Download or read book Monkey Mountain Extreme Adventures written by Justin D'Ath and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There isn't really a word to describe the noise a volcano makes when it erupts. You don't just hear it, you feel it. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! A class trip to Borneo starts off with a bang – a visit to a real-life volcano! But when Mount Bako erupts, Sam Fox is left stranded with his teacher, Mr Griffin, who's suffering from a heart attack. They make it down the mountain to the cool blue sea – only to be hemmed in by blood-thirsty sharks . . . An action-packed adventure, Monkey Mountain is the hottest Extreme Adventure yet! Visit puffin.com.au/extreme for more.
Download or read book 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: True stories of explorer Gregg Treinish's travels and adventures around the United States.
Download or read book You Choose Can You Survive Extreme Mountain Climbing written by Matthew John Doeden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU are an experienced mountain climber. Your goal is to reach the top of the world's highest and most dangerous mountains. Will you attempt to: Scale Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro? or Climb the Matterhorn in Europe? or Reach the top of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest? Experience the life-or-death dilemmas of places few people ever see. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to safety or to doom.
Download or read book The Art of Fear written by Kristen Ulmer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary guide to acknowledging fear and developing the tools we need to build a healthy relationship with this confusing emotion—and use it as a positive force in our lives. We all feel fear. Yet we are often taught to ignore it, overcome it, push past it. But to what benefit? This is the essential question that guides Kristen Ulmer’s remarkable exploration of our most misunderstood emotion in The Art of Fear. Once recognized as the best extreme skier in the world (an honor she held for twelve years), Ulmer knows fear well. In this conversation-changing book, she argues that fear is not here to cause us problems—and that in fact, the only true issue we face with fear is our misguided reaction to it (not the fear itself). Rebuilding our experience with fear from the ground up, Ulmer starts by exploring why we’ve come to view it as a negative. From here, she unpacks fear and shows it to be just one of 10,000 voices that make up our reality, here to help us come alive alongside joy, love, and gratitude. Introducing a mindfulness tool called “Shift,” Ulmer teaches readers how to experience fear in a simpler, more authentic way, transforming our relationship with this emotion from that of a draining battle into one that’s in line with our true nature. Influenced by Ulmer’s own complicated relationship with fear and her over 15 years as a mindset facilitator, The Art of Fear will reconstruct the way we react to and experience fear—empowering us to easily and permanently address the underlying cause of our fear-based problems, and setting us on course to live a happier, more expansive future.
Download or read book Extreme Adventure Riddle Puzzles written by Highlights and published by Highlights. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sky's the limit in these hilarious Hidden Pictures(R) puzzles and riddles about biking, skydiving, rafting, and skateboarding adventures. These funny and engaging riddle puzzle pads offer a unique twist on everybody's favorite puzzle. Extreme adventure-themed Hidden Pictures(R) puzzles invite kids to solve riddle punchlines by finding hidden objects. Often imitated, never equaled, Highlights(TM) Hidden Pictures(R) puzzles have delighted children--and adults--for over 70 years. Now kids don't have to decide whether to solve a puzzle book or read a joke book--they can do both!
Download or read book Extreme Adventure Puzzles written by Highlights and published by Highlights Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 4,000,000 Highlights Hidden Pictures books sold! Adventure awaits inside this Hidden Pictures book! It features over 1,800 hidden objects in Highlights’ trademark black-and-white puzzles. The imaginative theme will keep explorers 6 and up engaged as they search their way through more than 100 adventurous scenes. This exhilarating Hidden Pictures collection features illustrations of travelers’ adventures, deep-sea escapades, wild creatures and much more. Featuring 1- and 2-page puzzles in a variety of art styles, this 144-page book is great for travel activities, after-school fun or screen-free play on rainy days. Plus, the black-and-white puzzles double as coloring pages for even more entertainment. Hidden Pictures activity books for kids are carefully designed to engage and challenge children while honing their concentration skills, attention to detail and visual perception. Kids love working to achieve a goal, and every puzzle solved encourages them to take on new adventure challenges. Like all Highlights products, Extreme Adventure Puzzles is well thought out, well constructed and visually appealing to bring kids meaningful benefits and maximum fun.
Download or read book Journey to the West 2018 Edition PDF written by Wu Cheng'en and published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!
Download or read book Grease Monkey written by Tim Eldred and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mac Gimbensky is an eight hundred pound intelligent gorilla and expert fighter mechanic on the flagship Fist of Earth, where, with the help of his cadet assistant Robin Plotnik, he maintains the ships of the all-female Barbarian Squadron.
Download or read book Mountain Biking written by Christa C. Hogan and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title introduces young sports fans to mountain biking, introducing its history, suggested gear, and tips for making the most of a day in the outdoors. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book The Lost City of the Monkey God written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Sociology written by David M. Newman and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes students inside today's pressing sociological issues and shows them how the compelling events on their minds--such as the current economic recession and the Obama presidency--relate to enduring sociological concepts -- from cover.
Download or read book Devil Danger Extreme Adventures written by Justin D'Ath and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU CAN'T CHANGE DIRECTION WHEN YOU'RE AIRBORNE. ALL I COULD DO WAS PART MY LEGS SO MY SKIS LANDED ON EITHER SIDE OF THE DEVIL. BUT NOT OUT OF RANGE OF THOSE FEARSOME JAWS. SNAP! Out on the ski fields, Sam Fox dodges a Tasmanian devil only to see a baby plummeting out of the sky towards him! Before he knows it, he is on the run from kidnappers, escaping avalanches and explosions to keep a young Crown Prince alive. But when they are captured and held hostage in an abandoned sawmill, things really start to get dangerous . . . An action-packed rollercoaster ride, DEVIL DANGER is the most electrifying Extreme Adventure yet! Visit puffin.com.au/extreme for more.
Download or read book The Monkey Wrench Gang written by Edward Abbey and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America’s Western wilderness in this “wildly funny, infinitely wise” classic (The Houston Chronicle). When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved over by greedy government hacks and their corrupt corporate coconspirators. And the manic, beer-guzzling, rabidly antisocial ex-Green Beret isn’t just getting mad. Hayduke plans to get even. Together with a radical feminist from the Bronx; a wealthy, billboard-torching libertarian MD; and a disgraced Mormon polygamist, Hayduke’s ready to stick it to the Man in the most creative ways imaginable. By the time they’re done, there won’t be a bridge left standing, a dam unblown, or a bulldozer unmolested from Arizona to Utah. Edward Abbey’s most popular novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang is an outrageous romp with ultra-serious undertones that is as relevant today as it was in the early days of the environmental movement. The author who Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) once dubbed “The Thoreau of the American West” has written a true comedic classic with brains, heart, and soul that more than justifies the call from the Los Angeles Times Book Review that we should all “praise the earth for Edward Abbey!” “Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more.”—The San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book Can You Survive in the Special Forces written by Matt Doeden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your survival depends on making the right choices in key moments. Which path to take? Readers use their wits and knowledge in these nonfiction adventures, learning about survival skills in various settings and making choices that will lead to either survival or doom. Talk about narrative nonfiction
Download or read book The Devil s Breath written by David Gilman and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN AN ASSASSIN bursts from the shadows to try to kill him on the dark, windswept grounds of his boarding school in England, Max Gordon realizes his life is about to change forever. After learning that his explorer father is missing, Max is determined to find him, no matter what dangers may lay in his path. A secret clue his father left behind leads Max to the inhospitable wilderness of Namibia, where he soon discovers a potentially massive ecological disaster masterminded by Shaka Chang, a very powerful and completely ruthless man—a man Max fears may have put his father in mortal danger. Max needs all the help he can get. Because whoever is behind his father’s disappearance is determined to get rid of Max, too. For good.
Download or read book Give Peas A Chance written by Morris Gleitzman and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprise your mum with a chainsaw ... be a bigger star than Tom Cruise ... save the world with a plate of veggies ... start your new life in a taxi ... rescue your family with a tomato ... send your dad into a panic with a tractor ... do a good deed with a paper bag on your head pack your bags for a trip to the spleen ... upset your auntie with ten kilos of chocolate ... swap a bomb for three ice-creams on a train ... and lots more! ------------------ PRAISE FOR MORRIS GLEITZMAN ‘Readers can't get enough of him.’ The Independent ‘A brilliantly funny writer’ Sunday Telegraph ‘A virtuoso demonstration of how you can make comedy out of the most unlikely subject’ Sunday Times ‘He is one of the finest examples of a writer who can make humour stem from the things that really matter in life.’ The Guardian
Download or read book Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow written by Maria Coffey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Coffey's Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow is a powerful, affecting and important book that exposes the far reaching personal costs of extreme adventure. Without risk, say mountaineers, there would be none of the self-knowledge that comes from pushing life to its extremes. For them, perhaps, it is worth the cost. But when tragedy strikes, what happens to the people left behind? Why would anyone choose to invest in a future with a high-altitude risk-taker? What is life like in the shadow of the mountain? Such questions have long been taboo in the world of mountaineering. Now, the spouses, parents and children of internationally renowned climbers finally break their silence, speaking out about the dark side of adventure. Maria Coffey confronted one of the harshest realities of mountaineering when her partner Joe Tasker disappeared on the Northeast Ridge of Everest in 1982. In Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow, Coffey offers an intimate portrait of adventure and the conflicting beauty, passion, and devastation of this alluring obsession. Through interviews with the world's top climbers, or their widows and families-Jim Wickwire, Conrad Anker, Lynn Hill, Joe Simpson, Chris Bonington, Ed Viesturs, Anatoli Boukreev, Alex Lowe, and many others-she explores what compels men and women to give their lives to the high mountains. She asks why, despite the countless tragedies, the world continues to laud their exploits. With an insider's understanding, Coffey reveals the consequences of loving people who pursue such risk-the exhilarating highs and inevitable lows, the stress of long separations, the constant threat of bereavement, and the lives shattered in the wake of climbing accidents.
