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"Did you know that in Sicily you can climb active volcanoes, explore archipelagos, visit salt flats with windmills, enjoy fragrant citrus groves, and discover bizarre natural phenomena? And did you know that some of the greatest masterpieces of world archaeology are preserved in thes region? That marionettes and their adventures were invented in Sicily? And that Sicilian cuisine is among the richest on the planet? From Palermo to Catania, from Suracuse...
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"From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the epic adventure tale The Emerald Mile comes the most dramatic and deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek. The Grand Canyon is an American treasure, visited by more than 6 million people a year, many of whom are rendered speechless by its vast beauty, mystery, and complexity. Now, in A Walk in the Park, author Kevin Fedarko...
3) Oracle
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On a foggy winter morning two children discover the impossible: the wreck of an eighteenth-century ship stranded in a field. One enters the hatch on the deck and is never seen again. And she isn't the last to disappear. Soon a government agency begins to investigate, determined to uncover the ship's secrets before a media storm erupts. They enlist Robert Grim, a retired specialist of the occult, to unravel the mystery, who soon realises the ship could...