Author : Robert Roper
Publisher : Sierra Club Juveniles
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Mountaineering
ISBN : 9780316756068
A young mountaineer in love with another climber faces the ultimate test of her life in the blue ice of the Himalayas.
Author : Gretchen Legler
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571312822
"McMurdo Station, Antarctica, is home to eighty-mile-per-hour winds, minus seventy degree temperatures, and months of near-total darkness. Sent to Antarctica as an observer, Gretchen Legler tells the story of her season spent at McMurdo Station. Populated by people from all walks of life - bankers, MBAs, therapists, carpenters, scientists, laborers, and military brass - the individuals that Legler meets have gone to Antarctica to escape everything from parking tickets to angry spouses. Hoping to get away from the complexities of her own life, Legler arrives at McMurdo Station with the intention of researching the landscape; what she finds, instead, is a zany population of people." "Part sociological study, part historiography, and part love story, On the Ice is an exploration of one of the most unexplored places on earth and the people who are drawn to it."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Lynda G. Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1994-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0313387966
Spanning grades 1-10+, this annotated bibliography of 970 recommended American and world titles published through early 1994 includes adult titles suitable for young readers; at least 200 of the titles are award winners. In support of interdisciplinary English and social studies curricula, librarians and teachers can easily assemble a basic list of books on a geographical place and time period. Geographical sections are divided into historical time periods within which entries are organized alphabetically by author. Each entry contains both reading and interest grade levels, a short incisive annotation about the historical event, setting, plot, protagonist and theme, current publication availability, and awards won. Seven reference appendices allow for easy searching. These helpful appendices and an authors, a titles, and an illustrators index help to make this volume a critical professional tool.
Author : Joe Dever
Publisher : Berkley Trade
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425084076
Author : Kevin S. Hile
Publisher : Something about the Author
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810322882
Series covers individuals ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries cover: personal life, career, writings and works in progress, adaptations, additional sources, and photographs.
Author : Robert Roper
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1429979895
Robert Roper's Fatal Mountaineer is a gripping look at Willi Unsoeld and the epic climbs that defined him--a classic narrative blending action with ethics, fame with tragedy, a man's ambition with a father's anguish. In 1963, Willi Unsoeld became an international hero for his conquest of the West Ridge of Everest. A charismatic professor of philosophy, Unsoeld was one of the greatest climbers of the twentieth century, a man whose raw physical power and casual fearlessness inspired a generation of adventurers. In 1976, during an expedition to Nanda Devi, the tallest peak in India, Unsoeld's philosophy of spiritual growth through mortal risk was tragically tested. The outcome of that expedition continues to fuel one of the most fascinating debates in mountaineering history.
Author : George Wier
Publisher : Flagstone Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Twenty-three men and thirty-six sled dogs travel to Antarctica aboard a sailing ship converted to steamer in the year 1888, ostensibly to find the South Pole. During the trek across the frozen wastes they begin dying grisly deaths one by one at the hands on an apparent madman and when the goal of the quest appears to be other than the South Pole, conspiracy and mutiny are the dinner guests. In a hot-blooded and at times searing cold 19th Century voice, George Wier populates a historically accurate setting with flesh-and-blood desperate men in a deft and breathless yarn. In Neptune's Forge you can taste the whale blubber, smell the burning coal-oil and feel the biting cold. And like Antarctica itself, this one's not for the faint-of-heart.
Author : David L. McDaniel
Publisher : Black Rose Writing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684337909
Alaezdar has been wounded and is suffering from the effects of Goblin-Touched Steel. His body's transformation and death has been slowed, but he suffers. He must seek out his father's council for answers to his role within the prophecy. Meanwhile, Kunther and Aaelie find themselves without a home and family after the ransacking of Valewood by Trielian Warriors. They end up on separate journeys facing perilous danger as they struggle to find their paths. Fyaa, with information given to her by Ra-Corsh, begins anew her search for her Birds of Fire. She also seeks out Crimson, her long lost lover, in order to restore their place in the cycle. She sets her gaze on Alaezdar as she seeks to bring the prophecy full circle. Alaezdar's only hope is to follow Fyaa in hopes of recovering memories long lost. The Center Stone, and therefore, the Triestones, have resurfaced. The full reality of the prophecies becoming all too real for the denizens of Wrae-Kronn.
Author : Robert Roper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 163286388X
Born to an eminent Russian family, Vladimir Nabokov came to America fleeing the Nazis and remembered his time here as the richest of his life. Indeed, his best work flowed from his response to this storied land. With charm and insight, Robert Roper fills out this period in the writer's life: his friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, his role at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. But Nabokov in America finds its narrative heart in his and his family's serial sojourns into the West. Roper has mined fresh sources to bring detail to these journeys, and traces their significant influence in Nabokov's work: on two-lane highways and in late-'40s motels and cafés, we feel Lolita draw near, and understand Nabokov's seductive familiarity with the American mundane. Nabokov in America is also a love letter to U.S. literature, in Nabokov's broad embrace of it from Melville to the Beats. Reading Roper, we feel anew the rich learning and the Romantic mind behind some of Nabokov's most beloved books.
Author : Mrs. Gambold
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Botany
ISBN :
