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223 produkter
No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Häftad, 2007
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
255 kr
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Will to Climb
Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
215 kr
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Alone on the Wall
The Ultimate Limits of Adventure
Av Alex Honnold, David Roberts
Häftad, 2019
153 kr
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Alex Honnold is one of the world's best ‘free solo’ climbers. He scales impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or any support of any kind. In Alone on the Wall, he takes you with him.‘Riveting’ - Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Into the WildThis edition includes the account of Alex's El …
Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Av Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts
Häftad, 2008
142 kr
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`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.'So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 …
Conquistadors of the Useless
From the Alps to Annapurna
Av Lionel Terray, David Roberts
Häftad, 2020
137 kr
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'I have given my whole life to the mountains. Born at the foot of the Alps, I have been a ski champion, a professional guide, an amateur of the greatest climbs in the Alps and a member of eight expeditions to the Andes and the Himalaya. If the word has any meaning at all, I am a mountaineer.'So …
Escape from Lucania
An Epic Story of Survival
E-bok, 2010
173 kr
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In 1937, Mount Lucania was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. Located deep within the Saint Elias mountain range, which straddles the border of Alaska and the Yukon, and surrounded by glacial peaks, Lucania was all but inaccessible. The leader of one failed expedition deemed it …
No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World''s 14 Highest Peaks
E-bok, 2006
142 kr
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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. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter …
The Last of His Kind
The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's Boldest Mountaineer
Häftad, 2010
265 kr
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Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Av Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts
E-bok, 1992
119 kr
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`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.''So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 …
Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Av Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts
E-bok, 1998
119 kr
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`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.''So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 …
Finding Everett Ruess
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Häftad, 2012
229 kr
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Finding Everett Ruess
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
E-bok, 2011
156 kr
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Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large …
Will to Climb
Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World''s Deadliest Peak
E-bok, 2011
144 kr
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The bestselling author of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top chronicles his three attempts to climb the world''s tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made — or attempted — the ascent As a high school student, Ed …
History of the Present
The Contemporary and its Culture
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity. That once commanding narrative located the meaning of the past in the present and the meaning of the present in an ever-receding future. Today, instead, the present defines both the past and the future. The ‘contemporary’ …
History of the Present
The Contemporary and its Culture
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity. That once commanding narrative located the meaning of the past in the present and the meaning of the present in an ever-receding future. Today, instead, the present defines both the past and the future. The ‘contemporary’ …
Alone on the Ice
The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
Häftad, 2014
196 kr
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On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave …
Limits of the Known
Häftad, 2019
245 kr
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In a book that is part memoir and part history, David Roberts looks back at his personal relationship to extreme risk and tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure.In the wake of his diagnosis with throat cancer, Roberts seeks the answer …
Escalante's Dream
On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
Häftad, 2020
376 kr
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In July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to blaze a pathway to the new Spanish missions in California, across the huge expanse of what would become the American Southwest. In October, in western Utah, ravaged by hunger and …
Escalante's Dream
On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
Inbunden, 2019
277 kr
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In late July 1776, fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Francisco Vélez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to chart a route to the new Spanish missions in California. The Fransiscans planned to scout the country for mineral wealth and locate the Ute and Navajo tribes for conversion. In …
Into the Great Emptiness
Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
Inbunden, 2023
308 kr
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By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed Gino), a 23-year-old explorer, led thirteen scientists …
Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth Century Europe
Understanding the Poverty of Great Politics
Inbunden, 2005
2585 kr
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By developing a long-term supranational perspective, this ambitious, multi-faceted work provides a new understanding of ‘totalitarianism’, the troubling common element linking Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. The book’s original analysis of antecedent ideas on the subject sheds …
Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth Century Europe
Understanding the Poverty of Great Politics
Häftad, 2005
727 kr
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By developing a long-term supranational perspective, this ambitious, multi-faceted work provides a new understanding of ‘totalitarianism’, the troubling common element linking Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. The book’s original analysis of antecedent ideas on the subject sheds …
Liberal Peacebuilding and Global Governance
Beyond the Metropolis
Inbunden, 2011
2743 kr
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This book examines the limits to cosmopolitan liberal peacebuilding caused by its preoccupation with the values and assumptions of neoliberal global governance. The peace people experience is determined by the processes privileged in peacebuilding. This book is about four things that shape the …
Liberal Peacebuilding and Global Governance
Beyond the Metropolis
Häftad, 2013
749 kr
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This book examines the limits to cosmopolitan liberal peacebuilding caused by its preoccupation with the values and assumptions of neoliberal global governance. The peace people experience is determined by the processes privileged in peacebuilding. This book is about four things that shape the …
Ba'th and the Creation of Modern Syria (RLE Syria)
Inbunden, 2013
2195 kr
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This book traces the development of modern Syria focusing on the contribution of the Ba’th party and Ba’thist ideology. It examines the roots of the Ba’th in the intellectual ferment of the 1940s and charts its growing influence on Syrian politics. Special attention is devoted to the crucial Sixth …
Thomas Betterton
The Greatest Actor of the Restoration Stage
Inbunden, 2010
1039 kr
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Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses; he was intimately involved in the theatre's responses to politics, …
Once They Moved Like the Wind
Häftad, 1994
335 kr
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Using first-person accounts in historical archives, David Roberts presents many sides of the Native American rebellion that began in the mid-1800s. Once They Moved Like The Wind is the epic story of the battles between the Apaches and the United States Army for land and freedom. The …
Newer World
Häftad, 2001
305 kr
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In A Newer World , David Roberts serves as a guide through John C. Frémont's and Kit Carson's adventures through unknown American territory to achieve manifest destiny. Between 1842 and 1854, John C. Frémont, renowned as the nineteenth century's greatest explorer, and Kit Carson, the legendary …
