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  • 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 €

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • Underland

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

    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 €

  • Betty

    The International Bestseller

    '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 €

  • Die Alpen

    Geschichte einer Landschaft

    Series Book 2909 - Beck'sche Reihe
    Jahrtausende galten sie als unüberwindlich: Die Lage der Alpen zwischen dem früh zivilisierten Mittelmeer und dem sehr fruchtbaren, ebenso früh besiedelten Mitteleuropa machte aus ihnen lange Zeit einen Riegel, der überwunden werden musste, um die beiden Gebiete zu verbinden. Hansjörg Küster folgt der Geschichte der Alpen von ihrer Entstehung durch die Kollision der afrikanischen mit der ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • Appalachian Tectonics

    Edited by Thomas Clark ...
    Series series Heritage
    Mountain ranges are the most conspicuous elements of the earth's architecture, and the manner in which the architectural units are arranged or disarranged has become the study of a subdivision of geology known as Tectonics. A hundred years ago James Hall attempted the first scientific synthesis of the steps in the building of the eastern North American mountains, the Appalachians. His initial ... Read more

    16,42 €

  • Montagne

    Avventura, passione, sfida

    by Aa. Vv. ...
    Ora fredda di neve e ghiacciai, ora silenziosa di boschi e caverne, madre di acqua e di vita, la montagna esprime la sua essenza nel ritmo lento della natura. E questo ritmo, estraneo alla frenesia delle contingenze quotidiane, ne fa il luogo letterario ideale, la sorgente d'ispirazione per storie da scrivere e seguire attentamente, come un lungo sentiero che conduce il lettore in vetta. Scrittori ... Read more

    7,49 €

  • Neve nera

    Series series Versante Est
    Narrativa - racconto lungo (53 pagine) - Un appassionante racconto delle scalate del Point Lenana e del Nelion, in Africa, realizzate dall’autore nel 2013.L’autore racconta in queste pagine la sua prima spedizione in Africa avvenuta nel febbraio 2013, durante la quale sale due tra le vette più alte del continente africano: Point Lenana (4985 metri) e Nelion (5188 metri). Questa volta ad ... Read more

    1,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mountains and Moorlands

    Series Book 11 - Collins New Naturalist Library
    An invaluable introduction to the upland regions of Britain – their structure, climate, vegetation and animal life, their present and past uses and the problems of their conservation for the future. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.comMoorland, mountain-top and upland grazing occupy over a third of the total living-space of the British Isles, and, of all kinds of land, have suffered ... Read more

    59,99 €

  • In Nepal

    Entropia di sorprendenti atmosfere

    Voglio condividere con te, Lettore, la mia esilarante esperienza vissuta, arricchita dalla sapiente conoscenza di un antropologo, di un poeta, di un alpinista e altri professionisti che mi hanno accompagnato, con dilavamento e immersione, in questo stupefacente paese, il Nepal.Ho colto la sorprendente atmosfera emanata dai simulacri di un storia viva dell'esuberante città di Kathmandu con il suo ... Read more

    18,50 €

  • My First Summer in the Sierra (With Original Drawings & Photographs)

    Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies

    by John Muir ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "My First Summer in the Sierra (With Original Drawings & Photographs)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. When he came to California and finally settled in San Francisco, John Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. Seeing it for the first time, Muir noted that "He was overwhelmed by ... Read more

    1,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kit Carson's Fight With the Comanche and Kiowa Indians at the Adobe Walls on the Canadian River, November 25th, 1864

    "One of the biggest Indian battles ever fought on the plains...George H. Pettis who served with Kit...has left us a detailed record of what he saw." -The Eugene Guard, Dec. 22, 1928"George H. Pettis...served...in the First New Mexico infantry under Colonel Kit Carson...did gallant and meritorious service." -Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 7, 1904"Captain Pettis, who achieved fame with Kit Carson...died ... Read more

    10,06 €

  • La montagna è il mio mondo

    «Il piacere segreto e meraviglioso della ricerca dell’itinerario, la soddisfazione di sentirsi in armonia con la natura, la roccia, il ghiaccio; trovare la via giusta, indovinare gli appigli. Indovinare...» è questa l’essenza dell’esprit montagne, lo spirito delle montagne, che sgorga dall’autobiografia di uno dei più capaci e sensibili alpinisti di tutti i tempi. Formatosi come scalatore negli ... Read more

    22,99 €

  • The Naturalist on the River Amazons Vol II

    Scientific Travellers VI

    The Naturalist on the River Amazons is a record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life and aspect of nature under the Equator, during the author's eleven years of travel, in two volumes this is the second. ... Read more

    366,40 €

  • Colorado Flora

    Western Slope, Fourth Edition A Field Guide to the Vascular Plants

    Colorado Flora: Western Slope describes the remarkable flora of the state, distinctive in its altitudinal range, numerous microhabitats, and ancient and rare plants. Together with Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope, Fourth Edition, these volumes are designed to educate local amateurs and professionals in the recognition of vascular plant species and encourage informed stewardship of our biological ... Read more

    16,42 €

  • Eiger Dreams

    Ventures Among Men and Mountains

    by Jon Krakauer ...
    No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.In Pakistan, the fearsome K2 kills thirteen of the world's most experienced ... Read more

    10,80 €

  • Wilderness Tales: Adventures in the Backcountry

    Adventures in the Backcountry

    Series series Amazing Stories
    These true stories of people who work and live in the spectacular mountain wilderness of Alberta and British Columbia are filled with humour, keen observations about man and nature, and memorable human and animal characters. Old-time cowboys Johnny and Cal offer their no-nonsense brand of homespun wisdom. Wasp, the talented saddle horse, teaches his rider more than just horsemanship. From life-and ... Read more

    6,35 €

  • Cherokee National Forest Hiking Guide

    Series series Outdoor Tennessee Series
    First published in 1992, Cherokee National Forest Hiking Guide has been a vital companion to thousands who have explored the 650,000-acre Cherokee National Forest. Now in its third edition the guide has been expanded once again to cover numerous additional trails and the almost 20,000 acres of additional congressionally designated Wilderness in the decades since the second edition. Stretching ... Read more

    20,98 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Capturing the Summit

    Hamilton Mack Laing and the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925

    In this classic adventure story, the diaries of two men, a scientist and a mountaineer, reveal their distinct struggles in the unforgiving wilds of the northern landscape.Four months alone in the remote windswept wilderness, adventurer and ecologist Hamilton Mack Laing spends his days deeply immersed in observing the natural world of the Chitina River valley. He endures dust storms, befriends a ... Read more

    11,12 €

  • 名山勝水:世界名山遊記

    《名山勝水:世界名山遊記》是一本專門介紹世界各地著名山峰的旅遊書籍。從亞洲到歐洲,再到美洲、非洲、大洋洲和南極洲,本書涵蓋了全球最知名和最壯麗的山峰。這本書的目錄分為不同的地區,方便讀者按照自己的興趣和需求閱讀。在亞洲的部分,我們將帶領讀者登上世界最高峰珠穆朗瑪峰,感受大地之母的壯麗和神祕。同時,我們還會介紹其他著名山峰,如妙香山,這座山上散發著清香氣息,令人心曠神怡;阿爾泰山,這個在文化歷史上具有神奇地位的地方;天山,古代被稱為「瑤池」的寶地;喬戈裡峰,被譽為「眾山之王」;干城章嘉峰,藏著白雪的寶藏;洛子峰,美貌如仙女的山峰;馬卡魯峰,性情反覆無常的山峰;南迦巴瓦峰,被稱為「羞女峰」;安納布林納峰,收成之神的化身;還有日本人民心目中的「聖嶽」富士山。在歐洲的部分,我們將帶領讀者遊覽比利牛斯山,這個天然的大屏障;厄爾布魯士山,散發著神祕和敬畏;勃朗峰,是白色的山巔;少女峰,更是被尊為「皇后 ... Read more

    7,60 €

  • Survival - how to survive in the wild

    Wilderness survival guide for beginners, how to build a shelter, start a fire, find water and have the right reflexes in the wild

    by Didier Moulin ...
    The first step before you start venturing into the wilderness is to be well prepared. This wilderness survival guide is designed to give you the basics of survivalism so that you can have the right reflexes when the time comes.Here is what you will discover in this survival manual:- The basics of survival to survive in the wilderness- What is bushcraft?- How to start a fire and keep it going<br... ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • Nature

    Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a fabulous philosophical interpretation of nature and how it influences man physically and spiritually. Emerson's writing is redolent with the wonder of the true romantic, but never sinks to the level of maudlin fluff. ... Read more

    1,81 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La mia Patagonia - Appunti di viaggio

    Series series Versante Est
    RACCONTO LUNGO (50 pagine) - NARRATIVA - La Patagonia. Tra i luoghi più affascinanti del mondo, da vivere attraverso il taccuino e le meravigliose fotografie di Michele Suraci, uno dei più stimati travel blogger italiani.Con stile leggero e scorrevole, Michele Suraci racconta il suo indimenticabile viaggio in Patagonia con la moglie Chiara. Da esperto "travel blogger", Michele arriva in Sudamerica ... Read more

    1,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus