Adventure - Nonfiction

 

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1. The arbornaut: a life discovering the eighth continent in the trees above us

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Lowman, Margaret
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Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
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Duraleigh Road - Adult Non-Fiction
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East Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
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"Biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman--aka 'CanopyMeg'--takes us on an adventure into the 'eighth continent' of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action"--

2. Brave the wild river: the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon

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Sevigny, Melissa L., 1986-
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Morrisville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
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"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...