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  • Briefe vom Everest

    Tagebuch der Erstbesteigung 1953

    Mai 1953: Edmund Hillary und Tenzing Norgay bezwingen den höchsten Berg der Welt, den Mount Everest. Ihren erfolgreichen Gipfelsturm verdanken sie nicht zuletzt der aufopferungsvollen Vorarbeit ihrer Expeditionskameraden – darunter George Lowe. Täglich schrieb der neuseeländische Bergsteiger-Pionier für seine Freunde und Verwandten Briefe über die Vorbereitungen der Himalaya-Expedition und den ... Leer más

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  • Master of Thin Air

    Life and Death on the World's Highest Peaks

    de Andrew Lock ...
    Named one of the Five Adventure Books You Need to Read This Summer” by Backpacker MagazineFor readers of Into Thin Air, riveting high-altitude drama and the passion and drive that inspire outsized mountaineering achievements.Master of Thin Air opens with a fall that the author very nearly could not stop down an almost vertical rock ramp leading to a three-thousand-foot drop. The qualities that ... Leer más

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  • Himalaya

    The exploration and conquest of the greatest mountains on earth

    de Philip Parker ...
    At some 1500 miles long and 250 miles at its widest, the Himalaya range is home to the fourteen greatest mountain peaks on the planet each of which towers over 8,000 metres. Celebrated by the region's early ancient kingdoms, many of these peaks remain sacred in both the Hindu and Buddhist religions and have additionally inspired western explorers and adventurers for some 300 years.Himalaya ... Leer más

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    Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

    A Pulitzer Prize–winning author examines South Pole expeditions, "wrapping the science in plenty of dangerous drama to keep readers engaged" ( Booklist).An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration—placing the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and ... Leer más

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  • Bombing Hitler's Hometown

    The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe

    The white-knuckled bombing mission American airmen carried out on Hitler’s hometown is now told for the first time through the eyes of the men on the airplanes – as well as the innocent Austrians under the bombs – in this groundbreaking true story of the aerial bombing and its aftermath from retired CIA officer Mike Croissant.Foreword by Richard Overy, author of The Bombers and the BombedIn April ... Leer más

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  • Blood, Oil and the Axis

    The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941

    de John Broich ...
    An "almost absurdly colorful" history of the WWII battle for the Levant: "In places . . . the material is like Casablanca meets The English Patient" ( The Wall Street Journal).In the spring of 1941, the Allied forces had one last hope: that the Axis would run through its fuel supply. In Blood, Oil and the Axis, historian John Broich tells the vital story of Iraq and the Levant during this most ... Leer más

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  • Punk in the Gym

    de Andy Pollitt ...
    Andy Pollitt is as close to a Hollywood A-lister as the climbing world will ever get. He had the looks, and he starred in all the big roles in the 1980s and 1990s - Tremadog, Pen Trwyn, the big Gogarth climbs, Raven Tor and the cult Australian adventures. Alongside co-stars like Jerry Moffatt, John Redhead and Malcolm 'HB' Matheson, he brought us sexy climbing - gone were the beards, the woolly ... Leer más

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  • Invisible Countries

    Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood

    A journalist explores how our world's borders came to be and how self-proclaimed countries across the globe could change the map.What is a country? While certain basic criteria—borders, a government, and recognition from other countries—seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating investigates what happens in areas of the world that exist as exceptions to these rules. Invisible Countries looks at ... Leer más

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  • Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun

    Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms

    The 20th anniversary edition of the study that first revealed De Soto's path across the 16th century American South includes a forward by Robbie EthridgeBetween 1539 and 1542, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led a small army on an expedition of almost four thousand miles across Southeastern America. De Soto's path had been one of history's most intriguing mysteries until the publication of ... Leer más

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  • One Wild Bird at a Time

    Portraits of Individual Lives

    Unique encounters with wild birds from the acclaimed scientist and "a dedicated watcher happy to knock down the fourth wall of zoology" ( The Wall Street Journal ).In his modern classics One Man's Owl and Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably about his relationships with wild ravens and a great horned owl. In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his gre... ... Leer más

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  • Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak

    The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak

    Traducido por Nea Morin, Janet Adam Smith ...
    Mountaineer Maurice Herzog gives a gripping firsthand account of one of the most daring climbing expeditions in historyAnnapurna I is the name given to the 8,100-meter mountain that ranks among the most forbidding in the Himalayan chain. Dangerous not just for its extreme height but for a long and treacherous approach, its summit proved unreachable until 1950, when a group of French mountaineers ... Leer más

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  • The Colonial Wars, 1689–1762

    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    A fascinating look at over seventy years of fighting in the American colonies—as France, England, and Spain tried to stake their claims in the New World.Although the colonial wars consisted of almost continuous raids and skirmishes between the English and French colonists and their Indian allies and enemies, they can be separated into four major conflicts, corresponding to four European wars of ... Leer más

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