Jungle Islands: My South Sea Adventure

Coffey, Maria; Pearson, Debora

ISBN 10: 1550375970 ISBN 13: 9781550375978

Casa editrice: Annick Pr, 2000

Riassunto

An adventure by kayak through the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean and the third book in Annick Press' award-winningAdventure Travel series.

The Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean are full of sharks, malaria, giant centipedes and crocodiles, and are also the home to lush jungle, beautiful cockatoos, waist-high orchids, and tropical butterflies.

Maria Coffey and husband Dag love to kayak. Their adventure begins in Honiara, the capital city of the Solomon Islands, where Maria and Dag first encounter Pidgin English and men with mouths stained red from chewing betel nuts and lime. They snorkel incredible reefs alive with the rich blues, greens and reds of hundreds of fish, coral and clamshells -- and the odd lagoon shark! During their travels, they visit Skull Island, which houses the heads of dead chiefs; they learn to cook traditional food like taro and cassava roots; they witness the incredible, huge leatherback turtles burying their eggs in the sand and making decoy nest holes to fool the local monitor lizards. They even get lost among small, remote, uncharted islands. Yet everywhere Maria and Dag go, the locals welcome them with generosity and kindness.

Ever wonder about giant fruit bats, what a bathroom in the jungle looks like or what are the top ten uses for coconuts? Sidebars recount fascinating cultural facts and information from around the Islands. Maps are dispersed throughout the text with spectacular photography, enabling the reader to follow the kayak along its journey. An index is included for easy reference.

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L'autore:

Maria Coffey and Dag Goering are a husband-and-wife team who have traveled the world together, Maria writing about their adventures and Dag photographing them. Maria is the author of the popular Annick titlesA Seal in the Family and A Cat in a Kayak.

Debora Pearson is the author of the Mighty Wheels series. She co-authored the first two books in Annick's Adventure Travel series:52 Days by Camel: My Sahara Adventure (1998) and By Truck to the North (1998). She was also the editor of the acclaimedThe TV Book (1996). Debora lives in Toronto.

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Book by Coffey Maria Pearson Debora

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• Editore: Annick Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1550375970
• ISBN 13: 9781550375978
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura all'americana
• Numero di pagine: 88
• Disegnatore: Goering Dag