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Author | : Skira |
Publisher | : Skira |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9788857245867 |
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The intimidating beauty of earth's highest altitudes explored in photography, with excerpts from writers throughout history The mountain is a compelling landform both for its sheer beauty as well as the metaphorical and symbolic significance humans have always placed upon it. This volume pays tribute to the intertwined natural and cultural histories of mountain ranges all over the globe with an exploration of each continent's topography. From Asia, where the Himalayas and the Karakorum hold up "the roof of the world," to the western coast of South America where the Andes lie, Northern Alaska, the Alps and the Dolomites, the reader is accompanied on this extraordinary adventure by famous travelers. Excerpts from the works of Dante Alighieri, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Paulo Coelho, Victor Hugo, Jeanne Moreau, John Muir, Haruki Murakami, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Shakespeare and J.R.R. Tolkien are juxtaposed with photography that depicts spectacular rock formations scattered over the entire surface of the earth.
Author | : Carleton S. Coon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Maurice Isserman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0300164203 |
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In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.
Author | : Alfred Döblin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : German fiction |
ISBN | : 9781912916245 |
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The 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? - to open up a new continent, for colonisation by the unruly masses. How? - by harvesting the primordial heat of the Earth from Iceland's volcanoes. Nature fights back, and it all goes horribly wrong... In the early 1920s confirmed city-dweller Alfred Doblin - he was 15 before he saw his first cherry tree - became puzzled by a nagging sense of Nature: "I experienced Nature as a secret. Physics as the surface, begging for explanations. Textbooks... knew nothing of the secret. Every day I experienced Nature as the World Being, meaning: weight, colour, light, dark, its countless materials, as a cornucopia of processes that quietly mingle and criss-cross." Readers accustomed to following a story via Plot and Character may at first be disoriented by this epic of the future. Its structure is more symphonic than novelistic, driven by themes and motifs that emerge, fade back, emerge again in new orchestral voicings and new tempi. The prose - supple, rhythmic, harsh, elegiac, tender, unsparing - propels the reader on through scene after vivid scene. Mountains Oceans Giants is a literary counterpart to the painted dreams and nightmares of Hieronymus Bosch, in The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Last Judgement. Alfred Doblin, born in Szczecin in 1878, initially worked as a medical assistant and opened his own practice in Berlin in 1911. Doblin's first novel appeared in 1915/16. His greatest success was the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz published in 1929. In 1933 Doblin emigrated to France and finally to the USA. After the end of the 2nd World War he moved back to Germany, but then moved in 1953 with his family to Paris. He died on June 26, 1957. Berlin Alexanderplatz (translated by Michael Hofman) is published by Penguin in the UK and New York Review Books in the USA.
Author | : Sophie Ambrose |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 076368225X |
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A little yellow bird eases a giant's loneliness and inspires him to mend his destructive ways.
Author | : Sylvain Neuvel |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1405921870 |
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**A must-read thriller for lovers of The Passage, World War Z, The Martian or Interstellar** What happens when you make a discovery that changes everything? Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. The people looking down see something far stranger... "We always look forward. We never look back." That girl grows up to be Dr. Rose Franklyn, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered. An enormous, ornate hand made of an exceptionally rare metal, which predates all human civilisation on the continent. "But this thing ... it's different. It challenges us. It rewrites history." An object whose origins and purpose are perhaps the greatest mystery humanity has ever faced. Solving the secret of where it came from - and how many more parts may be out there - could change life as we know it. "It dares us to question what we know about ourselves." But what if we were meant to find it? And what happens when this vast, global puzzle is complete...? "About everything." * * * 'Bursts at the seams with big ideas. A sheer blast from start to finish. I haven't had this much fun reading in ages' Blake Crouch, author of the Wayward Pines trilogy 'A stellar debut which masterfully blends sci-fi, political thriller and apocalyptic fiction. So much more than the sum of its parts - a page-turner of the highest order' Kirkus Reviews 'Reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z, this is a luminous conspiracy yarn that shoots for (and lands among) the stars' Pierce Brown, author of Red Rising
Author | : Mem Fox |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780152057855 |
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Illustrations and rhyming text portray the different residents of fairyland and where each one goes to sleep.
Author | : David Lavender |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803279056 |
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The story of the explorers, traders, settlers, and industrialists who came to the Pacific Northwest during its 200-year development.
Author | : Mostyn Heilmannovsky |
Publisher | : BookRix |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2019-11-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3748719760 |
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This is the first part of an account, a personal memory about Mountain Giants, who supposedly still roam some remote areas of this earth. Meet a successful entrepreneur, who encounters dreadful Giants on his way to search for more gold.
Author | : Ari Berk |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780763640477 |
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This lavish exploration of giants touches on folklore and myth, truth and whimsy, ranging from tales of giants in ancient Greece to the Celts and their Green Knight. Includes flaps, booklets, gatefolds, and an elegant tassel. Illustrations.