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Top 10 Mountains : A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, Go Tell It on the Mountain, At the Mountains of Madness, Brokeback Mountain, Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest, Under the Volcano, The Eiger Sanction, Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0307279464
The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America—majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll...
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
AuthorAnatoli Boukreev
ISBN0312965338
As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive...

On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions,...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
AuthorErnest Hemingway
ISBN0684862212
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection...
Go Tell It on the Mountain
AuthorJames Baldwin
ISBN0141185910
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate,...
At the Mountains of Madness
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN0812974417
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of...
Brokeback Mountain
AuthorAnnie Proulx
ISBN0743271327
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender...
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest
AuthorLincoln Hall
ISBN1585426466
Lincoln Hall's breathtaking account of surviving a night in Everest's "death zone."

Lincoln Hall likes to say that on the evening of May 25, 2006, he died on Everest. Indeed, Hall attempted to climb the mountain during a deadly season in which eleven people perished. And he was, in fact, pronounced...
Under the Volcano
AuthorMalcolm Lowry
ISBN0060955228
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life—the Day of the Dead—his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life...
The Eiger Sanction
AuthorTrevanian
ISBN1400098025
"Niceness is an overrated quality. Being nice is how a man pays his way into the party if he hasn't the guts to be tough or the class to be brilliant."

Jonathan Hemlock teaches art at a university, but the modest sum he makes teaching doesn't cover his extravagant habits. He is renovating a Gothic...
Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya
AuthorBritta Das
ISBN1840244984
Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers. Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this beautiful memoir reveals hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by the West. When Britta, a young physiotherapist, goes to work in a...
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
AuthorTracy Kidder
ISBN0812973011
This powerful and inspiring book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine,...
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140139397
Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune—in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back...
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
AuthorGrace Lin
ISBN0316114278
In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the fields and her nights listening to her father spin fantastic tales about the Jade Dragon and the Old Man of the Moon. Minli's mother, tired of their poor life, chides him for filling her head with nonsense....
The Mountain of Adventure
AuthorEnid Blyton
ISBN0333021258
Back at the March Break of 1959, I came down with the Godzilla of all possible colds. I’d never been so totally congested before or since.

Pretty weird, because when I first wrote this review I seemed to be coming down with the King Kong of flus (not having had a flu shot last fall)! But - there was...
The Volcano Lover: A Romance
AuthorSusan Sontag
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes...
Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure
AuthorPatricia Ellis Herr
When Trish Herr became pregnant with her first daughter, Alex, she and her husband, Hugh, vowed to instill a bond with nature in their children. By the time Alex was five, her over-the-top energy levels led Trish to believe that her very young daughter might be capable of hiking adult-sized mountains.

In...
East of the Mountains
AuthorDavid Guterson
ISBN1400032652
From the author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes this bestselling novel about a dying man’s final journey through a landscape that has always sustained him and provided him with hope and challenges.

When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to...
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
AuthorHenry Adams
ISBN0140390545
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments...
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
AuthorPatrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN1848547528
In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him the better part of a year. Decades later, when he was well over fifty, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey...
The White Mountains
AuthorJohn Christopher
ISBN0689856725
Long ago, the Tripods—huge, three-legged machines—descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives.

But for a brief time in each person's life—in childhood—he is not a slave. For...
Crystal Horizon: Everest: The First Solo Ascent
AuthorReinhold Messner
ISBN0898865743
On August 20, 1980, Reinhold Mesner reached the summit of Everest alone and without the use of oxygem. His vivid account of this extraordinary achievement forms the core of "The Crystal Horizon." Messner describes with passion his journey through Tibet, a mysterious country of snow peaks, ruined...
Outlaw Mountain
AuthorJ.A. Jance
ISBN0380792486
Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, but Sheriff Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something of a free spirit, with a penchant for Scotch, the glitter...
In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley
AuthorJonathan Waterman
ISBN1558217266
The author does a phenomenal job at capturing his and other climbers' experiences on a tireless mountain. He recognizes the trauma that it has left in the minds of those who have come face to face with death on the mountain. Waterman will pull you into the heart of Alaska with this recount of experiences....
The Naked Mountain
AuthorReinhold Messner

* Did Reinhold Messner sacrifice his brother to his ambition?
* Publication of this book in Germany stirred controversy across Europe
* The most personal book Messner has ever written
* More than 45,000 copies sold of the German edition
Reinhold Messner is famous for many firsts:...
The Sound of Mountain Water
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140266747
A book of timeless importance about the American West, our "native home of hope."

The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner...
Everest: Mountain Without Mercy
AuthorBroughton Coburn
ISBN0792270142
David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format motion picture producer MacGillivray Freeman...
China Mountain Zhang
AuthorMaureen F. McHugh
ISBN0312860986
With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an...
Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe
AuthorNicholas Crane
ISBN0140243321
Rather like Crane himself, I found this journey took far longer than expected, but what a superb odyssey! Here is a really excellent writer, who captures the mood and environment as he strides across no fewer than four mountain ranges that link the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea. Sleeping rough and spending...
Last Hours on Everest
AuthorGraham Hoyland
ISBN0007455755
Dawn broke fine on that fatal day. A couple of thousand feet above the tiny canvas tent the summit of the world’s highest mountain stood impassively, waiting for someone to have the courage to approach.

Inside the ice-crusted shelter, two forms lay still as death. Then there was a groan, a...
Mountains and Rivers Without End
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN1887178570
When this landmark work was first published, Gary Snyder was honored with the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Orion Societys John Hay Award. Publishers Weekly named Mountains and Rivers Without End one of the best books of 1996. On April 8, 1956, Gary Snyder...
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay
AuthorAnnie Proulx
ISBN0743298152
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Now the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain" is being hailed as equally masterful, with performances that...
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