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  • La montagna oggi

    da dimora di Dio a laboratorio dei saperi

    Series series Biblioteca
    In Italia la montagna è un sistema “fragile” – per dirla alla De André – un sistema difficile da governare, perché la montagna può cambiare aspetto a seconda del punto di osservazione, ma anche in virtù dell’osservatore. L’obiettivo dei contributi qui raccolti è rappresentare proprio le diverse sfaccettature degli studi della montagna e far emergere i differenti percorsi capaci di ascoltare il ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ice, Fire, and Nutcrackers

    A Rocky Mountain Ecology

    Why do quaking aspens grow in prominent clumps rather than randomly scattered across the landscape? Why and how does a rufous hummingbird drop its metabolism to one-hundredth of its normal rate? Why do bull elk grow those enormous antlers? Using his experience as a biologist and ecologist, George Constantz illuminates these remarkable slices of mountain life in plain but engaging language. Whether ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Making Rocky Mountain National Park

    The Environmental History of an American Treasure

    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

    $32.99 USD

  • 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

    $10.99 USD

  • Conrad Kain

    Letters from a Wandering Mountain Guide, 1906–1933

    by Zac Robinson ...
    Series series Mountain Cairns
    Examine the life of the pioneering guide in these 144 letters sharing his thoughts on immigrating to Canada, his passion for nature, his travels, and more.Conrad Kain is a titan amongst climbers in Canada and is well-known in mountaineering circles all over the world. His letters to Amelie Malek—a life-long friend—offer a candid view into the deepest thoughts of the Austrian mountain guide, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploring Southern Appalachian Forests

    An Ecological Guide to 30 Great Hikes in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia

    Series series Southern Gateways Guides
    This unique hiking guide to the southern Appalachian mountains leads readers to explore the rich forest ecosystems and other natural communities visitors encounter along the trail. Drawing on years of experience guiding forest walks throughout the region, Steph Jeffries and Tom Wentworth invite hikers and nature lovers to see their surroundings in new ways. Readers will learn to decipher clues ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sky's Witness

    A Year In The Wind River Range

    by C. L. Rawlins ...
    Thoreau joked that he was a "self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms," never dreaming that such a need might exist. But such is the author's work and that of his various helpers, from ski bums to shortstops. They travel the alpine wilderness at all seasons by touring skis , snowshoes, pack llamas, float-tubes, and a tiny but dependable rat. The remove mountain beauty, "where thoughts ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Yosemite

    by John Muir ...
    In this classic text, the great American naturalist John Muir describes the Yosemite valley's geography and the myriad types of trees, flowers, birds, and other animals that can be found there. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth

    Weather, Climate Change, and Finding Deep Powder in Utah's Wasatch Mountains and around the World

    Utah has long claimed to have the greatest snow on Earth—the state itself has even trademarked the phrase. In Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Jim Steenburgh investigates Wasatch weather, exposing the myths, explaining the reality, and revealing how and why Utah’s powder lives up to its reputation. Steenburgh also examines ski and snowboard regions beyond Utah, making this book a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Walking/Wild Apples

    I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you ... Read more

    $1.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stelle di pietra

    Le incisioni rupestri di Monte Cotrozzi e le origini di Lucca

    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

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Valle di Divedro e il Sempione

    Uscito per la prima volta nel 1987, il libro è frutto di un lungo impegno. Tutti gli aspetti della vita della valle sono osservati, studiati, raccontati, con la mano e il rispetto dello storico ma anche con la passione di chi vede nelle pieghe di una cultura, considerata a volte ‘secondaria’, i profondi valori della gente di montagna.E' questo un prezioso contributo alla memoria storica, alla ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deux Parisiens dans le Val d'Andorre

    Souvenirs d'un voyage aux Pyrénées

    Extrait : "À la fin de juillet 1888, de nouveau pliés sous nos sacs et serrés dans nos guêtres, nous repartions!... Et cette fois, il s'agissait d'un voyage plus lointain, de parcourir les Pyrénées et d'aller à la recherche de quelques cimes vierges encore... Sept heures sonnent, l'aube est claire et rosée, et les deux fidèles se retrouvent sur le quai de départ, presque émus, du moins fort ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Animals at Home

    This vintage book contains a delightful account of Ernest Thompson Seton's experiences in Yellowstone Park - and the various animals that he encountered during his excursions. Full of delicate descriptions, interesting information, and humorous anecdotes, this volume is highly recommended for those with a love of the great outdoors, and would make for a great addition to collections of hunting ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quando scende il silenzio

    ROMANTIC SUSPENSEPochi resti che affiorano dal terreno conducono l'antropologa Helena Becker a tornare, dopo dieci anni, nella Blumetal, una valle tra le montagne della Baviera. Dolorosi ricordi, di un amore struggente, di quando era solo una sedicenne, si fondono con il presente che svela, a poco a poco, verità inaspettate. Scoprire l'identità dello scheletro sepolto nel bosco, riaprirà ferite ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between the Sunset and the Sea: A View of 16 British Mountains

    by Simon Ingram ...
    ‘I watched the mirror for a last view, for now, of the frozen mountains of Glen Coe. As the road bent and the outline of Buachaille Etive Mor slid into sight, I did what I always did, and always would. I felt for that flutter of awe and that indefinable, unmistakable quickening of the pulse.’In the late 18th century, mountains shifted from being universally reviled to becoming the most inspiring ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Les Ascensions célèbres aux plus hautes montagnes du globe

    Fragments de voyages

    Extrait : "En allant à Chamounix, dans les premiers jours de juillet, je rencontrai à Sallenche le courageux Jacques Balmat, qui venait à Genève m'annoncer ses nouveaux succès ; il était monté à la cime de la montagne avec deux autres guides. La pluie tombait quand j'arrivai à Chamounix, et le mauvais temps dura près de quatre semaines."À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Volcanoes: Past and Present

    by Edward Hull ...
    It has not been my object to present in the following pages even an approximately complete description of the volcanic and seismic phenomena of the globe; such an undertaking would involve an amount of labour which few would be bold enough to attempt; nor would it be compatible with the aims of the Contemporary Science Series.I have rather chosen to illustrate the most recent conclusions regarding ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Holy Earth

    by L.H. Bailey ...
    So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little care or conscious thought of the consequences of our use of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as living parts in the vast creation. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Montagna: femminile plurale

    Storie di donne che sono arrivate in alto

    Series series Gliuni
    Cosa succede quanto una ragazza di montagna e un ragazzo di città decidono di raccontare le storie di 8 donne che, per un motivo o per l'altro hanno deciso di vivere in montagna? Nasce il reportage a 4 mani "Montagna: femminile plurale. Storie di donne che sono arrivate in alto", scritto da Irene Borgna e Giacomo Pettenati.Irene ha avuto un anno di tempo per raccogliere le sue storie, Giacomo un ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shasta and Her Cubs

    The Struggle for Survival

    by Lane Robson ...
    One morning in early spring, high in the unforgiving Canadian Rocky Mountains, a young bear gives birth to her first cubs. There are three of them, each hairless, blind, and helpless. Shasta and Her Cubs is the story of that mother’s struggles to keep herself and her three cubs alive until they reach maturity. But, working against her are her own inexperience, hungry predators, the jagged ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 我在阿帕拉契山徑:一趟向山思考的旅程

    by 徐銘謙 ...
    徒步者的朝聖世界級的夢幻步道之所以能如此「自然」是因為有一群喜愛山徑的義工們,長期「不留痕跡」的維護大自然,將成為地球上最先進的工程技法!一個把生命奉獻給步道的人2003年,一開始因為參加『刷青苔,救步道』活動,心中留下了對人工步道不解的問題。為了解答心中的疑惑,她遠赴美國學習手作步道,在行動和學習中打開她的視野。回到台灣後,加入千里步道協會,將所學所見投入自己的家園山林,以新的人生生命山徑,重新思考人與自然的關係。並集結心血交出了《地圖上最美的問號》(2008年出版,舊作)一書,分享在美國學習手作步道的歷程。花費近十年的時間,不間斷地在人類需要的步道與自然回應的訊息中對話之後,她發覺,只是去思考如何做出最自然影響最小的方式是不夠的。2015年,舊作在絕版多年後,決定再出版,一方面因應台灣各界近年來對於自然環境,已開... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD