Beyond The Mountain Road

Author : Francisco Quintero
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595513611

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Beyond the Mountain Road by Francisco Quintero Pdf

In the memoir Beyond the Mountain Road the author shares his compelling life story beginning with his birth in a city nestled in the Colombian Andes and continuing with the fascinating details of his journey through a life built on hope, faith, dreams, ambition, and love. With a warm, narrative style, Francisco Quintero vividly describes the events that shaped his character and personality. He reminisces about his childhood and recounts the difficult years he suffered as a young student following the persecution and destruction of his family due to political reasons. As he advances chronologically through his life, Dr. Quintero offers insight into his adventures in medical school, his initial encounters with patients during his hospital training, his introduction to the love of his life, and the creation of his family. His anecdotes some humorous, some tragic include details of the family's eventual voyage to the United States, where they live the American dream. Beyond the Mountain Road is the remarkable true story of a family that was able to overcome obstacles and hardship through courage and determination. Above all, it is a captivating love story.

Author : Steve House
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781938340055

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Beyond the Mountain by Steve House Pdf

What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the mountains teach. Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty. In 2005 Steve and alpinist Vince Anderson pioneered a direct new route on the Rupal Face of 26,600-foot Nanga Parbat, which had never before been climbed in alpine style. It was the third ascent of the face and the achievement earned Steveand Vince the first Piolet d"or (Golden Ice Axe) awarded to North Americans. Steve is an accomplished and spellbinding storyteller in the tradition of Maurice Herzog and Lionel Terray. Beyond the Mountain is a gripping read destined to be a mountain classic. And it

Author : Celia Lottridge
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554981908

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Home is Beyond the Mountains by Celia Lottridge Pdf

Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.

Author : Anne Masson,Matt Masson
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781913913557

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The Road to the Top of the Mountain by Anne Masson,Matt Masson Pdf

This is the extraordinary story of the road to recovery of Matt who, at the tail end of 2010 at the age of twenty-three, suffered a life-altering brain injury. Awakening from a six-week coma, he couldn’t talk or even sit up in bed unsupported.

Author : Hesper Anderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743242462

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South Mountain Road by Hesper Anderson Pdf

"This ... personal memoir from the award-winning screenwriter of 'Children of a Lesser God' weaves a tale of stark beauty and devastating truth about a shy girl's struggle to process the troubling legacy of her famous parents"--Publisher marketing.

Author : Celia Barker Lottridge
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780888999498

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Home Is Beyond the Mountains by Celia Barker Lottridge Pdf

Samira and her brother flee when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, but the director of the orphanage where they end up decides to lead the refugee children on the three-hundred-mile journey back to their homes.

Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,8 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

Author : Hoover Liddell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462058600

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Mountain Road by Hoover Liddell Pdf

In traversing the earth and living with the wilderness from Africa to the California Sierras, author Hoover Liddell came to realize the great energy of youth as we struggle to educate our planet and ourselves. Mountain Road is his journey of life and travel through the planet's cities and towns as well as his time in San Francisco and living inside its schools. From a mountain road out of Africa, humankind continues its journey into a timeless universe. Human freedom is not dwelling in the past or the future but in the remarkableness and freshness of the present, where the adventure is. His journey from the Nigerian rainforests and desert across Africa through the Serengeti plains and the mountain road of Kilimanjaro takes him to the mountains of the Sierras. In his expeditions he discovers moments of vibrant energy and days of staying alive that are more profound than all the years of teaching in the schools. He finds the wilderness empowers us to find our own way and deepens our capabilities as we educate ourselves and the earth. Of what meaning is school or life itself if we are not serious and motivated for the adventure to educate the planet?

Author : Robyn Carr
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459256644

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Just Over the Mountain by Robyn Carr Pdf

Welcome back to Grace Valley, California, where the best things in life never change… Here in this peaceful community, folks look out for one another like family, though sometimes a little too well. In a town like this, it's hard to keep a secret—but Dr. June Hudson has managed to keep one heck of a humdinger.… Though visits from her secret lover, undercover DEA agent Jim Post, are as clandestine as they are passionate, somehow it fits with her demanding schedule as the town's doctor—a calling that requires an innate ability to exist on caffeine, sticky buns and nerves of steel. But how can a secret lover compete with a flesh-and-blood heartthrob from her past? June's old flame has just returned to town after twenty years—and he's divorced. June is seriously rattled. So when the town's most devoted wife takes buckshot to her husband and some human bones turn up in her aunt Myrna's backyard, she's almost happy for the distraction. Sooner or later, love will have its way in Grace Valley. It always does.

Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0671705733

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Behind the Mountain by Peter Conrad Pdf

Author : J. R. McNeill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0521522889

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The Mountains of the Mediterranean World by J. R. McNeill Pdf

An environmental history of the mountain areas of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco.

Author : Daniel Wilkinson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0822333686

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Silence on the Mountain by Daniel Wilkinson Pdf

Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.

Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:654308892

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Beyond the Mountains by Kenneth Rexroth Pdf

Author : Donna M. Bevans Ph. D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477277836

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It's the Mountain Way by Donna M. Bevans Ph. D. Pdf

It's the Mountain Way is a coming-of-age story filled with suspense and memories of first love. Savannah Benjamin, born and raised in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, knew the ways of the mountain. She had only experienced the outside world from the books she read. But books couldn't teach her how first love felt, or explain why some people who seemed good were not always trustworthy. They didn't tell her that teenagers could be mean or unfriendly. These lessons she had to learn for herself. Set in 1983, marrying young was not unusual in the isolated hollows and villages of the mountains. At fourteen, Savannah was no longer a child, but not yet an adult. Her mother had married at fifteen, she wanted more for her daughter. Horace Jenks, the local moonshiner, had other plans for Savannah.

Author : Larry Pletcher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493034598

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Hiking New Hampshire by Larry Pletcher Pdf

Outdoor photographer, writer, and veteran hiker Greg Westrich adds new hikes to Hiking New Hampshire, making it one of the most comprehensive resources on hiking the finest trails in the Granite State. Each of the hike descriptions contains easy-to-follow driving directions, up-to-date trail information, accurate maps and elevation graphs, full color photos, and information on the wildlife and attractions of the area. The hikes range from easy strolls to overnight backpacking excursions along mountain peaks and ridge tops. The guide also includes information on hiking with children, barrier-free trails, and no-trace camping tips.