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  GORPtravel - adventure travel, trips, tours, outdoor recreation, family vacations, safaris, dude ranches, guides
Go horseback riding with your aunt, fish on the lake with your dad or search for wildlife prints with your cousin.
Hamanasi Adventure - Round up the extended family and spend a week in Belize at a beautiful seaside resort with activities for everyone to enjoy.
Futaleufu Rafting Adventure - Alternating between granite cliffs, lush foliage, snow-capped peaks and towering spires, the river pours dramatically through a breathtaking canyon of unimaginable beauty, boasting one Class 4 or 5 rapid after another.
gorptravel.away.com /groups_main.asp   (686 words)

  
 Arctic Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Arctic is mostly a vast, ice-covered ocean (which is sometimes considered to be a northern sea of the Atlantic Ocean) surrounded by treeless, frozen ground.
The Arctic is particularly susceptible to the abrasion of groundcover and to the disturbance of the rare reproduction places of the animals that are characteristic to the region.
Since 1937 the whole Arctic region was extensively explored by the Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations, scientific settlements that were established on the drift ice and were carried thousands of kilometers by the ice flow.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Arctic.html   (2021 words)

  
 Trafford Publishing: Arctic Adventures with the Lady Greenbelly   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This humourous story is about the people - the Indians, Eskimos, and others he met or travelled with, plus the adventures of struggling with natural problems such as the many river rapids and well as the idiosyncracies of his boat.
First, he intended to carry freight to the Arctic communities with his newly acquired freight scow, the Lady Greenbelly, and then sell her there for a handsome profit.
Aunt Priscilla, though grieved, thought it all for the best in the short and the long, and probably the Lord's will besides.
www.trafford.com /4dcgi/view-item?item=548&26834132-25562aaa   (3811 words)

  
 Adventure
After going on a few adventures the barnyard animals return to the farm, tired and hungry, to tell their stories to the astonished farmer and all the other animals.
The adventure of a husky dog, born in the wilderness, left to fend for himself when a fl wolf kills his mother and brothers, and finally won over by the trapper his mother had deserted.
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
www.ci.keene.nh.us /library/youth/booklist_adventure.htm   (5678 words)

  
  Growing up Frehley
Aunt Ida continued the story, when it was her turn, at the anniversary party.
Aunt Louise was Helen's mother and one of Mom's older sisters.
It was fascinating to watch how Aunt Louise would talk to her animals and how they would respond to her, like they were really trying to talk back.
www.thebridgeband.com /growing.html   (5220 words)

  
 B&ECPL Kid's Corner
A fictionalized account of the adventurous 1909 journey of nine-year-old Bud Abernathy and his five-year-old brother, Temp, who traveled alone, mostly on horseback, from their home in Oklahoma to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and back again, crossing the vast, desertlike no-man's-land in the Texas Panhandle known as the caprock.
A girl embarks on a dangerous adventure to fulfill her three desires: to visit the farthest-away mountain, to meet a gargoyle, and to find a prince for a husband.
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord." Welcome to the magical world of Venice, Italy, where hidden canals and crumbling rooftops shelter runaways and children with incredible secrets.
www.buffalolib.org /KidsCorner/greatbooks/books_adventure.asp   (2800 words)

  
 Bob & Nancy's Bookshop - Books for Age 9 & Up - Adventure & Discovery
These adventures have woven themselves into the very fabric of our history and culture since they were first told over two thousand years ago -- and this book is a wonderful way to introduce children to them.
The interweaving of an exciting mystery and the adventures of surviving on the farm with tales of Danish Viking life and lore is irresistable to both children and adults.
Their adventures sometimes brought them face to face with the tough uptown Trucker gang, but most of all they experienced the excitement, friendships, mishaps and young romance of growing up in 1950's small-town America.
www.waldorfbooks.com /read/age9/adventure_discovery.htm   (4692 words)

  
 Chasing Ray - YA Column - Tales of Adventure
Adventures seem to be the childhood books that stay with readers the longest -- consider Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or A Wrinkle in Time or any of the boy and girl detective series.
Her horrid aunt now takes care of her and Silver’s life is one of hunger and misery.
Her aunt is immediately drawn into Darkwater’s promises of fortune; she jumps at the chance to go to London so that Darkwater can try to determine the location of the missing clock from Silver’s memory.
www.chasingray.com /reviews/2006/09/ya_column_tales_of_adventure.html   (2620 words)

  
 Growing up Frehley
Aunt Katie’s son, Bill, ran the dairy operation, and lived across the road in a modern brick house with his wife and children.
So, during the car trip our Aunt Martha had decided that she was going to train Sister Nancy and Cousin Elizabeth in the fine art of "Etiquette".
The anticipation of the adventure that was about to unfold in the coming hours was almost enough to make us explode, which would have made an even more disgusting mess than putting manure in our luggage, if that’s possible.
www.thebridgeband.com /growing2.html   (3783 words)

  
 DVD Action & Adventure Animal Action Reviews
Based on an incredible true-life story, a brave young man is thrust into adulthood as he and his courageous team of sled dogs embark on a grueling and tr...
An unforgettable adventure begins as Tyler, a young inexperienced biologist, is deposited alone onto the desolate Arctic terrain.
In the classic tradition of heroic Disney adventures comes the extraordinary MIGHTY JOE YOUNG -- a thrilling story full of excitement, friendship, courage, and heart.
www.metareview.com /browse-dvd-action-adventure-animal-action/4-290942-1   (517 words)

  
 aunt - Ricercarus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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you see that somebody is about to break off the antenna of your car; an old aunt who is not really liked by anybody in the family announces that she'll visit you and intends to spent 2 w...
www.ricercarus.com /aunt   (286 words)

  
 Rita Arruda Carollo and John Carollo
For Aunt Rita this was the excitement of a lifetime, she couldn't wait to get out of the house and go on her own.
She told me once that the chance for her to get out on her own was for her the adventure that she always dreamed of.
After completion of Basic and Administration training, Aunt Rita enjoyed her time at Lackland however she thought that it would be much more of adventure that it really was..
www.angelfire.com /va2/coldwar/ritanjohn.html   (1659 words)

  
 Adventure: Fiction and Nonfiction
Aunt Emma's nine cats prove that there aren't too many of them when they catch a burglar.
Fred escapes from boring summer days on his aunt's chicken farm by playing virtual reality games on his computer, but when parts of a game intrude into real life, it's almost too exciting, even for Fred.
David is convinced that his life will be more adventurous when he changes his name to Ali Baba.
www.monroe.lib.in.us /childrens/adventurebib.html   (1259 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River: Books: Colin Angus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The travelogue of that latest adventure, Lost in Mongolia, is a chronicle of the five months, between April and September of 2001, it took him to do it.
As the miserable weather outside lashed at the windows and my Aunt Jennifer babbled about napkin handling etiquette, I was far removed to another world; a land of gushing rivers, Russian mafia, indigenous people, and non-stop action.
"Lost in Mongolia" is a true modern-day adventure and Angus vividly details the trials and tribulations that he and his team encounter as they attempt to become the first to fully navigate the length of the world's fifth longest river.
www.amazon.ca /Lost-Mongolia-Rafting-Worlds-Unchallenged/dp/0385660146   (2045 words)

  
 Icefire (Fire Star Trilogy)
Liz's Aunt Gwyneth moves into the house to help with the new dragon.
David has a premonition that the Aunt is up to no good.
The dragons are tricky, charming and they are able to elude the Aunt.
www.xmlwriter.net /books/viewbook/Icefire_(Fire_Star_Trilogy)-1843621347.html   (550 words)

  
 TNRD Library System
Together with her brother, she journeys 500 miles up the Cariboo Wagon Road, moving from adventure to adventure.
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Helen records the events of the voyage in her diary as the ill-fated expedition becomes trapped in the ice of an early Arctic freeze-over, and they are forced to leave the ship to find solid land.
www.tnrdlib.bc.ca /teens/adventure.php   (1301 words)

  
 Club Penguin Characters
Captain Rockhopper is a pirate who sails the seas on his ship, The Migrator, in search of adventure, and of course treasure.
Aunt Arctic is the advice columnist for the Penguin Times weekly newspaper.
Aunt Arctic is very busy with her writing.
clubpenguin.com /help/guide/characters.htm   (504 words)

  
 Powell's Books - A House Called Awful End by Philip Ardagh
Eddie Dickens is sent off to stay with his aunt and uncle and a riotously funny comedy of errors ensues.
When both Eddie Dickens's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of hot water bottles, it's agreed he should go and stay with relatives at their house, Awful End.
Unfortunately for Eddie, those relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even-Madder Aunt Maud.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0805068287-1   (335 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Shooting Star (The Adventures of Tintin): Books: Herge   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tintin in Tibet (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
In this adventure, a mysterious shooting star and an unexplained heat wave are rumoured to signal the end of the world -- that is, until eccentric Professor Decimus Phostle proves otherwise.
The adventure itself revolves around the professor's - and Tintin's, of course - quest for a lump of the material itself.
www.amazon.com /Shooting-Star-Adventures-Tintin/dp/0316358517   (1744 words)

  
 The House & other Arctic musings: History
A closer look at the headstone made it obvious that one hundred and eighteen years of Arctic weather had taken its toll, and it was decided that a replica of the headstone would be made, and a suitable home found for the original.
Captain Klebert, along with some of the crew, Kautaq Joseph, an Elder from Arctic Bay, and Mishak Allurut, a representative of the Hamlet of Arctic Bay, held a short poignant ceremony marking the re-dedication of the grave, and then once again John was left to rest in peace.
She was one of the first people to welcome me to Arctic Bay, and always had time for me. She also excelled at making my favourite country food, strips of seal cooked on a rock over a heather fire.
kiggavik.typepad.com /the_house_other_arctic_mu/history   (11248 words)

  
 Gamepage :: Dink Smallwood - Review by Game Tunnel
Dink Smallwood is an adventure game, similar to "The Legend of Zelda." The game starts out with your mother dying in a fire while Dink was away feeding the pigs in his hometown of Stonebrook.
Dink Smallwood is a standard adventure game, but that didn't stop RT Soft from providing an exciting and fun game experience.
Adventure and humor have generally been a good pair in the past, and Dink Smallwood got the combination right.
gametunnel.com /gamespace.php?id=79&tab=3   (1020 words)

  
 Club Penguin Characters
She does her best to choose a question that will help the most penguins.
Go to Aunt Arctic’s column in the newspaper and click on the ‘send a question’ icon.
To send a joke, poem, riddle or comic go to the last page of the newspaper and follow the instructions.
www.clubpenguin.com /help/guide/characters.htm   (504 words)

  
 Alibris: Adventure
Government employee Rachel Sexton is sent to the Arctic Circle, where a band of scientists and Delta Force soldiers is trying to excavate a possible extraterrestrial spaceship from the ice.
After learning he is a demigod, Percy Jackson is sent to a summer camp on Long Island, where he meets the father he never knew--Poseidon, god of the sea.
The perilous, obsessive world of the deep-sea diver is revealed in this true account of a six-year quest begun in 1991 to recover items from and discover the identity of a World War II U-boat sunk off the coast of New Jersey, a place where the history books said no such ship should be.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Adventure   (1347 words)

  
 All dressed up for the mosh - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au
There's been an alarming number of girls turning up to gigs with handbags lately; I even saw one reapplying her lip gloss right before the Arctic Monkeys came on stage.
These girls (in their tiny dresses and lashings of make-up) obviously aren't cut out for the mosh, yet the way they jostle for position to be at the front is really irritating.
There should be warnings posted in every recording studio around the world: "Put the good song down and step away from the ProTools rig." And then we just pray that they don't have home recording equipment; if so, look for the horsemen of the apocalypse.
www.theage.com.au /news/music/agony-aunt-answers-your-rock-questions/2006/08/17/1155407932087.html   (465 words)

  
 12/09/96 WORLDS OF ADVENTURE ON THE COFFEE TABLE
All too often, when people give coffee-table books as holiday gifts, their thinking goes something like this: Aunt Maude knits, and we don't know what to get her, so let's give her a nice picture book on knitting.
This year, there are all sorts of fascinating coffee-table books that would even wake Aunt Maude from her knitting stupor.
The shots taken from a helicopter of Arctic land- and seascapes are awesome.
www.businessweek.com /1996/50/b3505126.htm   (1193 words)

  
 Sierra Club Insider
Unfortunately, the Arctic is threatened by more than just the short-sighted energy policies of the Bush administration.
The next time Uncle Burt starts railing that we ought to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or Aunt Mim wonders what's so bad about slightly warmer winters, you'll be ready with just the right come back, thank to our Holiday Survival Guide.
Martinez and Anderson are part of Outward Bound Adventure's Youth Advisory Council (YAC), which is supported by the Sierra Club's Inside the Outdoors Project and provides urban youth with the chance to experience high-quality outdoor environmental education.
www.sierraclub.org /insider/insider2004-12-07.asp   (732 words)

  
 James and the Giant Peach (1996)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians, befriends human like bugs who live inside a giant peach, who take the boy on a journey to New York City.
Aunt Sponge: We sent you out here to kill a spider!
The aunts in here are a real hoot to look at, particularly the one with the pronounced teeth.
us.imdb.com /Title?0116683   (475 words)

  
 AMI Sector One - A-Compendiums
Adventure of Norris (the) by Virus Free PD released in 1991.
Adventures of Moktar (the) by Titus released in 1991.
Adventures of Willy Beamish (the) by Dynamix released in 1992.
amiga.emucamp.com /scripts/readcsvplus.pl?number=a   (3264 words)

  
 Ben's Short Epics
Do (256 kb) A completely ridiculous song using samples of my voice.
Arctic Adventure (700 kb) Inspired by the music of the game 'Aunt Arctic Adventure'.
Nuts (303 kb) This song has a cool random sounding organ tune.
www.effect.net.au /geeen/music   (183 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure: Video Games   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It is up to Crash to retrieve the crystals and help return the entire planet to its natural state.
The only part of this game that may disappoint you is that you are not getting nearly as much variety in your levels as you do in some of Crash's other adventures.
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure is an OK game, and did convince me that the others are better, And they were.
www.amazon.com /Crash-Bandicoot-The-Huge-Adventure/dp/B00005V9NJ   (1640 words)

  
 » Adventures in Alaska
I did enjoy your adventures so far, but it is easy for me cause my child is safely at home.
I wish you were traveling thru Washington, so I can get a good look at you and reasure her you are ok. Sounds like you guys are enjoying yourselves and the free spirit Alaska brings to you.
I was the first motorcycle chased by this wolf, if you are talking about a location half way between Arctic Circle and Yukon Crossing on the Dalton Highway.
www.ridingthespine.com /Journey/alaska/adventures-in-alaska   (1369 words)

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