Mountains category: 178 books
The Mountain Encyclopedia
An A to Z Compendium of Over 2,250 Terms, Concepts, Ideas, and People
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
The Mountain Encyclopedia is the first A to Z compendium on all matters related to mountains including geological, geographical, and zoological terms and concepts as well as climbing and historical details. This books is both a reference and a guide for mountain and outdoor enthusiasts such as hikers,...
Mountain Nature
A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from brawny black bears to more species of salamander than anywhere else in the world. Mountain Nature is...
In the Great Apache Forest
The Story of a Lone Boy Scout
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This book brings us the story of George Crosby, the Lone Boy Scout. George Crosby was born and has lived all of his seventeen years, in Greer, a settlement of a half-dozen pioneer families located on the Little Colorado River, in the White Mountains, Arizona. At the beginning of the Great War Geroge...
Hiking and Traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway, Revised and Expanded Edition
The Only Guide You Will Ever Need, Including GPS, Detailed Maps, and More
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
This comprehensive guidebook provides a detailed description of every official National Park Service trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway. But that's just the beginning: veteran hiker Leonard M. Adkins includes information on every trail that touches the parkway, including the Appalachian Trail and...
Shasta and Her Cubs
The Struggle for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
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...
by Roderick Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
This antiquarian book contains a comprehensive critique and field study of mountain geography. Complete with a wealth of tables, diagrams, photographs, and interesting information, this is a text that will greatly appeal to anyone with an interest in the subject of geography, or mountains more specifically....
Across the Ussuri Kray
Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
In Russia’s Far East sits the wild Ussuri Kray, a region known for its remote highlands and rugged mountain passes where tigers and bears roam the cliffs, and salmon and lenok navigate the rivers. In this collection of travel writing by famed Russian explorer and naturalist Vladimir K. Arsenyev...
by Aleks Scholz
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Zen oder die Kunst einen Berg zu besteigen: Eine Wanderung. Die Wicklow Mountains südlich von Dublin sind kein spektakuläres Gebirge, die Berge sind nicht besonders hoch, und die Landschaft ist nicht besonders attraktiv, auch einen Panoramablick sucht man vergebens. Dazu ist es meistens nass, schlammig,...
by Francesco Giannelli Savastano, Francesco Aloe
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Narrativa - romanzo (287 pagine) - Cosa succede nel cuore e nella mente di quattro ragazzi che per motivi diversi affrontano un viaggio in una terra lontana e sconosciuta?
I quattro protagonisti di questo romanzo non hanno nulla in comune, se non la giovane età. Non si conoscono e provengono...
by Jenny Vavassori
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Narrativa - romanzo breve (65 pagine) - La natura selvatica e il popolo del Madagascar, gli imprevisti e le scene dei villaggi. Tutto è custodito in questo diario che diventa un autentico scrigno di emozioni.
Giunti nell’isola rossa, i protagonisti di questo viaggio vengono catapultati in...
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
“Gripping, intense. . . . Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [Into Thin Air].”—Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe
When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have...
Nature Noir
A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
A nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to...
Dark Summit
The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest
On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
The Big Bend region of Texas—variously referred to as “El Despoblado” (the uninhabited land), “a land of contrasts,” “Texas’ last frontier,” or simply as part of the Trans-Pecos—enjoys a long, colorful, and eventful history, a history that began before written records were maintained.
With...