Beyond The Mountains

Author : Steve House
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Richard S. Mackie
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774842464

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Trading Beyond the Mountains by Richard S. Mackie Pdf

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the North West and Hudson�s Bay companies extended their operations beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they encountered a mild and forgiving climate and abundant natural resources and, with the aid of Native traders, branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Following its merger with the North West Company in 1821, the Hudson�s Bay Company set up its headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. From there, the company dominated much of the non-Native economy, sending out goods to markets in Hawaii, Sitka, and San Francisco. Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1843 leading to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents the Hudson�s Bay Company�s employment of Native slaves and labourers in the North West coast region.

Author : Celia Lottridge
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Richmond Pearson Hobson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015027929887

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Grass Beyond the Mountains by Richmond Pearson Hobson Pdf

Presents a colourful view of cattle ranching in central B.C.

Author : Drew A. Swanson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820353968

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Beyond the Mountains by Drew A. Swanson Pdf

Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region's environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.

Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338841565

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Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat Pdf

A lyrical and poignant coming-of-age story about one girl's immigration experience, as she moves from Haiti to New York City, by award-winning author Edwidge Danticat. It is election time in Haiti, and bombs are going off in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. During a visit from her home in rural Haiti, Celiane Espérance and her mother are nearly killed. Looking at her country with new eyes, Celiane gains a fresh resolve to be reunited with her father in Brooklyn, New York. The harsh winter and concrete landscape of her new home are a shock to Celiane, who witnesses her parents' struggle to earn a living and her brother's uneasy adjustment to American society, and at the same time encounters her own challenges with learning and school violence. National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat weaves a beautiful, honest, and timely story of the American immigrant experience in this luminous novel about resilience, hope, and family.

Author : Francesca Gibbons
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780008355104

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Beyond the Mountains (A Clock of Stars, Book 2) by Francesca Gibbons Pdf

The thrilling sequel to the best-selling middle-grade debut of Autumn 2020

Author : Matthew McAllester
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814756607

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Beyond the Mountains of the Damned by Matthew McAllester Pdf

Tells the story of Kosovo's most war-devastated city through the lives of two neighbors, one a Serb and the other a Kosovar, who viewed the conflict respectively as a desperate struggle for survival and an exercise of power.

Author : Steven Hammond,Gurney Norman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1893239713

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Looking Beyond the Mountains by Steven Hammond,Gurney Norman Pdf

"Labeled female at birth, Steven Hammond lived for 25 years as a female--a boy imprisoned in the trappings of a girl"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Oliver La Farge
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : New Mexico
ISBN : 9780865346765

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Behind the Mountains by Oliver La Farge Pdf

Pulitzer Prize-winner La Farge died in 1963. Of his many books, this work has earned the affection of Santa Feans and New Mexicans, who continue to regard it as a regional classic.

Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:19961642

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Beyond the Mountains by Kenneth Rexroth Pdf

Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812980554

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Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] inspires, discomforts, and provokes.”—The New York Times (Best Books of the Year) In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease. Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes people’s minds through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.” WINNER OF THE LETTRE ULYSSES AWARD FOR THE ART OF REPORTAGE This deluxe paperback edition includes a new Epilogue by the author

Author : Traci Sorell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525555124

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At the Mountain's Base by Traci Sorell Pdf

A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this lyrical picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of history-making women pilots. At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war. With an author's note that pays homage to the true history of Native American U.S. service members like WWII pilot Ola Mildred "Millie" Rexroat, this is a story that reveals the roots that ground us, the dreams that help us soar, and the people and traditions that hold us up.

Author : David Kilcullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190230968

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Out of the Mountains by David Kilcullen Pdf

Analyzes four megatrends—population growth, urbanization, coastal life and connectedness-and concludes that future conflict is increasingly likely to occur in sprawling coastal cities; in underdeveloped regions of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia; and in highly networked, connected settings, in a book that also looks at gangs, cartels and warlords.

Author : Janyce Engan,Charles Engan,Michael Blum
Publisher : Chaosium
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : Call of Cthulhu (Game)
ISBN : 1568821387

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Beyond the Mountains of Madness by Janyce Engan,Charles Engan,Michael Blum Pdf