Danger on Peaks

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619024055
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Danger on Peaks by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book Danger on Peaks written by Gary Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 2004, Danger on Peaks was the poet's first new collection of poems in twenty years. Perhaps his most personal, autobiographical collection, it begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was 15 years old. Almost sixty years later, after the great Buddhas at Bamiyan Valley were bombed and with the victims of the World Trade Center also "turned to dust," the poet composed a prayer while at Short Grass Temple in Senso–ji, a pilgrim on the path of Kannon, Goddess of Mercy. This remarkable collection was greeted with broad praise, and as Julia Martin proclaimed, "Moving between relative and absolute ways of seeing, [Snyder] responds to the experience of global conflict and personal pain by reminding readers of the continuity of wildness, affirming the value of art, and invoking an ancient practice of wisdom and compassion."

Danger on Panther Peak

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141694110X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Book Synopsis Danger on Panther Peak by : Bill Wallace

Download or read book Danger on Panther Peak written by Bill Wallace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his sister gets sick, a young boy must go get help even though there is a panther prowling in the neighborhood.

Peak Experiences

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683688
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Peak Experiences by : Carol Stone White

Download or read book Peak Experiences written by Carol Stone White and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of adventure and life-threatening dangers atop the peaks of the Northeast

This Present Moment

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026333
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis This Present Moment by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book This Present Moment written by Gary Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This present moment That lives on To become Long ago." For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine at Delphi, from Santa Fe to Sella Pass, Snyder lays out these poems as a map of the last decade. Placed side–by–side, they become a path and a trail of complexity and lyrical regard, a sort of riprap of the poet's eighth decade. And in the mix are some of the most beautiful domestic poems of his great career, poems about his work as a homesteader and householder, as a father and husband, as a friend and neighbor. A centerpiece in this collection is a long poem about the death of his beloved, Carole Koda, a rich poem of grief and sorrow, rare in its steady resolved focus on a dying wife, of a power unequaled in American poetry. As a friend is quoted in one of these new poems: "I met the other lately in the far back of a bar, musicians playing near the window and he sweetly told me "listen to that music. The self we hold so dear will soon be gone."" Gary Snyder is one of the greatest American poets of the last century, and This Present Moment shows his command, his broad range, and his remarkable courage.

Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640095772
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations written by Gary Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist in CALIBA's 2022 Golden Poppy Book Awards A collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder, written during his most productive and important years Far from being a simple miscellany of poems, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations contains some of Gary Snyder’s best work, written during his most productive and important years. Many of these have been published in magazines or as broadsides, including Spel Against Demons, Dear Mr. President, Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco, Smokey the Bear Sutra, A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon. The collection also includes a great number of translations from Chinese and Japanese poets. Much of this work has been gleaned from journals, manuscripts and correspondence, and never before published in any form.

The Great Clod

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640093915
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great Clod by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book The Great Clod written by Gary Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the full course of his remarkable career, Gary Snyder has continued his study of Eastern culture and philosophies. From the Ainu to the Mongols, from Hokkaido to Kyoto, from the landscapes of China to the backcountry of contemporary Japan, from the temples of Daitokoji to the Yellow River Valley, it is now clear how this work has influenced his poetry, his stance as an environmental and political activist, and his long practice of Zen. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Asia became a vocation for Snyder. While most American writers looked to the capitals of Europe for their inspiration, Sndyer looked East. American letters is profoundly indebted to this geographical choice. Long rumored to exist, The Great Clod collects more than a dozen chapters, several published in The Coevolution Quarterly almost forty years ago when Snyder briefly described this work as "The China Book," and several others, the majority, never before published in any form. "Summer in Hokkaido," "Wild in China," "Ink and Charcoal, " "Stories to Save the World," "Walking the Great Ridge," these essays turn from being memoirs of travel to prolonged considerations of art, culture, natural history and religion. Filled with Snyder's remarkable insights and briskly beautiful descriptions, this collection adds enormously to the major corpus of his work, certain to delight and instruct his readers now and forever.

Ever Present Danger

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Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 0307561968
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Ever Present Danger by : Kathy Herman

Download or read book Ever Present Danger written by Kathy Herman and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can You Ever Escape Your Past? At eighteen, popular Ivy Griffith likes nothing better than getting stoned with her boyfriend, Pete, and his basketball buddies–until one afternoon when a nightmare unfolds. Ivy watches in horror as her boyfriend and his friends murder a teammate and bury his body in a remote location. The four friends make a pact to keep the killing quiet, and Ivy flees her parents’ Colorado home for college and never looks back. Now, after ten years of numbing her guilt with drugs, she’s finally clean. The single mom of a seven-year-old son, Montana, Ivy returns home to the tiny town of Jacob’s Ear, hoping for courage to reveal the shocking truth of her past and be rid of this baggage forever. But when disaster strikes at her high school reunion, she’s the only one left alive who witnessed that fateful night so long ago…Or is she? Who else could’ve known about the pact and who would want Pete and his co-conspirators dead? As the investigation heats up and the death toll rises, Ivy is forced to decide if confessing the truth is really worth risking her own life.

No Shortcuts to the Top

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767924711
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Book Synopsis No Shortcuts to the Top by : Ed Viesturs

Download or read book No Shortcuts to the Top written by Ed Viesturs and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of The Mountain follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. “From the drama of the peaks, to the struggle of making a living as a professional climber, to the basic how-tos of life at 26,000 feet, No Shortcuts to the Top is fascinating reading.”—Aron Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place and subject of the film 127 Hours For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go. A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak (Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto, “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. In addition to the raw excitement of Viesturs’s odyssey, No Shortcuts to the Top is leavened with many funny moments revealing the camaraderie between climbers. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.

Imaginary Peaks

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Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1594859817
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)

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Book Synopsis Imaginary Peaks by : Katie Ives

Download or read book Imaginary Peaks written by Katie Ives and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author is a renowned writer in international climbing community Fascinating story of hoax that inspired a quest for a North American Shangri-La Vivid recounting of fabled mountains from across the world Using an infamous deception about a fake mountain range in British Columbia as her jumping-off point, Katie Ives, the well-known editor of Alpinist, explores the lure of blank spaces on the map and the value of the imagination. In Imaginary Peaks she details the cartographical mystery of the Riesenstein Hoax within the larger context of climbing history and the seemingly endless quest for newly discovered peaks and claims of first ascents. Imaginary Peaks is an evocative, thought-provoking tale, immersed in the literature of exploration, study of maps, and basic human desire.

Peak Everything

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Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0865716455
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (657 download)

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Book Synopsis Peak Everything by : Richard Heinberg

Download or read book Peak Everything written by Richard Heinberg and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transitioning gracefully from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty.

Back on the Fire

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145875328X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Book Synopsis Back on the Fire by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book Back on the Fire written by Gary Snyder and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Back on the Fire, Snyders essays offer his reminiscences on a wide range of topics, from art in Paris to logging on the American West Coast. Throughout the work he gives a powerful voice to nature, whose protests often get lost amid the human d...

At the Mercy of the Mountains

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493009273
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis At the Mercy of the Mountains by : Peter Bronski

Download or read book At the Mercy of the Mountains written by Peter Bronski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Eiger Dreams, In the Zone: Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World, and Not Without Peril, comes a new book that examines the thrills and perils of outdoor adventure in the “East's greatest wilderness,” the Adirondacks.

Peak

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547417179
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Peak by : Roland Smith

Download or read book Peak written by Roland Smith and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thing you’ll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. – Peak Marcello After fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile Detention or go live with his long-lost father, who runs a climbing company in Thailand. But Peak quickly learns that his father's renewed interest in him has strings attached. Big strings. As owner of Peak Expeditions, he wants his son to be the youngest person to reach the Everest summit--and his motives are selfish at best. Even so, for a climbing addict like Peak, tackling Everest is the challenge of a lifetime. But it's also one that could cost him his life. Roland Smith has created an action-packed adventure about friendship, sacrifice, family, and the drive to take on Everest, despite the incredible risk. The story of Peak’s dangerous ascent—told in his own words—is suspenseful, immediate, and impossible to put down.

Eiger Dreams

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1599217708
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Eiger Dreams by : Jon Krakauer

Download or read book Eiger Dreams written by Jon Krakauer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian, he explores the subject from the unique and memorable perspective of one who has battled peaks like K2, Denali, Everest, and, of course, the Eiger. Always with a keen eye, an open heart, and a hunger for the ultimate experience, he gives us unerring portraits of the mountaineering experience. Yet Eiger Dreams is more about people than about rock and ice—people with that odd, sometimes maniacal obsession with mountain summits that sets them apart from other men and women. Here we meet Adrian the Romanian, determined to be the first of his countrymen to solo Denali; John Gill, climber not of great mountains but of house-sized boulders so difficult to surmount that even demanding alpine climbs seem easy; and many more compelling and colorful characters. In the most intimate piece, “The Devils Thumb,” Krakauer recounts his own near-fatal, ultimately triumphant struggle with solo-madness as he scales Alaska's Devils Thumb. Eiger Dreams is stirring, vivid writing about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits.

Mountain Madness

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820358541
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Mountain Madness by : Clinton Crockett Peters

Download or read book Mountain Madness written by Clinton Crockett Peters and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan’s Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled in central Japan’s peaks, where he was the only foreigner in the rugged town. Using these three years as a frame, this essay collection profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed with mountains, and his fallout from mountain obsession, including an essay on Craig Arnold, the poet who disappeared on a Japanese volcano. Ultimately, the collection asks, how can landscape create and end identities?

A Place in Space

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Publisher : Counterpoint
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis A Place in Space by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book A Place in Space written by Gary Snyder and published by Counterpoint. This book was released on 2008-06-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-nine essays written over the past forty years.

Guardians of the Peaks

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Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781894765800
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (658 download)

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Book Synopsis Guardians of the Peaks by : Katherine M. Calvert

Download or read book Guardians of the Peaks written by Katherine M. Calvert and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain rescue in western Canada developed through the Canadian Pacific Railway's use of Swiss guides to enhance the climbing experience in the early 1900s. These guides brought their knowledge of mountain rescue to the Canadian Rockies. As climbing gained in popularity with the emerging middle classes after the Second World War, tragic accidents became more common. Two accidents in 195455 (the deaths of a group of female climbers from Mexico on Mt. Victoria and a group of Philadelphia schoolboys on Mt. Temple) forced the government to develop a professional mountain rescue team through the Park Warden Service under the tutelage of Walter Perren (a Swiss guide and the father of mountain rescue in Canada). Perren essentially turned cowboys into competent rescue personnel, and the story takes off from there.Following five principal men through the first 50 years of mountain rescue in Canada, Guardians of the Peaks also looks at all aspects of the rescue experience. It is the story of personal tragedy and the ability of individuals to cope with this stress-laced, demanding occupation.