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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Based on exclusive inside reporting, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic's campaign to build a space tourism company. Schmidle follows a handful of characters-Mark Stucky, Virgin's lead test pilot ; Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire funding the venture ; Mike Moses, the grounded, unflappable president ; Mike Alsbury, the test pilot who lost his...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Soanin Kilangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island in the South Pacific. He organizes the largest cultural festival ever held on the island, but some traditional leaders argue that Baluan never had culture and that culture comes from the white man and is now destroying their old tradition. Others, however, take the festival as a welcome opportunity to revolt against '70...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program looks at the commercial functions of this world city as well as the lifestyles and features. Sydney reached 4.5 million people in 2010 and has one of the world's largest urban areas. The contrasts between inner and outer suburbs are shown, including Australia's most expensive real estate on the shores of Sydney Harbour. The variety of employment, education, services and amenities constantly attracts more people to the city which puts...
44) How to make a spaceship: a band of renegades, an epic race, and the birth of private space flight
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Alone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A harrowing narrative of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway--Covid-19--days before the world shut down in March, 2020. In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hotspots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina,...
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English
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Intercepts conducted in and around Rapid City in the summer travel season. The target audience was leisure visitors who had stayed overnight in Rapid City during the research period (July 11 - 17, 2011). The goal of this project was to gain an understanding as ti why visitors chose to stay in Rapid City over other Black Hills destinations and their overall vacation experience in Rapid City.
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English
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From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Harvey Girls went west to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe Railway. At a time when there were "no ladies west of Dodge City and no women west of Albuquerque," they came as waitresses, but many stayed and settled, founding the struggling cattle and mining towns that dotted the region. Interviews, historical research, and photographs help re-create the Harvey Girl experience. The accounts are personal,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Travel is now more open to a greater number of people than ever, and travelers are often looking for new adventures and experiences. And yet with crises developing constantly around the planet, many travelers want to explore the world and do good at the same time. This book shows them how.
51) Floating hotel
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family-and a mystery that spans the stars"--
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Special Historic Preservation Issue. Articles: Building a Vacationland: Tourism Development in the Black Hills during the Great Depression by Suzanne Barta Julin; Life along the Road: The Tourist Camp in South Dakota by Chris B. Nelson; A CCC Recruit Looks Back: Claire Patterson's Black Hills Experience edited by George A. Larson; Creations in Stone: Petroforms in East-River South Dakota by Paige Hoskinson. Dakota Images: Thomas J. Grier by Janet...
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