Peter Lourie

Books

	Arctic Thaw: The People of the Whale in a Changing Climate For thousands of years, Iñupiaq Eskimos have hunted bowhead whales from the sea ice. Now this hunting platform is becoming thinner and more dangerous. The Iñupiaq Eskimos live in a warming land-the North Slope of Alaska. As global climate change continues to heat up the Arctic, the Iñupiaq culture faces an uncertain future.
	Hidden World of the AZTEC In 1521 the world of the Aztec came to a sudden and brutal end. Hernan Cortes, the Spanish cr, captured Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztecs, which signaled the end of their civilization. Evidence of what Aztec civilization was like continues to emerge from under the streets of the Mexican capital...
	Lost Treasure of the INCA The Inca crafted many of the world's most beautiful objects, including golden masks, plates, vases and jewelry. Most of that treasure has been lost to history, plundered by the conquistadors. But does more treasure exist. Tons of golden objects may be buried in the mountains of Ecuador...
	The Mystery of the MAYA The ancient Maya created one of the greatest civilizations of the New World. They built more than fifty powerful city-states during the Classic period, which lasted for six hundred years. Then, around A.D. 900, the Maya mysteriously abandoned their cities and temples...
	First Dive To Shark Dive Peter Lourie and his 12-year-old daughter Suzanna flew to the wild island of Andros in the Bahamas for a Caribbean adventure. Suzanna wanted to learn how to scuba dive so she could dive with sharks. Join Suzanna as she leaves the pool to enter a mysterious inland "blue hole," sees her first barracuda, swims with parrot fish, and dives with sharks.
	The Lost World of the Anasazi More than one thousand years ago, a people known as the Anasazi lived in the North American Southwest. They produced pottery, baskets, and cloth, and engaged in trade. They were master builders and erected magnificent structures. Then in the last half of the thirteenth century, something mysterious happened...
	Tierra del Fuego: A Journey to the End of the Earth Peter Lourie takes young readers on a journey to the tip of South America, where the Yámana and other Patagonian tribes for thousand of years fished the waters and hunted in the mysterious forests. Tierra del Fuego is indeed the land mystery at the end of the earth...
	Amazon Journey through the heart of the Amazon with Peter Lourie and Marcos Santilli and view the traditional life of the indians and the rubber tappers; visit the colonists and gold miners; ride the Devil's Railroad and witness the controversial burning of the jungle...
	On the Trail of Lewis and Clark: A Journey up the Missouri River Peter Lourie, along with three friends, follows Lewis and Clark's path up the Missouri River to see what the Corps of Discovery might have seen. Their journey takes them from Omaha, Nebraska, where they launch their boat during one of the worst floods in a century, to Three Forks, Montana, where they meet the headwaters of the Missouri River...
	Erie Canal Canoeing America's Great Waterway The Erie Canal was the first great technological achievement of the United States. From 1817 to 1825, thousands dug, axed, and blasted through the wilderness to create a 363-mile waterway stretching from Lake Erie to the Hudson River.They succeeded in doing what many thought could not be done...
	Everglades Buffalo Tiger and the River of Grass The Florida Everglades is a huge river of razor-sharp sawgrass that flows one hundred miles from Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico. With its stark beauty and abundance of birds and other wildlife, the Everglades is one of the world's ecological treasures...
	Hudson River An Adventure from the Mountains to the Sea Born as a mountain brook, the Hudson River courses through dangerous rapids and waterfalls in a dramatic plunge of 4,000 feet. Then remarkably, the river slows and widens, becoming over the next 154 miles a massive arm of the sea, with saltwater and powerful tides...
	Mississippi River A Journey Down the Father of Waters The Mississippi River derives its name from Misizubi, an Algonquian word that means "Big River." The Mississippi is indeed big, both in its geography and history. From its modest source at Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, the Mississippi runs ...
	Rio Grande From the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico The Spanish called it the Rio Grande, the "Great River." After the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers, the Rio Grande is the third longest river in the United States. In its 1,885-mile course to the sea and in the history that has unfolded on its banks...
	On the Trail of SACAGAWEA In 1804 Lewis and Clark and a small band of adventurers calling themselves the Corps of Discovery set off on a great journey into the unknown. They left the Mississippi to travel up the Missouri River and over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean...
	Yukon River An Adventure to the Gold Fields of the Klondike Take an exciting 460-mile canoe trip down the Yukon River to the gold fields of the Klondike. From Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon Territory, onwards to the Arctic Circle, the rugged route of the gold rush comes alive in words and photographs.
	The Lost Treasure of Captain Kidd Tales of pirates' treasure are real to Killian and his friend Alex, who set off on a hunt for gold doubloons buried by Captain Kidd, the notorious pirate who stashed his loot in the Hudson Highlands. Spurred on by Killian's recurring dream of the ghostly pirate...
	River of Mountains A Canoe Journey down the Hudson River of Mountains is the journal of Lourie's three-week trip down the entire 315-mile length of the Hudson River from the river's source in the Adirondack Mountains to the sea. The book combines his personal experiences with descriptions of the landscape...
	Sweat of the sun, Tears of the Moon A Chronicle of an Incan Treasure Eight Billion dollars' worth of Inca gold and silver are rumored to be hidden in an unmapped region of the Andes. This is the captivating story of that fabled treasure and the centuries-old spell it has cast on many, including a young American Student, Peter Lourie...