Download or read book Adventures on the High Mountains written by Richard. [from old catalog] Stead and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Animals of the High Mountains written by Judith E. Rinard and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts mountain animals from all over the world, including the mountain lion, llama, rock hyrax, and ibex.
Download or read book Adventures on the High Mountains written by Richard Stead and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adventures on the High Mountains: Romantic Incidents Perils of Travel, Sport, and Exploration Throughout the World It is a curious fact that until two or three generations ago men did not see beauty in mountain scenery. To them the mountains were always forbidding, full of terror, awful, never alluring or fascinating. Towering peaks, rugged glaciers, lofty precipices, dark ravines, stupendous crags were things to shudder at and avoid. It is sometimes said that the mountains have lost their terrors, and certainly men seek them in our day from pure love of them, undeterred by the dangers and difficulties which must still be encountered by those who would scale their heights, or penetrate into their recesses. The exploits of Alpine climbers are wonderful for the enthusiasm and the daring which they display; and the achievements of others who have braved the same perils in pursuit of science or commerce show a not less adventurous spirit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Adventures on the High Mountains written by Richard Stead and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Adventure written by Edmund Hillary and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1955 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal record of the author's mountain climbing experiences, including the Everest Expedition of 1953.
Download or read book Life Lived Wild written by Rick Ridgeway and published by Patagonia. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small tents pitched in the world’s most remote regions.” It’s not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, “to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.” He leaves it to his readers, though, to do the final sort of which is which."--Amazon.
Download or read book The High Mountains of Portugal written by Yann Martel and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Fifteen years after The Life of Pi, Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize–winning novel will recognize familiar themes from that seafaring phenomenon, but the itinerary in this imaginative new book is entirely fresh. . . . Martel’s writing has never been more charming.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that—if he can find it—would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe’s earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of Tomás’s quest. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. And there the century-old quest will come to an unexpected conclusion. The High Mountains of Portugal—part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable—offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century—and through the human soul. Praise for The High Mountains of Portugal “Just as ambitious, just as clever, just as existential and spiritual [as Life of Pi] . . . a book that rewards your attention . . . an excellent book club choice.”—San Francisco Chronicle “There’s no denying the simple pleasures to be had in The High Mountains of Portugal.”—Chicago Tribune “Charming . . . Most Martellian is the boundless capacity for parable. . . . Martel knows his strengths: passages about the chimpanzee and his owner brim irresistibly with affection and attentiveness.”—The New Yorker “A rich and rewarding experience . . . [Martel] spins his magic thread of hope and despair, comedy and pathos.”—USA Today “I took away indelible images from High Mountains, enchanting and disturbing at the same time. . . . As whimsical as Martel’s magic realism can be, grief informs every step of the book’s three journeys. In the course of the novel we burrow ever further into the heart of an ape, pure and threatening at once, our precursor, ourselves.”—NPR “Refreshing, surprising and filled with sparkling moments of humor and insight.”—The Dallas Morning News “We’re fortunate to have brilliant writers using their fiction to meditate on a paradox we need urgently to consider—the unbridgeable gap and the unbreakable bond between human and animal, our impossible self-alienation from our world.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian “[Martel packs] his inventive novel with beguiling ideas. What connects an inept curator to a haunted pathologist to a smitten politician across more than seventy-five years is the author’s ability to conjure up something uncanny at the end.”—The Boston Globe “A fine home, and story, in which to find oneself.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
Download or read book Adventures on the High Mountains romantic incidents perils of travel sport and exploration throughout the world With sixteen illustrations written by Richard Stead (B.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures on the High Mountains written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ultimate Skiing Adventures written by Alf Alderson and published by Fernhurst Books Limited. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimate Skiing Adventures takes you on a skiing voyage around the planet's biggest, best and most unusual ski destinations – from the huge mega-resorts of the French Alps to sailing along Iceland's north coast in search of great snow, there are exciting adventures that will appeal to everyone from novice to expert. The inspirational descriptions of 100 locations combine Alf Alderson's personal experience with the input of experts in all aspects of skiing and mountain sports and are accompanied by stunning full-page photography from some of the world's foremost ski photographers. Published in a year of great uncertainty for ski travel, this book allows you to escape onto the slopes in your own home. Perfect for indulging in some armchair skiing of slopes that only the most adventurous will tackle and for planning your next ski trip. And it's not just about skiing – the contents cover avalanche rescue techniques, snow science, road trips, the work of ski patrollers and resorts so remote and obscure that you may never have heard of them. The book is divided into sections on Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, Scandinavia and the Rest of the World. Discover where you will ski next – in reality or in your imagination.
Download or read book Danger on the Mountain written by Gregg Treinish and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accomplished outdoor explorer Gregg Treinish loves adventure! Whether it's spending two years hiking the remote and perilously high Andes Mountains or coming face to face with wolverines, lynx, and bears, Gregg always knows where the action is. With
Download or read book The Summits of Modern Man written by Peter H. Hansen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountaineering has served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. A fascinating study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mt. Everest, The Summits of Modern Man reveals the significance of our encounters with the world’s most forbidding heights and how difficult it is to imagine nature in terms other than conquest and domination.
Download or read book National Geographic Kids Chapters Danger on the Mountain written by Gregg Treinish and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accomplished outdoor explorer Gregg Treinish loves adventure! Whether it's spending two years hiking the remote and perilously high Andes Mountains or coming face to face with wolverines, lynx, and bears, Gregg always knows where the action is. With gripping—and totally true—stories of incredible adventures, extreme excursions, and ultimate survival, this book will have you on the edge of your seat.
Download or read book Mountaineering Adventures written by Matt Doeden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes mountain climbing, its history, equipment, and dangers, and some climbers' adventures.
Download or read book Adventures on the High Mountains Romantic Incidents Perils of Travel Sport and Exploration Throughout the World With Sixteen Illustrations written by Richard Stead and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rocky Mountain Adventures written by Betty Swinford and published by Christian Focus. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rocky Mountains are full of rugged terrain and fascinating animals. Find out about how people are praying that many Native Americans will be brought to know Jesus for themselves.
Download or read book High on the Saddle An Intergenerational Adventure Into the Mountains of Oregon written by Bonnie Shumaker and published by Paloma Books. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Share the special bond of an adventurous grandma and her nature-loving grandchild who live just up the path from each other on a working farm and forest in the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range. Walks to explore their surrounding area are regular occurrences, but now they have planned something special. Join them as they embark on a strenuous hike to the summit of Saddle Mountain in the Oregon Coast Range, where "On a clear day, you can see the Columbia River meet the Pacific Ocean and all the shoreline down to Nehalem Bay-about fifty miles." Experience the delight and surprises that enfold along this hike. The summit experience has the added bonus of awakening the child's awareness beyond what is learned on the hike itself.
