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2004 Adventures
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Sail with biology professor Matt Rand through a "living laboratory"--the Galapagos Islands. This World Heritage site is located 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador and is home to some of the world's most unusual animals.
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Join art historian Laurel Bradley and music professor Stephen Kelly for a lively tour of the Windy City
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Join French professor Scott Carpenter and his wife, Anne Maple, for a sojourn in Sarlat-la-Caneda, a 14th-century walled village. One of Europe�s most perfectly preserved towns, it boasts an unmatched concentration of medieval, Renaissance, and 17th-century facades, yet village life is vibrant and bustling.
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Join geologist David Bice for an alumni version of his geology seminar for students at the Coldigioco research site in central Italy.
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Join English professor Greg Hewett for a weekend in Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island--the first place the sun rises in the United States, over the highest point on the North Atlantic Seaboard. The island, sculpted by glaciers, is split by the only fjord on the East Coast. Known for its fishing villages, artist colonies, and lighthouses, it has long been a summer refuge for East Coast millionaires. Acadia National Park covers much of the island.
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Explore California's Sonoma Valley with English professor Michael Kowlewski in this abbreviated version of his popular "Visions of California" off-campus studies program.
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Join philosophy professor Perry Mason and geologist Beth Schwarzman on the seventh Carleton Grand Canyon river-running trip. From Lee's Ferry in northeastern Arizona to Pearce Ferry in Nevada, this 18-day, 280-mile trip will follow in the historic wake of John Wesley Powell, first known navigator of the canyon. Enjoy the magnificent scenery carved by the Colorado River as it meanders between red cliffs, then thunders through some of the most exciting whitewater in North America.
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Join Carleton faculty leaders Nancy Wilkie and Cherif Keita as they tour the ancient kingdoms of Mali, Cherif's homeland.
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