Walking Adventure

From easy walks along sandy beaches to rugged overnight hikes to quick uphill treks with stunning vistas en route, this guide has something to suit every member of your family. Walking times for each hike are given, along with descriptions of the route. Points of interest are highlighted, including plant and animal life you might see. An introduction to each island offers tidbits of the island's history, tourist information offices, air travel details, and hiking organizations you can contact ahead of time.

How far will a greedy politician go to keep the money rolling in? Senator Richard St. Clair is about to learn the cold hard facts about people who cherish only cold hard cash and just how dangerous it is to threaten the income of the rich and powerful.

Weak, sick, sore, and with no memory of his past, Keith Anderson wakes up in a Seattle hospital completely unaware of why he is there. Immediately he starts to piece together how he was injured, as his sister comes in to visit him, thinking he is still unconscious. Minor sounds begin to flood into the memories he lost; he slowly pieces together that a flight he was on went down.

Entdecken Sie mit dieser limitierten Sonderedition des Audible Stadtspaziergangs sechs der Austragungsstädte der Fußball Weltmeisterschaft 2006. Lernen Sie begleitet durch Zeitzeugen und bekannte Persönlichkeiten die Orte kennen, welche die Geschichte der Städte prägten, in denen heute die Spiele der Fußball Weltmeisterschaft 2006 ausgetragen werden.

Pirate Greg needs a new peg leg. Then after a hard day's work, the pirate crew uses the plank as a diving board to go swimming. Kids will love listening to these decodable texts.

When a priceless - and cursed - Egyptian statue suddenly disappears out of a collector's home, Rick, Jed and their ingenious robot, Meek, are determined to find out the facts. Soon they are hot on a trail of international thieves and a mystery that spans millenniums, where danger lurks at every turn. Is the horrible curse of Ash-ba about to be fulfilled? Rick, Jed and Meek are about to find out.

Real life stories as told to the author along with their permission to include them in this collection, we meet those overcoming life's challenges by seeing them as opportunities to change something in their thinking or lifestyle to create a whole exciting new reality for themselves.

Toronto's only audio guide to the city's beautiful trails through wooded ravines, the scenic Humber, Don and Rouge river valleys and along wild sections of the Lake Ontario shore - where you feel miles out of the city, but are all within reach by public transit. This guide details how to reach the trails and guides you along the walk and tells you how to get back. It also shares interesting stories about people who explored these paths in earlier times.

The valley is in serious trouble. A drought threatens farmers, families, and wildlife. Another problem Jim is facing: kids tease him because he's the shortest boy in his class. Hurrying home from school one day, Jim falls into a rut. It's not an ordinary rut, it's a huge footprint! Jim is astonished to discover a giant boy who has wandered down from his snowy mountain home to visit the valley in distress. Both boys feel different and soon become friends.

On December 16, 1944, the mad man, Adolf Hitler, launched a massive counterattack against Allied forces who were freezing their butts off in the Ardennes Forests of Belgium. We were caught totally off guard when more than a quarter million crack German troops and hundreds of high quality tanks descended upon our positions.

Over the years, authors, artists and amblers aplenty have felt the pull of the Thames, and now travel writer Tom Chesshyre is following in their footsteps. He's walking the length of the river from the Cotswolds to the North Sea - a winding journey of over 200 miles. Join him for an illuminating stroll past meadows, churches, palaces, country (and council) estates, factories and dockyards.

At the age of 70 the author retired and set out to fulfill a lifelong dream of living in another country. He planned to live in the world's most beautiful city, Paris, for two years, but returned home to California after a year in Paris and Tuscany. He takes you on his journey, experiencing the joys and challenges of living in those two storied parts of the world.

In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie walks from north to south, retracing the route of the emblematic Jarrow Crusade. Following history's footsteps, Maconie is in search of what modern Britain is really like today.

Audio Journeys explores the Maya Music Museum in La Antigua, Guatemala, with the museum founder and director. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

A lawless land. Outlaws, thieves, robbers, murderers run rampant. This is a frontier land in which a man must make a stand. He must live by the rule of decency. He must protect the innocent, uphold the law and serve the public. Sometimes the politicians who make the laws fail, and he must make his own decisions about right and wrong. He must protect the innocent, stand up to the corrupt. This is Marshal Morgan Porter!

Louise Miller (Lou for short), a fourth grader in Mrs. Smith's class at Corine L. Cannon Elementary school, has a major problem. She has been late for school several times and will be in big trouble if it happens again. She has to face her fears in order to get there before the bell rings.

A ferryman walks the fire to an isolated generation ship, only a few decades away from its destination planet. There, in a moment of tragedy, he will learn that despite hundreds of years of life and the promise of endless more, even a ferryman's life can change.

The Baltimore Clipper ship Frolic was bound from Canton, China, to San Francisco with household goods for gold miners. The shipwreck of the Frolic lead to the founding of the town of Mendocino, California, and the discovery of redwood trees. We speak with archeologists who are studying this important early California event. The Frolic Shipwreck is now a California Underwater State Park.

This brings you the most detailed information you will find on hiking trails on these islands. From easy walks along sandy beaches to rugged overnight hikes to quick uphill treks with stunning vistas en route, this guide has something to suit every member of your family. Walking times for each hike are given, along with descriptions of the route. Points of interest are highlighted, including plant and animal life you might see.

Phoebe would rather be on her phone than walk around the Doubloons Pirate Park for her brother Max's birthday. Then he insists on exploring an old pirate ship with an animatronic pirate aboard. But when a storm rolls in, the kids find themselves at sea with the pirate that's come to life. He agrees to take them back to Doubloons, but only if they help him in return.