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Author : Dervla Murphy
Publisher : Overlook Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Eight Feet in the Andes written by Dervla Murphy and published by Overlook Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dervla Murphy
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ISBN 13 : 9781780601243
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Eight Feet in the Andes written by Dervla Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dervla MURPHY
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Download or read book Eight Feet in the Andes written by Dervla MURPHY and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kim MacQuarrie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143916892X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life and Death in the Andes written by Kim MacQuarrie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to Charles Darwin, all set in the Andes Mountains. The Andes Mountains are the world’s longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Kim MacQuarrie takes us on a historical journey through this unique region, bringing fresh insight and contemporary connections to such fabled characters as Charles Darwin, Che Guevara, Pablo Escobar, Butch Cassidy, Thor Heyerdahl, and others. He describes living on the floating islands of Lake Titcaca. He introduces us to a Patagonian woman who is the last living speaker of her language. We meet the woman who cared for the wounded Che Guevara just before he died, the police officer who captured cocaine king Pablo Escobar, the dancer who hid Shining Path guerrilla Abimael Guzman, and a man whose grandfather witnessed the death of Butch Cassidy. Collectively these stories tell us something about the spirit of South America. What makes South America different from other continents—and what makes the cultures of the Andes different from other cultures found there? How did the capitalism introduced by the Spaniards change South America? Why did Shining Path leader Guzman nearly succeed in his revolutionary quest while Che Guevara in Bolivia was a complete failure in his? “MacQuarrie writes smartly and engagingly and with…enthusiasm about the variety of South America’s life and landscape” (The New York Times Book Review) in Life and Death in the Andes. Based on the author’s own deeply observed travels, “this is a well-written, immersive work that history aficionados, particularly those with an affinity for Latin America, will relish” (Library Journal).
Author : Leo Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521635523
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book New Progress to Proficiency Teacher's Book written by Leo Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teacher's book has been completely revised and updated for the December 2002 Proficiency exam specifications. It provides systematic coverage of skills and techniques for all five Proficiency papers.
Author : Dervla Murphy
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781906011666
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Where the Indus is Young written by Dervla Murphy and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas. Dervla records their adventures, from crumbling tracks over bottomless chasms, to assaults by lascivious Kashmiris.
Author : Nando Parrado
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 140009769X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Miracle in the Andes written by Nando Parrado and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home—now in a special edition for 2022, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the crash, featuring a new introduction by the author “In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given up for dead.”—Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild “In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.” Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father’s grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die. So Parrado, an ordinary young man with no particular disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snowcapped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an attempt to save his friends’ lives as well as his own. Decades after the disaster, Parrado tells his story with remarkable candor and depth of feeling. Miracle in the Andes, a first-person account of the crash and its aftermath, is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure; it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.
Author : Dervla Murphy
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781906011642
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tibetan Foothold written by Dervla Murphy and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Dervla Murphy worked in Tibetan refugee camps in Northern India, while travelling there. Here Dervla describes day-to-day life in the camps where hundreds of children are living in squalor while a handful of dedicated vounteers do their best to feed and care for them.
Author : Aron Ralston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849835098
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book 127 Hours written by Aron Ralston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sunday April 27, 2003, 27-year old Aron Ralston set off for a day's hiking in the Utah canyons. Dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, Ralston, a seasoned climber, figured he'd hike for a few hours and then head off to work. 40 miles from the nearest paved road, he found himself on top of an 800-pound boulder. As he slid down and off of the boulder it shifted, trapping his right hand against the canyon wall. No one knew where he was; he had little water; he wasn't dressed correctly; and the boulder wasn't going anywhere. He remained trapped for five days in the canyon: hypothermic at night, de-hydrated and hallucinating by day. Finally, he faced the most terrible decision of his life: braking the bones in his wrist by snapping them against the boulder, he hacked through the skin, and finally succeeded in amputating his right hand and wrist. The ordeal, however, was only beginning. He still faced a 60-foot rappell to freedom, and a walk of several hours back to his car - along the way, he miraculously met a family of hikers, and with his arms tourniqued, and blood-loss almost critical, they heard above them the whir of helicopter blades; just in time, Aron was rescued and rushed to hospital. Since that day, Aron has had a remarkable recovery. He is back out on the mountains, with an artificial limb; he speaks to select groups on his ordeal and rescue; and amazingly, he is upbeat, positive, and an inspiration to all who meet him. This is the account of those five days, of the years that led up to them, and where he goes from here. It is narrative non-fiction at its most compelling.
Author : Dervla Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780601236
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Muddling Through Madagascar written by Dervla Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
