The Mountains of Giants
Author: Carleton S. Coon
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 105
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Author: Carleton S. Coon
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 105
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maurice Isserman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0300164203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.
Author: Alfred Döblin
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781912916245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? - to open up a new continent, for colonisation by the unruly masses. How? - by harvesting the primordial heat of the Earth from Iceland's volcanoes. Nature fights back, and it all goes horribly wrong... In the early 1920s confirmed city-dweller Alfred Doblin - he was 15 before he saw his first cherry tree - became puzzled by a nagging sense of Nature: "I experienced Nature as a secret. Physics as the surface, begging for explanations. Textbooks... knew nothing of the secret. Every day I experienced Nature as the World Being, meaning: weight, colour, light, dark, its countless materials, as a cornucopia of processes that quietly mingle and criss-cross." Readers accustomed to following a story via Plot and Character may at first be disoriented by this epic of the future. Its structure is more symphonic than novelistic, driven by themes and motifs that emerge, fade back, emerge again in new orchestral voicings and new tempi. The prose - supple, rhythmic, harsh, elegiac, tender, unsparing - propels the reader on through scene after vivid scene. Mountains Oceans Giants is a literary counterpart to the painted dreams and nightmares of Hieronymus Bosch, in The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Last Judgement. Alfred Doblin, born in Szczecin in 1878, initially worked as a medical assistant and opened his own practice in Berlin in 1911. Doblin's first novel appeared in 1915/16. His greatest success was the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz published in 1929. In 1933 Doblin emigrated to France and finally to the USA. After the end of the 2nd World War he moved back to Germany, but then moved in 1953 with his family to Paris. He died on June 26, 1957. Berlin Alexanderplatz (translated by Michael Hofman) is published by Penguin in the UK and New York Review Books in the USA.
Author: Sophie Ambrose
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 076368225X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA little yellow bird eases a giant's loneliness and inspires him to mend his destructive ways.
Author: Mostyn Heilmannovsky
Publisher: BookRix
Published: 2019-12-11
Total Pages: 13
ISBN-13: 3748723377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the second part of the intriguing encounter with the mountain giants of Yukon. Find out more about the giants and their strange demeanor.
Author: Mostyn Heilmannovsky
Publisher: BookRix
Published: 2019-11-04
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13: 3748719760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first part of an account, a personal memory about Mountain Giants, who supposedly still roam some remote areas of this earth. Meet a successful entrepreneur, who encounters dreadful Giants on his way to search for more gold.
Author: Carleton Stevens Coon
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 105
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Riesengebirge
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Flashlight Press
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1947277197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this wondrous book by award-winning fantasy author Jane Yolen and award-winning fantasy illustrator Doug Keith, two children and a dog explore the coves and caves of a tiny island. Under the watchful eye of Grandpa, the kids are thrilled to discover a huge surprise: the craggy rocks, tufted grass, and wind-swept trees on Giant Island are much more than they seem. Stunning watercolor illustrations with a timeless, mythical feel depict the island above and below the water, as it rises and sinks. Perceptive young readers may giggle or gasp when they realize that the entire island is a giant, and then will revel in knowing the giant secret that the main characters have yet to discover. Jane Yolen's text entrances readers with hints of age-old magic, and pays tribute to mystery, curiosity, and friendship. Doug Keith's paintings invite readers to match the shiny rocks to the giant's eyes, the tunnel to his ears, and the trees and dripping water plants to his hair. Are the kids the first to learn the secret of Giant Island, or has Grandpa brought them here to discover for themselves what he discovered many years before? Visit Giant Island, where fantastical adventures await.