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Displaying records 101 through 110 of 342 |
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $80.99
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Manufacturer: Town House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Richard; Crowley, Miriam Nairn::Miriam Crowley
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Publisher: Town House
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.4184
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Publication Date: 1998-12
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Reading Level: 236
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $13.71
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Manufacturer: Countryman
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jim Hargan
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Publisher: Countryman
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.550444
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Publication Date: 2008-05-05
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Reading Level: 480
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Description: "A classy series with encyclopedic coverage."—National Geographic Explorer
A complete guide through the hills and back roads of this breathtaking region. Includes beautiful photos and scenic drives along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $0.49
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jill Fredston
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Publisher: Harvest Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 904
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Publication Date: 2007-01-08
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Every year around the globe, people cross paths with avalanches—some massive, some no deeper than a pizza box—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. In Snowstruck, Fredston draws on decades of personal experience to take “avalanches out of the statistical realm and into the human one” (Skiing Magazine): a skier making what may prove his final decision, a victim buried so tightly that he can’t move a finger, rescuers racing both time and weather, forecasters treading the line between reasonable risk and danger. Fredston brings to life the awesome forces of nature that can turn the mountains deadly—and the equally inexorable forces of human nature that lure us time and again into treacherous terrain.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $4.94
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Manufacturer: Bison Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Lavender
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Publisher: Bison Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 978
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Publication Date: 2003-06-01
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Reading Level: 404
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Description: From the time of Coronado’s discovery to the era of modern ski resorts and sport climbing routes, adventurers have been lured irresistibly to the Rocky Mountains. In this book distinguished writer David Lavender traces the colorful history of the Rockies, focusing on the period that began in 1859 with the first gold strikes. The real and fabled attractions of gold, silver, furs, lumber, and lead brought swarms of people into the mountains, eagerly seeking wealth. A get-rich-quick spirit pervaded the Rockies, leading to lawlessness, violence, vigilantism, and political expediency. The Rockies is particularly revealing about the struggles which resulted in codes peculiar to the mountainous West. Duane A. Smith provides a new introduction to this Bison Books edition of The Rockies. David Lavender’s many books on the history of the American West include The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark across the Continent, Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail, and The Fist in the Wilderness, all available in Bison Books editions. Duane A. Smith is a professor of history and Southwest studies at Fort Lewis College. His many books include San Juan Gold and No One Ailing except a Physician: Medicine in the Mining West, 1848–1919.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.25
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Manufacturer: Oregon State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jarold Ramsey
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Publisher: Oregon State University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 979.58041
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Publication Date: 2003-10
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: "New Era" is a graceful and literate collection of personal essays on the human and natural history of the Oregon high desert, focusing on what happened to the people and the land of this region during and after the homesteading era of 1900 to 1920. It is a book full of stories-about early Indian/Anglo connections, about the ghost town of Opal City, about a family fishing site on the Crooked River, about homestead ranches and the families who struggled to make their lives there. Each chapter offers a new perspective on the interplay of human and natural history in a challenging time and place. Although Ramsey's focus is intensely local, he explores how these local details have larger Western and American meanings, too.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.70
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Manufacturer: Fulcrum Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Audrey Delella Benedict
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Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.78
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Publication Date: 2008-04-08
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Reading Level: 672
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Description: The Naturalist's Guide provides an authoritative, user-friendly reference for anyone living in or visiting the Southern Rocky Mountains, an area encompassing most of Colorado and portions of southern Wyoming and northern New Mexico. This popular region includes the highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains, innumerable deep canyons and gorges, sweeping valleys, one of the world's tallest inland dune fields, and scenic headwaters. Drawing on extensive scientific research and more than 35 years of her own field observations, Audrey Benedict explores the region's extensive geography and natural history. Includes information on the flora, fauna, geology, weather patterns, and landscapes of this varied and beautiful region.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $7.97
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Manufacturer: Mountain Sports Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: M. John Fayhee
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Publisher: Mountain Sports Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808
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Publication Date: 2002-05
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Reading Level: 355
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Description: Mountain Gazette offered proof that "outdoor literature" need not be an oxymoron. Running a scant eight years, from 1972 to 1979, the magazine featured material by major writers and artists on outdoor and adventure subjects. This volume collects the best material ? nonfiction, fiction, photography, cartoons, and illustrations ? from the old and new Mountain Gazette. Selections include singer-songwriter Katie Lee?s "The Ride," a meditation on biking through town naked; "The Monkey Wrench Gang: A Review," by George Sibley; and Karen Recknagel's "Climbing the Walls in Berkeley." Other contributors include Edward Abbey, Galen Rowell, Steve Wishart, and Cindy Kleh.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $10.54
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Manufacturer: Black Dome Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Edward G. Henry
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Publisher: Black Dome Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.52097473
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Publication Date: 2003-08
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Illustrated hiking guide to the Shawangunk Mountains in New York State's Hudson River Valley, with trail interpretation from a forest ranger's point of view. Includes interpretation of natural history, geology, forest ecology, botany, wildlife biology, and human history, as well as being a traditional trail guide to the best views and points of interest, with maps, keys to hikes, GPS points, difficulty ratings, directions to trailheads and parking.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $34.00
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Manufacturer: Horizon Editions, LLC.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Don Mellor
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Publisher: Horizon Editions, LLC.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 778
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Publication Date: 2008-10
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Alpine Americas is a mountaineer's tour of the 10,000 mile range of peaks from the Arctic to Patagonia. The book combines stunning mountain photography with elegant text that explores the places from all perspectives -- geologic, historical, philosophical -- as it takes readers up the cold wind-swept ridges of Denali or down into the caldron of a smoking Mexican volcano. Each mountain grouping is a different chapter. Each chapter focuses on a single element of what the place means to us. Brooks range in the Arctic, it's all about tranquility and the reassurance of seasonal patterns. Way to the South, in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, it's the chaos and conflict of the natural elements -- angry winds and big weather -- as the jagged landscape thrusts upward from the cold salt sea. Don Mellor's inspirational words and Olaf Sööt's magical photographs, Alpine Americas is the celebration of the western world's majestic high places.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $5.74
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Manufacturer: Countryman Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tom Wessels
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Publisher: Countryman Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.73
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Publication Date: 2002-11
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: From the author/illustrator team that produced the bestselling Reading the Forested Landscape: a fascinating and beautiful natural history of North American granite summit balds. In The Granite Landscape Tom Wessels synthesizes history, geology, biology, and personal narrative to enhance our understanding and appreciation of these high, wild places—the granite summit balds of North America. He explores the unique and fragile ecosystem that is common to exposed granite expanses from Acadia to Yosemite—how it evolved slowly over millennia, and how it is threatened today by foot traffic and overuse. Wessels' wonderfully informative and accessible text combine with his dramatic photographs and Brian Cohen's beautifully detailed illustrations to bring the denizens of the granite bald to life. The mountains they celebrate include: Acadia National Park in Maine; the White Mountains of New Hampshire; the Adirondacks of New York; the Wind River Range of Wyoming; the Beartooths of Montana; the Enchantments of Washington; and Yosemite National Park in California. 18 photographs, 30 illustrations, 1 map, glossary, index.
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