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Facing
Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mt.Everest
Author(s): Bear
Grylls
Publisher:
Macmillan,London
Published:
3/24/2000
Format: Hard cover
Only one in four
people who attempt Everest are successful, and of those
few the majority are over 30. Bear Grylls overcame the
extreme weather conditions and months of limited sleep,
and reached ...
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Mountains
of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit
Author(s): Robert
Macfarlane
Publisher: Vintage
Books USA
Published:
7/1/2004
Format: Trade
paperback
Combining accounts
of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of
his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert
McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest
places....
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Life
and Death on Mt .Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan
Mountaineering
Author(s): Sherry
B. Ortner
Publisher:
Columbia and Princeton University Presses of California
Published:
12/31/2001
Format: Soft cover
Sherpas and
Himalayan Mountaineering.
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To
the Top of Everest
Author(s):
Elizabeth MacLeod; Laurie Skreslet
Publisher: Kids
Can Press
Published:
9/1/2003
Format: Soft Cover
Skreslet worked
hard and challenged himself to achieve his dream of
climbing Mount Everest. He talks about his
overprotective parents and his unyielding desire for
adventure, leaving home at age 17 to join the merchant
marines, and his love of mountain climbing. |
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Into
Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest
Disaster
Author(s): Jon
Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
Books
Published:
10/1/1999
Format: Trade
paperback
Now available in
paperback comes the bestselling adventure book by Jon
Krakauer, the acclaimed author of "Into the
Wild". When disaster struck during his ascent of
Mt. Everest, killing eight climbers,
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TRUE
EVEREST ADVENTURE STORIES
Author(s): PAUL
DOWELL
Publisher: USBORNE
Format: Paperback
Exciting and fast
moving retellings of classic and true stories
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Facing
Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mt.Everest
Author(s): Bear
Grylls
Publisher:
MACMILLAN AUDIO BOOKS
Published:
3/24/2000
Format: Audiobook
Only one in four
people who attempt Everest are successful, and of those
few the majority are over 30. Bear Grylls overcame the
extreme weather conditions and months of limited sleep,
and reached...
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True
Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent on
Annapurna
Author(s): David
Roberts
Publisher: Simon
& Schuster
Published:
2/1/2002
Format: Trade
paperback
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Annapurna:
The First Conquest of an 8000-metre Peak
Author(s): Maurice
Herzog
Publisher: Pimlico
Published:
2/6/1997
Format: Paperback
One of the great
works of mountaineering literature - long out of print
and now reissued with a new introduction by Joe Simpson.
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Vintage
Classics: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Author(s): Ernest
Hemingway
Publisher: Vintage
Published:
3/4/2004
Format: Paperback
In these early
Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical,
men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in
scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haunting
tragedy on the snow-cap.....
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Rough
Guide Travel Guides: Tanzania
Author(s): Jens
Finke
Publisher: Rough
Guides
Published:
12/31/2002
Format: Paperback
Tanzania offers
the traveller a varied geography that ranges from Mount
Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti and Lake Tanganyika to the
shores of the Indian Ocean.
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Shadow
of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa
Author(s): Rick
Ridgeway
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publisher.
Published:
4/17/2000
Format: Paperback
An incredible
journey on foot from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to
the Indian Ocean, offering a rare view of East Africa as
it is today and how it once was before the incursion of
European civilisation
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Kilimanjaro
- To The Roof Of Africa
Format: DVD Movie
Join a band of
trekkers as they journey through rugged terrain and
extreme conditions to look out from Africa's highest
point in the latest mountain adventure film from David
Breashears
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Snows
Of Kilimanjaro
Format: DVD Movie
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Thorns
to Kilimanjaro
Author(s): Ian
McCallum
Publisher: New
Africa Books
Published:
5/1/2001
Format: Paperback
This is the story
of two journeys, one which makes its way towards the
slopes and summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and another which
takes a curving inner path into the soul of the
narrator.
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Wildlife
of the Galapagos
Author(s):
Daniel Fitter; David Hosking; Julian Fitter
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Published:
7/1/2002
Format:
Softcover
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Galapagos
Author(s):
Paul Stewart
Publisher:
BBC BOOKS
Published:
9/7/2006
Format:
Softcover
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Conquistadors
Author(s):
Michael Wood
Publisher:
BBC BOOKS
Published:
4/3/2003
Format:
Softcover
The
Spanish conquest of the Americas in the
sixteenth century was one of the most
cataclysmic events in history. Spanish
expeditions had to endure the most unbelievable
hardships to open up the lands
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