Mountains category: 178 books

Imagine a night long campfire somewhere on the Kaweah River surrounded by, among others, Lao Tsu, Joseph Campbell, Clarence King (the first man to map the Great Western Divide), and Chappo, the last chief of the Potwisha. Hanging around the fringes, between the light and the dark, are Coyote and...

This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 22 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet. This story tells the tale of the author's visit to Driskill Mountain, the highpoint of Louisiana. A highpoint...

This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 20 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet. This story tells the tale of the author's visit to Magazine Mountain, the highpoint of Arkansas. A highpoint...

This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 8 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet. This story tells the tale of the author's climb of Idaho's highpoint, Borah Peak. A highpoint is the highest...

A capo di una spedizione di alpinisti dilettanti organizzata da un noto stilista italiano, Giuseppe Cagliari, guida di grande esperienza, si appresta a scalare la montagna più alta del mondo. Le tensioni all’interno del gruppo sono alle stelle, e Cagliari è distratto dai fantasmi del passato....

Narrativa - romanzo (230 pagine) - Scontri e incontri di vite, tra risse, divertimento e avventura, sotto lo sguardo protettivo della Montagna. Un racconto che segue il ritmo delle stagioni attraverso un anno di vita del protagonista, un biologo studioso di fauna selvatica montana, e i suoi...

Il monte Kailash è la montagna più sacra del mondo, venerata da un quinto dell'umanità. Isolato alle spalle dell'Himalaya centrale, secondo il mito sarebbe la fonte dell'universo scaturito dalle acque cosmiche e dalla mente di Brahma. La sua vetta non è mai stata espugnata, ma per secoli pellegrini...

What goes through your mind when you’re dropped alone in the middle of the Alaska Range, the cold and darkness surrounding you without another human being for miles? Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre had made a career out of working in teams to survive in extreme conditions and places most humans wouldn't...

L’uomo avvelena il proprio mondo come se ne avesse un altro a disposizione.

While preparing an account of MOUNT ETNA for the Encyclopedia Britannica, I was surprised to find that there exists no single work in the English language devoted to the history of the most famous volcano in the world. I was consequently induced to considerably enlarge the Encyclopedia article, and the following pages are the result.

Central Appalachia is the system of linear ridges, intervening valleys, and deeply dissected plateaus that make up the rugged terrain found in western and southwestern Virginia, eastern and central West Virginia, western Maryland, and a portion of south central and southwestern Pennsylvania. Through...

In 1903 Muir took one of the most significant camping trips with, then president, Theodore Roosevelt. This trip persuaded Roosevelt to return "Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove to federal protection as part of Yosemite National Park". Yosemite National Park is spanning across the eastern...

Burning coal to make energy to run machines has been the world's ugly secret for centuries. The truth is now known: Coal combustion is killing the planet. The scary thing is we all know that but nothing changes; more and more CO2 each year joins the greenhouse gas gang to raise Earth's temperature slowly...

Sunshine is everywhere…Can we wake to each moment?Sunshine is everywhere. We have only to open our hearts to see through the clouds that cover a radiant sun. As we slow down what is deep within has a chance to surface. We realise that all moments are taken care of and nothing is lacking. All feelings...