Book Description
Documents the ascents and descents of Pikes Peak climbers and skiers.
Author : Phil Wortmann
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2021-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780578931623
Documents the ascents and descents of Pikes Peak climbers and skiers.
Author : Tim Palmer
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0847865428
Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award, this book is a hiker's inspirational bucket list embodied in a lavishly illustrated celebration of our nation's one hundred best mountain trails. America's mountain trails lure us to exquisite heights, from the Atlantic Coast in Maine to the Pacific edge in California and the Northwest. These rugged yet seductive pathways call to all who seek both solace and adventure, whether out for a day hike or an extended backpacking expedition. America's Great Mountain Trails introduces readers to one hundred hikes of a lifetime. The book covers some of our nation's most legendary trails and some that are scarcely known, but all can take us on journeys to remarkable places. Between the ancient Appalachians and the Pacific Coast's uplift lie the Rockies, Desert Range, Sierra Nevadas, Cascade Mountains, Olympics, and more. Beyond are the resoundingly wild terrain of Alaska and the islands of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, which ascend like dreamy visions from the sea. Readers get practical details about the length and difficulty of each hike, along with concise directions to each trailhead, tips about the best seasons to go, advice on permit requirements, and a selection of alternate routes. An appendix offers information about what must be done to protect these special places so they'll remain alluring and rewarding to all the generations ahead. With fascinating text and beautiful photography by Tim Palmer, America's Great Mountain Trails is sure to become the definitive reference book to the most outstanding mountain trails in America.
Author : Jack Denton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2018-11-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 1984567322
It has been an extremely fulfilling experience of six years to set up my easel and work on location to interpret the grandeur of Pikes Peak. In 2015, three years into this painting series, I became resolved to complete one hundred canvases of America’s Mountain and document it with a book. And now in 2018, after many seasons in the making and fifty years as a landscape painter, I can truly know that this visual journey has been an artistic project of a lifetime—a come to the mountain experience! My essential epiphany from this epic endeavor is that Pikes Peak, although an enormous historic granite mountain located in semi-arid region of Colorado, quite often resembles an oceanic rugged coastline due to dynamic atmospherics—a marvelous irony because the peak was thrust upward eons ago from the ocean floor. Pikes Peak’s massive size and beauty in all seasons is pure joy for my artist soul. I invite you to see America’s Mountain through my eyes!
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Daniel James Brown
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0525557407
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award “Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner.” – Wall Street Journal From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and resistance, focusing on four Japanese American men and their families, and the contributions and sacrifices that they made for the sake of the nation. In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Woven throughout is the chronicle of Gordon Hirabayashi, one of a cadre of patriotic resisters who stood up against their government in defense of their own rights. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms, these were Americans under unprecedented strain, doing what Americans do best—striving, resisting, pushing back, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, and enduring.
Author : Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521012157
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Author : John F. Polhemus
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
"In the 1700s, poor Yankees and freed slaves carved out homesteads on a rugged mountain on the New York-Connecticut border. They shared the mountain with the embattled Schaghticoke Indian tribe. This is the story of both groups' failed attempts to hold onto their land in the shadow of America's first industrial boom--the age of iron. The people abandoned the mountain and the forest grew back. All that remains is a ghost town."--Cover.
Author : Susan Ewing
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN :
The mountain lion, a fearsome predator and an elusive loner, is one of the last icons of the North American wilderness. These writings from Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas and Pam Houston, among others, describe the mountain lion's natural history, encounters with humans, and the politics of predators. Interest is peaking in this remarkable animals' habits and whereabouts as it slowly makes a comeback.
Author : Gary Needham
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0748633847
This text examines 'Brokeback Mountain' in relation to the genres of the western and melodrama.
Author : Jennifer Jordan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2011-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393339971
Mountaineering.