Mountains category: 178 books
Notes from the San Juans
Thoughts about Fly Fishing and Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This book, more than anything else, is a book about place. Centered on the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, a range of jagged peaks inhabited by the sometimes equally jagged people of small mountain towns, it is a book about the search for a place to call home, after other homes have been...
THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated)
The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. When the well-known naturalist and environmentalist, John Muir finally settled in San Francisco, he immediately left for a week-long...
by Stephen O'Shea
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
“An entertaining, turbocharged race among the high mountain passes of six alpine countries.” —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review
For centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of...
by Peter Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
These true stories of people who work and live in the spectacular mountain wilderness of Alberta and British Columbia are filled with humour, keen observations about man and nature, and memorable human and animal characters. Old-time cowboys Johnny and Cal offer their no-nonsense brand of homespun...
Impressions of the North Cascades
Essays about a Northwest landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Originally published in 1996, Impressions of the North Cascades is a collection of essays, reminiscences, and reflections on Washington State’s North Cascades. Sixteen contributors, ranging from geologists to environmental educators, share their own connections to these awe-inspiring mountains and their surrounding wilderness.
Mountain Madness
Mt. Everest and the Life & Legacy of Scott Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
A biography of the legendary mountain climber that “rounds out the portrait of Fischer sketched in Krakauer’s best-seller Into Thin Air” (The New York Times Book Review).
Scott Fischer found in Mount Everest a perfect landscape for his fearless spirit. Scaling the world’s highest peak...
Metaphor Island
Patterns for Survival from the Nilgiri Highlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
The Ecological and social crises that engulf the planet are intensifying. As we deny the consequences of the disruptions we cause, and promote inadequate solutions, we lose grip on the extent of change needed globally. Perhaps we will only listen if a voice from nature speaks out explicitly.
Based...
by Aaron Linsdau
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Lost near lethal crevasses and cliffs in a blinding whiteout blizzard is the last place anyone would want to be…
Windy Corner on Denali has claimed lives, fingers, and toes. What would make someone brave lethal weather, crevasses, and slick ice to attempt to summit North America’s highest...
Wild Country
The Best of Andy Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Canada’s mountain man shares his best wilderness adventure stories
Though Andy Russell has been many things in his life – hunter, trapper, trail guide, wilderness photographer and filmmaker, conservationist, and activist – he is, above all else, a master storyteller. This collection of...
Fifty Percent of Mountaineering is Uphill
The Life of Canadian Mountain Rescue Pioneer Willi Pfisterer
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Winner of the Alberta Readers' Choice Award!
Fifty Percent of Mountaineering Is Uphill is the enthralling true story of Jasper’s Willi Pfisterer, a legend in the field of mountaineering and safety in the Rocky Mountains. For more than thirty years, Willi was an integral part of Jasper’s...
by Robert W. Sandford
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Ecology & Wonder makes several remarkable claims: The greatest cultural achievement in the Western Canadian mountain region may be what has been preserved, not what has been developed. Protecting the spine of the Rocky Mountains will preserve crucial ecological functions. Because the process of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Mountain ranges are the most conspicuous elements of the earth's architecture, and the manner in which the architectural units are arranged or disarranged has become the study of a subdivision of geology known as Tectonics. A hundred years ago James Hall attempted the first scientific synthesis of...
by Thomas Edward Trimbath
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Twelve months of visits to a mountain lake tells more than twelve tales. The solitude found during a Wednesday in the winter is completely different from the chaos found on a Saturday in the summer. The seasons make one set of changes. We make the other. The combination produces a much more interesting...
Our Place
Changing the Nature of Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A collection of essays and articles that reflect upon the ecology, conservation history, missed opportunities and emerging possibilities of a place that could have been about so much more than oil.
Naturalist, hunter, conservation activist and recovering bureaucrat Kevin Van Tighem explores...