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Voices from the Summit
Author | : Bernadette McDonald,John Amatt |
Publsiher | : National Geographic Society |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105028652357 |
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This book is a collection of articles about climbing that was published to celebrate 25 years of the Banff Mountain Film Festival.
1 001 Voices on Climate Change
Author | : Devi Lockwood |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2022-06-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781982146733 |
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"A journalist travels the world to collect personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are changing communities"--
Freedom Climbers
Author | : Bernadette McDonald |
Publsiher | : Mountaineers Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781594857577 |
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CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from Freedom Climbers (Provide us with a little information and we'll send your download directly to your inbox) "One of the most important mountaineering books to be written for many years." —Boardman-Tasker Prize See this book trailer for Freedom Climbers made by RMB Books, its publisher in Canada, where the cover is slightly different from the Mountaineers Books U.S. edition * Behind the Iron Curtain, Cold War mountaineers found freedom on the world's highest peaks—and paid an awful price to achieve it * Winner of the Boardman-Tasker Prize, Banff Grand Prize, and American Alpine Club Literary Award Freedom Climbers tells the story of Poland's truly remarkable mountaineers who dominated Himalayan climbing during the period between the end of World War II and the start of the new millennium. The emphasis here is on their "golden age" in the 1980s and 1990s when, despite the economic and social baggage of their struggling country, Polish climbers were the first to tackle the world's highest mountains during winter, including the first winter ascents on seven of the world's fourteen 8000-meter peaks: Everest, Manaslu, Dhaulagiri, Cho Oyu, Kanchenjunga, Annapurna, and Lhotse. Such successes, however, came at a serious cost: 80 percent of Poland's finest high-altitude climbers died on the high mountains during the same period they were pursuing these first ascents. Award-winning writer Bernadette McDonald addresses the social, political, and cultural context of this golden age, and the hardships of life under Soviet rule. Polish climbers, she argues, were so tough because their lives at home were so tough—they lost family members to World War II and its aftermath and were so much more poverty-stricken than their Western counterparts that they made much of their own climbing gear. While Freedom Climbers tells the larger story of an era, McDonald shares charismatic personal narratives such as that of Wanda Rutkiewicz, expected to be the first woman to climb all 8000-meter peaks until she disappeared on Kanchenjunga in 1992; Jerzy Kukuczka, who died in a fall while attempting the south face of Lhotse; and numerous other renowned climbers including Voytek Kurtyka, Artur Hajzer, Andrej Zawaka, and Krzysztof Wielicki. This is a fascinating window into a different world, far-removed from modernity yet connected by the strange allure of the mountain landscape, and a story of inspiring passion against all odds. This title is part of our LEGENDS AND LORE series. Click here > to learn more.
Green Voices
Author | : Richard D. Besel,Bernard K. Duffy |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2016-02-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781438458496 |
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Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures. The written works of natures leading advocatesfrom Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a fewhave been the subject of many texts, but their speeches remain relatively unknown or unexamined. Green Voices aims to redress this situation. After all, when it comes to the leaders, heroes, and activists of the environmental movement, their speeches formed part of the fertile earth from which uniquely American environmental expectations, assumptions, and norms germinated and grew. Despite having in common a definitively rhetorical focus, the contributions in this book reflect a variety of methods and approaches. Some concentrate on a single speaker and a single speech. Others look at several speeches. Some are historical in orientation, while others are more theoretical. In other words, this collection examines the broad sweep of US environmental history from the perspective of our most famous and influential environmental figures.
BROTHERHOOD of the ROPE EasyRead Large Bold Edition
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781442968011 |
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The Summit
Author | : Gordon Korman |
Publsiher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0439411378 |
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Kids from all over North America vie to be the first youngest person to climb Mount Everest. When the final four reach the highest peaks, disaster strikes.
Voices from the Mountains
Author | : Andrew D. Mayes |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-10-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781666717723 |
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In the shifting sands of today’s uncertain world, where traditional paradigms are fragmenting and everything seems in a state of flux, the biblical mountains endure as unshakable and steadfast. In their caves and canyons linger ancient voices that can startle us into new insights and awaken in us new ways of seeing the world and ourselves. In this book we go on a quest to locate the ancient voices of those who actually lived in these mountains, who knew both the physical contours and spiritual secrets of the summits and who long pondered their mysteries. We will rediscover texts and fragments that have been long forgotten in the West. The pandemic has filled the world with uncertainty and fear. We will discover wisdom and insights that are strikingly relevant to this unfolding world crisis and that speak with an uncanny directness to our situation. But the wisdom here is timeless and enduring, and readers will benefit from these ancient voices in all generations and in all sorts of circumstances. This book is not so much an anthology of forgotten voices as a sourcebook of spirituality and a guidebook for the spiritual adventure.
Demarginalizing Voices
Author | : Jennifer M. Kilty,Maritza Felices-Luna,Sheryl C. Fabian |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-11-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780774827997 |
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Numerous books explore the “how to” of qualitative research, but few discuss what it means to actually engage in it, particularly when researchers adopt alternative methods to shed light on the experiences of marginalized populations. In Demarginalizing Voices, scholars share personal stories about their research with marginalized populations, including Aboriginal peoples, sex workers, the dead and the dying, women and men in prison, women and men released from prison, and the homeless and the hospitalized. In the process, they answer questions of relevance to anyone engaged in qualitative research: What can scholars expect when their research requires them to establish human connections and relationships with their subjects? What role do ethics review boards and institutions play when researchers explore new, often less accepted methods? How do researchers reconcile academic life and its expectations with their activism? These powerful accounts from the cutting-edge of qualitative research not only create a space in academia that centres marginalized voices, they open up the field to new debates and discussion.