The Last Blue Mountain

Author : Ralph Barker
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781912560431

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The Last Blue Mountain by Ralph Barker Pdf

'When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh.' The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue their friends, only to become stranded alongside them. The group's efforts to return to safety are increasingly desperate, hampered by injury, exhaustion and the loss of vital climbing gear. Against the odds, Jillott and Emery manage to climb out of the snow basin and head for camp, hoping to reach food, water and assistance in time to save themselves and their companions from an icy grave. But another cruel twist of fate awaits them. An acclaimed mountaineering classic in the same genre as Joe Simpson's Touching the Void , Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain is an epic tale of friendship and fortitude in the face of tragedy.

Author : R M Lala
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184753318

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Beyond the Last Blue Mountain by R M Lala Pdf

An exhaustive and unforgettable portrait of India's greatest and most respected industrialist. Written with J.R.D. Tata's co-operation, this superb biography tells the J.R.D. story from his birth to 1993, the year in which he died in Switzerland. The book is divided into four parts: Part I deals with the early years, from J.R.D's birth in France in 1904 to his accession to the chairmanship of Tatas, India's largest industrial conglomerate, at the age of thirty-four; Part II looks at his forty-six years in Indian aviation (the lasting passion of J.R.D's life) which led to the initiation of the Indian aviation industry and its development into one of India's success stories; Part III illuminates his half-century-long stint as the outstanding personality of Indian industry; and Part IV unearths hitherto unknown details about the private man and the public figure, including glimpses of his long friendships with such people as Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and his association with celebrities in India and abroad.

Author : Harriet Sandys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 1911487167

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Beyond That Last Blue Mountain by Harriet Sandys Pdf

Silk weaving in Afghanistan, bartering in Peshawar and snipers in Bosnia, Harriet Sandys reveals her remarkable travels in her memoir, Beyond that Last Blue Mountain

Author : Martine Leavitt
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554984244

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Blue Mountain by Martine Leavitt Pdf

When young Tuk is born on the mountain, life is simple for a young bighorn. Run, jump and play with his bandmates, eat and grow strong. But soon it will be up to Tuk to lead the herd to a new mountain he has seen far to the west. It will be a long journey filled with dangers. Wolf, bear, wolverine, puma — and man. The responsibility to lead the herd sits uneasily on Tuk’s shoulders. But Tuk is the one who has seen the blue mountain in the distance, and his bandmates are counting on him. There is little Mouf, full of questions. There is Sham, who must reach their new lambing grounds before her lamb is born. And there are his male rivals, who challenge his ability to lead them. After all, Tuk is just a yearling, and his horns are not even fully formed. As the journey lengthens, it becomes more urgent. Swamps and impenetrable forests block their path. Hungry predators demand their due. Human highways and machines and dwellings contaminate formerly pristine valleys. Yet Tuk finds a way, with the help of his friend Rim, the loyal ewe, Dall, and his trust in Blue Mountain — a place where the bighorn can live in peace, on the gifts that the mountain provides.

Author : Ralph Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1979*
Category : Haramosh (Pakistan)
ISBN : 0916890856

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The Last Blue Mountain by Ralph Barker Pdf

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553900071

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To the Far Blue Mountains by Louis L'Amour Pdf

In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after returning to his homeland, discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible. Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to make his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a royal warrant had been sworn out against him and that men were searching for him in every port. At issue were some rare gold coins Sackett had sold to finance his first trip to the Americas—coins believed to be part of a great treasure lost by King John years before. Believing that Sackett possesses the rest of the treasure, Queen Bess will stop at nothing to find him. If he’s caught, not only will his dream of a life in America be lost, but he will be brutally tortured and put to death on the gallows.

Author : Alec McDonald
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781800465923

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Beyond the Blue Mountain by Alec McDonald Pdf

From the glaciers of Spitsbergen to the palaces of Oman, this is an unlikely journey by an unassuming Liverpool boy who spent much of his career rising, to his surprise, through MI6, when not indulging his passion for rock-climbing.

Author : Susan Polis Schutz
Publisher : Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0883966956

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Blue Mountain by Susan Polis Schutz Pdf

A tale of love, hardships, triumph, and success... It is the true story of Stephen Schutz and Susan Polis Schutz and their most unusual and often challenging ventures: Blue Mountain Arts greeting card company and bluemountain.com. Filled with practical business lessons... This story is a riveting account of the mistakes Susan and Stephen made, the solutions they designed, the successes they reached, and the personal and professional lessons they learned. This book gives you an excellent opportunity to learn from the Schutzes' experiences and insights. For anyone who has ever had a dream... In the late 1960's, Susan and Stephen were two idealistic, recent college graduates -- he, an artist with a Princeton Ph.D. in theoretical physics, and she, a teacher and a writer. One day, they decided to silk-screen posters that combined their art and poetry. They traveled around the country selling their posters while living out of a bright-yellow, pickup-truck camper. Thus, Blue Mountain Arts was born. About standing up and fighting for what you believe in... In the 1980's, Susan and Stephen designed the number-one-selling card line in the United States and found themselves battling one of America's largest corporations. Rather than watching their cards and company get destroyed, the Schutzes boldly went to court. The precedent-setting legal battle was dubbed by the media as the trial of David v. Goliath. An insider's look into the dot-com craze... In the late 1990's, Susan and Stephen, together with their eldest son, Jared, developed bluemountain.com -- a free Internet greeting card service that quickly grew into one of the world's most popular websites. A tender portrayal of love and life in an earlier, perhaps more innocent time... In a separate section, Susan shares her personal memories of growing up during the conservative 1950's in a small, country town. She speaks candidly about her college years, teaching, planning a commune, falling in love, and living amidst the political and philosophical turmoil of the 1960's. In heartfelt words, Susan describes her romantic relationship with Stephen and the births of their children. A business book with a soul... In sharp contrast to today's headlines of scandal and greed, this is the refreshing story of how the Schutzes followed their intuition, stayed true to their values and ideals, and created a flourishing company that has managed to stay ethical and successful at the same time. Better than fiction or fairy tale... You will laugh and cry and experience every emotion in between as you read the amazing story of Stephen and Susan Polis Schutz and Blue Mountain Arts. Book jacket.

Author : Lisa Michelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-26
Category : Calaveras County (Calif.)
ISBN : 9798484341535

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Blue Mountain by Lisa Michelle Pdf

It's been the year from hell for Jessica Williams. Her cheating husband not only bankrupted them--he's been indicted. Now the rat bastard has disappeared. Thank God for Nana. Jess couldn't survive without the old woman's wisdom and brutal honesty. But when Nana is arrested and held responsible for the largest mass murder in Calaveras County history that honesty looks very doubtful. As the oldest inmate at the county jail, Nana also holds the honor of being the only suspected serial killer ever housed there. When Nana is granted deathbed visitation, Jess wants the truth. All of it. At least she thinks she does. But after Nana confesses to bone-chilling secrets so horrifying, Jess begins to question everyone and everything, including her own sanity. Nana could be lying, Jess thinks, but why? Armed with jagged pieces of the ugly truth, does Jess have the courage to forgive and hunt down a sadistic monster even if it's someone she loves? Even if it kills her?

Author : Karen Katchur
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250066824

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The Sisters of Blue Mountain by Karen Katchur Pdf

"For Linnet, owner of a Bed and Breakfast in Mountain Springs, Pennsylvania, life has been a bit complicated lately. Hundreds of snow geese have died overnight in the dam near the B&B, sparking a media frenzy, threatening the tourist season, and bringing her estranged sister, Myna, to town. If that isn't enough, the women's father has been charged with investigating the incident. But when a younger expert is brought in to replace him on the case and then turns up dead on Linnet's B&B's property, their father becomes the primary suspect. As the investigation unfolds, the sisters will have to confront each other, their hidden past, and a side of Mountain Springs not seen before. Karen Katchur has written a thrilling novel of sisters and the secrets that bind them that is sure to appeal to readers of her acclaimed first novel, The Secrets of Lake Road"--

Author : R M Lala
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789351183495

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The Joy of Achievement by R M Lala Pdf

An entertaining, intimate and deeply moving portrait of the legendary industrialist. For six decades J.R.D. Tata headed India's largest industrial conglomerate with uncommon success. This was only one aspect of his life. He was also a man of great sensitivity who suffered at the loss of friends and was pained by the poverty he saw around him: a philanthropist who wanted India to be -a happy country' and did all that he could to make it so: a man with a passion for literature, fast cars, skiing and, of course, flying. This book, by the author of the best-selling The Last Blue Mountain, records JRD's thoughts on a variety of subjects. In these pages he speaks of the House of Tatas and his style of management, about how he nearly joined the freedom struggle in the early 1940s, about the -thrill of living a little dangerously', his love of music and wine, and the writers he likes to read. He speaks also, with striking candour and insight, about the failures of socialism, the future of India and his association with stalwarts like Jawaharlal Nehru. Jayaprakash Narayan, Vallabbhai Patel, Indira Gandhi and Henry Kissinger. Towards the end of the book, in the final year of his life, we see him come to terms with death, God and the afterlife.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Blue Mountain Arts
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0883964813

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It's Great to Have a Sister Like You by Anonim Pdf

Created by the bestselling poet and artist team of Susan Polis Schutz and Stephen Schutz, this distinctive series of hardcover books has a perfect title for every customer. Each book showcases a collection of verse and quotations by the world's most celebrated authors, poets, artists, scientists, philosophers, and political figures, both contemporary and classical. All new and bestselling titles are updated with elegant paper elements, including a handmade tissue spine covering and colorful accents among the petals and leaves in the handcrafted paper. A Gift Any Sister Will Love

Author : Max McNabb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737379716

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Far Blue Mountains by Max McNabb Pdf

Changeling destiny-an injured Apache girl adopted by a powerful rancher, the rancher's son kidnapped in revenge by the last free Apaches. Inspired by historical events that took place in the 1920s Sierra Madre, Far Blue Mountains is a gothic western like no other. In 1926, when rancher Jubal McKenna discovers an injured Apache girl and welcomes her into his family, he sets in motion an irrevocable exchange of destiny. The girl is a member of the last unsurrendered Apaches. They live in freedom well into the 20th century, hidden in the wild mountains of Mexico, where they keep the old ways. An eye for an eye, blood for blood-in reprisal, the Apaches kidnap Jubal's young son, John Russell McKenna. They take the boy into the sierras to live as one of their own, a beloved captive. The boy is immersed in Apache culture, a world of freedom and adventure, brutal violence and strange magic. John Russell becomes Denali, an Apache warrior. Meanwhile Jubal searches the sierras for Apache camps, as the quest for revenge threatens to consume his soul.This magnificent first novel by Max McNabb, the editor of TexasHillCountry.com, has all the relentless pace of a classic western and the elegiac beauty of a lost myth. At once a grand adventure and a darkly beautiful tragedy, Far Blue Mountains is a meditation on identity and destiny, freedom and revenge.

Author : Wendy Pini,Richard Pini
Publisher : Warp Graphics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-02
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0936861592

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Siege at Blue Mountain by Wendy Pini,Richard Pini Pdf

Palace of the High Ones has been won. In their new holt, the Wolfriders can settle in and enjoy life and its living, for the first time in recent memory. The horrors of battle and betrayal are behind them.

Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Beyond the Blue Mountains by Jean Plaidy Pdf