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Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches
ISBN: 9780156032544 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year around the globe, people cross paths with avalanches some massive, some no deeper than a pizza box with deadly results. Avalanche expert Jill Fredston stalks these so-called freaks of nature, forecasting where and when they will strike, deliberately triggering them with explosives, teaching potential victims how to stay alive, and leading rescue efforts when tragedy strikes.
In Snowstruck, Fredston draws on decades of personal experience to take avalanches out of the statistical realm and into the human one (Skiing Magazine): a skier making what may prove his... Every year around the globe, people cross paths with avalanches some massive, some no deeper than a pizza box with deadly results. Avalanche expert Ji...
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82,95 zł |
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Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit
ISBN: 9780375714061 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 has came to grip the Western imagination and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes.
His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime... Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how th...
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87,36 zł |
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Geology of the Sierra Nevada: Volume 80
ISBN: 9780520236967 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing with verve and clarity, Mary Hill tells the story of the magnificent Sierra Nevadathe longest, highest, and most spectacular mountain range in the contiguous United States. Hill takes us from the time before the land which would be California even existed, through the days of roaring volcanoes, violent earthquakes, and chilling ice sheets, to the more recent history of the Sierra's early explorers and the generations of adventuresome souls who followed.
The author introduces the rocks of the Sierra Nevada, which tell the mountains' tale, and explains how nature's forces, such as... Writing with verve and clarity, Mary Hill tells the story of the magnificent Sierra Nevadathe longest, highest, and most spectacular mountain range in...
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127,03 zł |
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Big Sur and the Canyon: Camping and Backpacking In The Ventana Wilderness
ISBN: 9780595371563 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Big Sur and the Canyon," set on California's Central Coast, is a thrilling, at times humorous tale of perhaps the most magnificent terrain in America's national forests. High adventure mix with poetic and vivid descriptions of life in the backcountry-the interior of the Ventana Wilderness. Forest fires, camping, backpacking, near death experiences, along with the spiritual intensity of what Livingstone calls his 'cathedral of the forest" dot these pages in the midst of the great freedom hikers and horsemen know in the wild and beautiful interior: redwood canyons, streams and waterfalls, to...
"Big Sur and the Canyon," set on California's Central Coast, is a thrilling, at times humorous tale of perhaps the most magnificent terrain in America...
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74,04 zł |
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Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America
ISBN: 9780807854235 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States. From Native Americans and early explorers to land speculators and conservationists, people have long been drawn to this rugged region. Timothy Silver explores the long and complicated history of the Black Mountains, drawing on both the historical record and his experience as a backpacker and fly fisherman. He chronicles the geological and environmental forces that created this intriguing landscape, then traces its history...
Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the...
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187,12 zł |
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Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal
ISBN: 9780813124414 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deep in the heart of the southern West Virginia coalfields, one of the most important environmental and social empowerment battles in the nation has been waged for the past decade. Fought by a heroic woman struggling to save her tiny community through a landmark lawsuit, this battle, which led all the way to the halls of Congress, has implications for environmentally conscious people across the world. The story begins with Patricia Bragg in the tiny community of Pie. When a deep mine drained her neighbors' wells, Bragg heeded her grandmother's admonition to "fight for what you... Deep in the heart of the southern West Virginia coalfields, one of the most important environmental and social empowerment battles in the nation ha... |
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203,33 zł |
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The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America's Mountain Domes, from Acadia to Yosemite (Revised)
ISBN: 9780881505283 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Granite Landscape Tom Wessels synthesizes history, geology, biology, and personal narrative to enhance our understanding and appreciation of these high, wild places -- the granite summit balds of North America. He explores the unique and fragile ecosystem that is common to exposed granite expanses from Acadia to Yosemite -- how it evolved slowly over millennia, and how it is threatened today by foot traffic and overuse. Wessels' wonderfully informative and accessible text combine with his dramatic photographs and Brian Cohen's beautifully detailed illustrations to bring the denizens of...
In The Granite Landscape Tom Wessels synthesizes history, geology, biology, and personal narrative to enhance our understanding and appreciation of th...
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104,61 zł |
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Seamounts: Ecology, Fisheries and Conservation
ISBN: 9781405133432 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seamounts are ubiquitous undersea mountains rising from the ocean seafloor that do not reach the surface. There are likely many hundreds of thousands of seamounts, they are usually formed from volcanoes in the deep sea and are defined by oceanographers as independent features that rise to at least 0.5 km above the seafloor, although smaller features may have the same origin.
This book follows a logical progression from geological and physical processes, ecology, biology and biogeography, to exploitation, management and conservation concerns. In 21 Chapters written by 57 of the... Seamounts are ubiquitous undersea mountains rising from the ocean seafloor that do not reach the surface. There are likely many hundreds of thousands ...
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391,86 zł |
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The Land of Little Rain
ISBN: 9781557095077 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1903, this classic nature book by Mary Austin evokes the mysticism and spirituality of the American Southwest. Vibrant imagery of the landscape between the high Sierras and the Mojave Desert is punctuated with descriptions of the fauna, flora and people that coexist peacefully with the earth.
Originally published in 1903, this classic nature book by Mary Austin evokes the mysticism and spirituality of the American Southwest. Vibrant imagery...
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45,63 zł |
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
ISBN: 9781594482366 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction exposes how radical strip mining is destroying one of America's most precious natural resources and the communities--particularly in Appalachia--that depend upon it.
This groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction exposes how radical strip mining is destroying one of America's most precious natural resources and th...
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104,83 zł |
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Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir
ISBN: 9780826343451 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Mountain Time, a thoughtful and often moving work, is not only about Yellowstone as a superb sample of American wildness, . . . but also about a man named Paul Schullery and his relationship to it. This fact gives the book much richness and power, for Schullery comes across clearly as a caring, observant, undogmatic person whose reasonable and intelligent opinions are reinforced by plenty of facts. In a certain mood, it is possible to wish (vainly) that people of his civilized caliber were the only ones allowed to open their mouths very widely on any subject that really matters, as... "Mountain Time, a thoughtful and often moving work, is not only about Yellowstone as a superb sample of American wildness, . . . but also ab... |
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108,98 zł |
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The Mountains of Maine: Intriguing Stories Behind Their Names
ISBN: 9780892727889 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did a mountain get the name Moose's Bosom? And what's afoot with the name Toenail Ridge? Avid hiker Steve Pinkham provides informative, quirky, and sometimes downright hilarious answers to these questions. Arranged alphabetically within regions are capsule histories highlighting natural features, origins of place names, and intriguing facts and local legends. Pinkham also delivers sidebars about selected trails, towns, and other points of interest. This book includes all significant peaks and hills throughout Maine.
How did a mountain get the name Moose's Bosom? And what's afoot with the name Toenail Ridge? Avid hiker Steve Pinkham provides informative, quirky, an...
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71,75 zł |
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Insectivorous Plants
ISBN: 9781108004848 / Angielski / Miękka / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The results of experiments on plants which showed evolutionary adaptation in their highly specialised methods of obtaining nutrients.
The results of experiments on plants which showed evolutionary adaptation in their highly specialised methods of obtaining nutrients.
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325,27 zł |
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Mountain Nature: A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians
ISBN: 9780807871164 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from brawny black bears to more species of salamander than anywhere else in the world. Mountain Nature is a lively and engaging account of the ecology of this remarkable region. It explores the animals and plants of the Southern Appalachians and the webs of interdependence that connect them.
Within the region's roughly 35 million acres, extending from north Georgia through the Carolinas... The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migra...
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126,67 zł |
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The Mountain
ISBN: 9780615339634 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author and award-winning photographer Michle Beaudin captures the unique beauty and spirituality of Scaly Mountain, N.C., a sanctuary where meditation and communion with nature allow people to reflect upon fundamental human principles and life itself.
Author and award-winning photographer Michle Beaudin captures the unique beauty and spirituality of Scaly Mountain, N.C., a sanctuary where meditation...
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65,52 zł |
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Seven Decades of Mountain Climbing: A Flatlander's Journey to the Summit
ISBN: 9781452803081 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rod Harris climbed North America's peaks when the summit registers were still bare. He learned from European legends of mountaineering, saw death and danger, enjoyed Teton Tea Parties, camp life and the exhilaration of reaching summits in Colorado, Wyoming, Canada, Japan and Austria-and then he brought his friends and family along for the ride. In this epic account, Rod captures the passion and the thrill of his time spent in the mountains of this great planet.
Rod Harris climbed North America's peaks when the summit registers were still bare. He learned from European legends of mountaineering, saw death and ...
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59,40 zł |
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Mountains
ISBN: 9780765682284 / Angielski / Twarda / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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456,42 zł |
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100 Singing Games - Old, New,And, Adapted
ISBN: 9781445516882 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are repub...
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132,04 zł |
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The Practical Dog Book - With Chapters On The Authentic History Of All Varieties Hitherto Unpublished, And A Veterinary Guide And Dosage Section, And
ISBN: 9781445516783 / Angielski / Miękka / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are repub...
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161,40 zł |
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The Summit: An Amazing Journey to the Blue Mountain Peak
ISBN: 9781439221525 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Summit: An Amazing Journey to the Blue Mountain Peak chronicles the author's trip with his two children to the Blue Mountain Peak, Jamaica's highest point. In recounting the events of the two-day journey, the author treats his readers to a feast of fantastic photographs which alone are priceless. Nature on the high ground is captured in all its glory as the trio travel from Mavis Bank to Portland Gap, Lazy Man's Peak and finally reach their goal, the Blue Mountain Peak. Readers who have traveled to the Peak will identify familiar landmarks and reminisce about its beauty, while those who...
The Summit: An Amazing Journey to the Blue Mountain Peak chronicles the author's trip with his two children to the Blue Mountain Peak, Jamaica's highe...
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73,33 zł |
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