The Mountains of Giants
Author : Carleton S. Coon
Publisher :
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Carleton S. Coon
Publisher :
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Maurice Isserman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0300164203
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 : Alfred Döblin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2021
Category : German fiction
ISBN : 9781912916245
The 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? - to open up a new continent, for colonisation by the unruly masses. How? - by harvesting the primordial heat of the Earth from Iceland's volcanoes. Nature fights back, and it all goes horribly wrong... In the early 1920s confirmed city-dweller Alfred Doblin - he was 15 before he saw his first cherry tree - became puzzled by a nagging sense of Nature: "I experienced Nature as a secret. Physics as the surface, begging for explanations. Textbooks... knew nothing of the secret. Every day I experienced Nature as the World Being, meaning: weight, colour, light, dark, its countless materials, as a cornucopia of processes that quietly mingle and criss-cross." Readers accustomed to following a story via Plot and Character may at first be disoriented by this epic of the future. Its structure is more symphonic than novelistic, driven by themes and motifs that emerge, fade back, emerge again in new orchestral voicings and new tempi. The prose - supple, rhythmic, harsh, elegiac, tender, unsparing - propels the reader on through scene after vivid scene. Mountains Oceans Giants is a literary counterpart to the painted dreams and nightmares of Hieronymus Bosch, in The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Last Judgement. Alfred Doblin, born in Szczecin in 1878, initially worked as a medical assistant and opened his own practice in Berlin in 1911. Doblin's first novel appeared in 1915/16. His greatest success was the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz published in 1929. In 1933 Doblin emigrated to France and finally to the USA. After the end of the 2nd World War he moved back to Germany, but then moved in 1953 with his family to Paris. He died on June 26, 1957. Berlin Alexanderplatz (translated by Michael Hofman) is published by Penguin in the UK and New York Review Books in the USA.
Author : Skira
Publisher : Skira
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9788857245867
The intimidating beauty of earth's highest altitudes explored in photography, with excerpts from writers throughout history The mountain is a compelling landform both for its sheer beauty as well as the metaphorical and symbolic significance humans have always placed upon it. This volume pays tribute to the intertwined natural and cultural histories of mountain ranges all over the globe with an exploration of each continent's topography. From Asia, where the Himalayas and the Karakorum hold up "the roof of the world," to the western coast of South America where the Andes lie, Northern Alaska, the Alps and the Dolomites, the reader is accompanied on this extraordinary adventure by famous travelers. Excerpts from the works of Dante Alighieri, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Paulo Coelho, Victor Hugo, Jeanne Moreau, John Muir, Haruki Murakami, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Shakespeare and J.R.R. Tolkien are juxtaposed with photography that depicts spectacular rock formations scattered over the entire surface of the earth.
Author : Mostyn Heilmannovsky
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3748723377
This is the second part of the intriguing encounter with the mountain giants of Yukon. Find out more about the giants and their strange demeanor.
Author : Mostyn Heilmannovsky
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3748719760
This is the first part of an account, a personal memory about Mountain Giants, who supposedly still roam some remote areas of this earth. Meet a successful entrepreneur, who encounters dreadful Giants on his way to search for more gold.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 1950
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Sophie Ambrose
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 076368225X
A little yellow bird eases a giant's loneliness and inspires him to mend his destructive ways.
Author : Carleton Stevens Coon
Publisher :
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 1950
Category :
ISBN :
Author : David Lavender
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803279056
The story of the explorers, traders, settlers, and industrialists who came to the Pacific Northwest during its 200-year development.