Download or read book Buddy the Globetrotter written by Robert Burke and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure in the Enchanted Islands is the second book in a series of Buddy the Globetrotter travel tales. This is a delightful blend of a sense of adventure with beautiful prose depicting the evolutionary treasures found in the Galapagos. Middle school and older readers will join Buddy as he explores the lush vegetation, barren moonscapes, and a mesmerizing undersea world. They will discover giant tortoises, fascinating birds, and bizarre behaviors. Buddy's sixth sense puts him on a mission to protect his fellow travelers from unbeknownst dangers.
Download or read book Buddy the Globetrotter Expedition to The Frozen Continent written by R. E Burke and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First in a series of travel tales told by Buddy, young readers will relate to his emotions while learning facts about this pristine wilderness. Few people or dogs have or ever will visit this frozen continent, upon which all life depends. En route to Antarctica, Buddy explores the historical Falkland and South Georgia Islands. Learn about the landscapes, the ocean, the ice, and the wildlife that survive this incredibly hostile environment. Feel the emotions that draw him close to 'Betty', another Maltese from Bhutan. Discover how his sixth sense enables him to become an unlikely hero."--
Download or read book Buddy the Globetrotter Passage Into Asia written by R. E. Burke and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navigating Europe Castles Canals and Canines written by Robert Burke and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History comes alive as Buddy takes us along cobblestone streets, canals, and interconnecting waterways in this part of the Old World, revealing origins of our current civilization. Castles and cathedrals remind us of a time when nations were just forming. Navigating Europe is the fifth book in the Buddy the Globetrotter series of travel tales. Europe, like this adventure, is different. Explore her peninsulas, islands, and famous cities. Imagine the ambiance of Venice or hiking in Croatia's Plitvice National Park. During his travels, Buddy meets other canines as well as unexpected challenges. Share more in his personality, his feelings, and his humor. Capture the flavor of Continental Europe as you travel with Buddy from the polders of the Netherlands to the transcontinental land of the Tsars.
Download or read book Buddy the Globetrotter Journey from Baja to Alaska written by Robert Burke and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodiversity, a forgotten culture, majestic glaciers, and a pristine wilderness await you along the western coast of North America. Discover the world's aquarium at the Sea of Cortez, surrounded like a horseshoe by the Sonoran Desert, born by tectonic forces splitting the land of northern Mexico. Visit Haida Gwaii, an archipelago created by similar forces, where descendants of Canada's First Nations people continue ancient traditions. Find wildlife treasures along the inner passage of interconnecting waterways and islands in the world's largest temperate rainforest. Complete your journey at Glacier Bay, carved by remnants of the Ice Age, which continue to calve gigantic shards of ice into the lower tidewaters. Journey from Baja to Alaska is the third book in a series of Buddy the Globetrotter travel tales. Like a past reviewer, you will find that you "Love Buddy". His tales are "Fun, informative, interesting, and educational." Join Buddy. Learn about these unique places along the world's third largest continent, and marvel at how often his heroism safeguards the journey.
Download or read book Crossing the Northwest Passage written by Robert Burke and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Buddy The Globetrotter Exploring Africa written by Robert Burke and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Africa is the fourth book in a series of Buddy The. Globetrotter travel tales. Africa lures us, perhaps like no other place on Earth. Why? Is it the diversity of life and landscapes on our second largest continent, the prior heart of the supercontinent Pangaea? Or is it because humankind arose from the grasslands of her interior millions of years ago? Whatever the lure, our understanding of her mystique can be molded by exploring her major ecosystems and how their inhabitants survive. Buddy takes us on a journey from the coastal environments and ancient medinas of Morocco, and into the high Atlas Mountains of Northern Africa. Learn about the current and ancient cultures of the people who inhabit those areas. Explore life in the Sahara Desert, an area covering the northern third of the continent. Discover the challenges to survival, as Buddy does when he becomes "lost luggage" and ends up in Southern Africa. Explore savanna ecosystems that cover half of the continent, as Buddy relates tales of his experiences in the Kalahari Desert and its lush Okavango Delta. Broaden your understanding of the history of Africa, as you visit Cape Town and the very tip of this cradle of humankind. C'mon, join Buddy on another informative, interesting, and intimate adventure. You'll be glad you did.
Download or read book Ice Bear Escapade written by R. E. Burke and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ice Bear Escapade is the seventh book, juvenile fiction, in a series of Buddy the Globetrotter travel tales. It is a sub-Arctic adventure into the fasting habitat of polar bears. Despite its adaptations, the very existence of this Arctic icon is threatened by global warming. Readers will learn why. Once again, Buddy's impulsive actions get him into trouble. This time he is totally unprepared to survive the harsh conditions when he gets lost on the tundra. Where will he find shelter and food? What happens when he comes face-to-face with the Arctic's top predators? Who are the caribou-eaters and what do they do with him? Join Buddy and learn all about these marine mammals and their dependence upon the ice.
Download or read book The Globetrotter written by Alfred Balm and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “On a bench in the central parc of Amsterdam, an old salt is sharing his memories with a contemporary senior, who spent his life maintaining the parc. The man is a simple but content pensioner who cared for the myriad of plants and flowers with dedication but the boundaries of the parc determined his living space, he never travelled beyond them. With increasing wonder and amazement, he listens in awe to the sometimes blood curdling narratives of the old sailor sitting next to him. The stories are opening a door to a world he never knew existed, revealing horizons that were always beyond his observation, until now. The sea smart sailor takes him to far away places, to the brothels in tropical harbours, the fights, the deadly danger but also the victories and the magic of a life spent at sea. The many amorous adventures, the brotherhood among seadogs, the tragedies, but also the enormous wealth resulting from risky undertakings, and how to quickly lose those fortunes again. The adventures are so realistically told that he imagines himself in the role of the sailor, but when the narrator pauses, to refresh his memories, the man contemplates about his own uneventful life. As soon as the mariner continues however, he imagines himself threatened by the enormous Komodo dragons on the Indonesian Gili Motang Island or finds himself in a deadly battle with the Nazi criminals of the ODESSA organization in Argentina. But he also wakes up in the warm embrace of the wicked woman married to his boss and he is running for his life again. The Globetrotter, number four in the series, is a novel packed with thrilling adventures, written in the best tradition of Cussler or Grisham.
Download or read book Globetrotter written by Mark Jacob and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the captivating biography of Abe Saperstein, originator of the Harlem Globetrotters, which is called "meticulously researched and written in an easy and entertaining style" by Booklist in a starred review. The original Harlem Globetrotters weren’t from Harlem, and they didn’t start out as globetrotters. The talented all-Black team, started by Jewish immigrant Abe Saperstein, was from Chicago’s South Side and toured the Midwest in Saperstein’s model-T. But with Saperstein’s savvy and the players’ skills, the Globetrotters would become a worldwide sensation. Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports is the fascinating biography of Saperstein, a five-foot-three promoter who made an amazing impact in a sport where height is at a premium: basketball. After Saperstein founded the team in the 1920s, they battled everything from blizzards to bigotry, steadily building a reputation for talent and comedy until their footprint covered the entire world. Abe Saperstein’s impact went well beyond the Harlem Globetrotters. He helped keep baseball’s Negro Leagues alive, was a force in getting pitching great Satchel Paige his shot at the majors, and befriended Olympic star Jesse Owens when he fell on hard times. When Saperstein started the American Basketball League, he pioneered the three-point shot, which has dramatically changed the sport. Globetrotter reveals the tireless work and impressive achievements of a man and a basketball team that made millions of people laugh, gasp, and applaud at their astounding performances.
Download or read book Confessions of A Gay Globetrotter written by Johnson O'Toole and published by Authors On Line Ltd. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid, humerous and often moving account of one man's secret life of homosexuality in a era when to be 'gay' risked not only being a social outcast but imprisonment if caught. The author's exploits and search for sexual happiness and expression start as a child on the Indian sub-continent, move on to his family's return to an austere post-war Britain, an unhappy and perhaps unjust dismissal from a promising army career in the Far East, through to the realisation that normal family life was never going to be an attainable goal in his global search for romantic bliss. From the shores of West Africa, where he finds true love, to Australia and the flesh pots of the Middle East, this a true human interest story of our time told with passion, humour and pathos. A real insight into a way of life that had to be secreted from the world for most of the author's life.
Download or read book Mystic Journeys written by Hopeton Gray and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had that chance to mingle with your culture and actually see the nuances that you might have overlooked? It is an experience to do so. The book is about culture and its influences. There are six short stories from Jamaica, Madagascar to the UK, and a play about a grocery shop in a rural village in Jamaica. It is a fun book for all to enjoy, in the end you can tell me what you think. This is my gift to you my readers.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1954-08-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book The Rise of the National Basketball Association written by David George Surdam and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's National Basketball Association commands millions of spectators worldwide, and its many franchises are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But the league wasn't always so successful or glamorous: in the 1940s and 1950s, the NBA and its predecessor, the Basketball Association of America, were scrambling to attract fans. Teams frequently played in dingy gymnasiums, players traveled as best they could, and their paychecks could bounce higher than a basketball. How did the NBA evolve from an obscure organization facing financial losses to a successful fledgling sports enterprise by 1960? Drawing on information from numerous archives, newspaper and periodical articles, and Congressional hearings, The Rise of the National Basketball Association chronicles the league's growing pains from 1946 to 1961. David George Surdam describes how a handful of ambitious ice hockey arena owners created the league as a way to increase the use of their facilities, growing the organization by fits and starts. Rigorously analyzing financial data and league records, Surdam points to the innovations that helped the NBA thrive: regular experiments with rules changes to make the game more attractive to fans, and the emergence of televised sports coverage as a way of capturing a larger audience. Notably, the NBA integrated in 1950, opening the game to players who would dominate the game by the end of the 1950sdecade: Bill Russell, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, and Oscar Robertson. Long a game that players loved to play, basketball became a professional sport well supported by community leaders, business vendors, and an ever-growing number of fans.
Download or read book Ted Strong Jr written by Sherman L. Jenkins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Strong Jr. (1917-1978) was a two-sport athlete, a major star of the Negro Leagues and one of the original Harlem Globetrotters. His prominence in the Negro Leagues led Branch Rickey and other white baseball league owners to consider Strong as one of several possible players to integrate major league baseball, and he was a key force on the basketball court when the Globetrotters defeated the then-invincible Minneapolis Lakers in 1948. Despite his athletic dominance in the 1930s and 40s, Strong Jr. has largely been forgotten in American sports history. In Ted Strong Jr.: The Untold Story of an Original Harlem Globetrotter and Negro Leagues All-Star, Sherman L. Jenkins finally shares the fascinating story of this star athlete. Born Theodore Relighn Strong Jr. in South Bend, Indiana, Strong Jr., the eldest of fourteen children, was fortunate to have a positive influence in his father—a baseball player himself. Strong Jr. went on to play in seven Negro League Baseball East-West All-Star games, receiving the most votes in all of Black baseball history in 1939, and was a key member of the 1940 Harlem Globetrotter basketball team that won the World Professional Basketball Championship. Jenkins details all of this and more, including Strong Jr.’s frustrations with integration efforts promised by white baseball team owners and the eventual decline of the Negro Leagues after the entrance of Jackie Robinson into Major League Baseball. Through hours of interviews with Strong Jr.’s father and with friends and teammates of his brother Othello, along with extensive research of newspaper archives, this book provides rich insights into an unsung hero in the American sports landscape. For baseball and basketball fans of all ages, Ted Strong Jr.’s biography displays for the first time the determination and guts of a man who was idealized by many African Americans in the early twentieth century.
Download or read book Year Book Trotting and Pacing written by United States Trotting Association and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 2928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
