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When Men & Mountains Meet
Like the desire for drink or drugs, the craving for mountains is not easily overcome
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
‘We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of the next. “Strenuousness is the immortal path, sloth is the way of death.”’
First published in 1946, the scope of...
Nepal Himalaya
The most mountainous of a singularly mountainous country.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Throughout 1949 and 1950 H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman mounted pioneering expeditions to Nepal and its Himalayan mountains, taking advantage of some of the first access to the country for Western travellers in the 20th century. Tilman and his party—including a certain Tenzing Norgay—trekked into the...
by W. H. Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Ornithologist and naturalist W. H. Hudson’s Adventures Among Birds is an engaging account of the remarkable behavior he’s observed among birds. Here is a lonely swan who befriends a trout; a gander who herds his fellow geese into a fox-proof enclosure every evening; and a flock of lapwings who playfully splash newcomers to their group.
by W. H. Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Naturalist W. H. Hudson is renowned for his extraordinary studies of birds and bird behavior as well as for his excellent prose. In Birds and Man, Hudson collects his observations of birds in England into chapters titled “Birds at Their Best,” “Parrot Gossip,” “The Secret of the Willow Wren,” “Ravens in Somerset,” and more.
by Hezekiah Butterworth, James Whitcomb Riley, John Bowring
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
CONTENTS: HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH 1. First New England Christmas JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY 2. A Defective Santa Claus JOHN BOWRING 3. Watchman, Tell Us of the Night JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 4. A Christmas Carmen JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 5. The Mystic's Christmas L. FRANK BAUM 6. Little Bun Rabbit LEO TOLSTOY...
by H. W. Collingwood, Golden Deer Classics, Hans Christian Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
CONTENTS H. W. COLLINGWOOD 1. Indian Pete's Christmas Gift HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 2. The Fir-Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 3. The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 4. The Little Match Girl HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 5. Betty's Bright Idea HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 6. Christmas In Poganuc...
by Poonja, Sri H. W. L.
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000
This 136-page introduction is a selection of poetry and prose from The Truth Is - a 560-page volume of "satsangs," or truths, from renowned Indian guru Sri H. W. L. Poonja- distills the essence of Poonja's teachings in a shorter, more portable collection.
Curiosities of Superstition
And Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Interested in learning more about the religious rites, beliefs and practices of different cultures around the world? Check out W. H. Davenport Adams' Curiosities of Superstition. This important early work of comparative religious study highlights similarities and differences of sacred practices throughout history and around the globe.
Two Mountains and a River
I made a resolve not to begin climbing until assured by a plague of flies that summer had really come
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
H.W. Tilman’s Two Mountains and a River picks up where Mount Everest 1938 left off. In this instalment of adventures, Tilman and two Swiss mountaineers set off for the Gilgit region of the Himalaya with the formidable objective of an attempt on the giant Rakaposhi (25,550 feet). However, this project...
Don't Tread on Me
A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
• Did America win its independence because British generals were too busy canoodling with their mistresses?
• Should America have annexed Mexico—all of it—and Cuba too?
• Did 1776 justify Southern secession in the nineteenth century?
• Should Patton have been promoted...
The Age of Gold
The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth,...
The Devil We Knew
Americans and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1994
In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party--yet party membership had sunk so low, writes H.W. Brands, that it could...
Mischief in Patagonia
An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives’ heads steam when they eat marmalade.'
So responded H. W. ‘Bill’ Tilman to his own realisation...
Looking over My Shoulder
One Day in the Elevator and Welcome to Anhedonia
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
W. H. Shirk has witnessed life at its best and at its worst in his years serving as a pastor and hospital chaplain. In the first of two collections of poems, Shirk shares poignant, honest, and sometimes amusing snapshots that shine a light on a variety of subjects including career ministry, children,...