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  • Appalachian Tectonics

    Edited by Thomas Clark ...
    Series series Heritage
    Mountain ranges are the most conspicuous elements of the earth's architecture, and the manner in which the architectural units are arranged or disarranged has become the study of a subdivision of geology known as Tectonics. A hundred years ago James Hall attempted the first scientific synthesis of the steps in the building of the eastern North American mountains, the Appalachians. His initial ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • My First Summer In The Sierra

    by John Muir ...
    From the photographer who brought Thoreau's Walden and Cape Cod to life comes a new work combining classic literature with brand-new photography. This time, Scot Miller takes on the seminal work of John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra. The book details Muir's first extended trip to the Sierra Nevada in what is now Yosemite National Park, a landscape that entranced him immediately and had a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Mountain Meteorology

    Fundamentals and Applications

    Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications offers first an introduction to the basic principles and concepts of mountain meteorology, then goes on to discuss their application in natural resources management. It includes over two hundred beautiful, full-color photographs, figures, and diagrams, as well as observable indicators of atmospheric processes--such as winds, temperature, and ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • Teewinot

    A Year in the Teton Range

    by Jack Turner ...
    Jack Turner grew up with an image of the Tetons engraved in his mind. As a young man, he climbed the peaks of this singular range with basic climbing gear friends. Later in life, he led treks in India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Tibet, and Peru, but he always returned to the mountains of his youth. He continues to climb the Tetons as a guide for Exum Mountain, Guides, the oldest and most prestigious ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Because It's There

    A Celebration of Mountaineering from 200 B.C. to Today

    by Alan Weber ...
    Mountains have long inspired the wit and daring of the world's most fascinating explorers. In this definitive collection of mountain lore, Alan Weber exhibits forty-three essays by artists and adventurers to whom climbing was more a mission than a sport. Beginning with the fabled tale of Hannibal's Roman invasion-men, horses, and elephants in tow-through the hitherto impassable Alps, the accounts ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Region of Astonishing Beauty

    The Botanical Exploration of the Rocky Mountains

    As we approach the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 2004, attention will inevitably turn to the nineteenth-century explorers who risked life and limb to interpret the natural history of the American West. Beginning with Meriwether Lewis and his discovery of the bitterroot, the goal of most explorers was not merely to find an adequate route to the Pacific, but also to comment on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Mountain Encyclopedia

    An A to Z Compendium of Over 2,250 Terms, Concepts, Ideas, and People

    The Mountain Encyclopedia is the first A to Z compendium on all matters related to mountains including geological, geographical, and zoological terms and concepts as well as climbing and historical details. This books is both a reference and a guide for mountain and outdoor enthusiasts such as hikers, climbers, and mountaineers. It's filled with spectacular color photographs of breathtaking ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Finest Peaks

    Prominence and Other Mountain Measures

    by Adam Helman ...
    This book challenges the precedent that a mountain's worth scales with height. It is a rational synthesis of new concepts that compel one to reassess the popular "heightist mindset". The concept of prominence, loosely defined as a mountain's vertical relief, is a stiff competitor to summit height for assessing a mountain's stature and relative worth for innumerable purposes.The community of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Twelve Months at Merritt Lake

    Twelve months of visits to a mountain lake tells more than twelve tales. The solitude found during a Wednesday in the winter is completely different from the chaos found on a Saturday in the summer. The seasons make one set of changes. We make the other. The combination produces a much more interesting set of experiences that can't be revealed in one visit or in a page of some guidebook.Merritt ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Snowstruck

    In the Grip of Avalanches

    by Jill Fredston ...
    Every year around the globe, people cross paths with avalanches-some massive, some no deeper than a pizza box-often with deadly results. Avalanche expert Jill Fredston stalks these so-called freaks of nature, forecasting where and when they will strike, deliberately triggering them with explosives, teaching potential victims how to stay alive, and leading rescue efforts when tragedy strikes.Having ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

    In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. Interweaving a memoir of his mothers long struggle with Alzheimers and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • At the Mercy of the Mountains

    True Stories of Survival and Tragedy in New York's Adirondacks

    by Peter Bronski ...
    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. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Mountains of California

    by John Muir ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dark Summit

    The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

    by Nick Heil ...
    **Written by experienced climber Nick Heil, Dark Summit is both a riveting account of a notorious climbing season and a troubling investigation into whether the pursuit of the ultimate mountaineering prize has spiraled out of control."A dramatic story, ably and convincingly told . . . A chilling look at the precarious line between success and tragedy."—Kirkus Reviews**On May 15, 2006, a young ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Weekender Effect

    Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns

    Series series An RMB Manifesto
    Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.As cities continue to grow at unprecedented rates, more and more people are looking for peaceful, weekend retreats in mountain or rural communities. More often than not, these retreats are found in and around resorts or places of natural beauty. As a result, what ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ararat

    In Search of the Mythical Mountain

    Translated by Sam Garrett ...
    Mount Ararat in Turkey is where, as biblical tradition has it, Noah's Ark ran aground and God made his covenant with mankind. Now it stands astride the fault-line between religion and science, a geographical, political and cultural crossroads, bound up with the centuries-old history of warfare between different cultures in this region. Frank Westerman takes a pilgrimage from the mountain's foot to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mountain Madness:

    Scott Fischer, Mount Everest, and a Life Lived on High

    by Robert Birkby ...
    “An extraordinary life.”—The New York Times Book Review“A fitting homage to one of the great outdoor extremists.”—Kirkus ReviewsLegendary climber Scott Fischer found in Mount Everest a perfect landscape for his fearless spirit. Scaling the world’s highest peak tested his skills, his courage, and his endurance. His legendary final expedition—and its tragic outcome—are portrayed in Everest, the 3-D ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Flakes, Jugs, and Splitters

    A Rock Climber's Guide to Geology

    by Sarah Garlick ...
    Series series How To Climb Series
    Rock climbers have an inherent interest in geology. For some, it's about knowing what gear to use or how to avoid rotten bands of rock. For others, it's about finding the next hot-spot boulder field, or understanding why their local crag exists. For most of them, curiosity about rocks comes as naturally as their desire to climb them. Geology is the fundamental control on the sport, and yet there ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mountains of the Mind

    Adventures in Reaching the Summit

    Series series Landscapes
    The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip the Western imagination—and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes.His ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Light In High Places

    A Naturalist Looks at Wyoming Wilderness--Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Cowboys, and Other Rare Species

    by Joe Hutto ...
    Hutto is living in a tent at twelve thousand feet, where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant and human needs can become a matter of life and death-to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. The population of these rare alpine sheep is in decline. The lambs are dying in unprecedented numbers. Hutto’s job is to find out why.For months at a time, he follows the bighorn ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mountain Time

    A Yellowstone Memoir

    "Mountain Time, a thoughtful and often moving work, is not only about Yellowstone as a superb sample of American wildness, . . . but also about a man named Paul Schullery and his relationship to it. This fact gives the book much richness and power, for Schullery comes across clearly as a caring, observant, undogmatic person whose reasonable and intelligent opinions are reinforced by plenty of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Einsame Gipfelziele in Graubünden

    by Thomas Wilken ...
    Hauptintention dieses Führers ist es, zur besseren Verteilung der zahlreichen Bergsteiger in den Alpen beizutragen. Es werden also Tourenziele vorgestellt, auf welchen eher selten Begegnungen mit anderen Bergsteigern zu erwarten sind. Dafür aber sind Begegnungen mit Steinböcken oder Murmeltieren umso warscheinlicher. Die vorgestellten Touren führen allesamt durch unerschlossenes, relativ ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ecology & Wonder in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site

    Ecology & Wonder makes several remarkable claims: The greatest cultural achievement in the Western Canadian mountain region may be what has been preserved, not what has been developed. Protecting the spine of the Rocky Mountains will preserve crucial ecological functions. Because the process of ecosystem diminishment and species loss has been slowed, an ecological thermostat has been kept alive. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Mountain Nature

    A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians

    The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from brawny black bears to more species of salamander than anywhere else in the world. Mountain Nature is a lively and engaging account of the ecology of this remarkable region. It explores the animals and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD