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Discovering the wonders of our world / editor, Noel Buchanan ; art editor, Joanna Walker

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Reader's Digest Association Limited, 1993Edition: First editionDescription: 456 pages : color illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text, still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0276421086
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 508
Contents:
The world's greatest natural wonders:
Africa
Europe
Middle East and Asia
Australia
New Zealand and the Pacific
North America
South Africa
Antarctica
Forces that shape the earth:
The forces that shape the Earth
Why the continents are drifting across the globe
The fiery, active youth of volcanoes
Volcanoes in old age
The cracks where the Earth divides
Lurching rocks that can wreak terrible destruction
The violent birth of mountains
Sun and gravity : forces of erosion
Limestone country : land of caves and dry valleys
Coasts : where land and sea battle for supremacy
How rivers carve patters in the land
The brief lives of lakes
The awesome power of glaciers to sculpt the landscape
Deserts : changing landscapes sandblasted by the world
Oceans of drifting sand
Features:
Venturing "beyond the garden gate"
Patterns of toil and husbandry
Accepting a challenge from nature
Landscape in the eye of the beholder
Powerful backdrops for screen drama
Awesome monuments to lost empires
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Book Book Bagong Silangan Branch Reference Section Circulation C 508 D611 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 127009d
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C 425 W927 1996 World of language C 428 H838 1990 Houghton Mifflin English C 428 K42m 1996 Making connection 3 : an integrated approach to learning English C 508 D611 1993 Discovering the wonders of our world C 523.80223 K41s 1993 The star guide C 551.6 W362 1997 Weather C 570 St796b 2016 Biology today and tomorrow with physiology

At head of title: Reader's Digest.

Includes index.

The world's greatest natural wonders:

Africa

Europe

Middle East and Asia

Australia

New Zealand and the Pacific

North America

South Africa

Antarctica

Forces that shape the earth:

The forces that shape the Earth

Why the continents are drifting across the globe

The fiery, active youth of volcanoes

Volcanoes in old age

The cracks where the Earth divides

Lurching rocks that can wreak terrible destruction

The violent birth of mountains

Sun and gravity : forces of erosion

Limestone country : land of caves and dry valleys

Coasts : where land and sea battle for supremacy

How rivers carve patters in the land

The brief lives of lakes

The awesome power of glaciers to sculpt the landscape

Deserts : changing landscapes sandblasted by the world

Oceans of drifting sand

Features:

Venturing "beyond the garden gate"

Patterns of toil and husbandry

Accepting a challenge from nature

Landscape in the eye of the beholder

Powerful backdrops for screen drama

Awesome monuments to lost empires

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