogden	200 p. : 22 cm	OL223098W
Travels with Charley	John Steinbeck	A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light…	OL23192W
Seyahatname	Evliya Çelebi	Evliya Çelebi (Ottoman Turkish: اوليا چلبى‎), was an Ottoman Turk who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording his commentar…	OL2794658W
A Dickens atlas	Hopkins, Albert Allis	Various maps with explanations on the travel of Dickens characters in his novels, including a map of the likely route of Little Nell and her Grandfather from London throught the Midlands to their fin…	OL4429673W
The Canoe and the Saddle	Theodore Winthrop	From Amazon.com: In 1853, with money in his pocket and elegant clothes in his saddlebags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee stock toured the territories of California…	OL4879389W
Chicago, Illinois	Mary Turck	Highlights the attractions of the "Windy City," discussing its history and people as well.	OL496178W
The Lewis and Clark Expedition	Christine Webster	Discusses the early nineteenth-century journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark through the Louisiana Purchase and beyond, for the purpose of exploring the land and establishing friendly relatio…	OL5713207W
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to al-Madinah & Meccah, Vol. 2	Richard Francis Burton	Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) was one of the great traveler-explorers of history. But it is for his pilgrimage in 1853 to Mecca and Medina and the most sacrosanct shrines of Islam that Burton is bes…	OL676150W