To the Top of Denali: Climbing Adventures on North America's Highest Peak (Sherwonit Bill)(Paperback)

To the Top of Denali: Climbing Adventures on North America's Highest Peak (Sherwonit Bill)(Paperback)

In this revised and updated third edition, Bill Sherwonit brings to life the adventure, heroism, triumph, and tragedy of climbing North America's highest peak, Denali. He offers great insight and tales of daring adventure for both experienced climbers and armchair explorers who wonder why people

Roadside Geology of Alaska (Connor Cathy)(Paperback)

The biggest US state is full of superlatives. Denali, the highest peak in North America at 20,320 feet, is still rising, pushed upward as a tectonic plate collides from the south. The collision has also created huge mountains along Alaska�s Gulf Coast, where humid coastal air has produced the

Denali / Mount McKinley - Summit of North America (Kikstra Harry)(Spiral bound)

At 6194 metres, Denali - or Mount McKinley - is the highest mountain in North America. This book describes the West Buttress route to its summit, providing advice on how to plan and prepare for an ascent of the Alaskan

Adventures of Ideas (Whitehead Alfred North)(Paperback)

From Simon & Schuster, the Adventures of Ideas is Alfred North Whitehead's historical adventure. The title of this book, Adventures of Ideas, bears two meanings, both applicable to the subject-matter. One meaning is the effect of certain ideas in promoting the slow drift of mankind towards

North America's Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey (Laverty Corinne Heyning)(Paperback)

North America's Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey recounts the story of a group of researchers, naturalists, adventurers, cooks, immigrants, and scientifically curious teenagers who came together in the late 1930s to embark upon a series of ambitious expeditions never

Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness (Graham Billy)(Paperback)

Billy Graham shares God's gentle, reassuring promise of spiritual calm and authentic peace in a world falling apart at the seams. In a culture that values quality of life and personal happiness above all else, why are so many of us unhappy, anxious, lonely, on the brink of despair? Why do so many

Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold - Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail (Moore Tim)(Paperback / softback)

'Bill Bryson on two wheels'. (Independent). Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike. Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off at the Arctic winter's brutal height, bullying

The Pedagogy of Praise (Greenman Jeffrey P.)(Paperback)

This brief and accessible book by the president of one of North America's leading graduate schools of theology is meant to help Christians make connections between Sunday worship and the rest of life. It aims to support and encourage Christians around the world in their efforts to live out a

The Inn at the Top: Tales of Life at the Highest Pub in Britain (Faraday Tom)(Paperback)

Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen (Brannaman Buck)(Paperback)

The Wonder of North American Agates (Lynch Dan)(Paperback)

Celebrate North America's banded gemstones with this stunning coffee-table book about agates. Agates--few other natural formations exhibit the tremendous variety seen in these curiously banded gemstones. No two agates are exactly alike when it comes to color, pattern, or shape. Although they are

Rebent Sinner (Coyote Ivan)(Paperback)

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers; they are the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, and their TED talk has received over 1.6 million views online. Their most recent book, Tomboy Survival Guide, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston

The Crossley Id Guide: Raptors (Crossley Richard)(Paperback)

A revolutionary, comprehensive, and authoritative photographic guide to North America's raptorsPart of the revolutionary Crossley ID Guide series, this is the first raptor guide with lifelike scenes composed from multiple photographs--scenes that allow you to identify raptors just as the experts

Horse Breeds of North America: The Pocket Guide to 96 Essential Breeds (Dutson Judith)(Paperback)

An amazing variety of horse breeds roam North America's vast and geographically diverse landscape. This detailed portable handbook celebrates the unique qualities of 96 regional breeds, from the sleek muscles of racing thoroughbreds and the stoic power of draft horses to the easy gait of pleasure

Old Patagonian Express - By Train Through the Americas (Theroux Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Tells of the author's journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, this work depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu

Bird Migration: The Incredible Journeys of North American Birds (Tekiela Stan)(Paperback)

A fascinating look at North America's famous natural spectacles Bird migration captivates us. Where are the birds going? How far will they fly? How do they know when it's time to leave--and how will they know when to return? Stan Tekiela has been studying and photographing birds of North America

Land of the Midnight Sun: My Arctic Adventures (Armstrong Alexander)(Paperback)

In an adventure of a lifetime, Alexander Armstrong wraps up warm and heads ever north to explore the hostile Arctic winter--the glittering landscape of Scandinavia, the isolated islands of Iceland and Greenland, and the final frontier of Canada and Alaska. Along the way he learns from the Marines

Reign in Blood (Ferris D. X.)(Paperback)

Issued on America's premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer's controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal, a seamless 29-minute procession of ten blindingly fast, apocalyptic songs. The first English book about Slayer explores the

SW Coast Path North Cornwall Adventure Atlas(Paperback / softback)

The A-Z Adventure series features the accuracy and quality of OS Explorer mapping in a convenient book, complete with

Ascent (Smith Roland)(Paperback)

In this thrilling climbing adventure from bestselling author Roland Smith, summiting one of the most isolated mountains in the world may be the easiest thing Peak does.After conquering the mountains in Afghanistan, Peak Marcello goes to Myanmar, a country that has been in the grips of a brutal

Journey to the Edge of the World (Connolly Billy)(Paperback / softback)

The very hilarious and idiosyncraticBilly Connolly guides readersthrough his gripping adventures and some of the world's most dramatic landscapes in the vast wilderness of the Arctic In the summer of 2008 Billy Connolly set sail on a 10-week journey from ocean to ocean: from the Atlantic to the

The Martian (Weir Andy)(Paperback)

Selected for common reading at North Lake College Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly

The John Muir Trail (Castle Alan)(Paperback)

The John Muir Trail (JMT) is one of the world's most spectacular treks and is North America's best known mid-distance walking trail. It runs for 216 miles through the high Sierra Nevada mountains of California, from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mount Whitney (14,496 ft), the highest peak in the

Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture (Stanford Dennis J.)(Paperback)

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New