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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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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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Surviving Everest: 50 Years On The Mountain Format: Video
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Surviving Everest: 50 Years On The Mountain Format: DVD Movie
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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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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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Explore the Inca Trail ( Machu Picchu, Peru) Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group Published: 3/1/2002 Format: Trade paperback This guide contains everything you need to plan and enjoy hiking a choice of three Inca Trails to Machu Picchu in Peru. Step-by-step sections cover the Classic trail (4-5 days)
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Author(s): Alex Robinson; Gardenia Robinson Publisher: Bradt Publications Published: 10/1/2000 Format: Trade paperback This guide encompasses the entire Amazon region - tracing the Inca trail, exploring the magnificent ruins of Machu Piccu in Peru, hiking in the national parks of Bolivia, birding in Ecuador and more.
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Lonely Planet Regional Guides S.: Peru Author(s): Rob Rachowiecki Publisher: Lonely Planet Pubns.,Australia Published: 1/23/2004 Format: Softcover Lonely Planet books contain information on history and culture, accommodation, local cuisine, places and times to visit, language tips, maps, and health and safety advice.
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Rough Guide Map S.: Rough Guide Map Peru Publisher: Rough Guides Published: 9/30/2004 Format: Softcover The Rough Guide Map Peru is the most comprehensive map to this fascinating South American country. A hugely popular destination for independent travellers and escorted tourists alike trekking the Inca
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Publisher: APA Publications, Singapore Published: 1/3/2006 Format: Softcover
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Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism Author(s): John Powers Publisher: Snow Lion Publications Published: 2/1/1995 Format: Trade paperback This is the only comprehensive introduction to Tibetan Buddhism: a systematic and wonderfully clear presentation of its Indian origins, the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibet's indigenous
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Tibet Overland: A Route and Planning Guide for Mountain Bikers and Other Overlanders Author(s): Kym McConnell Publisher: Trailblazer Publications Published: 4/1/2003 Format: Trade paperback A route and planning guide for mountain bikers and other road users in Tibet. Includes the Lhasa-Kathmandu route and the route to Everest North Base Camp.
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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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Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife, 4th Author(s): Tony Soper Publisher: BRADT Travel Guides Published: 4/1/2005 Format: Softcover
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Author(s): Lonely Planet Publications Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Published: 1/1/2005 Format: Softcover
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Insight Guides S.: Argentina Insight Guide Publisher: APA Publications,Singapore Published: 11/29/2002 Format: Softcover Part of the Insight Guides series, this updated guide to Argentina explains local themes, customs and ceremonies. It gives information about transport, accommodation, eating, shopping, opening times etc
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Moon Handbooks Patagonia: Including the Falkland Islands Author(s): Wayne Bernhardson Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Published: 10/1/2005 Format: Softcover From visiting Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city known as "the uttermost part of the earth," and taking the scenic ferry route from Puerto Montt to Puerto Natales to hiking on Argentina's Moreno Glacier etc |
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Author(s): Nora Van Reiswitz Publisher: Insight Guide Published: 1/1/2006 Format: Softcover
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