Mountain Odyssey

Author : Brent Lea
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0921102992

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Mountain Odyssey by Brent Lea Pdf

After a bout with cancer Brent Lea was forced to reassess his priorities in life. One of his long-held visions was to spend an extended period of time in the Canadian Rockies, backpacking up valleys and over passes. To this end he took a three month leave of absence from his job, and accompanied by the ghost of Bill Peyto, lived out his dream. The ultimate in wilderness travel in western Canada. He immersed himself in the mountains, covering over 450 km in four national and two provincial parks, crossing 17 alpine passes and hiking past more than 65 backcountry lakes. Brent Lea's beautifully written account will appeal to anyone who has hiked in the mountains. Read about the time when Off to the right, in some willow shin-tangle, a bear stood watching us, unprovoked but getting more curious by the second. With the adrenaline coursing through my body, I couldn't decide whether I should grab the camera or grab the bear spray, so I did neither; I just let my senses take in the event. He observes that, Wandering around in the warm tangerine glow of the setting sun remains one of the most poignant memories of that summer. We felt so removed from the trappings of civilization; we were alone, there were no other hikers in this valley. The ancient fire-killed trees stood as silent sentinels against a darkening sky that was busy ushering in the first stars. He also relates the less appealing experiences of the backcountry when Satan's minions hovered above the camp, darkening the sky, or so it seemed, crawling over our packs and flying at our faces with voracious intensity.

Author : Claude Sirmons
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434967329

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Mountain Odyssey by Claude Sirmons Pdf

When Will McKay found the young Indian girl with her three-day-old baby almost frozen to death that Christmas Eve, he had no idea of the impact she would have on his family and his Colorado ranch. He rescued her and brought her home where she quickly became like a member of his family.Dan Short, the young ranch hand from Texas, who stood six foot four, soon fell in love with her and determined to make her his wife. After months of shy courtship, she agreed to marry him if her uncle, who was Chief of a band of Utes in Southwest Colorado agreed. When they journeyed to the village it started a series of events that would test both of them to the limits of their courage when she is kidnapped by a band of Commanches.This book completes a trilogy about a young boy who is sent by his father to find a home in the West where the family can live in peace and escape the hardship and persecution of the reconstruction after the Civil War. The other books are Trail to Trinidad and Will McKay.

Author : Harry Mount
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781472904683

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Harry Mount's Odyssey by Harry Mount Pdf

Harry Mount's Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus is a journey round Greece inspired by the heroes, locations and tales of the Odyssey and tracing ancient Greek civilization at its height. Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with, was a combination of two of the former.The powerful ghost of ancient Greece still lingers on in the popular mind as the first great civilization and one of the most influential in the creation of modern thought. It is the starting block of Western European civilization. In his new Odyssey, eminent writer Harry Mount tells the story of ancient Greece while on the trail of its greatest son, Odysseus. In the charming, anecdotal style of his bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, Harry visits Troy, still looming over the plain where Achilles dragged Hector's body through the dust, and attempts to swim the Hellespont, in emulation of Lord Byron and the doomed Greek lover, Leander. Whether in Odysseus's kingdom on Ithaca, Homer's birthplace of Chios or the Minotaur's lair on Crete, Mount brings the Odyssey - and ancient Greece - back to life.

Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101910085

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On Gold Mountain by Lisa See Pdf

Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.

Author : David Coulson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : UVA:X000819743

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Mountain Odyssey in Southern Africa by David Coulson Pdf

Author : Janet C. Pittard,David B. Chiswell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476687742

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The Ashe County Frescoes of Benjamin F. Long IV by Janet C. Pittard,David B. Chiswell Pdf

This book documents the history of four ecclesiastical frescoes completed by artist Benjamin F. Long IV in Ashe County, North Carolina, in the 1970s and 1980s. The story of the Ashe County frescoes celebrates their setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains and testifies to Long's intensity, precision and stamina. Commissioned by the Ashe County Frescoes Foundation, the authors contextualize the artistic and the spiritual aspects of the frescoes by connecting the figures in the scenes with their sources in the Bible. Drawn from extensive interviews with the artist, this book explores the frescoes' uniqueness. Interviews with people used as models, assistants, volunteers and observers focus on the frescoes' impact on the community, and the role of the Ashe County Frescoes Foundation in the protection and preservation of these artworks.

Author : Charles Frazier
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197177

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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Pdf

A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.

Author : Don Gayton
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781926855202

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Okanangan Odyssey by Don Gayton Pdf

Okanagan Odyssey is a quirky and lyrical examination of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. Sticking to the backroads and byways, Gayton gently pokes and prods local ecosystems, histories, vineyards and people. From Osoyoos in the south to Armstrong at the head of the Valley, the author revels in the biological and social diversity while sampling local wines and fruit along the way. In his unique version of wine pairing, Gayton matches up local books and landscapes with local vintages, giving terroir a whole new meaning. An ecologist by profession, Gayton deftly negotiates the tension between the Okanagan that is home to many endangered species and ecosystems, and the same Okanagan that is a mecca for developers and urban refugees. Okanagan Odyssey is not a travel guide, but represents travel writing at its idiosyncratic best. Please visit Don at www.dongayton.ca.

Author : William Duguid Geddes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJVEU

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The Problem of the Homeric Poems by William Duguid Geddes Pdf

Author : Justin Arft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780192663603

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Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation by Justin Arft Pdf

Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale "poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. Arete's interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora show that the "stranger's interrogation" is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen's question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus' status in epic and memory. Arete's role as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but it also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between she and her husband, Alkinoos, that influences the structure, genre, and narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book reinterprets the Odyssey's central episode and challenges several assumptions about Nausikaa and Alkinoos' famed hospitality, even demonstrating how the Apologue is organized as a response to competing inquiries into Odysseus' fundamental status in tradition. The Odyssey ultimately navigates away from Odysseus' public reputation and roots his status in private memories, and Arete's carefully arranged interventions signal the larger process by which the Odyssey immortalizes Odysseus in poetry as a nostos hero. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.

Author : Anthony Ham
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781837581030

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Lonely Planet Western USA by Anthony Ham Pdf

Lonely Planet’s Western USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cruise down coastal highways, soak up Seattle’s culture, or be awestruck by the Grand Canyon; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Western USA and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet’s Western USA Travel Guide: Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020’s COVID-19 outbreak NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of [destination’s] best experiences and where to have them Improved planning tools for family travelers - where to go, how to save money, plus fun stuff just for kids Color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics Over 40 maps Covers Rocky Mountains, Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet’s Western USA, our most comprehensive guide to Western USA, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet’s USA for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' – New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' – Fairfax Media (Australia)

Author : Maurice Isserman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781328871435

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The Winter Army by Maurice Isserman Pdf

"The epic story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy's mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101073758540

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The Month and Catholic Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001200160682

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The Month by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Anthon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Classical geography
ISBN : UOMDLP:acl3751:0001.001

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A System of Ancient and Mediaeval Geography for the Use of Schools and Colleges by Charles Anthon Pdf