In the Shining Mountains
Author : David Thompson
Publisher : Bantam Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 1981-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780553148213
Author : David Thompson
Publisher : Bantam Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 1981-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780553148213
Author : Peter Roop
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1504010116
Sacagawea, the Shoshoni woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark on their famed expedition, tells her life story When Sacagawea’s son asks her about her life, she isn’t sure where to begin. Does she start with her birth as a Shoshoni? Her kidnapping by an enemy tribe at age eleven? Or her role as the famous guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition? She’s seen and experienced more in her young life than most people ever will. Told from Sacagawea’s point of view, this historical novel shares the ordeals of her youth along with the memory of her long, arduous journey west with Lewis and Clark. She shares her love of nature and explains how her loyalties have changed over time. This story of Sacagawea goes beyond the legend to reveal the flesh-and-blood woman who she really was.
Author : Peter Boardman
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1906148767
'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalayas.' So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976. Bonington's was one of the more positive responses; most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition. This was, after all, perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya and an ascent - particularly one in a lightweight style - would be more significant than anything done on Everest at the time. The idea had been Joe Tasker's. He had photographed the sheer, shining, white granite sweep of Changabang's West Wall on a previous expedition and asked Pete to return with him the following year. Tasker contributes a second voice throughout Boardman's story, which starts with acclimatisation, sleeping in a Salford frozen food store, and progresses through three nights of hell, marooned in hammocks during a storm, to moments of exultation at the variety and intricacy of the superb, if punishingly difficult, climbing. It is a story of how climbing a mountain can become an all-consuming goal, of the tensions inevitable in forty days of isolation on a two-man expedition; as well as a record of the moment of joy upon reaching the summit ridge against all odds. First published in 1978, The Shining Mountain is Peter Boardman's first book. It is a very personal and honest story that is also amusing, lucidly descriptive, very exciting, and never anything but immensely readable. It was awarded the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize for literature in 1979, winning wide acclaim. His second book, Sacred Summits, was published shortly after his death in 1982. Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker died on Everest in 1982, whilst attempting a new and unclimbed line. Both men were superb mountaineers and talented writers. Their literary legacy lives on through the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, established by family and friends in 1983 and presented annually to the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature. For more information about the Boardman Tasker Prize, visit: www.boardmantasker.com
Author : Charles Seabrooke Marsh
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
An eminently readable history of the Ute Indians of Colorado from earliest times to the present.
Author : Tony Monte
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1491730129
In 1828, Shawn Skip Sullivan is somewhere around fourteen years old when the Indians attack his familys homestead and kill both his mother and father. Warned by the barking dogs, Skips mother forced him to hide in the cabins false floor. Though Skip is unharmed, his journey is just beginning. After burying his parents, Skip knows he cant stay at the cabin alone forever. He remembers that theres a small settlement with a trading post about thirty miles away, but he hasnt been there since he was seven years old. With just a small backpack filled with the items the Indians didnt scavenge, Skips sets off for the nearest civilization. He soon finds himself alone and lost in the mountainsuntil he meets an old trapper called Big Jim, who teaches him how to survive. Together, the two navigate the wilderness while fending off attackers both human and beast. Skip comes of an age while learning tough lessons about the world and the nature around him.
Author : Dale Van Every
Publisher : Bantam Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 1982-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780553206715
Author : Joyce Badgley Hunsaker
Publisher : TwoDot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Indian women
ISBN : 9781585920792
Combines historical anecdotes, research, and oral traditions to create a first-person account of the life of the young Native American woman who guided Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Author : Georgina Brown
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Golden (Colo.)
ISBN :
Author : David Thomson
Publisher :
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Rocky Mountains
ISBN :
Author : Dale Wasserman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1977
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780573624520