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Where Is Mount Everest?
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Where Is Mount Everest?Where Is Mount Everest?

As the recent deaths of sixteen Sherpas underscore, climbing Mount Everest remains a daunting challenge. Located in the Himalayas, Everest is the highest mountain in the world at a whopping 29,029 feet. In this compelling narrative, Nico Medina guides readers through the mountain?s ancient beginnings, first human settlers, historic climbs, and the modern commercialization of mountain-climbing. With stories of expeditions gone wrong and miraculously successful summit climbs, this is a thrilling addition to the Where Is …? series!
 
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Pompeii: Tiro's Story - Bookworms 1
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Pompeii: Tiro's Story - Bookworms 1Pompeii: Tiro's Story - Bookworms 1

It is early morning on a warm day in Roman Italy. Sixteen-year-old Tiro gets the water, makes breakfast, and works in the kitchen - like he does day after day. Tiro is a slave. But today is different. He is going to Pompeii for the first time. He is excited, but it is AD 79: and on Mount Vesuvius, very bad things are beginning to happen...
 
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Tags: Pompeii, Mount, excited, first, Vesuvius, Bookworms, Story, going
World Wonders - Bookworms 2
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World Wonders - Bookworms 2World Wonders - Bookworms 2

What are the most beautiful, the most interesting, the most wonderful things in the world? The Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal - everyone has their favourites. And there are natural wonders too - Mount Everest, Niagara Falls, and the Northern Lights, for example
 
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Tags: Great, Falls, Niagara, Everest, wonders, World, Bookworms, Wonders, Mount
Mount Fuji: Footprint Reading Library. Level B1
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Mount Fuji: Footprint Reading Library. Level B1Mount Fuji: Footprint Reading Library. Level B1

Mount Fuji is a famous mountain in Japan that has become a symbol of Japanese culture. Thousands of people climb the mountain every year. Some do it to take pictures and buy gifts. Others climb it for other reasons. Why do so many people climb Mount Fuji? What kind of experience is it?
 
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The Wind and the Void [Audiobook]
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The Wind and the Void [AudiobookThe Wind and the Void [Audiobook

The invasion is here. Already decimated by civil war, the armies of the Three Kingdoms struggle desperately to mount a defense against a force stronger than any they have fought before.

 
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