Download or read book Glacier Unforgettable written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience Glacier National Park's massive knife-edge peaks, awe-inspiring waterfalls, and broad, powerful glaciers. In 136 stunning photographs, renowned landscape photographer Chuck Haney takes you on a journey through the rugged, storied landscape of the Crown of the Continent, with its boulder-strewn streams, lush valleys of wildflowers, and towering peaks. A fascinating foreword and informative captions by Chris Peterson, writer and adventurer who spends nearly 200 days a year in Glacier, round out this gorgeous, keepsake book.
Download or read book The Best of Glacier National Park written by Alan Leftridge and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed guide to the best of all that Glacier has to offer. From the best photography spots to the greatest day hikes and best wildflower meadows, this book contains all the don't-miss features of Glacier National Park (and Waterton too!). The perfect size to slip into a daypack, don't visit Glacier without it.
Download or read book Montana Unforgettable written by Chuck Haney and published by . This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cherry orchards in glorious bloom along Flathead Lake to the annual spectacle of thousands of snow geese descending upon Freezeout Lake, from the awe-inspiring Rocky Mountain Front to badlands formations that stir the imagination, and from once endangered trumpeter swans to the iconic bison, this collection of artful photography offers an insider's view into what makes Montana so unforgettable. -High-quality hardcover coffee-table book -Features 141 color photographs by two photographers who have spent more than 35 years photographing Montana -Informative captions -Includes landscapes, wildlife, plant life, historical sites, outdoor recreation, Native American culture, and more -Visitors and residents alike will cherish this inspired tribute to Big Sky Country
Download or read book Alaska 2008 written by Fodor's and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with lively reader feedback, extensive reviews, and personal advice, "Fodors Alaska 2008" has been revamped and revised. A photo-rich interior, a pullout color map, and updated topographical maps of the best parks and preserves are also included.
Download or read book Glacier National Park written by Bill Yenne and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glacier National Park is a majestic million acres of towering mountains, ancient glaciers, and amazing biodiversity. Located astride both the Continental Divide and Hudson Bay Divide, Glacier contains Triple Divide Peak, the only point in North America from which the waters drain into three oceans. The land that George Bird Grinnell called the "Crown of the Continent" and that John Muir described as "the best care-killing scenery on the continent" has been delighting visitors since well before it was set aside as a park in 1910. Through the years, countless people have come to Glacier to hike its nearly thousand miles of trails, marvel at its unrivalled scenery, and drive the Going-to-the-Sun Road, America's most spectacular alpine highway. Glacier is also home to remote mountain chalets and magnificent grand lodges. While most national parks have a singular signature lodge, Glacier has three.
Download or read book The Glacier written by Leonard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two agents disembarked somewhere at the latitudes 74-75N and disappeared in the cold white world. Nobody had ever heard about them from then. Twenty years later a team of best glaciologists of the country of Russia went to high latitudes of Arctic. They all were enthusiastic scientists under the leadership of talented young doctor of science, Vladimir Ustinov, looking with excitement for new discoveries on the largest in the Northern Hemisphere glacier of Greenland. They did it. The glacier was not cold; it was hot. The scientist had realized long time ago that the whole Greenland Ice Sheet was in fact one huge thousands of trillion tones glacier. However, the twisted minds of the others became curious about this phenomenon for the absolutely remote from the science reason. The great discovery was about to become a source of the greatest tragedy in the present world. The earth crust rift zones if stimulated provoked or rather evoked for activity could shift and move to plow everything on its way across North American continent. A resolute struggle with destructive forces set upon Arctic - in the abyssal of Greenland Sea and on the Hot Glacier
Download or read book Fodor s 07 Alaska written by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to America's last frontier provides practical information on accommodations, restaurants, national parks, and wilderness areas, as well as ratings of all ships cruising to Alaska and essays on Alaskan history
Download or read book Going to the Sun Road written by C. W. Guthrie and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling Glacier National Park's Going to the Sun Road is an experience like no other. Laborers toiled for nearly 20 years to complete the 50-mile road that winds an impossible route through the heart of Glacier. One of the most scenic highways in the world, this marvel of engineering set the standard for all national parks. C. W. Guthrie tells the intriguing tale of the history and the construction of the epic Going-to-the-Sun Road. 60 color and black-and-white photographs.
Download or read book Fodor s Alaska 2009 written by Fodor's and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to America's last frontier provides practical information on accommodations, restaurants, national parks, and wilderness areas, as well as ratings of all ships cruising to Alaska and essays on Alaskan history
Download or read book Canada written by Michael Ivory and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive guide to Canada, featuring background information and descriptions of interesting sites; providing essays on the history, culture, and contemporary life of the country; and including maps, walking and driving tours, and advice for visitors on hotels, restaurants, shopping, and activities.
Download or read book Meltdown written by Jorge Daniel Taillant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We hear about pieces of ice the size of continents breaking off of Antarctica, rapidly melting glaciers in the Himalayas, and ice sheets in the Arctic crumbling to the sea, but does it really matter? Will melting glaciers change our lives? Absolutely.The ice ages and the interglacial periods like we live in now are built and destroyed by glaciers. Glaciers hold three quarters of our freshwater, yet we don't have laws to protection them from climate change. Melting glaciers raise the seas, alter global ecosystems, warm our climate and bring onfloods that swamp millions of acres of land destroying coastal ecosystems and leaving hundreds of millions homeless. Healthy glaciers help keep our planet cool by reflecting solar heat away from the Earth and provide critical freshwater supply to billions that live within their meltwater runoffbasins. But melting glaciers alter ocean temperature, warm the atmosphere and cause havoc to the ocean currents and to the global jet stream, causing inclement weather, prolonged and recurrent droughts, heavy rains and intense, frequent and unpredictable storms. As glaciers melt away, their criticalenvironmental functions and services will wither. And as climate change warms their core, their weakening internal structure will cause a growing number of glacier tsunamis that can send deadly massive ice blocks, rocks, earth and billions of liters of water rushing down mountain valleys that takeout anything in their path. It has happened before in the Himalayas, in the Central Andes, in the Rockies and Western Cascades, and in the European Alps and it will happen again. As glaciers melt so do the vast swaths of permafrost environments that thrive in their surroundings, where thawingmillenary terrain rich in ice but also in methane gas captured hundreds of thousands of years ago, is now released into the atmosphere intensifying climate change even further.In his new book Meltdown, Jorge Daniel Taillant takes readers deeper into the cryosphere and connects the dots between climate change, glacier melt and the impacts that receding glacier ice brings to livability on Earth, to our environments and to our neighborhoods. He walks us through thelittle-known realm of the periglacial environment, a world where invisible subsurface rock glaciers with solid ice cores that will outlive exposed glaciers in our warming climate, but will they suffice to maintain our cryosphere and climate ecology in balance? In two closing chapters Taillant looksat actions that can help stop climate change and save glaciers and also contrasts how society, politics and our leaders have responded to address the COVID-19 pandemic and yet largely failed to address the even larger looming and escalating crisis of climate change.Meltdown is about glaciers and their unfolding demise during one of the most critical moments of our climate crisis. We may still be in time to save the cryosphere, if we can reconsider glaciers in a whole new light and understand the critical role they play in our own sustainability and if we canawaken to see how through glacier melt, geological ages are changing right before our eyes.
Download or read book Into the Untravelled Himalaya written by Harish Kapadia and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glacier s Historic Hotels Chalets written by Ray Djuff and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces creation and use of Great Northern Railway's hotels and chalet colonies in Glacier National Park, and Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park. Anecdotes, inside correspondence, and park and corporate lore. Covers history of Great Northern in the parks, and histories of: Belton ChaletsCut Bank ChaletsGlacier Park LodgeGoathaunt ChaletGoing-to-the-Sun ChaletsGranite Park ChaletsGunsight ChaletsLake McDonald LodgeMany Glacier HotelPrince of Wales HotelRising Sun Auto CabinsSt. Mary ChaletsSperry ChaletsSwiftcurrent Auto CabinsTwo Medicine ChaletsGenerously illustrated with color photographs of Great Northern promotional materials, and black-and-whites of guests and staff at play and work.
Download or read book The Melting World written by Christopher White and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Skipjack documents concerning evidence of adverse climate change in the Rocky Mountains, where climate scientist and ecologist Dan Fagre reveals how a rapid decline of alpine glaciers is threatening the mountain ecosystem.
Download or read book This is Argentina written by Guillermina Gómez Romero and published by de Dios Editores. This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alaska Highway written by Ed Readicker-Henderson and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 20012-06-15 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and enjoyable guide to traveling the highway, from British Columbia up to Prudhoe Bay. Covers Fairbanks, Anchorage, Denali National Park, Valdez and much more. Filled with inside tips on where to see wildlife, the sites you shouldn't miss, the best places to camp. You'll also find information on sidetrips along alternate highways: the Top-of-the-World, the Haines, the Stewart-Cassiar, the South Klondike, the Richardson and the Glen. A one-stop resource for Alaska-bound travelers. Includes a detailed chapter on the Alaska Marine Highway, the ferry system that is one of the best ways to see and reach otherwise inaccessible areas. While the Milepost will give you every pullout and scenic view on the highway, this book is great reading about what to do, and what to see on your way. The information is very accurate and interesting. In this book, when you look up a certain place you end up reading on and on.--Amazon.com customer I recently rode my motorcycle up the Alaska Highway and space was pretty limited. I photocopied pages out of various other books, but brought this one along intact. It stayed in my tankbag every day, was brought out at every meal, and was pored over in hotel rooms at night. I'm also a writer, and my Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway became my de facto notebook on the trip--post-it notes of every color peek out from its pages; notes line the margins. There are a finite number of places to stop along the Alaska Highway; most guidebooks will give you pretty much all of them. What makes this one different is its tone. The authors obvious enjoy both the road and writing about it. Personal anecdotes are lightly sprinkled into the text, giving the impression that yes, the authors know what they're talking about. I learned little bits of history about the areas I rode through; not so much that it weighed down the book, but just enough to pique my interest and send me scampering to the library once I got back. Also, the book is laid out very well. The font is easy on the eyes; bold section headers made it easy to find what I was looking for, even while balancing the book on my tankbag after pulling to the side of some gravelly road in the middle of nowhere.--Carolyn Boyce, reader If you think you'll ever want to plan a trip either by car or motorcycle to the great state of Alaska, this book is a must-have. Not only does provide everything you could ever ask for, it comes in a small package that packs away nicely.-- Big D (reader) I took this book with the AAA guidebook on my trip to Alaska, read the AAA intro on the plane there and read only this book for the rest of the trip. We traveled more than 2,000 miles on the Alaska Highway. This book has been a great companion and guide book wherever we go. I even did some more reading on the plane back home because the writing was interesting. It may be partly because Alaska is such an interesting subject; but the book is definitely fun to read.--Amazon.com customer
Download or read book Where is the Ice Machine written by Don Labrenz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After thirty six years of escorting active adults, (often referred to as Senior Citizens”), on numerous destinations throughout the world, including day trips or short “getaways”, throughout Washington State or British Columbia, I have been encouraged to “Write a Book”. Now I know what you’re thinking: “Not another boring travel book”. So, what I intend to do is to share some of the experiences my wife, Diane and I have experienced, hoping you will enjoy the journey with us. Therefore I dedicate this book to Diane, who has been the spark that ignited many of the ideas that culminated in making so many dreams come true for hundreds of people in many different ways. This was more than a “job” for us, but rather a “calling” that resulted in us forming “DON-DIANE FUNTOURS” which ultimately became our “Travel Family”. If you are one of our “Travel Family”, or have been, we hope you will relive a memory or two. If you are wondering what this is all about, I thank you for reading, and hope you will be rewarded with a smile, or a laugh as you discover for the first time that being on an escorted tour can reward you with much more than a few days or weeks exploring a new or revisited place, but perhaps be, “Just what the doctor ordered” as you have fun and “let go”, opening up yourselves to new people, places events, and yes, food! Come with me as we visit our friends throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Alaska, Mexico, South America, New Guinea, Turkey, the Orient, United States, Africa, Canada, numerous cruises on a variety of ships sizes, and so much more! I hope you will discover the fun of travel as you enrich your own journey in life!
