A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America’s Wildest Peak

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Author : Patrick Dean
Genre : Sports & Recreation

Summary : The captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck—an Episcopal priest—and his team's history-making summit of Denali. In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the tallest mountain in North America. Several groups had already tried but failed to reach the top of a mo

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Author : Mary F. Ehrlander
Genre : Biography & Autobiography

Summary : Hospital and Haven tells the story of an Episcopal missionary couple who lived their entire married life, from 1910 to 1938, among the Gwich'in peoples of northern Alaska, devoting themselves to the peoples' physical, social, and spiritual well-being. The era was marked by great social disruption wi

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Author : Hudson Stuck
Genre : Travel

Summary : "The Ascent of Denali" is a memoir by Hudson Stuck, documenting the first complete ascent of Denali, the highest peak in North America. The book details the arduous journey Stuck and his team made, the challenges they faced, and the stunning natural beauty they witnessed along the way.

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Author : Lonnie Dupre
Genre : Biography & Autobiography

Summary : The dramatic story of one man's ascent of North America's highest peak under the harshest conditions-and the climb that nearly killed him.

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Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Genre : History

Summary : Humboldt offered the world a vision of humans & nature as integrated halves of a single whole. He espoused the idea that while the univerise of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty & order are human achievements. Laura Dassow Walls traces the emergence of this philosophy to Humboldt's

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Author : Peter Zuckerman
Genre : History

Summary : Presents the stories of the sharps who have acted as expert consultants to Westerners climbing the Himalayas, focusing in particular on Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama, who survived when 11 other climbers died on K2 in August 2008. 15,000 first printing.

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Author : Jon Krakauer
Genre : Biography & Autobiography

Summary : NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came t

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Author : Jeannette Eileen Jones
Genre : History

Summary : In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them. Jeannette Eileen Jones traces the history of the i

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Author : Jon Krakauer
Genre : Biography & Autobiography

Summary : #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray. "A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreak

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Author : Stephenie Meyer
Genre : Young Adult Fiction

Summary : From evil vampires to a mysterious pack of wolves, new threats of danger and vengeance test Bella and Edward's romance in the second book of the irresistible Twilight saga. For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even mor