Download or read book The Inverted Mountains written by Roderick Peattie and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history, exploration, and natural beauty of the Southwest canyon country, particularly the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion Canyon.
Download or read book Inverted World written by Christopher Priest and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in Science Fiction: The Best 100 Novels Winner of the British Science Fiction Award Nominated for the Hugo Award The “devilishly entertaining” masterpiece of hard science fiction, set in a city moving through a strange, dystopian world—from the multi-award-winning author of The Prestige (Time Out New York) The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city’s engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the “optimum” into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. The only alternative to progress is death. The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. Raised in common in crèches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing outside the closed circuit of the city, they are carefully sheltered from the dire necessities that have come to define human existence. And yet the city is in crisis. The people are growing restive, the population is dwindling, and the rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum. Helward Mann is a member of the city’s elite. Better than anyone, he knows how tenuous is the city’s continued existence. But the world—he is about to discover—is infinitely stranger than the strange world he believes he knows so well.
Download or read book MOUNTAIN METEOROLOGY written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wordsworth s Poetry 1815 1845 written by Tim Fulford and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The later poetry of William Wordsworth, popular in his lifetime and influential on the Victorians, has, with a few exceptions, received little attention from contemporary literary critics. In Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845, Tim Fulford argues that the later work reveals a mature poet far more varied and surprising than is often acknowledged. Examining the most characteristic poems in their historical contexts, he shows Wordsworth probing the experiences and perspectives of later life and innovating formally and stylistically. He demonstrates how Wordsworth modified his writing in light of conversations with younger poets and learned to acknowledge his debt to women in ways he could not as a young man. The older Wordsworth emerges in Fulford's depiction as a love poet of companionate tenderness rather than passionate lament. He also appears as a political poet—bitter at capitalist exploitation and at a society in which vanity is rewarded while poverty is blamed. Most notably, he stands out as a history poet more probing and more clear-sighted than any of his time in his understanding of the responsibilities and temptations of all who try to memorialize the past.
Download or read book A Reprint of Annual Reports and Other Papers on the Geology of the Virginias written by William Barton Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Reprint of Annual Reports and Others Papers on the Geology of the Virginias written by William Barton Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradise Found written by William Fairfield Warren and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatise on ancient, medieval and modern cosmologic, ethnologic, geologic and religious thought concerning Eden and the North Pole as a centre of distribution for animal and plant species.
Download or read book Paradise Found the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole written by William Fairfield Warren and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology of the Southern Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma written by Charles William Honess and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Geology of Hazara and the Black Mountain written by Charles Stewart Middlemiss and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Paradise Found written by William F. Warren and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole is a book by William Fairfield Warren, first published in 1885. In this book, Warren puts forth his belief that Atlantis, the Garden of Eden, Avalon, and a couple of other mythical lands were all once situated at the North Pole, noting that Homer, Vigil, and Hesiod all placed Atlas at the 'ends of the earth'. If the science of all this has now been corrected (with the discovery of plate tectonics, and the filling in of the polar maps), the books also contains reviews of the folklore of the subjects like the tree of life, the world mountain, and of course, Eden.
Download or read book The American Museum Journal written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Days in the Range of Light written by Daniel Arnold and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A splendid chronicle of early climbing in the Sierra Nevada.” —Royal Robbins It’s 1873. Gore–Tex shells and aluminum climbing gear are a century away, but the high mountains still call to those with a spirit of adventure. Imagine the stone in your hands and thousands of feet of open air below you, with only a wool jacket to weather a storm and no rope to catch a fall. Daniel Arnold did more than imagine—he spent three years retracing the steps of his climbing forefathers, and in Early Days in the Range of Light, he tells their riveting stories. From 1864 to 1931, the Sierra Nevada witnessed some of the most audacious climbing of all time. In the spirit of his predecessors, Arnold carried only rudimentary equipment: no ropes, no harness, no specialized climbing shoes. Sometimes he left his backpack and sleeping bag behind as well, and, like John Muir, traveled for days with only a few pounds of food rolled into a sack slung over his shoulder. In an artful blend of history, biography, nature, and adventure writing, Arnold brings to life the journeys and the terrain traveled. In the process he uncovers the motivations that drove an extraordinary group of individuals to risk so much for airy summits and close contact with bare stone and snow. “Ever wish you could travel back to climbing’s early days and follow the earliest first–ascent visionaries? This fantasy comes to life . . . in this elegant narrative.” —Climbing Magazine
Download or read book The movements in the outer crust of the earth The mountain ranges of the earth written by Eduard Suess and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Topographical Tools for Filtering and Segmentation 2 written by Fernand Meyer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematical morphology has developed a powerful methodology for segmenting images, based on connected filters and watersheds. We have chosen the abstract framework of node- or edge-weighted graphs for an extensive mathematical and algorithmic description of these tools. Volume 2 proposes two physical models for describing valid flooding on a node- or edge-weighted graph, and establishes how to pass from one to another. Many new flooding algorithms are derived, allowing parallel and local flooding of graphs. Watersheds and flooding are then combined for solving real problems. Their ability to model a real hydrographic basin represented by its digital elevation model constitutes a good validity check of the underlying physical models. The last part of Volume 2 explains why so many different watershed partitions exist for the same graph. Marker-based segmentation is the method of choice for curbing this proliferation. This book proposes new algorithms combining the advantages of the previous methods which treated node- and edge-weighted graphs differently.
Download or read book Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
