Sierra Starlight

This new edition of the only guide to detail all the known routes on 570 peaks in the Sierra is completely reorganized to be even more user friendly and includes more than 100 new routes, route variations and winter ascents.The most popular guidebook to the magnificent Sierra mountains has been expanded and improved. There is 30 percent new content in this edition, including new route descriptions, additional peaks described, more historical information, and GPS-enabled driving directions. The content has also been completely rearranged to keep roads and trails, and passes and peaks together, making the book easier to use. Four of the 30 maps have been revised."The Sierra climbing bible" (The Los Angeles Times)"The best field guide to the region." (Men's Journal)"The guide to the Sierra nevada high country." (Climbing magazine)

“The spirit of search pervades the whole collection with recurring images of the poet looking through windows into vast expanses of landscape and seascape, into the Lion Mountains of his country, into its trees, listening to the sound of its rivers, its birds and its people. Gbanabom Hallowell is always conscious of his responsibility as a poet to his country.” Eldred Durosimi Jones, Editor, African Literature Today and author, Othello’s Countryme

California's 14,000-foot peaks are altogether different from those in Colorado or Washington. In most cases they are steep, sheer-walled spires found in remote, pristine wilderness areas. Porcella and Burns have spent years climbing many of the listed routes and have extensively researched all others to create the only route guide that includes several options for each fourteener. Each mountain description includes access, history, and details such as difficulty ratings and gear recommendations.

Enter the magical world of photographing non-urban landscapes and evening skies using only available light from the stars. a compelling world of nighttime landscapes

DVD provides over three hours of audio and video demonstrations of rehearsal techniques and teaching methods for jazz improvisation, improving the rhythm section, and Latin jazz styles.

This beautifully written book of mostly solemn Poetry succintly captures the true ordeal of an African country in the midst of war, violence, demise, corruption, poverty and hope. Smith creates a relation between these varying themes that abounded in his Motherland Sierra Leone between the period 1991 - 2002. He ponders the future of the country he grew up seeing been torn apart by civil war through his sleek and subtle yet easy to understand Poetry. Between the lines though, this young Poet's voice re-echoes a certain optimism that "THE LION MOUNTAIN" (Sierra Leone's moniker) will bounce back refreshed and take its rightful place in the world.

Jeff Wynston, a mysteriously private movie star with an alcoholic past, reluctantly agrees to host a telethon for the prevention of child abuse. When Laura Stringhymn calls to inquire if ‘ritual abuse’ is included in the cause, the handsome star is thrust into a personal quest for ‘truth’, and discovers the horrific effects of ‘occult crime’ on an innocent family struggling to keep their religious standards. When offered the role of Don Quixote in Dale Wasserman’s musical, Man of La Mancha, he finds the light and courage to “dream the impossible dream, fight the unbeatable foe, and right his unrightable wrong”.