Catalog Search Results
Series
Language
English
Description
Cari's aboard the Galapagos Explorer en route to Santa Cruz Island. It's home to the Charles Darwin Research Station, where giant sea tortoises are being bred in captivity. There are giant tortoises in the wild too, and Cari wants to see them too. At the end of a long day, she snorkels among Galapagos' friendly creatures.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cari snorkels in the beautiful Red Sea and then gets an even better look under the sea on an underwater dive. In the desert, she meets a Jordanian brother and sister, and the three have fun playing in the sand dunes. Cari learns about zaerb, a traditional food cooked under the sand, and is thrilled to discover she'll be camping in the desert overnight.
Series
Language
English
Description
Cari heads to the ancient city of Jerash, one of the largest and most well preserved sites of Roman architecture in the world. She dances alongside bagpipers in Jerash's famous amphitheatre and is then off to Wadi Mujib, the lowest nature reserve in the world. She spends the day wandering through a water-filled gorge. WOW!
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cari's assignment starts in Istanbul, where she heads to Topkapi Palace for a great view of the city that straddles two continents. Then, she's off to the countryside to see an underground city. She even meets local villagers for a lunch of gozleme, which are Turkish pancakes.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cari heads to Mexico's Janitzio Island to meet the mariposeros, whose fishing nets look like butterflies. Then, she's off to a monarch butterfly sanctuary to see the largest insect migration in the world. Later, she enjoys traditional snacks on a rooftop overlooking a historic city.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cari makes her way to the Pululahua Crater and discovers this place used to be in the middle of the world, until the earth moved. She also discovers there's a town inside the crater. She and local children play a game of hide and seek amid the cornfields. Then, Cari's off to the "new" middle of the world to carry out some equatorial experiments.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cari travels to tiny Heimaey Island off the coast of Iceland to help rescue Atlantic puffins. She and local "puffin patrollers" scour the town at night looking for wayward pufflings. They later nurse them back to health and release the little birds into the ocean for their long journey to Canada.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request