The Eight Sailing/mountain-exploration Books
Title | The Eight Sailing/mountain-exploration Books PDF eBook |
Author | Harold William Tilman |
Publisher | The Mountaineers Books |
Pages | 988 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780898861433 |
Mischief in Patagonia; Mischief Among the Penguins; Mischief in Greenland; Mostly Mischief; Mischief Goes South; In Mischief's Wake; Ice with Everything; and Triumph and Tribulation.
How to Sail Around the World
Title | How to Sail Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Hal Roth |
Publisher | McGraw Hill Professional |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2003-10-20 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0071778721 |
A new classic from one of the world's most respected sailing authors More than 35 years ago, Hal Roth quit his job as a journalist and went sailing. Since then, he's logged more than 200,000 sea miles. Along the way, Roth also has authored eight voyaging classics, including the 1978 bestseller After 50,000 Miles. Taking that book as its starting point, this handsome new volume incorporates the new technologies and discoveries of the last quarter century along with another 150,000 miles of experience. A compendium of mature, time-tested sea wisdom from one of the world's most respected sailing writers, How to Sail Around the World will tell the reader: How to choose and equip a sailboat for long-distance cruising, with an emphasis on simplicity and a modest budget How to plan and conduct a voyage anywhere in the world How to master the arts of navigation, anchoring, and daily life aboard in exotic places How to cope with storms at sea--the most complete and authoritative treatise on this critical topic ever published
The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
Title | The Seven Mountain-Travel Books PDF eBook |
Author | H. W. Tilman |
Publisher | The Mountaineers Books |
Pages | 938 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780898869606 |
Tilman has been called "arguably the best expedition writer and best explorer-mountaineer" of the 20th century.
Nepal Himalaya
Title | Nepal Himalaya PDF eBook |
Author | H. W. Tilman |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2013-01-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1447482980 |
There can be no country so rich in mountains as Nepal. This narrow strip of territory, lying between Sikkim and Garhwal, occupies 500 miles of India's northern border; and since this border coincides roughly with the 1,500-mile-long Himalayan chain, it follows that approximately a third of this vast range lies within or upon the confines of Nepal. So starts this breathtaking account of mountaineering and exploring this isolated and awe-inspiring country by one of the most famous men in mountaineering. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Swell
Title | Swell PDF eBook |
Author | LIZ. CLARK |
Publisher | Patagonia |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-05-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781952338229 |
High Mountains and Cold Seas
Title | High Mountains and Cold Seas PDF eBook |
Author | J.R.L. Anderson |
Publisher | Vertebrate Publishing |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 2017-09-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1909461458 |
Harold William 'Bill' Tilman (1898 –1977) was among the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering mountaineer and sailor who held exploration above all else. The son of a Liverpool sugar importer, Tilman joined the army at seventeen and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery during WWI. After the war Tilman left for Africa, establishing himself as a coffee grower. He met Eric Shipton and they began their famed mountaineering partnership, traversing Mount Kenya and climbing Kilimanjaro. Turning to the Himalaya, Tilman went on two Mount Everest expeditions, reaching 27,000 feet without oxygen in 1938. In 1936 he made the first ascent of Nanda Devi, the highest mountain climbed until 1950. He was the first European to climb in the remote Assam Himalaya, delved into Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor and explored extensively in Nepal, all the while developing a mountaineering style characterised by its simplicity and emphasis on exploration. It was perhaps logical that Tilman would eventually buy the pilot cutter Mischief, not with the intention of retiring from travelling, but to access remote mountains. For twenty-two years he sailed Mischief and her successors in search of them—to Patagonia, where he made the first easterly crossing of the ice cap, to Baffin Island to make the first ascent of Mount Raleigh, to Greenland, Spitsbergen, and islands in the far Southern Ocean, before disappearing in the South Atlantic in 1977. J.R.L. Anderson's High Mountains and Cold Seas draws on a wealth of personal correspondence between Tilman—a compulsive letter writer—and his immediate family and close friends, crafting the first detailed account of the extraordinary life of this remarkable, but very private individual.
The Curve of Time
Title | The Curve of Time PDF eBook |
Author | M. Wylie Blanchet |
Publisher | Harbour Publishing |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2024-10-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1990776795 |
A beloved and bestselling Pacific Northwest classic, now available in paperback from Harbour Publishing! Widowed at the age of thirty-five, Muriel Wylie Blanchet packed up her five children in the summers that followed and set sail aboard the twenty-five-foot Caprice. For fifteen summers, in the 1920s and 1930s, the family explored the coves and islands of the BC coast, encountering settlers and hermits, hungry bears and dangerous tides, and falling under the spell of the region’s natural beauty. Driven by curiosity, the family followed the quiet coastline, and Blanchet—known as Capi, after her boat—recorded their wonder as they threaded their way between the snowfields, slept under the bright stars and wandered through Indigenous winter villages left empty in the summer months. The Curve of Time weaves the story of these years into a memoir that has inspired generations to seek out their own adventures on the wild west coast. First published in 1961, less than a year before the author died, Blanchet’s captivating work has become a classic of travel writing, and one of the bestselling BC books of all time.