When Men And Mountains Meet

Author : John Keay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:956653666

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When Men and Mountains Meet by John Keay Pdf

Author : John Keay
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0719555760

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Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1820-1895 by John Keay Pdf

Where men and mountains meet -- The Gilgit game.

Author : H.W. Tilman
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781909461239

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When Men & Mountains Meet by H.W. Tilman Pdf

'We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of the next. "Strenuousness is the immortal path, sloth is the way of death."' First published in 1946, the scope of H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's When Men and Mountains Meet is broad, covering his disastrous expedition to the Assam Himalaya, a small exploratory trip into Sikkim, and then his wartime heroics. In the thirties, Assam was largely unknown and unexplored. It proved a challenging environment for Tilman's party, the jungle leaving the men mosquito-bitten and suffering with tropical diseases, and thwarting their mountaineering success. Sikkim proved altogether more successful. Tilman, who is once again happy and healthy, enjoys some exploratory ice climbing and discovers Abominable Snowman tracks, particularly remarkable as the creature appeared to be wearing boots—' there is no reason why he should not have picked up a discarded pair at the German Base Camp and put them to their obvious use'. And then, in 1939, war breaks out. With good humour and characteristic understatement we hear about Tilman's remarkable Second World War. After digging gun pits on the Belgian border and in Iraq, he was dropped by parachute behind enemy lines to fight alongside Albanian and Italian partisans. Tilman was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his efforts—and the keys to the city of Belluno, which he helped save from occupation and destruction. Tilman's comments on the German approach to Himalayan climbing could equally be applied to his guerrilla warfare ethos. 'They spent a lot of time and money and lost a lot of climbers and porters, through bad luck and more often through bad judgement.' While elsewhere the war machine rumbled on, Tilman's war was fast, exciting, lightweight and foolhardy—and makes for gripping reading.

Author : Harold William Tilman
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Mountaineering
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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When Men & Mountains Meet by Harold William Tilman Pdf

Author : Harold William Tilman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Mountaineering
ISBN : UCAL:$B675954

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When Men & Mountains Meet by Harold William Tilman Pdf

Author : Grace Lin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316052603

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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book) by Grace Lin Pdf

A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!​ A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time​! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.

Author : Aldwyth Rees Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1784617512

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When Men and Mountain Meet by Aldwyth Rees Davies Pdf

According to TV's Top Gear, the Black Mountain road (the A4069) between Brynaman and Gwynfe in Wales' Brecon Beacons National Park is, 'Five of the most memorable miles you can drive in any country.' In 2019 this road, with its hairpin bends, dips, twists, climbs and amazing views of the surrounding countryside, celebrates its 200th anniversary. When Men and Mountain Meet tells the story of the construction of the Black Mountain road, giving background information on those responsible for it, the enterprising father and son who shared the same name, John Jones Brynbrain, and the industrialisation and cultural development of Brynaman to the south that came about, in part, due to the road being built. Includes 16-page section of photographs.

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781599217703

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Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer Pdf

No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian, he explores the subject from the unique and memorable perspective of one who has battled peaks like K2, Denali, Everest, and, of course, the Eiger. Always with a keen eye, an open heart, and a hunger for the ultimate experience, he gives us unerring portraits of the mountaineering experience. Yet Eiger Dreams is more about people than about rock and ice—people with that odd, sometimes maniacal obsession with mountain summits that sets them apart from other men and women. Here we meet Adrian the Romanian, determined to be the first of his countrymen to solo Denali; John Gill, climber not of great mountains but of house-sized boulders so difficult to surmount that even demanding alpine climbs seem easy; and many more compelling and colorful characters. In the most intimate piece, “The Devils Thumb,” Krakauer recounts his own near-fatal, ultimately triumphant struggle with solo-madness as he scales Alaska's Devils Thumb. Eiger Dreams is stirring, vivid writing about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520256379

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The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake Pdf

Poetry.

Author : Harold W. Tilman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1074998695

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When Men and Mountains Meet by Harold W. Tilman Pdf

Author : Maurice Isserman,Stewart Angas Weaver,Dee Molenaar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780300164206

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Fallen Giants by Maurice Isserman,Stewart Angas Weaver,Dee Molenaar Pdf

In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.

Author : H. W. Tilman
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0898869609

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The Seven Mountain-Travel Books by H. W. Tilman Pdf

Tilman has been called "arguably the best expedition writer and best explorer-mountaineer" of the 20th century.

Author : Cate Lineberry
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316220231

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The Secret Rescue by Cate Lineberry Pdf

The compelling untold story of a group of stranded U.S. Army nurses and medics fighting to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. When 26 Army nurses and medics-part of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron-boarded a cargo plane for transport in November 1943, they never anticipated the crash landing in Nazi-occupied Albania that would lead to their months-long struggle for survival. A drama that captured the attention of the American public, the group and its flight crew dodged bullets and battled blinding winter storms as they climbed mountains and fought to survive, aided by courageous villagers who risked death at Nazi hands to help them. A mesmerizing tale of the courage and heroism of ordinary people, The Secret Rescue tells not only a new story of struggle and endurance, but also one of the daring rescue attempts by clandestine American and British organizations amid the tumultuous landscape of the war.

Author : Christopher Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317094593

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Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema by Christopher Morris Pdf

Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This new 'cult of mountains' reacted to the symptoms and alienating forces associated with modern culture, defining and reinforcing models of subjectivity based on renewed wholeness and an aggressive attitude to physical and mental health. The arts were critical to this project, none more so than music, which occupied a similar space in Austro-German culture: autonomous, pure, sublime. In Modernism and the Cult of Mountains opera serves as a nexus, shedding light on the circulation of contesting ideas about politics, nature, technology and aesthetics. Morris investigates operatic representations of the high mountains in German modernism, showing how the liminal quality of the landscape forms the backdrop for opera's reflexive engagement with the identity and limits of its constituent media, not least music. This operatic reflexivity, in which the very question of music's identity is repeatedly restaged, invites consideration of musical encounters with mountains in other genres, and Morris shows how these issues resonate in Strauss's Alpine Symphony and in the Bergfilm (mountain film). By using music and the ideology of mountains to illuminate aspects of each other, Morris makes an original and valuable contribution to the critical study of modernism.

Author : Neil Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134786688

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Writing a Small Nation's Past by Neil Evans Pdf

This is the first volume to examine how the history of Wales was written in a period that saw the emergence of professional historiography, largely focused on the nation, across Europe and in the United States. It thus sets Wales in the context of recent work on national history writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, more particularly, offers a Welsh perspective on the ways in which history was written in small, mainly stateless, nations. The comparative dimension is fundamental to the volume's aim, highlighting what was distinctive about Welsh historical writing and showing how the Welsh experience mirrors and illuminates broader historiographical developments. The book begins with an introduction that uses the concept of historical culture as a way of exploring the different strands of historiography covered in the collection, providing orientation to the chapters that follow. These are divided into four sections: 'Contexts and Backgrounds', 'Amateurs and Popularizers', 'Creating Academic Disciplines', and 'Comparative Perspectives'. All these themes are then drawn together in the conclusion to examine how far Welsh historians exemplify widespread trends in the writing of national history, and thereby point-up common themes that emerge from the volume and clarify its broader significance for students of historiography.