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Book Synopsis Touch the Top of the World by : Erik Weihenmayer
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
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.
Book Synopsis War at the Top of the World by : Eric Margolis
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 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Tales from the Top of the World by : Sandra K. Athans
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 2012-08-01 with total page 68 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.
Book Synopsis The Top of the World by : Ethel M. Dell
Download or read book The Top of the World written by Ethel M. Dell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Top of the World" by Ethel M. Dell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Top of the Morning by : Brian Stelter
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 299 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
Book Synopsis On Top of the World by : Arjun Vajpai
Download or read book On Top of the World written by Arjun Vajpai and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a statue of the Buddha at the summit, placed there by the Sherpas. I knelt down and bowed in front of it. I felt complete. When I looked around I felt I ruled the world, with the Himalayas stretching out below me and nothing to obstruct my view. A month after he had set out, sixteen-year-old Arjun Vajpai stood on top of the world, having conquered Mount Everest. At that time he was the youngest non-Sherpa person in the world to do so. He remains the youngest Indian to have climbed the peak. It had indeed been a long journey. Arjun s fascination with mountains began at the age of ten, nurtured and encouraged by his parents, teachers, and close friends. As a trekker and an athlete, he had trained and worked hard to achieve this amazing feat of endurance. This is Arjun s story in his own words. Accompany him on an adventure of a lifetime; read about his incredible ascent; and learn what it takes to be a mountaineer. On Top of the World is an unforgettable story of inspiration, fortitude and courage; of having a seemingly impossible dream and daring to chase it.
Book Synopsis Toot & Puddle: Top of the World by : Holly Hobbie
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 58 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.
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Book Synopsis Sitting on Top of the World by : Cheryl King
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: Fourteen-year-old June Baker never in a million years thought she'd be dressing like a boy, sneaking into a hobo camp, and jumping onto a moving freight train to travel across the state of Tennessee. But that's what she has to do to find work so her family's farm can survive. It's what she has to do to fulfill her brother's dying wish. It's 1933, and the Great Depression is tightening its chokehold on working America. Where once June was sitting on top of the world with her beloved brother Joseph (June calls him Josy), now she's carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. Once she was picking fruit from the pawpaw trees, and now she's picking up the pieces of a family torn apart. Once she was climbing and falling from trees, and now she's falling for a boy she should be running from.They were counting on Josy. Now her family's counting on her: daddy, who's grieving losses no father should have to grieve; mama, who's suffering tuberculosis; and even her best friend, Margaret Ann, whose own father was a victim of railroad bulls. June knows she has no choice but to ride the rails, and she knows she'll find work. What she doesn't know is that the railroad bull she falls in love with has a devastating secret that will change the course of her life.Journey with June in this young-adult historical fiction tale about friendship, love, and loss, Sitting on Top of the World.
Book Synopsis Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole by : Sheldon Bart
Download or read book Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole written by Sheldon Bart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of adventure, when dirigibles coasted through the air and vast swaths of the Earth remained untouched and unseen by man, one pack of relentless explorers competed in the race of a lifetime: to be the first aviator to fly over the North Pole. What inspired their dangerous fascination? For some, it was the romantic theory about a “lost world,” a hidden continent in the Arctic Ocean. Others were seduced by new aviation technology, which they strove to push to its ultimate limit. The story of their quest is breathtaking and inspiring; the heroes are still a matter of debate. It was the 1920s. The main players in this high stakes game were Richard Byrd, a dashing Navy officer and early aviation pioneer; and Roald Amundsen, a Viking in the sky, bitter rival of Byrd’s and a hardened veteran of polar expeditions. Each man was determined to be the first aviator to fly over the North Pole, despite brutal weather conditions, financial disasters, world wars, and their own personal demons. Byrd and Amundsen’s epic struggle for air primacy ended in a Homeric episode, in which one man had to fly to the rescue of his downed nemesis, and left behind an enduring mystery: who was the first man to fly over the North Pole? Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole is a fast-paced, larger-than-life adventure story from Sheldon Bart, the only historian with unprecedented access to Richard Byrd’s personal archives. With powerful, never-before-seen evidence of the race to pioneer one of Earth’s last true frontiers, Race to the Top of the World is a story of a day when men were heroes and the wild was untamed.
Book Synopsis War at the Top of the World by : Eric S. Margolis
Download or read book War at the Top of the World written by Eric S. Margolis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will the post-Taliban government of Afghanistan look like? How will the war in Afghanistan affect the already unstable politics of Central Asia? In War at the Top of the World, veteran foreign correspondent Eric Margolis presents a revelatory history of the complicated and volatile conflicts that have entangled Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States, the Soviet Union, and many others. By 1999, Pakistan had proven they have medium-range nuclear weapons, and now the threat that their government could be taken over by a radical Islamic fundamentalist faction is stronger than ever. In fact, Osama bin Laden has already claimed to have a nuclear weapon. How could this have happened? Margolis plays witness to the escalating conflicts of the past decade, tracing disputes over Afghanistan, as well as those ever neighboring Kashmir and Tibet, back to their Cold War roots, exploring clashes that continue to threaten to destabilize the region today. Combining vivid first-hand accounts of a war correspondent with a historical and strategic overview of the region, Margolis guides the reader through the geopolitical complexities of the area and its key players. He offers a clear, concise analysis of a complicated and little-understood part of the world that is home to a quarter of the world's population. Fascinating and now more timely than ever, War at the Top of the World is an extraordinary read for anyone interested in the current global balance of power.
Book Synopsis Rescue at the Top of the World by : Shawn T. Shallow
Download or read book Rescue at the Top of the World written by Shawn T. Shallow and published by Paradise Cay Publications. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter came early to the Arctic in 1897. Frigid temperatures brought pack ice that filled the waters north of the Bering Strait. As a result, virtually the entire North American whaling fleet was trapped, stranding 300 men to die of starvation and exposure. Three escaping ships raised the alarm. Answering the call, three officers from the early U.S. Coast Guard and two missionaries volunteered to travel over 1,500 miles through the Arctic winter to reach the shipwrecked whalers. The rescuers' perilous four-month journey, through mountainous territory and barren sub-zero landscapes never before traversed, was fraught with blizzards, wolves, steep terrain, unstable ice, hunters, and bone-piercing cold. Unaware that a rescue team was on the way, the shipwrecked men endured freezing temperatures, malnutrition, and scurvy before falling into general lawlessness. Their struggles and those of the rescuers are meticulously recreated here from century-old journals. This extraordinary chronicle of hardship and heroism will take you to the heart of one of America's greatest maritime disasters-and the greatest Arctic rescue story in history. "]€]a fascinating, almost unbelievable story that should find an audience among those interested in maritime history, rescue tales and life in the Alaskan territory." Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis Across the Top of the World by : James P. Delgado
Download or read book Across the Top of the World written by James P. Delgado and published by Douglas & McIntyre Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the Top of the World is a tale that rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama and tragedy. In the great age of Exploration, the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage lured bold adventurers to the icy Arctic. They risked and sometimes lost their lives in search of a sea route across the top of the world, connecting Europe with Asia and its riches. This spellbinding saga of Arctic exploration is brought to life by quotations from grim first-hand accounts and by dramatic images, ICC colour and 100 black and white. These 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. Landscapes and seascapes of the harsh yet beautiful Arctic illustrate the challenges that faced explorers. The Inuit, the native people of the Arctic, lived in isolation until Europeans began to arrive in the sixteenth century, and relations were not always cordial. For centuries, nations sent out expedition after expedition to search for the Northwest Passage, each one suffering extreme hardship. The most tragic was the mysterious loss of Sir John Franklin, his 128 men and two ships in the 1840s. Attempts to sail the dangerous, icy maze of the passage ended in defeat until Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen succeeded in 1903-1906. Then, in the 1940s, to assert Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, St. Koch, became the second vessel to conquer the passage. This set the stage for the modern phase of Arctic exploration utilizing icebreakers and American nuclear-powered submarines. James Delgado writes with the passion and authority of an underwater archaeologist and historian who has taken part in Arctic expeditions.
Book Synopsis An Eye at the Top of the World by : Pete Takeda
Download or read book An Eye at the Top of the World written by Pete Takeda and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At some point during the inhumanly cold Himalayan winter straddling 1965 and 1966, a peculiar collection of box-shaped objects -- one sprouting a six-foot, insect-like antenna -- plummets nine thousand feet down the sheer flanks of a remote peak. Ripped from its moorings by an avalanche, the jumbled apparatus slides down a funnel-shaped hourglass of hard snow and shoots over a black cliff band, careening a vertical distance six times the height of the Empire State building. The boxes come to rest on the glacier at the mountain's base. One, an olive-drab casing the size of a personal computer, begins to sink. Then, trailing a robotic dogtail of torn wires, it slowly burns through the snow, melting into solid blue glacial ice, eventually disappearing beneath the surface, and never seen again. No one actually witnessed this event. But as you read these words, nearly four pounds of plutonium -- locked in the glacier's dark unknowable heart -- are almost certainly moving ever closer to the source of the Ganges River. Eye at the Top of the World, provides a harrowing present-day account of Takeda's expedition to solve the mystery of Nanda Devi.
Book Synopsis ONE DAY BEYOND THE TOP OF THE WORLD by : Anthony Caine
Download or read book ONE DAY BEYOND THE TOP OF THE WORLD written by Anthony Caine and published by TAC Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After leading successful hedge fund companies for twenty years, Anthony "Tac" Caine experienced the most extreme business catastrophe imaginable. Hedge fund companies managed by Tac Caine with a twenty-year successful track record collapsed in only two days, resulting in losses exceeding $1 billion. In the midst of managing an onslaught of legal and business challenges, Tac realized he needed more. He needed a big, positive goal, something to shoot for that would motivate him. And there's nothing bigger than Mt. Everest. With humility, humor and emotion in a page-turner story, One Day Beyond the Top of the World captures the full Mt. Everest experience. Come alongside for the entire seven-week Everest expedition from training, trekking, acclimatization, living above 17,000 feet at Everest Base Camp, the full cultural immersion of the Khumbu Valley, and finally climbing each step from Everest Base Camp to the highest point in the world. There are failures, successes, anxieties and elation on the journey, and you will discover how Mt. Everest can draw tears from even the strongest climbers. And, you will see how a Sherpa guide can evolve into a lifelong friend. Happy and successful people are driven by planning-then executing -their next big goal. We should always be metaphorically looking One Day Beyond the Top of the World to set the next meaningful goal. What is the Everest in your life? Let Tac Caine's adventure guide you to reach your own summit!
Book Synopsis Solo to the Top of the World by : Gustavus A. McLeod
Download or read book Solo to the Top of the World written by Gustavus A. McLeod and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 2003-03-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
