Rumford, James

Summary: While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004

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Rumford, James.

Summary: A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003

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Rumford, James.

Summary: Ibn Battuta was the traveler of his age--the fourteenth century in a time before Columbus, when many believed the world to be flat. Like Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta left behind an account of his own incredible journey from Morocco to China, from the steppes of Russia to the shores of Tanzania, some seventy-five thousand miles in all.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001

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Buford, Bill

Summary: "Bill Buford turns his inimitable attention from Italian cuisine to the food of France. Baffled by the language, but convinced that he can master the art of French cooking - or at least get to the bottom of why it is so revered - he begins what becomes afive-year odyssey by shadowing the esteemed French chef, Michel Richard, in Washington, D.C. But when Buford (quickly) realizes that a stage in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020

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Buford, Kate.

Summary: The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010

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