Edge of the Map

2020-04-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Johanna Garton
Release : 2020-04-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 897/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Edge of the Map by : Johanna Garton

Download or read book Edge of the Map written by Johanna Garton. This book was released on 2020-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edge of the Map is equal parts inspiring, dramatic, and heartbreaking. One of America’s greatest high altitude mountaineers, Christine Boskoff was at the top of her career when she and her partner died in an avalanche in 2006. Charismatic, principled, and humble, Boskoff was also a deeply loved role model to her climbing partners and the Sherpa community. Edge of the Map traces the sharp twists and turns in Boskoff’s life, from her early years as a Lockheed engineer, through her first successes in the climbing world, to her purchase of Seattle-based Mountain Madness after owner and climber Scott Fischer died in the 1996 Everest disaster. Her life was one of constant achievement mixed with personal tragedy. The story follows Boskoff as she perseveres and moves on to even bigger peaks, earning acclaim as a world-class mountaineer, then later as she finds an alpine partnership with legendary Colorado climber Charlie Fowler.

Life Lived Wild

2021-10-26 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Rick Ridgeway
Release : 2021-10-26
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 994/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Life Lived Wild written by Rick Ridgeway. This book was released on 2021-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small tents pitched in the world’s most remote regions.” It’s not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, “to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.” He leaves it to his readers, though, to do the final sort of which is which."--Amazon.

Beyond the Edge of the Map

2017-03-28 Cartographers

Author : A. L. Tait
Release : 2017-03-28
Genre : Cartographers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 936/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Beyond the Edge of the Map written by A. L. Tait. This book was released on 2017-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quinn is back! He finished his race around the world and is living a quiet life on the family farm, until he discovers that the King's enemies want to capture him. Quinn is forced to go on the run, taking to the high seas once more. Can he survive when he is double-crossed and left for dead? BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE MAP is another thrilling adventure from A.L. Tait in the bestselling Mapmaker Chronicles.

Beyond the Edge of the Map

2017-03-28 Juvenile Fiction

Author : A. L. Tait
Release : 2017-03-28
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 756/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Beyond the Edge of the Map written by A. L. Tait. This book was released on 2017-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quinn Freeman may have won the race around the world, but when a new enemy appears he must travel beyond the edge of the map once more. Quinn is back! He finished his race around the world and is living a quiet life on the family farm, until he discovers that the King's enemies want to capture him. Quinn is forced to go on the run, taking to the high seas once more. Can he survive when he is double-crossed and left for dead? BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE MAP is another thrilling adventure from A. L. Tait in the bestselling Mapmaker Chronicles. 'Not since Emily Rodda's DELTORA QUEST series has there been such an exciting adventure tale from an Australian author. Echoes of Robinson Crusoe make this feel like a classic with a new twist, and it's perfect for readers aged 8 to 12 who are looking for some escapism in the sea of contemporary stories.' - Readings on THE MAPMAKER CHRONICLES 1: RACE TO THE END OF THE WORLD themapmakerchronicles.com

Meriwether Lewis

2001 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Janet Benge
Release : 2001
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 800/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Meriwether Lewis written by Janet Benge. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meriwether Lewis, together with William Clark, headed the expedition for a land route to the Pacific, opening vast unexplored territories of the American West (1774-1809).

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