Author : Arlene Blum
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780156031165
In her inspiring autobiography, mountain-climbing heroine Blum scales the heights of human aspiration and liberation, chronicling a life of astonishing achievement and courage.
Author : Edgar Hetteen
Publisher : Focus Pub
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781885904997
Follow Edgar Hetteen from poverty to millonaire as he starts Polaris and Artic Cat snowmobile companies.
Author : Arlene Blum
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1619026031
In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the first Americans—and the first women—to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world's tenth highest peak. Expedition leader Arlene Blum here tells their dramatic story: the logistical problems, storms, and hazardous ice climbing; the conflicts and reconciliations within the team; the terror of avalanches that threatened to sweep away camps and climbers. On October 15, two women and two Sherpas at last stood on the summit—but the celebration was cut short, for two days later, the two women of the second summit team fell to their deaths. Never before has such an account of mountaineering triumph and tragedy been told from a woman's point of view. By proving that women had the skill, strength, and courage necessary to make this difficult and dangerous climb, the 1978 Women's Himalayan Expedition's accomplishment had a positive impact around the world, changing perceptions about women's abilities in sports and other arenas. And Annapurna: A Woman's Place has become an acknowledged classic in the annals of women's achievements—a story of challenge and commitment told with passion, humor, and unflinching honesty.
Author : Len Marchand
Publisher : Prince George, B.C. : Caitlin Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780920576809
The autobiography of the first native person elected to federal office in Canada.
Author : Sejal Badani
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 9781477822081
When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she'd fled years before. Her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay. Buried secrets rise to the surface, and as their father's condition worsens the daughters and their mother wrestle with private hopes for his survival or death, as well as their own demons and buried secrets.
Author : Eli Burakian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0762790490
Richly photographed and information-packed tools for the novice or handy reference for the veteran, BASIC ILLUSTRATED books distill years of knowledge into affordable and visual guides. Whether you're planning a trip of thumbing for facts in the field, the BASIC ILLUSTRATED series shows you what you need to know.
Author : Harold Bindloss
Publisher : New York : F.A. Stokes
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Bank robbers
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Author : Mary F. Ehrlander
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2023-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496237390
Hospital and Haven tells the story of an Episcopal missionary couple who lived their entire married life, from 1910 to 1938, among the Gwich'in peoples of northern Alaska, devoting themselves to the peoples' physical, social, and spiritual well-being. The era was marked by great social disruption within Alaska Native communities and high disease and death rates, owing to the influx of non-Natives in the region, inadequate sanitation and hygiene, minimal law enforcement, and insufficient government funding for Alaska Native health care. Hospital and Haven reveals the sometimes contentious yet promising relationship between missionaries, Alaska Natives, other migrants, and Progressive Era medicine. St. Stephen's Mission stood at the center of community life and formed a bulwark against the forces that threatened the Native peoples' lifeways and lives. Dr. Grafton (Happy or Hap) Burke directed the Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital, the only hospital to serve Alaska Natives within a several-hundred-mile radius. Clara Burke focused on orphaned, needy, and convalescing children, raising hundreds in St. Stephen's Mission Home. The Gwich'in in turn embraced and engaged in the church and hospital work, making them community institutions. Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe came to recognize the hospital and orphanage work at Fort Yukon as the church's most important work in Alaska.
Author : D Jordan Redhawk
Publisher : Bella Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594938571
Scotch Fuller has already run the Iditarod three times and is preparing for a fourth attempt. Her single-minded focus on the rigors of training allows her to forget the shocking loss of her lover in a tragedy for which she blames herself. The only race Lainey Hughes runs is away from her past and into the bottom of a bottle. After a devastating injury in a war zone, she’s continued her photojournalist career in the natural beauty and warmth of Uganda. A trip to Alaska to cover dog sledding is not what she wants, but the lure of a paying gig proves too tempting. Lainey trusts her camera and Scotch trusts her dogs—and neither cares much what the other thinks…not at first. Love runs hot in the cold Alaskan night in this long-awaited romance from D Jordan Redhawk.
Author : Ben Montgomery
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1613747217
Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. There she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it." Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity and appeared on TV and in the pages of Sports Illustrated. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction. Author Ben Montgomery was given unprecedented access to Gatewood's own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence, and interviewed surviving family members and those she met along her hike, all to answer the question so many asked: Why did she do it? The story of Grandma Gatewood will inspire readers of all ages by illustrating the full power of human spirit and determination. Even those who know of Gatewood don't know the full story—a story of triumph from pain, rebellion from brutality, hope from suffering.
