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Author: Jonathan Neale
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-06-29
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780312266233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter spending almost a year in Nepal and India, Neale presents the true story of tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains and illuminates the gripping history of the Sherpa. 16-page photo insert.
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe tiger is an endangered species. There are now only a few thousand tigers surviving in Asia in their natural habitat. The largest of the species, the Siberian tiger, is now confined almost entirely to the thinly-populated Russian Far East where it is increasingly under threat from intensified poaching and the destruction of its habitat. Peter Matthiessen, in addition to being a distinguished novelist, has written classic accounts of his observation of wildlife around the world and his study of the Siberian tiger displays his deep knowledge of, and feeling for, the natural world. He tells the story of the tiger's origin and evolution and describes its role in the mythology and culture of the peoples amongst whom it lived and by whom it was hunted. His illuminating text is accompanied by Maurice Hornocker's magnificent photographs of this fabulous animal.
Author: Vincanne Adams
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-05-06
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1400851777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrain and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "authenticating" effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "deauthenticating" effects on anthropological representation. This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.
Author: Desmond Bagley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0008211280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAction thriller by the classic adventure writer set in New Zealand.
Author: Meish Goldish
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 1936087286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the behavior, physical characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of Siberian tigers.
Author: Lisa J. Amstutz
Publisher: LernerClassroom
Published: 2017-08
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1512456136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith their unmistakable stripes, tigers are hard to miss! They are also fearsome predators. Learn how tigers hunt, why they are so skilled at catching prey, and how they thrive in their habitat.
Author: Oxford Dictionaries Staff
Publisher:
Published: 2017-02-16
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780194709330
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Max is in a new ice hockey team, called The Tigers. But what happens when grandpa and Clunk take the children to a snowy place to seea snow tiger?"--Back cover.
Author: Robert Burleigh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-10-21
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1481428411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrowing up at the foot of Mount Everest, a Sherpa boy named Tenzing Norgay dreamed about one day being the first to climb the giant in his backyard. For years he practiced, carrying loads of rocks in his backpack to grow stronger, prowling the mountain's lower levels; later, carrying loads of equipment for other adventurers, but always, always, wanting to climb himself. But his dream never seemed possible until he met Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper who shared Tenzing's dream. By working together every step of the way, two men from entirely different backgrounds climbed into the clouds, to the peak of Mount Everest. However, as the years passed, only Hilary's name lived on in the history books while, in the west, Norgay's was mostly forgotten. In Tiger of the Snows, Robert Burleigh introduces young readers to one of the Far East's greatest heroes and tells the long-neglected story of a litle boy with an unimaginable dream, who refused to be daunted by the world's most daunting mountain, and who came to be known as the tiger of the snows. Caldecott winner Ed Young brings Everest to life with hauntingly, subtly beautiful animal imageries and resplendent colors, capturing the breathtaking grandeur and life force of the mountain the Nepalese call Mother Goddess of the Earth.
Author: Claire O'Neal
Publisher: Mitchell Lane
Published: 2020-02-04
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1545749779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore the 1900s, hundreds of thousands of wild tigers roamed Southeast Asia. Their beauty, fierceness, and intelligence inspired fear and awe in their human neighbors. These peoples gave the tiger starring roles in folktales and mythology. Human fascination with tigers continues. Unfortunately, the tiger may not survive in the wild much longer. Researchers estimate that fewer than 2,500 tigers remain in their natural habitat. As the human population explodes in Southeast Asia, the wild tiger population pays the price. Can the wild tiger be saved by its only natural enemy, people?
Author: Glen A. Sorestad
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 0
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