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A Mountain Walked

Author : S. T. Joshi,Mearle Prout,Robert Johnson,C. Thompson,Ramsey Campbell,Walter DeBill,T. E. D. Klein,Thomas Ligotti,Neil Gaiman,Lois Gresh,Stanley Sargent,W. Pugmire,Jason Brock,Joseph Pulver,Donald Tyson,Cody Goodfellow,Johnathon Thomas
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727597486

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A Mountain Walked by S. T. Joshi,Mearle Prout,Robert Johnson,C. Thompson,Ramsey Campbell,Walter DeBill,T. E. D. Klein,Thomas Ligotti,Neil Gaiman,Lois Gresh,Stanley Sargent,W. Pugmire,Jason Brock,Joseph Pulver,Donald Tyson,Cody Goodfellow,Johnathon Thomas Pdf

H. P. Lovecraft wrote "The Call of Cthulhu" in 1926, initiating the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the most widely imitated shared-world universes in weird fiction. Even in his lifetime, many other writers added to the Mythos, and after his death hundreds if not thousands of authors of weird, fantasy, and science fiction have added their distinctive elaborations on Lovecraft's basic themes and ideas. This volume features some of the best Cthulhu Mythos writing over the past century. Beginning with such rare but classic stories as Mearle Prout's "The House of the Worm" and Robert Barbour Johnson's "Far Below," from the pages of Weird Tales, the anthology moves on to James Wade's novella "The Deep Ones" and Ramsey Campbell's refreshing riff on the "forbidden book" motif, "The Franklyn Paragraphs." Acclaimed stories by T. E. D. Klein, Thomas Ligotti, Neil Gaiman, and W. H. Pugmire are also included.

When Mountains Walked

Author : Kate Wheeler
Publisher : HMH
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547561714

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Two generations of women struggle with love—and journey to remote corners of the world—in this “remarkably passionate and engaging” novel (San Francisco Chronicle). From a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, When Mountains Walked tells of two parallel love affairs, years apart. In the 1940s, Althea Baines follows her seismologist husband to the heart of the Indian subcontinent to trace the origins of earthquakes. Here, awakening to a form of spirituality she had never imagined, she eventually finds solace with a Hindu priest. Years later, her granddaughter Maggie follows her own idealistic husband to a canyon in central Peru to set up a health clinic. Alive to the culture and the place, Maggie falls recklessly in love with a revolutionary leader and follows him on an apocalyptic trip into the rain forest. As the lives of the two women echo and illuminate each other, and each is swept up in her own time by powerful forces, “this superb novel sets the mountains in motion—shaking up relations between sexes, generations, and rich nations and poor” (Newsday). “A gifted storyteller . . . When Mountains Walked subtly questions how much is too much to sacrifice in a relationship.” —The Wall Street Journal “This is a book you mention to your friends.” —Francine Prose, author of Lovers at the Chameleon Club

The Mountain That Walks

Author : Tracey Nyland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798560650131

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In 1904, Anna Rezac leaves her small town in Europe with her husband and two-year old daughter, in search of something beyond a life of poverty and strife. Carrying two small suitcases and a dream, Anna and her family embark on a journey that will take them 5000 miles away from home, to the mountains of western Canada and the small coal-mining town of Frank. As the train approaches the town from the east, Anna gets her first look at Turtle Mountain, and the staggering magnitude of the rockslide the mountain unleashed just one year earlier, burying the valley and part of the town beneath it. In the years to come, Anna would face many challenges. There would be adventure and hardship, tragedy and grief. There would be fierce blizzards, train robberies and shoot-outs, illegal rum-running during Prohibition, mining disasters, and fear of another rockslide. Nothing would come easy. Coal-mining was a hazardous occupation at the best of times, and in the Crow's Nest Pass, disasters seem to stack up with stunning regularity. Anna would have to dig deep to find the strength and courage she needs to face a future that keeps changing. But along the way, Anna would find unexpected gifts - moments of peace and beauty, and of simple joys. But the greatest gift of all would be the gift of love, as Anna and her family forge friendships that will last a lifetime, and beyond. Those bonds would grow stronger, year after year, and the fledgling community would become a family, standing shoulder to shoulder, in good times and bad. And no matter what the future brings, Anna knows she won't face it alone.

The Call of Cthulhu

Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365200496

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The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft Pdf

First published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928, 'The Call of Cthulhu' is a terrifying trilogy of horror stories that has influenced writers like William S. Burroughs, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti and Stephen King.

At The Mountains Of Madness

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft Pdf

Embark on a chilling expedition to the icy heart of Antarctica with "At The Mountains Of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft. In this classic tale of cosmic horror, Lovecraft transports readers to the desolate and unforgiving landscape of the Antarctic continent, where an ill-fated scientific expedition uncovers ancient and otherworldly secrets. Are you ready to journey into the unknown and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in the frozen depths? In "At The Mountains Of Madness," Lovecraft weaves a tale of terror and suspense as the expedition team ventures deeper into the icy wilderness, encountering inexplicable phenomena and encountering creatures beyond human comprehension. As the mysteries of Antarctica unravel, the characters grapple with their own sanity and the implications of their discoveries. But here's the real question: Will you dare to follow in the footsteps of the doomed expedition and uncover the truth hidden beneath the Antarctic ice? Are you prepared to confront the cosmic horrors that lie dormant in the depths of the Earth? Experience the spine-tingling thrills of Lovecraftian horror. Lose yourself in the eerie atmosphere and mind-bending terror of "At The Mountains Of Madness." Don't miss your chance to delve into one of H.P. Lovecraft's most iconic works. Purchase your copy of "At The Mountains Of Madness" today and prepare to be haunted by the chilling visions of the Antarctic wasteland.

Mountain Lines

Author : Jonathan Arlan
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781510709768

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A New York Times best summer travel book recommendation A nonfiction debut about an American’s solo, month-long, 400-mile walk from Lake Geneva to Nice. In the summer of 2015, Jonathan Arlan was nearing thirty. Restless, bored, and daydreaming of adventure, he comes across an image on the Internet one day: a map of the southeast corner of France with a single red line snaking south from Lake Geneva, through the jagged brown and white peaks of the Alps to the Mediterranean sea—a route more than four hundred miles long. He decides then and there to walk the whole trail solo. Lacking any outdoor experience, completely ignorant of mountains, sorely out of shape, and fighting last-minute nerves and bad weather, things get off to a rocky start. But Arlan eventually finds his mountain legs—along with a staggering variety of aches and pains—as he tramps a narrow thread of grass, dirt, and rock between cloud-collared, ice-capped peaks in the High Alps, through ancient hamlets built into hillsides, across sheep-dotted mountain pastures, and over countless cols on his way to the sea. In time, this simple, repetitive act of walking for hours each day in the remote beauty of the mountains becomes as exhilarating as it is exhausting. Mountain Lines is the stirring account of a month-long journey on foot through the French Alps and a passionate and intimate book laced with humor, wonder, and curiosity. In the tradition of trekking classics like A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Snow Leopard, and Tracks, the book is a meditation on movement, solitude, adventure, and the magnetic power of the natural world.

Clear Waters Rising

Author : Nicholas Crane
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780141935485

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Alone - though he was just married - and on foot, Nicholas Crane embarked on an extraordinary adventure: a seventeen-month journey along the chain of mountains which stretches across Europe from Cape Finisterre to Istanbul. His aim was to explore Europe's last mountain wilderness and to meet the people who live on the periphery of the modern world.

My Side of the Mountain

Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593115008

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My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Pdf

"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book

A Philosophy of Walking

Author : Frédéric Gros
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781804290446

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This “passionate affirmation of the simple life” explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer) “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble—and reveals what they say about us. Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.

The Living Mountain

Author : Nan Shepherd
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780857863607

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AS SEEN ON BBC’S WINTERWATCH WITH CHRIS PACKHAM AND MICHAELA STRACHAN 'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.

Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies – 3rd Edition

Author : Alan Kane
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781771600972

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Annotation Armed with first-hand information, Alan Kane describes over 170 scrambles in a clear, concise format. This includes equipment needed, when to go, how to get there, where to park and what to expect as you work your way to the summit. Photos showing the ascent line complement descriptions that include historical trivia, origins of placenames and summit views. Routes range from off-trail hiking suitable for strong hikers to challenging routes at the low end of technical climbing where use of specific handholds is required on steep, airy terrain.

Xu Xiake's Travels 徐霞客游记

Author : Xu Xiake
Publisher : DeepLogic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Xu Xiake's Travels 徐霞客游记 by Xu Xiake Pdf

“Xu Xiake's Travels” (徐霞客游记) is a Chinese travelogue book, written in the 17th century. The book has 22 sections. It consists mainly of essays describing the travels of the Ming dynasty geographer Xu Xiake. Over 34 years, Xu produced more than 600,000 words, including works such as "Guizhou tour diary" and "Yunnan tour diary". This book offers detailed descriptions of geography, hydrology, geology, plants and other phenomena. It is also respected for its literary qualities and for its historicity.

A Man Who Walked The Mountains

Author : J C Pereira
Publisher : Joseph Pereira
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Born in poverty between the two world wars, a young village boy soon loses his father at the tender age of four. With hardly any means to feed her seven children, his mother takes a risk and relocates her entire family to the uncertainty of the city of Genoa. This boy grows into a man, piling the responsibilities that his father would have carried onto his young shoulders. This mind-set to stand in his father’s stead affects him strongly throughout his life. He grows into a serious, strong-minded young man with an unbending work ethic. Working in the iron forges’ hot furnaces, he discovers a knack for all things mechanical through a twist of fate. The patron of the factory, Signor Carletto Grondona, notices this sixteen-year-old talent with his hands and apprentices him to help repair his racing cars during the Pontedecimo - Giovi. He realizes his first joy as a mechanic. Unable to continue on this line, a life-times regret, he subsequently finds employment with the railroad. War and its horrors soon find him and his new bride. His experiences instil in him a sense of justice, right over wrong. His struggles during the war to protect his wife and child affects his ability to speak about his feelings, and the only way he can fully express and escape his demons is through painting and the love of the mountains. As he nears the latter part of his long years, he relocates due to family needs from his beloved Genoa to Abruzzo. Here, by sheer chance, he encounters the beauty and serenity of the mountains. Drawn to them, he develops a relationship with nature which led to him becoming a man who walked the mountains.

A Walk in the Woods

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780385674546

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God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.

Walking the Amazon

Author : Ed Stafford
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780753515648

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Walking the Amazon by Ed Stafford Pdf

On 9th August 2010, Ed Stafford became the first person ever to walk the entire length of the Amazon river. This text takes readers on his daring journey along the world's greatest river and through the most bio-diverse habitat on Earth.