Our World of Water
Children and Water Around the World
Hollyer, Beatrice
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Wherever we live in this worldwhether our country is rich or poorwater is vital to our survival on this planet. This book follows the daily lives of children in Peru,Mauritania, the United States, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Tajikistan, and explores what water means to them.Where does it come from? How do they use it? With the growing threat of climate change affecting all our lives, this book invites discussion on the ways different countries and cultures value this most precious of our planets natural resources.
AUTHOR BIO
BEATRICE HOLLYER has been a writer and traveler all her life. As a television reporter and newscaster, she covered conflicts in the Gulf, the Middle East, South Africa, and the former Yugoslavia, and reported from Europe and the United States. She was born in South Africa and has been living in London, England, for the past twenty years.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0805089411
ISBN(13-digit): 9780805089417
Dewey Decimal: 363.6/1
Library of Congress: 2008040596
Book Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 47
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