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  • Etna

    by G. F. Rodwell ...
    While preparing an account of MOUNT ETNA for the Encyclopedia Britannica, I was surprised to find that there exists no single work in the English language devoted to the history of the most famous volcano in the world. I was consequently induced to considerably enlarge the Encyclopedia article, and the following pages are the result. ... Read more

    1,81 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Possible

    The inspirational autobiography of the celebrated mountaineer

    by Nimsdai Purja ...
    The brave and inspiring true story of renowned climber Nims Purja's mission to summit the fourteen highest peaks on Earth - as seen on Netflix.'Whether or not you are a lover of the mountains, you will marvel at his tenacity, his fearlessness. No one can fail to be inspired by what he achieved.' - The TimesFourteen mountains on Earth tower over 8,000 metres above sea level, an altitude where the ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Underland

    A Deep Time Journey - The bestselling nature book from the author of Is a River Alive?

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    Follow Robert Macfarlane to the furthest corners of the globe....A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyIn Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on... ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Into Thin Air

    A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster

    by Jon Krakauer ...
    Series series Picador Collection
    **Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest. Members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude.The disaster ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.'A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse ... Read more

    11,76 €

  • Betty

    The International Bestseller

    by Tiffany McDaniel ...
    'So engrossing! Betty is a page-turning Appalachian coming-of-age story steeped in Cherokee history, told in undulating prose that settles right into you' Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times'Beautiful and devastating' Observer, Books of the Year'Breathtaking' Vogue'A girl comes of age against the knife.'Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white moth... ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Some Recollections of Arizona and Cochise

    by Edward L. Keyes ...
    "Edward L. Keyes, late of the Army ... informs us that Cochise died in his week up in the Dragoon Mountains." - The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette (1911)"Accounts of Cochise's death and burial...Edward L. Keyes has a reliable account, reportedly obtained from Taza." - Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief (2012)What events led to the eventual demise of Cochise, far up in the Dragoon ... Read more

    1,05 €

  • Border Reminiscences

    by Randolph Barnes Marcy ...
    "Full of adventure, startling." -Princeton Review, 1872" The characters depicted in this volume are the most uncouth and original specimens of humanity." - Theological Review, 1872""It will be even more interesting a hundred years hence." The Nation, 1872"Valuable as a reliable picture of scenes, and circumstances, and characters which are rapidly passing away." - The Eclectic Magazine, 1872... ... Read more

    10,06 €

  • Making Rocky Mountain National Park

    The Environmental History of an American Treasure

    by Jerry J. Frank ...
    On September 4, 1915, hundreds of people gathered in Estes Park, Colorado, to celebrate the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. This new nature preserve held the promise of peace, solitude, and rapture that many city dwellers craved. As Jerry Frank demonstrates, however, the park is much more than a lovely place.Rocky Mountain National Park was a keystone in broader efforts to create the ... Read more

    10,59 €

  • Stelle di pietra

    Le incisioni rupestri di Monte Cotrozzi e le origini di Lucca

    by Gabriele Panigada, Riccardo Simonetti ...
    In provincia di Lucca c’è un monticello che cela un mistero all’apparenza insolubile: Monte Cotrozzi e le sue incisioni rupestri fatte di fori, canaletti e coppelle uniti in un reticolato indecifrabile. Nessuno sa dare ragione di un simile enigma e le ipotesi di appassionati e ‘addetti ai lavori’ si arrendono prive di appigli scientifici e riscontri concreti.Per la prima volta nella storia di ... Read more

    6,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ridge Lines

    The Sherpa, Porters, and Fixers Who Make Summits Possible

    by Clara Von Mirelle ...
    Most summit stories start at the top. This one starts in the kitchens, rope queues, radio tents, and dark pre-dawn corridors where other people's lives are already at stake. It follows sherpa mountaineering labour, high altitude porters, cooks, weather readers, and rescuers across Himalayan and Andean routes, showing how every step a client takes rests on a dense web of contracts, favours, and ... Read more

    14,09 €

  • Les Alpes et les grandes ascensions

    by Émile Levasseur ...
    Series series Hors collection
    « J’ai toujours aimé la montagne. Je pourrais dédier ce livre aux Alpes, en souvenir des vives et saines émotions qu’elles m’ont fait ressentir jadis, au temps où je gravissais leurs sentiers et où je poussais quelques-unes de mes courses jusque dans les solitudes de leurs glaciers, et par reconnaissance pour le charme qu’elles me procurent encore aujourd’hui lorsque je contemple du fond des ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Adventures of Hugh Glass at the Headwaters of the Missouri

    by Edmund Flagg ...
    "Edmund Flagg was the first professional author to contribute to the Glass cycle." - The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man (1976)."This is the famous story of the fight between Hugh Glass and the grizzly bear and Glass's subsequent adventures. It was printed for the first time in...October 19, 1839." - A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (1968) ... Read more

    10,06 €

  • The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922

    by C. G. Bruce ...
    The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922 tells the story of the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition; the first mountaineering expedition with the express aim of making a successful ascent of Mount Everest. It was planned and financed by the Mount Everest Committee, which appointed the ebullient Brigadier General C.G. Bruce to be its leader, and it was he who subsequently wrote this compelling account ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • Badluck Way

    A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West

    by Bryce Andrews ...
    “Much more than a coming-of-age story, Badluck Way is an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild animals, and the necessary damage that can occur when boundaries are crossed” (Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of Cowboys).In this gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews describes ... Read more

    16,03 €

  • Par-delà les cimes médecins des sommets

    by Pascal Sancho ...
    " Le Doc ", comme le surnomment affectueusement le pilote, le mécanicien et le secouriste, a la lourde charge de concrétiser les nombreux efforts qui auront été consentis par ses partenaires pour lui permettre d'accéder au plus vite à la victime malgré toutes les diffi cultés liées à la montagne. Doté d'une expertise rare, ce médecin des sommets travaille dans un inconfort permanent dont l'espace ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Earth's Geographical Features : Hills, Mountains, Glaciers, Volcanoes and Oceans | Geology Book for Kids Junior Scholars Edition | Children's Earth Sciences Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Earth has geographical features that are results of its internal processes. In this ebook, you will read about some of these geographical features namely hills, mountains, glaciers, volcanoes and oceans. Learn the characteristics of each of them, as well as interesting facts about them. Grab a copy and start reading today. ... Read more

    4,97 €

  • Global Mountain Regions

    Conversations toward the Future

    Edited by Ann Kingsolver, Sasikumar Balasundaram ...
    Series series Framing the Global
    No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the growth of nations for centuries. They are perceived as remote and socially inferior backwaters on ... Read more

    17,16 €

  • Base Camp

    40 Days on Everest

    by Dianne Whelan ...
    It takes forty days to know the mountain.Each spring, over eight hundred climbers attempt to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. The conditions are challenging, and without warning can become life-threatening. Some make it to the top of what is considered the world’s most majestic mountain, but others are not so lucky, and in the attempt to reach the elusive summit, many more have tragically lost ... Read more

    9,11 €

  • Journal of E. Willard Smith, While with the Fur Traders Vasquez and Sublette, in the Rocky Mountain Region, 1839-1840

    by Elias Willard Smith ...
    "Full of information on the mountain men, the fur trade, and the Indians." -Americana Catalogue, 1843"Smith left Independence in 1839 in good company... mountain men Andrew Sublette, Louis Vasquez, Philip Thompson." -It Happened in Colorado"One of the best records of conditions and activity in the Colorado region during fur trade days, and the first and only authentic record of a completed voyage ... Read more

    0,90 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thirty Years on The Frontier

    by Robert McReynolds ...
    "A descriptive writer, Robert M. McReynolds...is excelled by few authors of the West." -Oklahoma Weekly Leader, June 27, 1907"Robert McReynolds...a well known western character...is the author of...'Thirty Years on the Frontier'...was a...marshal in Oklahoma...amply able to defend himself with a gun." -Beatrice (Nebraska) Daily Sun, April 26, 1907"Robert McReynolds...one of the most colorful men.. ... Read more

    0,90 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Basil Clement (Claymore), The Mountain Trappers

    by Charles Edmund DeLand ...
    "Basil Clement (Claymore), after 60 years, tried hard to recall under the cross-examination of Charles Edmund DeLand, his affiliation with Henry Fraeb and James Bridger, beginning with the spring of 1841." -Jim Bridger (2013)"His intimate acquaintance with both whites and Indians for some sixty years of our territorial and state history give a special value to his recollections of the early days." ... Read more

    0,90 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Measure of a Mountain

    Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier

    by Bruce Barcott ...
    A “provocative, highly original” profile of Mount Rainier—capturing the majestic beauty and deadly allure of one of the largest active volcanoes in the U.S. (Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air)Mount Rainier is one of the largest and most dangerous volcanoes in the country, both an awesome natural monument and a formidable presence of peril. In The Measure of a Mountain, Seattle writerBruce ... Read more

    10,59 €

  • Montagne immaginarie

    by Michele Sasso ...
    Series series VerdeNero Inchieste
    Le montagne immaginarie e da immaginare possono e devono essere contemporanee senza per questo rigettare la propria storia, e possono insegnare molto in termini di sperimentazioni e innovazioni. La fine della snow economy è ineluttabile, nonostante la politica nostrana perseveri nell'obiettivo di portare tutti, ma proprio tutti, in vetta, con una inarrestabile artificializzazione di questi luoghi. ... Read more

    10,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mountains of California (With Original Drawings & Photographs) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Naturalist's journeys through the Sierra Nevada: Yosemite, glaciers, geology, wilderness

    by John Muir, Niall Elmridge ...
    John Muir's The Mountains of California is both a naturalist's field record and a prose hymn to the Sierra Nevada, rendering glaciers, forests, storms, wildflowers, and animal life with scientific attentiveness and visionary intensity. Enriched by original drawings and photographs, the volume belongs to the late nineteenth-century tradition of American nature writing, yet it exceeds mere ... Read more

    1,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus