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| This story is a word-for-word account of one of Johnny Biosphere's many visits to schools all over the world. |
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Have Globe Will Travel Johnny Biosphere is a global hitch-hiker. Most of his life he has ridden on the back of Dr. Jack. Scientists travel a lot — to scientific meetings and on projects. When Dr. Jack has finished his heavy-duty scientific stuff, Johnny takes over in schools. The two of them have traveled throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico. One of the other, or both, have been to Europe twenty-six times, seven times to Asia (India, Japan, China, Malasia, Indonesia, Philippines), six times to Africa (Egypt, Tunisia, Singapore, Morocco, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Kenya), four times to South America (Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, and Argentina), and twice to Australia - New Zealand. Between 1980 and 1992, Dr. Jack's employer, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans, sponsored many of Johnny's visits to schools. Every three years, a new Director General would appear, cutting off the school visits with a caustic comment, such as: "Now it's time to get back to science." Then it would start all over again.
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has snorkled over the Great Barrier Reef, walked on the surface
of Lake Eyre (a playa lake in Australia), and sailed on Lake Baikal
in Russia. Dr. Jack has bathed in every ocean except the Arctic
and Antarctic Oceans.
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and gives the student his address and phone number.