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Eric Hansen is an intrepid traveller with a keenly perceptive eye and an appreciation for the odd and unusual. He will go anywhere, try anything and always manages to capture something remarkable in the doing.

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From the Orinoco River to the hothouses of Kew, this is a dark and humorous tale of orchid smugglers, visionary breeders, of corruption and murder, and of the bizarre world of international plant politics and the gentle people whose passion is the cultivation of these beautiful, fragile flowers.

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Concise and easy to read, this popular manual has provided a practical approach to the diagnosis and medical management of problems in the newborn through seven outstanding editions.  The Eighth Edition of Cloherty and Stark's Manual of Neonatal Care maintains that tradition of excellence, offering NICU physicians, neonatal-perinatal fellows, residents, and neonatal nurse practitioners quick access to key clinical information, fully updated to...

The Culture of Strangers explores the relationship between the development of commercial societies and cultural values.

Christmas is that special holiday for children and adults of all ages. And, at the North Pole, Ian is assigned the huge responsibility of taking care of that special place. He loves the challenge and soon findes himself asked to accompany Santa and his reindeer on Christmas Eve. Find out what happens on this fateful evening by reading this warm and wonderful story.

Thomsen and Hansen give easy-to-understand examples and provide readers with everything they need to create Enterprise solutions with .NET.

Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1, 500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath the rain forest canopy, they trekked through a hauntingly beautiful jungle where snakes and frogs fly, pigs climb trees, giant carnivorous plants eat mice, and mushrooms glow at night. At once a modern classic of trav...

Profiles 64 of the best hikes in the state. Detailed maps and directions and a superb selection of day hikes and overnight trips make this book accessible to all hiking enthusiasts, from families to outdoor fanatics. AHS

The acclaimed author of Motoring with Mohammed brings us a compelling adventure into the remarkable world of the orchid and the impossibly bizarre array of international characters who dedicte their lives to it. The orchid is used for everything from medicine for elephants to an aphrodisiac ice cream. A Malaysian species can grow to weigh half a ton while a South American species fires miniature pollen darts at nectar-sucking bees. But the orc...

In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to visit. As he tells of the turbulent seas that stranded him on the island and of his efforts to retrieve his buried journals when he returned t...