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Excerpt from Twenty Years in the Himalaya: With 60 Illustrations and a MapI AM attempting in this book to give to those interested in Mountain Travel and Mountain Exploration, who have not been so luckily placed as myself, some account of the Hindu Koosh and Himalaya ranges. My wanderings cover a period of nineteen years, during which I have not been able to do more than pierce these vast ranges, as one might stick a needle into a bolster, in ...

Excerpt from The Assault on Mount Everest: 1922The Mount Everest Committee desire to take this op portunity of thanking General Bruce, Mr. Mallory, Captain Finch, Mr. Somervell and Dr. Longstafi for having, in addition to their labours in the field, made the following contributions to the story of an expedition Whose chief result has been to strengthen our confidence that the summit of the highest mountain in the world can Le.About the Publish...

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Excerpt from Twenty Years in the Himalaya: With 60 Illustrations and a Map I AM attempting in this book to give to those interested in Mountain Travel and Mountain Exploration, who have not been so luckily placed as myself, some account of the Hindu Koosh and Himalaya ranges. My wanderings cover a period of nineteen years, during which I have not been able to do more than pierce these vast ranges, as one might stick a needle into a bolster, i...

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Each of these gift books offers an alphabet of wisdom: 26 practical and wise suggestions and supporting Scripture to encourage Christian relationships.

This volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of plethodontid salamanders. Readers will find the best current understanding of many aspects of the evolution, systematics, development, morphology, life history, ecology, and field methodology of these animals.

Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism explores the rationales for religious silence in early medieval abbeys and the use of nonverbal forms of communication among monks when rules of silence forbade them from speaking. After examining the spiritual benefits of personal silence as a form of protection against the perils of sinful discourse in early monastic thought, this work shows how the monks of the Abbey of Cluny (founded in 910...

Commentaries on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, an anonymous history of events in the Greek world in the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC, have usually dealt almost entirely with problems of the text. In this book, Dr Bruce has written an historical commentary, basing his work on both the London and Florence papyri, which between them provide all the surviving fragments of the text. Dr Bruce begins with a brief description of the two papyri...

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Excerpt from The Assault on Mount Everest: 1922 The Mount Everest Committee desire to take this op portunity of thanking General Bruce, Mr. Mallory, Captain Finch, Mr. Somervell and Dr. Longstafi for having, in addition to their labours in the field, made the following contributions to the story of an expedition Whose chief result has been to strengthen our confidence that the summit of the highest mountain in the world can Le. About the Pub...

Excerpt from Kulu and Lahoul: With Illustrations and a Map In my last book on the Himalaya I expressed a hope that one day I should be able to travel in Kulu, Lahoul, and Spiti. Since then my luck has so far favoured me that I was able to spend a leave of more than six months in two of these attractive districts, and able to enjoy almost the most delightful time that I have ever had in the Himalaya. These districts, I venture to say, will n...

Compellingly written, Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet provides us with an unparalleled opportunity to examine Christian perceptions of Islam in the Crusading...

Excerpt from Brazil and the Brazilians Brazil is the fourth biggest country in the world. Its area exceeds three and a quarter million square miles. Only China, Canada, and the United States of North America hold greater areas in a continent. Brazil occupies more than a third of South America, and takes in also several island groups and single islands near its coasts. The farthest away of these are Trinidade and the Fernando Noronha group, wh...

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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.