Shattered Air: A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite's Half Dome

8 best books like Shattered Air: A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite's Half Dome (Bob Madgic): Liberty Falling, Blind Descent, Three Hearts and Three Lions, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra, Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind, Five Years To Freedom, A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One

Liberty Falling

Author	Nevada Barr
ISBN	0380728273

There is peril beneath the watchful eyes of the Lady...

When Anna Pigeon left New York City after her husband was killed, she hoped it would be forever. But now her sister Molly is clinging to life in an uptown hospital ICU, so Anna has reluctantly returned. Rooming with a friend and fellow park...

Blind Descent

Author	Nevada Barr
ISBN	0380728265

Lechuguilla Cavern is a man-eating cave discovered in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park in the mid-1980s. Estimated to extend for more than three hundred miles, only ninety of them mapped, the cave was formed by acid burning away the limestone; corridors, pits, cramped wormholes, cliffs,...

Three Hearts and Three Lions

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0575074981

The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threatened the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons and the Wild Hunt itself, were poised to overthrow the realms of light.
And alone against the armies of Chaos stood one man, the knight of Three Hearts and Three Lions. Carlsen, a twentieth-century...

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring

Author	Richard Preston
ISBN	1400064899

Preston looks at the very tallest trees on our planet and the people who seek them out, climb them and study them. This was a very engaging trip into a very unfamiliar territory. One amazing thing was that knowledge of the whereabouts of earth’s wooden giants is held by a very few individuals. The people...

Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra

Author	Jordan Fisher Smith
ISBN	0618711953

A nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to...

Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind

Author	David Quammen
ISBN	1844133230

For millennia, nature's biggest and fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge and fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land and at sea. Yet animals...

Five Years To Freedom

Author	James N. Rowe
ISBN	0345314603

When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive.
In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the...

A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One

Author

Daniel Abraham

This graphic novel adaptation contains more than fifty pages of exclusive content not available in the original comic books, including
 
• a new Preface by George R. R. Martin
• early renderings of key scenes and favorite characters from the novels
• a walk-through of the entire...