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Posted: March 22 2006 at 10:16am | IP Logged Quote Mary G

Any suggestions for living books for high school level geography? I want to have ds do a 12th grade geography course but i'd like to use living books if at all possible.

I could use Longitude by Dava Sobel but any other suggestions. Has anyone used Around the World in 80 Days?

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Posted: March 22 2006 at 10:49am | IP Logged Quote MacBeth

I have not used the audio version, and I only saw the video several years ago, but how about Michael Palin's series? Has anyone used it?

The Measure of All Things (on determining the meter) was great. (There are several books with this title, and some are not too wholesome ...this is the link to the history/geography book.)

There are other links on Amazon once you click through, and though I have not read them all, I see some books that might be fun.

If you are not too put-off by puerile humor and off-color language , Bill Bryson's walking tour books are worth reading. They must be edited for read aloud with younger kids, and I usually listen on audio and only let the kids hear certain segments. I especially enjoyed most of In a Sunburned Country, his tour of Australia, but he does visit (accidentally ) a se* shop, and his "humor" is sometimes at a junior high level. For the most part, though, his walking tours are terrific.



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Posted: March 22 2006 at 12:34pm | IP Logged Quote momwise

Oh I love travel books. What a great idea for high school geography. I have to recommend Lost in the Amazon. The author is a Christian and it's very clean for high school. Lots and lots of information about the hidden tribes, local villages, bugs, wildlife, snakes, weather, etc. in a kind of style that makes you feel you're there.

There's another pretty good book about the author's experiences (not the one above) traveling to all the most extreme places on earth. In every location he went on some kind of local pilgrimage or traditional trip (in one place he went on a very dangerous honey gathering trip that is only made by the men of the group once a year). It's called Extremes: Surviving the World's Harshest Enviroments.

Also Mary, I'm going to have high school dd read something by Stephen Mosher (or Jaqueline Kasun) about population and probably his book about his graduate work in China.

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Posted: March 22 2006 at 6:41pm | IP Logged Quote Mary G

These are great suggestions Macbeth and Gwen - and my librayr has most of them so I can road-test 'em before we go across the pond.....


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