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Author : Hans Ruesch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671637545
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Top of the World written by Hans Ruesch and published by . This book was released on 1986-09-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of adventure and danger among the Polar Eskimos.
Author : Erik Weihenmayer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101191880
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Touch the Top of the World written by Erik Weihenmayer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-03-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity Advantage Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual impairment-and by a seeing world. He speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break through the barriers of blindness: the mother who prayed for the miracle that would restore her son's sight and the father who encouraged him to strive for that distant mountaintop. And he tells the story of his dream to climb the world's Seven Summits, and how he is turning that dream into astonishing reality (something fewer than a hundred mountaineers have done). From the snow-capped summit of McKinley to the towering peaks of Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro to the ultimate challenge, Mount Everest, this is a story about daring to dream in the face of impossible odds. It is about finding the courage to reach for that ultimate summit, and transforming your life into something truly miraculous. "An inspiration to other blind people and plenty of us folks who can see just fine."—Jon Krakauer, New York Times bestselling author of Into Thin Air
Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547349564
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Top of the World written by Steve Jenkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-04-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning picture book, Steve Jenkins takes us to Mount Everest - exploring its history, geography, climate, and culture. This unique book takes readers on the ultimate adventure of climbing the great mountain. Travel along and learn what to pack for such a trek and the hardships one may suffer on the way to the top. Avalanches, frostbite, frigid temperatures, wind, and limited oxygen are just a few of the dangers that make scaling this peak one of the most extreme physical challenges one can experience. To stand on the top of Mount Everest is to stand on top of the world. With informative text and exquisitely detailed cut paper illustrations, Steve Jenkins brings this extreme journey alive for young adventurers.
Author : James Delgado
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926706536
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Across the Top of the World written by James Delgado and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition after expedition set off in search of a sea route connecting Europe with Asia's riches; each expedition suffered extreme hardship and ended in defeat, until Roald Amundsen finally succeeded in 1903-06. Across the Top of the World brings this incredible saga to life through exhaustive research, grim firsthand accounts, and hundreds of dramatic images. Paintings, engravings, and photos of the intrepid men and their ships, as well as of relics and archaeological sites, provide a poignant and compelling link with the past, while landscapes and seascapes of the harsh yet beautiful Arctic illustrate the challenges that faced explorers. Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this book is both a scholarly reference and an eminently readable history of Arctic exploration.
Author : Sandra K. Athans
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1467701262
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Tales from the Top of the World written by Sandra K. Athans and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey up Mount Everest is never easy. Climbers risk their lives as they struggle around jagged towers of ice, over snow-covered boulders, and across gaping crevasses. Pete Athans knows these dangers well. He has climbed Mount Everest fourteen times and reached the summit seven times. What is it like to climb the highest mountain on Earth? In this book, you'll follow Pete to the top—and learn about his adventures along the way.
Author : Holly Hobbie
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316049549
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Toot & Puddle: Top of the World written by Holly Hobbie and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Puddle wakes up one morning Toot is missing! Where can he be? Although Puddle prefers to stay home in Woodcock Pocket, his concern for his best friend prompts him to set off. Puddle takes a train... a plane... and eventually finds himself in a far-away place. And who do you think he finds? Holly Hobbie's story of a friendship that extends to the top of the world will be welcomed by the many fans of Toot & Puddle.
Author : Eric Margolis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135955581
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book War at the Top of the World written by Eric Margolis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Cheryl King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954403697
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Sitting on Top of the World written by Cheryl King and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June never thought she'd be dressing like a boy and jumping onto a freight train to travel across Tennessee. But that's what she has to do to find work so her family's farm can survive. It's 1933, and the Great Depression is tightening its chokehold on America. Where once June was sitting on top of the world with her beloved brother, now she's risking her life to fulfill his dying wish. When she falls in love with a railroad bull, her life takes a drastic turn, for she knows what devastation railroad bulls can cause.
Author : Phil Ershler
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0446194409
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Together on Top of the World written by Phil Ershler and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 16, 2002, Phil and Susan Ershler reached the top of Mt. Everest and became the first couple in history to scale the fabled Seven Summits. What made their achievement all the more remarkable was that Susan was not a mountain climber, but a high-powered Fortune 500 executive who had never hiked or climbed until she met Phil at the age of 36. Phil, a professional mountain guide who was the first American to summit Everest from its treacherous north face, had climbed his whole life with Crohn's disease, a chronic, debilitating illness. Adding to these challenges, just before their final summit, Phil was diagnosed with colon cancer, and the resulting surgeries and complications were expected to end his career. This is Susan and Phil's story: a tale of love set in the mountains, a story of triumphal highs and devastating lows in quest of a seemingly impossible dream.
Author : Brian Stelter
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455512893
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Top of the Morning written by Brian Stelter and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CNN correspondent Brian Stelter reveals the dark side of morning television with exclusive material about current and past morning stars, from Matt Lauer to Katie Couric. When America wakes up with personable and charming hosts like Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos, it's hard to imagine their show bookers having to guard a guest's hotel room all night to prevent rival shows from poaching. But that is just a glimpse of the intense reality revealed in this gripping look into the most competitive time slot in television. Featuring exclusive content about all the major players of the 2000s, Top of the Morning illuminates what it takes to win the AM -- when every single viewer counts, tons of jobs are on the line, and hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. Stelter is behind the scenes as Ann Curry replaces Meredith Vieira on the Today show, only to be fired a year later in a fiasco that made national headlines. He's backstage as Good Morning America launches an attack to dethrone Today and end the longest consecutive winning streak in morning television history. And he's there as Roberts is diagnosed with a crippling disease -- on what should be the happiest day of her career. So grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and discover the dark side of the sun. Praise for Top of the Morning "Mr. Stelter pulls back the curtains and exposes a savage corporate world that might have been inhabited by the Sopranos." -- Washington Times "A troubling look inside an enterprise as vicious and internecine as a soap opera." -- Kirkus Reviews
Author : Peter May
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786726865
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Top of the World written by Peter May and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IÕm on top of the world!Ó shouted Kevin Garnett after the Boston Celtics demolished the heavily favored Los Angeles Lakers for a league-leading seventeenth NBA championship. Peter May chronicles the amazing run of the team, who went from having the second-worst record in 2007 to leading the pack in 2008. Drawing on interviews with the players, Coach Doc Rivers, and General Manager Danny Ainge, May charts the pivotal moments of the CelticsÕ magical season. From rebuilding the team to capping off their stunning year with another championship, Top of the World brings readers every key moment of the CelticsÕ wild ride.
Author : Clare Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226317471
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Museum on the Roof of the World written by Clare Harris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public’s first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.
Author : Ian Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Island at the Top of the World written by Ian Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1907. Professor John Ivarsson's presence is requested by Sir Anthony Ross, whose son, Donald, has disappeared while on expedition in the arctic. An old journal document from a Hudson's Bay trading post tells of a mysterious island, set under a single cloud out on the ice floes, which is the graveyard of the whales, a place known only from folklore and legend. Ross' son had gone in search of the island, but when he didn't return, the letter describing its location was forwarded to him, along with an ancient artifact used for navigation. His interest piqued, Professor Ivarsson agrees to go on the journey.
Author : Tim Coffey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Christmas at the Top of the World written by Tim Coffey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Barbash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755311637
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (116 download)
Download or read book On Top of the World written by Tom Barbash and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the companies affected by the attacks of 11 September, none was more devastated than Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services conglomerate, who lost 658 people. CEO Howard Lutnick survived only because he had taken his son to school that day. His brother and best friend were not so lucky. his firm, and how he was able to rebuild the company as a tribute to those who died. Astonishingly, some rival companies tried to put them out of business, while others nearly killed them with kindness, offering Cantor Fitzgerald work that there was no one left to do. In the end, the company survived because all who worked there knew that it was the best way they could help their lost friends and colleagues.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971963917
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (639 download)
Download or read book Hewitt's Law written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven L. Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494925413
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Sitting on Top of the World written by Steven L. Richards and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After nine year old Jew, Kurt (Walker) Wagner is expelled out of Nazi Germany; he begins a seven year odyssey that culminates with his adoption in America. It is during this journey he learns that his unknown father is a Nazi Brownshirt and never seen ten year old Christian brother lived only blocks from him. This true story exploration of family and faith weaves together the voices of the main characters to answer Kurt's question, "Why?" The complex set of facts that answer this question, begins with the stunning revelation of an unwanted pregnancy that forces the marriage of Kurt's parents. Over the 1930's, a seemingly resilient Kurt bears witness to family members who wither under the effects of mental illness, divorce, poverty, lies and an emerging Nazi Germany. Then in October 1940 when the Holocaust was still unthinkable, Kurt and his family are deported to a concentration camp in France, where Kurt's mother makes the tortured decision to allow Kurt to escape the camp for a safe house in the Pyrenees Mountains. In the emotional moments before Kurt leaves the camp, his promise to his grandfather to be a good Jew becomes a controlling commitment that he believes will forever keep his family alive. Fourteen months later when Kurt's mother says "Yes" one last time so that he could escape to America, Kurt's faith is painfully challenged when he learns that his father and brother are Nazis. When Kurt eventually moves in with a wealthy Chicago foster family in October of 1943, Kurt's brother, Heinz is confronted with his own truth, that he is a Jew. His immediate search to find his lost family is cut short when he is forced to join the Hitler Youth Corp in order to ensure his survival as one of the last Jews in Germany. This story of emotionally wounded brothers reaches a climax in 1947 when Kurt's foster family begins their well intentioned, but questionable adoption that conceals from Kurt that his parents, grandparents and brother may all be alive.
