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Author: James Richardson
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Published: 2005-04
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781591137122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book about one man's 2,160-mile, six-month adventure on the Appalachian Trail. The author vividly depicts the physical, emotional, and spiritual components of his journey as he makes his way northward to Maine.
Author: Ann Yu-Kyung Choi
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1459821297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKey Selling Points Combining a bedtime story with a folktale set in ancient Korea, this is a story within a story that is ultimately about the importance of working together to achieve a common goal. The author is Korean and was prompted to write this story when she realized that many of the stories she was told as a child through oral storytelling would be lost to her daughter and to a generation of young Korean Canadians/Americans who no longer read or speak Korean. The illustration process for this book was laborious and included the use of sketching and painting techniques to create three-dimensional dioramas that were then photographed. The author was recognized by the Korean Canadian Heritage Awards Committee in 2017 for her dedication to promoting Korean culture in Canada.
Author: Mike Hamill
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Published: 2012-05-04
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1594856494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCLICK HERE to download the first 50 pages from Climbing the Seven Summits * First and only guidebook to climbing all Seven Summits * Full color with 125 photographs and 24 maps including a map for each summit route * Essential information on primary climbing routes and travel logistics for mountaineers, with historical and cultural anecdotes for armchair readers Aconcagua. Denali. Elbrus. Everest. Kilimanjaro. Kosciuszko. Vinson. To a climber, these mountains are known as the Seven Summits* -- the highest peaks on each continent. If you've ever dreamed of climbing Denali or Everest, or joining the even more exclusive "Seven Summiters " club, then Climbing the Seven Summits is the guidebook you need to turn your dream into reality. With Mike Hamill as your guide, you will discover different approaches to tackling the list, as well as details on what you'll need to plan an expedition and what to expect from each climb. For each mountain you'll learn about documents and immunizations, expedition costs, training, guiding options, climbing styles, best seasons, essential gear, day-by-day itineraries, summit routes, maps showing approaches and camps, regional natural history, cultural notes, and even post-climb activities like going on safari in Africa or wine-touring in South America. Throughout you'll also find helpful and inspiring stories from the likes of Conrad Anker, Vern Tejas, Damien Gildea, Eric Simonson, and other famed climbers. Special insider tips from Hamill, based on his years of experience, as well as full-color photographs of each peak round out this collectible guidebook. And, because there remains some controversy about whether Kosciuszko in Australia or Carstenz Pyramid on the island of New Guinea is the "seventh summit," this guidebook to the Seven Summits actually covers eight mountains! *Within mountaineering circles there is debate over which peaks are considered the official Seven Summits. For the purposes of this guidebook, the Seven Summits are based on the continental model used in Western Europe, the United States, and Australia, also referred to as the 'Bass list.'
Author: John Long
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013-07-02
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1493001337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis completely revised and updated edition with all new color photos brings together in a single volume the anchoring systems most popular among climbers. Most climbers today learn their craft on artificial climbing walls and on sport routes with fixed protection. Their first efforts to lead on trad routes often come as a rude shock--they find that they haven't the skills and training to safeguard the climb or to set up solid belays. This new edition of Climbing Anchors is the climber's complete and authoritative source of information on protection, from fundamental knots to sophisticated rigging and equalizing skills.
Author: James E Southern
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2015-07-06
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1460239881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of fairy tales, fables, and tall tales will enchant readers of all ages. Fairly moral stories with little violence make good bedtime reading, inducing a minimum of nightmares.
Author: Warren Harding
Publisher: Joseph Reidhead Publishers
Published: 2016-03-30
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781940777405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDownward Bound is Warren Harding's offbeat and inventive climbing classic. Harding gives readers an introduction to climbing and recounts his first ascents of the Nose and the Wall of the Early Morning Light on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.The introduction to rock climbing and big walls is farcical. The tales of his ascents are vivid. And throughout he strives to return some of the fun to climbing through humorous story telling of the climbing culture of the 60s and 70s. Downward Boundis a testament to the rebellious and magnetic Batso. Excerpt: Why do people climb? How the hell do I know? Answers to this perennial question range from Mallory's rather facetious (I think) "Because it's there" to (again) Mallory's enigmatic "If you ask the question, there can be no answer." Personally, I dig another version of Mallory's statement. Like, "We climb because it's there and we're mad!" How else could you explain freezing your ass off, battling heat and thirst, scaring yourself to death just to get up some rock face or mountain peak. Rock climbing is especially questionable in this respect. In basic mountain climbing the object is to reach the summit by any or the easiest route possible. In rock climbing it's not really necessary to reach a summit; the game seems to amount to finding the most difficult ways of getting nowhere."
Author: Amanda J. Gonzales
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1477145532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn her nineteenth birthday, Jasmine and her cousins just find out they are not fairies from Enchanta, but indeed Humans from the world of Reality. So, Jasmine not only goes on a quest to find this human land, but to find what she always felt what she was missing: happiness. Along this journey, she finds unexpected friendships and enemies; creatures and beings; and discovers herself she never thought she would.
Author: Jonathan J. Pyndus
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1105515818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigh School was Hell: Bullies. Drama. Chemistry homework. The horrors of puberty. And that was before the outbreak! After several semesters of pining, David has finally won over Mary, the girl of his dreams. But when a mysterious infection turns most of the student body into hormonal, blood-thirsty monsters, David's chances for a happy ending look slim. The only hope for David and his friends seems to be the mysterious John Harper Cearley, a quiet young man with a big secret who just might be able to stop the outbreak and save the world. The problem is, John doesn't agree that the world is worth saving.
Author: Temsula Ao
Publisher: Zubaan
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9383074612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn in 1945 in the Assamese town of Jorhat, Temsula Ao, her father's favourite of his six daughters, remembers her childhood as a time of happiness. The sudden loss of both parents mean that the orphaned children were left to fend for themselves as best they could. Desperately poor, emotionally scarred, lonely and often hungry, the young Temsula made up for her lack of resources with courage and determination. From these unpromising beginnings, Ao went on to become one of Northeast India's best known writers and to build a distinguished teaching career, serving as Director of the Northeast Zone Cultural Centre, and finally, Dean of the School of Humanities and Education, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Temsula Ao describes her memoir as 'an attempt to exorcise my own personal ghosts from a fractured childhood that was ripped apart by a series of tragedies... [it] is about love and what it is like to be deprived of it.' For her readers, Ao’s memoir gives not only an insight into her role as a leading figure in the Northeast, but is also a moving account of a writerly life. Published by Zubaan.
Author: Sarah Morgan
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-09-10
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 148803785X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndulge with these irresistible and heart-warming Christmas romances by USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan! What’s your number one Christmas wish? Bryony’s daughter has put a dad on her Christmas list. That leaves Bryony with one month to find the perfect man, so this year she’s wishing for a miracle! While she’s looking for love, her best friend Helen is doing the opposite.Her Christmas wish is to forget all about the white dress hanging in her wardrobe — and her faithless rat of a fiancé. Sally was heartbroken when Tom ended their relationship. Now she’s back—working in his department as the new midwife. When Tom realises he wants Sally back in his life, she refuses to risk her heart a second time. But Tom has decided that this time he wants it all… Helen, Bryony and Sally’s festive cheer definitely needs a boost, so it’s lucky that once upon a Christmas, wishes really do come true…
