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Author : Desmond Bagley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008211288
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in New Zealand.
Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028880784
The tiger is an endangered species. There are now only a few thousand tigers surviving in Asia in their natural habitat. The largest of the species, the Siberian tiger, is now confined almost entirely to the thinly-populated Russian Far East where it is increasingly under threat from intensified poaching and the destruction of its habitat. Peter Matthiessen, in addition to being a distinguished novelist, has written classic accounts of his observation of wildlife around the world and his study of the Siberian tiger displays his deep knowledge of, and feeling for, the natural world. He tells the story of the tiger's origin and evolution and describes its role in the mythology and culture of the peoples amongst whom it lived and by whom it was hunted. His illuminating text is accompanied by Maurice Hornocker's magnificent photographs of this fabulous animal.
Author : Jonathan Neale
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781429978583
Tigers of the Snow is true story of the tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains. In 1922 Himalayan climbers were British gentlemen, and their Sherpa and Tibetan porters were "coolies," unskilled and inexperienced casual laborers. By 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit of Everest, and the coolies had become the "Tigers of the Snow." Jonathan Neale's absorbing book is both a compelling history of the oft-forgotten heroes of mountaineering and a gripping account of the expedition that transformed the Sherpas into climbing legends. In 1934 a German-led team set off to climb the Himalayan peak of Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain on earth. After a disastrous assault in 1895, no attempt had been made to conquer the mountain for thirty-nine years. The new Nazi government was determined to prove German physical superiority to the rest of the world. A heavily funded expedition was under pressure to deliver results. Like all climbers of the time, they did not really understand what altitude did to the human body. When a hurricane hit the leading party just short of the summit, the strongest German climbers headed down and left the weaker Germans and the Sherpas to die on the ridge. What happened in the next few days of death and fear changed forever how the Sherpa climbers thought of themselves. From that point on, they knew they were the decent and responsible people of the mountain. Jonathan Neale interviewed many old Sherpa men and women, including Ang Tsering, the last man off Nanga Parbat alive in 1934. Impeccably researched and superbly written, Tigers of the Snow is the compelling narrative of a climb gone wrong, set against the mountaineering history of the early twentieth century, the haunting background of German politics in the 1930s, and the hardship and passion of life in the Sherpa valleys.
Author : Desmond Bagley
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385048416
A catastrophic avalanche brings disaster to the inhabitants of a small New Zealand mining town, bringing out the best and the worst in the people.
Author : Aravind Adiga
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416562733
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The stunning Booker Prize–winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society. “This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before” (John Burdett, Bangkok 8). The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. Recalling The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, The White Tiger is narrative genius with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation—and a startling, provocative debut.
Author : Oxford Dictionaries Staff,Paul Shipton,Hannah Fish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0194709337
"Max is in a new ice hockey team, called The Tigers. But what happens when grandpa and Clunk take the children to a snowy place to seea snow tiger?"--Back cover.
Author : David Gordon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544343740
Noveller. A collection of thirteen short stories which explores themes of art, the supernatural, madness, and the extremes of sexuality
Author : Desmond Bagley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Avalanches
ISBN : 0006143199
Author : Nick Butterworth
Publisher : Harper Childrens
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Animals
ISBN : 0007257740
Tiger wants to play in the snow but his friends are too busy or too cold to join him until they see how much fun he has sledding.
Author : Vincanne Adams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400851775
Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrain and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "authenticating" effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "deauthenticating" effects on anthropological representation. This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.
Author : Glen A. Sorestad,James A. MacNeill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Short stories, Canadian (English)
ISBN : OCLC:150432039
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481443357
Bundle up with Daniel Tiger in this adorable new storybook based on a popular episode of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood! It’s snowing in the neighborhood, and Daniel Tiger can’t wait to go outside and build a snowman with Miss Elaina! Daniel tells Mom Tiger that he doesn’t need his hat and mittens, but when he gets outside, he’s too cold to play! Luckily, Mom Tiger is close by to help Daniel pick the right clothes for cold weather. This sweet winter-themed storybook is perfect for helping little ones understand that playing in the snow is much more fun when you’re dressed for the weather! © 2015 The Fred Rogers Company
Author : Claire O'Neal
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781545749777
Before the 1900s, hundreds of thousands of wild tigers roamed Southeast Asia. Their beauty, fierceness, and intelligence inspired fear and awe in their human neighbors. These peoples gave the tiger starring roles in folktales and mythology. Human fascination with tigers continues. Unfortunately, the tiger may not survive in the wild much longer. Researchers estimate that fewer than 2,500 tigers remain in their natural habitat. As the human population explodes in Southeast Asia, the wild tiger population pays the price. Can the wild tiger be saved by its only natural enemy, people?
Author : Polly Clark
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786485441
**The thrilling new novel by the prize-winning author of Larchfield** 'Passionate, remarkable and uplifting novel' Guardian 'Grabbed me by the imagination and carried me into the wild' Laline Paull Set across two continents, Tiger is a sweeping story of survival and redeeming love that plunges the reader into one of the world's last wildernesses with blistering authenticity. Frieda is a primatologist, sensitive and solitary, until a violent attack shatters her ordered world. In her new role as a zookeeper, she confronts a very different ward: an injured wild tiger. Deep in the Siberian taiga, Tomas, a Russian conservationist, fears that the natural order has toppled. The king tiger has been killed by poachers and a spectacular tigress now patrols his vast territory as her own. In a winter of treacherous competition, the path of the tigress and her cub crosses with an Udeghe huntress and her daughter. Vengeance must follow, and the fates of both tigers and people are transformed. Learning of her tiger's past offers Frieda the chance of freedom. Faced with the savage forces of nature, she must trust to her instinct and, like the tiger, find a way to live in the world.
Author : Jeanette Owens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1467889377