Drago Descending
Author : Greg F. Gifune
Publisher : Down & Out Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Greg F. Gifune
Publisher : Down & Out Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Bernadette McDonald
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1771601108
From internationally renowned mountain historian Bernadette McDonald comes a highly readable, intense and exciting look at the explosion of Slovenian alpinism in the context of that country’s turbulent political history. After the Second World War a period of relative calm began in Josip Broz Tito’s Yugoslavia. During the next thirty years citizens could travel freely if they had the money. Most did not, but alpinists did. Through elaborate training régimes and state-supported expeditions abroad, Yugoslavian alpinists began making impressive climbs in the Himalaya as early as 1960. By the ’70s, they were ascending the 8000ers. These teams were dominated by Slovenian climbers, since their region includes the Julian Alps, a fiercely steep range of limestone peaks that provided the ideal training ground. After Tito died in 1980, however, the calm ended. Inter-ethnic conflict and economic decline ripped Yugoslavia apart. But Serbian strongman Slobodan Miloševic misread the courage and character of several Yugoslavian states, including Slovenia, and by 1991 Slovenia was independent. The new country continued its support for climbers, and success bred success. By 1995, all of the 8000ers had been climbed by Slovenian teams. And in the next ten years, some of the most dramatic and futuristic climbs were made by these ferocious alpinists. Apart from a few superstars, most of these amazing athletes remain unknown in the West.
Author : Carrie LA. Miller
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1637643144
Whitticka By: Carrie LA. Miller Francis’s life seems normal and perfect on the outside, successful and best-selling author, beach house in the Florida Keys, supportive friends, but there is an overwhelming darkness inside her, secrets she keeps buried deep inside that threaten to ruin her. Just when she thinks life will continue the way it is, a mysterious man in a club, a threatening stranger, and a kind man on a plane begin to make her life a little more exciting, perhaps a little too exciting, as they whisk her away through a portal to Whitticka, a world of her own creation from her novels. She finds the world in dire need of her help, as people, plants, and places begin to disappear, and a dark warlock has started taking over the land. Will non-magical Francis be able to help heal the land of its darkness? Or will she and Whitticka succumb and lose everything?
Author : Hayaken
Publisher : J-Novel Club
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 171830370X
The Hell’s Crafters have thrown their hat into the hero-building tournament with Kokoru, the weakest NPC around. Before they can start leveling him up, however, they realize all the good training grounds have been taken by the other guilds. Enter their secret weapon: Kotomi’s personal airship, which can take them to all the best grinding spots at warp speed! The team also has another ace up their sleeve in Ren, whose diligent data combing has discovered a way to make the Golden Bunny spawn for mucho experience points!
Author : William Edward Soothill
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788120803190
Here is an outstanding work for which two eminent scholars of Chinese Buddhism separated by 2000 miles of ocean collaborated for complete ten years during which the manuscript crossed the Atlantic four times. The authors aim has been to provide a key for the student with which to unlock a closed door and which does serve to reveal the riches of the great Buddhist thesaurus in China. In the absence of a dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms it was small wonder that the translation of Chinese texts has made little progress important thought these are to the understanding of Mahayana buddhism especially in its Far Eastern development.
Author : Lewis Hodous
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1135791236
This invaluable interpretive tool, first published in 1937, is now available for the first time in a paperback edition specially aimed at students of Chinese Buddhism. Those who have endeavoured to read Chinese texts apart from the apprehension of a Sanskrit background have generally made a fallacious interpretation, for the Buddhist canon is basically translation, or analogous to translation. In consequence, a large number of terms existing are employed approximately to connote imported ideas, as the various Chinese translators understood those ideas. Various translators invented different terms; and, even when the same term was finally adopted, its connotation varied, sometimes widely, from the Chinese term of phrase as normally used by the Chinese. For instance, klésa undoubtedly has a meaning in Sanskrit similar to that of, i.e. affliction, distress, trouble. In Buddhism affliction (or, as it may be understood from Chinese, the afflicters, distressers, troublers) means passions and illusions; and consequently fan-nao in Buddhist phraseology has acquired this technical connotation of the passions and illusions. Many terms of a similar character are noted in the body of this work. Consequent partly on this use of ordinary terms, even a well-educated Chinese without a knowledge of the technical equivalents finds himself unable to understand their implications.
Author : Cory Herndon
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0761553835
1 New Continent, 2 New Classes, A whole world of possibilities ·Developer Written - This guide is being written by the same people who created the expansion for the game! Who better to deliver the inside scoops and tidbits you crave? ·Two Brand New Classes - Find out all you need to know about the Assassin and the Ritualist, two powerful new heroes in a war-forged world. ·Details, Details, Details - New areas, new challenges, new PvP arenas, new skills, new pets, new weapons, and new armor - turn to our guide for information vital to survival in this new world!
Author : Shi Wan
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2020-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1649750889
Ye Yunxiao had been ordered to go down the mountain to protect Miss Qian Jin, but he discovered that danger was everywhere around Miss Qian. In order to better protect the beauty, he could only helplessly announce: This beauty is already pregnant, and she is even my child!
Author : Robin Wickens
Publisher : Rob's Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2024-05-23
Category :
ISBN :
Diwali, the festival of lights, is a time of joy, celebration, and togetherness. For children, it's a magical time filled with twinkling lights, delicious sweets, and exciting stories. Here are some captivating Diwali stories that will transport your little ones to a world of wonder:
Author : M.G. Boutet
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476670048
Our understanding of Celtic astrology is based mainly on the speculations of modern authors--mostly drawn from classical Greek and Roman writings--and suffers from many misconceptions. European astrology uses the Greek model, containing many Babylonian and Egyptian elements. But Celtic astrology (and other Indo-European astrologies) developed earlier, with relationships to Middle Eastern systems, as well as their own independent forms. This well documented study takes a fresh look at the development of Celtic astrology and the Druids' systems of cosmology, astronomy and astrology. The author analyzes commentaries found in manuscript sources from antiquity to the Middle Ages, comparing them with cosmological and astronomical lore found in Celtic cultures. Ancient constellations, calendars, deities and rituals reveal a rich worldview.