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Author : Graeme Dingle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780723303459
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Two Against the Alps written by Graeme Dingle and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angelo M. Codevilla
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 089526238X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Between the Alps and a Hard Place written by Angelo M. Codevilla and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Switzerland's "neutrality" is fully examined and challenged in this groundbreaking study of the economics underpinning the political in that country's successful non-alignment policies.
Author : Stephen O'Shea
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393634191
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond written by Stephen O'Shea and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An entertaining, turbocharged race among the high mountain passes of six alpine countries.” —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review For centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers. In The Alps, Stephen O’Shea ("a graceful and passionate writer"—Washington Post) takes readers up and down these majestic mountains. Journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia, he explores the reality behind historic events and reveals how the Alps have profoundly influenced culture and society.
Author : Eddy Starr Ancinas
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467144053
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows: Tales from Two Valleys 70th Anniversary Edition written by Eddy Starr Ancinas and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled amidst California's High Sierra peaks, two valleys have captured the imaginations of skiers and mountain explorers year after year. In this account, local author and longtime skier Eddy Starr Ancinas shares the histories of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows as they've never been told before, including the stories of John Reily, Wayne Poulsen and Alex Cushing, the visionaries whose dreams and determination forever transformed North Lake Tahoe. Squaw made a name for itself on the world stage thanks to its surprise nomination as host of the 1960 Winter Olympics. Meanwhile, just one mountain apart, Alpine was built with the support of local skiers and Bay Area families. Today, a new chapter unfolds as the distinct philosophies behind Squaw and Alpine unite under common ownership.
Author : Sara Rosett
Publisher : Sara Rosett
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Murder in the Alps written by Sara Rosett and published by Sara Rosett. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cold-blooded killer lurks in the luxurious winter wonderland of St. Moritz . . . Switzerland, 1924. Lady sleuth Olive Belgrave is set to enjoy a holiday of ice-skating and snowshoeing in the glamorous alpine setting of St. Moritz, but her plans are rudely interrupted when an unfortunate accident takes place. It quickly becomes clear that the tragic event was a carefully concealed murder. Olive isn’t one to shy away from a challenge, and with her sharp intuition and knowledge of the high society set, she uncovers motives among the elite guests. However, this case is one of the most challenging she’s faced. Her suspects include a famous lady mountaineer, an up-and-coming fashion designer, a mousy lady’s maid, and several gentlemen sportsmen who seem to be only interested in tobogganing, ice-climbing, and the new sport of skiing down the mountain slopes. Can Olive find the cunning killer and solve the impossible crime before it’s too late? If you enjoy puzzling mysteries set among the glitz and glamor of the 1920s, you’ll enjoy Murder in the Alps, the latest installment of USA Today bestselling author Sara Rosett’s High Society Lady Detective series.
Author : Jonathan Arlan
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1510709762
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Mountain Lines written by Jonathan Arlan and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times best summer travel book recommendation A nonfiction debut about an American’s solo, month-long, 400-mile walk from Lake Geneva to Nice. In the summer of 2015, Jonathan Arlan was nearing thirty. Restless, bored, and daydreaming of adventure, he comes across an image on the Internet one day: a map of the southeast corner of France with a single red line snaking south from Lake Geneva, through the jagged brown and white peaks of the Alps to the Mediterranean sea—a route more than four hundred miles long. He decides then and there to walk the whole trail solo. Lacking any outdoor experience, completely ignorant of mountains, sorely out of shape, and fighting last-minute nerves and bad weather, things get off to a rocky start. But Arlan eventually finds his mountain legs—along with a staggering variety of aches and pains—as he tramps a narrow thread of grass, dirt, and rock between cloud-collared, ice-capped peaks in the High Alps, through ancient hamlets built into hillsides, across sheep-dotted mountain pastures, and over countless cols on his way to the sea. In time, this simple, repetitive act of walking for hours each day in the remote beauty of the mountains becomes as exhilarating as it is exhausting. Mountain Lines is the stirring account of a month-long journey on foot through the French Alps and a passionate and intimate book laced with humor, wonder, and curiosity. In the tradition of trekking classics like A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Snow Leopard, and Tracks, the book is a meditation on movement, solitude, adventure, and the magnetic power of the natural world.
Author : Kev Reynolds
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1849654387
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Walking in the Alps written by Kev Reynolds and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this classic guidebook by Kev Reynolds on walking and trekking in the Alps. This book is a definitive guide to the many thousands of possible routes, with a geographical span that ranges from the Maritime Alps of southern France to the Julians of Slovenia, from Italy's Gran Paradiso to the little-known Türnitzer Alps of eastern Austria, and from the ice-bound giants of the Bernese Oberland to the green rolling Kitzbüheler Alps and the bizarre towers of the Dolomites of South Tirol, showing the amazing diversity of this wonderful mountain chain. There are walks to suit every taste: gentle and undemanding, long and tough, and everything in between. Written by Britain's most respected authority on the Alps, this is a fully updated edition of this important book.
Author : Gail Tanzer
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514317983
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Across the Alps written by Gail Tanzer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing on a ridge of the Bavarian Alps, artist Albrecht Dürer is torn between responsibility and infatuation. Below him lie Venice and the vibrant woman he just met. Ahead of him is Nuremberg, where he and his wife make their home. Dürer's wife lacks the allure and spirit of the Venetian woman, but his marriage to her secured him with the artistic workshop he so desperately needs. So, suppressing his desires, a despondent Dürer chooses duty over passion and turns his steps toward home. So begins Across the Alps, Gail Tanzer's intriguing fictionalization of the life of one of history's great artists. With his wife's support, Dürer manufactures exquisite religious woodcuts, making them into prints and selling them at prices even common people can afford. His success and reputation soar, but Dürer is troubled. He yearns for passion and beauty, two desires that his loyal but cold and homely wife cannot satisfy. Driven by the need for resolution, Dürer returns to Venice, committed to locating a man forging his work in Venice but mainly to see what he has been missing. What happens in Venice forces Dürer into making a final decision between a great romance and fidelity-a choice that will change the course of his life forever.
Author : Sam Apple
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307490521
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Schlepping Through the Alps written by Sam Apple and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Breuer, Austria’s only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd’s stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he belts out Yiddish ditties. When New York-based writer Sam Apple hears about this one-of-a-kind eccentric, he flies overseas and signs on as a shepherd’s apprentice. For thoroughly urban, slightly neurotic Sam, stumbling along in borrowed boots and burdened with a lot more baggage than his backpack, the task is far from a walk in Central Park. Demonstrating no immediate natural talent for shepherding, he tries to earn the respect of Breuer’s sheep, while keeping a safe distance from the shepherd’s fierce herding dogs. As this strange and hilarious adventure unfolds, the unlikely duo of Sam and Hans meander through a paradise of woods and high meadows toward awkward encounters with Austrians of many stripes. Apple is determined to find out if there are really as many anti-Semites in Austria as he fears and to understand how Hans, who grew up fighting the lingering Nazism in Vienna, became a wandering shepherd. What Apple discovers turns out to be far more fascinating than he had imagined. With this odd and wonderful book, Sam Apple joins the august tradition of Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson. Schlepping Through the Alps is as funny as it is moving.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melody Carlson
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 1493431951
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book A Christmas in the Alps written by Melody Carlson and published by Revell. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a time of heartache and loss, Simone Winthrop discovers a tantalizing letter from her French great-grandmother, which seems to suggest that she is heir to a family treasure. Ever practical, Simone assumes the claim is baseless, but her best friend encourages her to find out for sure. Despite her deep-rooted fear of flying, Simone boards a jet to travel to Paris at Christmastime to uncover the truth. During the long flight, Simone meets the charming Kyle Larsson, who's on his way to France to become an apprentice clockmaker. Though they abruptly part ways, an unexpected rendezvous in the French Alps at Simone's family's clock factory may lead to the discovery of the family treasure . . . and so much more. For anyone who is wearying of staying home, Melody Carlson invites you to spend Christmas with her in the beautiful French Alps this year. So pull on your mittens, tie your scarf tight, and prepare yourself for a magical mountain holiday.
Author : Alphonse Daudet
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Tartarin On The Alps written by Alphonse Daudet and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tartarin On The Alps is a humorous novel by Alphonse Daudet. Tartarin, a plump middle-aged man; sees an Atlas lion in a travelling zoo and is compelled to go on a hunting expedition to Northern Africa.
Author : Mark Sullivan
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781503902374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Beneath a Scarlet Sky written by Mark Sullivan and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage boy in 1940s Italy becomes part of an underground railroad that helps Jews escape through the Alps, but when he is recruited to be the personal driver for a powerful Third Reich commander, he begins to spy for the Allies.
Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803278110
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (781 download)
Download or read book Local Wonders written by Ted Kooser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the "quietest magnificent book IUve ever read" (Jim Harrison, author of "Legends of the Fall") Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska--an area known as the Bohemian Alps--where nothing is too big or too small for his attention.
Author : Alphonse Daudet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tartarin of Tarascon written by Alphonse Daudet and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Beattie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195309553
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Alps written by Andrew Beattie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alps are Europe's highest mountain range: their broad arc stretches right across the center of the continent, encompassing a wide range of traditions and cultures. Andrew Beattie explores the turbulent past and vibrant present of this landscape, where early pioneers of tourism, mountaineering, and scientific research, along with the enduring legacies of historical regimes from the Romans to the Nazis, have all left their mark.
Author : Caroline Van Hemert
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316414433
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Sun Is a Compass written by Caroline Van Hemert and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences. A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, The Sun is a Compass explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of the creatures who make their homes in the wildest places left in North America. Inspiring and beautifully written, this love letter to nature is a lyrical testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel
