| | |
|---|
Sell Book |
Life on the Mississippi (Oxford World's Classics)
Author: Mark Twain
ISBN-10: 0192818481
ISBN-13: 9780192818485
Published: 1990-08-30
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
|
Book Description:
The spirit of the Mississippi flows through all Mark Twain's best work and here the romantic heyday of the steamboat is recalled in a characteristically nostalgic mixture of journalism and autobiography. He describes people and places with affection and humour, but of the Mississippi itself, on which he was once a cub pilot travelling between New Orleans and St Louis, he writes with repect and loving devotion.
|
|
Sell Book |
Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
ISBN-10: 0333735420
ISBN-13: 9780333735428
Published: 1998-03-06
Publisher: Macmillan London
|
Book Description:
Using the true story of a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature.
|
|
Sell Book |
A Walk in the Woods (Charnwood Library)
Author: Bill Bryson
ISBN-10: 070899038X
ISBN-13: 9780708990384
Published: 1998-11-01
Publisher: Charnwood (Large Print)
|
|
|
Sell Book |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
ISBN-10: 0099322617
ISBN-13: 9780099322610
Published: 2006-09
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
|
Book Description:
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'" One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.
|
|
Sell Book |
The Mountains of California (Modern Library Classics)
Author: John Muir
ISBN-10: 0375758194
ISBN-13: 9780375758195
Published: 2001-09-11
Publisher: Modern Library
|
Book Description:
When John Muir traveled to California in 1868, he found the pristine mountain ranges that would inspire his life’s work. The Mountains of California is the culmination of the ten years Muir spent in the Sierra Nevadas, studying every crag, crook, and valley with great care and contemplation.Bill McKibben writes in his Introduction that Muir "invents, by sheer force of his love, an entirely new vocabulary and grammar of the wild . . . a language of ecstasy and exuberance." The Mountains of California is as vibrant and vital today as when it was written over a century ago. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes the photographs and line drawings from the original 1898 edition.
|
|
Sell Book |
Taming Mighty Alaska: An Rv Odyssey
Author: William C. Anderson
ISBN-10: 087108788X
ISBN-13: 9780871087881
Published: 1990-03
Publisher: Pruett Pub Co
|
|
|
Sell Book |
Travels With Charley (Penguin Modern Classics)
Author: John Steinbeck
ISBN-10: 0141186100
ISBN-13: 9780141186108
Published: 2001-03-01
Publisher: Penguin Books
|
Book Description:
In 1960, when he was almost sixty years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people. Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. His journey took him through almost forty states, and he saw things that made him proud, angry, sympathetic and elated. All that he saw and experienced is described with remarkable honesty and insight.
|
|
Sell Book |
Sandstone Spine: First Traverse of the Comb Ridge
Author: David Roberts
ISBN-10: 1594850054
ISBN-13: 9781594850059
Published: 2006-03
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
|
Book Description:
"Sandstone Spine: Seeking the Anasazi on the First Traverse of the Comb Ridge" is the latest book from David Roberts, one of adventure writings most accomplished authors. On 1st September, 2004, three middle-aged mates set out on one of the last geographic challenges never before attempted in North America: to hike the Comb Ridge in one continuous push. The friends - Roberts, renowned climber, Greg Child and wilderness guide, Vaughn Hadenfeldt - take on the Comb not just for the physical challenge, but to seek out seldom-visited ruins and rock art of the mysterious Anasazi culture. Each brought his own emotions on the journey: the Comb ridge would test their friendship in ways they had never before experienced.
|
|
Sell Book |
Travels in Alaska
Author: John Muir
ISBN-10: 0395901480
ISBN-13: 9780395901489
Published: 1998-05-15
Publisher: Mariner Books
|
Book Description:
John Muir first saw Alaska in 1879, only twelve years after it was purchased from Russia by the United States. Four more times, in 1880, 1881, 1890, and 1899, he was drawn back to this land of rivers and glaciers, sunsets and northern lights, campfires and Arctic stars. Few people have lived so many adventures, yet Muir was not a mere collector of adventure; the hazards he encountered - and many were spine-tingling - came as a result of his intense desire to examine new aspects of the natural world.
|
|
Sell Book |
Cape Cod (Penguin Nature Library)
Author: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN-10: 0140170022
ISBN-13: 9780140170023
Published: 1987-03-03
Publisher: Penguin Books
|
Book Description:
Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea. With an introduction by Paul Theroux. This is one of the first titles in Penguin's new Nature Library series.
|
|
