No other mountain in the world is as fascinating as the Matterhorn. Since the dramatic first ascent in 1865, the drama & the myths have created a unique interest in this mountain, which has probably caused the deaths of more mountaineers than any other. Each year, thousands of climbers attempt to reach the summit, but only one in five succeeds. & every season, the mountain claims the lives of ten to twenty climbers. Steffen Kjaer describes his & his climbing partner Brian Jorgensen`s attempt to make it to the summit of the Matterhorn. After careful preparation & perfect acclimatisation, they take off to face the challenge of their lives. On the descent, however, something goes wrong. All of a sudden, they find themselves caught in one of Matterhorn`s countless & lethal rockslides... Besides following the author`s struggles on the Matterhorn, this book also

Includes:: a range of short articles: it offers an account of the mountain`s history, including the legendary first ascent in 1865, as well as a factual description of the symptoms & mechanisms of altitude sickness. Moreover, it contains portraits of local mountain guides & an eyewitness account by the former American President, Theodore Roosevelt
- twenty years prior to his inauguration, he travelled to the Alps & climbed the Matterhorn. As a further bonus, the stories of the book are illustrated by spectacular photos taken by the author.


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In the spring of 1901 a teenager stood on top of a hill, gazed out in wonderment at the Australian landscape & decided he wanted to be a mountaineer. Two decades later, the same man stood in a blizzard beneath the summit of Mount Everest, within sight of his goal to be the first to stand on the roof of the world. George Finch was at the highest point ever reached by a human being & only his decision to save the life of his stricken companion stopped him from reaching the summit. George Finch was a rebel of the first order, a man who dared to challenge the British establishment who disliked his independence, background, long hair & lack of an Oxbridge education. Despite this, he not only became one of the world`s greatest alpinists, earning the grudging respect of his rival George Mallory, but pioneered the use of the artificial oxygen that enabled Everest to finally be conquered thirty years after his own attempt. A renowned scientist, a World War I hero & a Fellow of the Royal Society, involved in the development of some of the twentieth century`s most important inventions, his skills helped save London from burning to the ground during the Blitz. Finch`s public accomplishments, however, were shadowed by his complicated private life & his fraught relationship with his son, the actor Peter Finch. Acclaimed biographer Robert Wainwright restores George Finch to his rightful place in history with this remarkable tribute to one of the twentieth century`s most eccentric anti-heroes. ` One of the two best Alpinists of his time
- Mallory was the other.` The Times
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” In the spring of 1901 a teenager stood on top of a hill, gazed out in wonderment at the Australian landscape & decided he wanted to be a mountaineer. Two decades later, the same man stood in a blizzard beneath the summit of Mount Everest, within sight of his goal to be the first to stand on the roof of the world. George Finch, a boy from the bush, was at the highest point ever reached by a human being & only his decision to save the life of his stricken companion stopped him from reaching the summit. George Finch was a rebel of the first order, a man who dared to challenge the British establishment who disliked his independence, background, long hair & lack of an Oxbridge education. Despite this, he not only became one of the world`s greatest alpinists, earning the grudging respect of his rival George Mallory, but pioneered the use of the artificial oxygen that enabled Everest to finally be conquered thirty years after his own attempt. A renowned scientist, a World War I hero & a Fellow of the Royal Society, involved in the development of some of the twentieth century`s most important inventions, his skills helped save London from burning to the ground during the Blitz. Finch`s public accomplishments, however, were shadowed by his complicated private life & his fraught relationship with his son, the actor Peter Finch. Acclaimed biographer Robert Wainwright restores George Finch to his rightful place in history with this remarkable tribute to one of the twentieth century`s most eccentric anti-heroes.` One of the two best Alpinists of his time
- Mallory was the other.` The Times”
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Coe & Houston update this classic account of the New Worlds greatest ancient civilization, incorporating the most recent research in a fast-changing field. New discoveries of spectacular stucco sculptures at El Zotz & Holmul reveal surprising aspects of Maya royalty; the Classic Maya themselves can be understood as occupants of royal courts, full of Machiavellian intrigue yet operating in close communion with gods & cosmos. Just-discovered texts at Xultun show a strong concern with astronomy & numerology, as well as evidence of lost books. Other finds include the discovery in an underwater cavern of the earliest known occupant of the region, the Hoyo Negro girl, & new evidence for the first architecture at Ceibal. The Maya highlights the vitality of current scholarship into this brilliant civilization. ...

Get ready for Time Riders: The Mayan Prophecy, the 8th book in Alex Scarrow`s numbered 1 bestselling time-travel adventure series. Liam O` Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance
- to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history... When Maddy finally unlocks fragments of the secret that Becks has been holding on to, the Time Riders start to piece together their true purpose. Racing through time to connect the clues, the team discover a Mayan tribe & an ancient relic provides a vital link to the past.. .and future. But not all the Time Riders can cope with the discovery, & one threatens to bring them all down if they can act out their revenge... Book eight in the bestselling Time Riders series by Alex Scarrow. It is perfect for fans of Doctor Who & Indiana Jones. Time Riders (Book 1) won the Red House Book Award older readers category, & was Penguin UK`s first ever number one on the i Bookstore. Alex Scarrow is a World Book Day 2013 author with Time Riders: The Nearly Girl on the WBD Movellas app. Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist, then he became a graphic artist, then he decided to be a computer games designer. Finally, he grew up & became an author. He has written a number of successful thrillers & several screenplays, but it`s YA fiction that has allowed him to really have fun with the ideas & concepts he was playing around with designing games.
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The voyage of the Mayflower & the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly-equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of 1620 had no sense they would pass into legend. They had eighty casks of butter & two dogs but no cattle for milk, meat, or ploughing. They were ill-prepared for the brutal journey & the new land that few of them could comprehend. But the Mayflower story did not end with these Pilgrims` arrival on the coast of New England or their first uncertain years as settlers. Rebecca Fraser traces two generations of one ordinary family & their extraordinary response to the challenges of life in America. Edward Winslow, an apprentice printer born in Worcestershire, fled England & then Holland for a life of religious freedom & opportunity. Despite the intense physical trials of settlement, he found America exotic, enticing, & endlessly interesting. He built a home & a family, & his remarkable friendship with King Massassoit, Chief of the Wampanoags, is part of the legend of Thanksgiving. Yet, fifty years later, Edward`s son Josiah was commanding the New England militias against Massassoit`s son in King Philip`s War. The Mayflower Generation is an intensely human portrait of the Winslow family written with the pace of an epic. Rebecca Fraser details domestic life in the seventeenth century, the histories of brave & vocal Puritan women & the contradictions between generations as fathers & sons made the painful decisions which determined their future in America. ...

This is the ” Penguin English Library Edition” of ” The Mayor of Casterbridge” by Thomas Hardy. ` Here
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The Mayor of Mogadishu tells the story one family`s epic journey through Somalia`s turmoil, from the optimism of independence to its spectacular unravelling. Mohamud ` Tarzan` Nur was born a nomad, & became an orphan, then a street brawler in the cosmopolitan port city of Mogadishu
- a place famous for its cafes & open-air cinemas. When Somalia collapsed into civil war, Tarzan & his young family joined the exodus from Mogadishu, eventually spending twenty years in North London. But in 2010 Tarzan returned to the unrecognisable ruins of a city largely controlled by the Islamist militants of Al-Shabaab. For some, the new Mayor was a galvanising symbol of defiance. But others branded him a thug, mired in the corruption & clan rivalries that continue to threaten Somalia`s revival. The Mayor of Mogadishu is an uplifting story of survival, & a compelling examination of what it means to lose a country & then to reclaim it.
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In 1940s Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod, poet Toby Maytree falls in love with Lou Bigelow at first sight. His slow courtship gradually wins her over, & so begins a love story that lasts decades. But when a friend comes between them, they must each renegotiate what it means to love. ...

In 1992, Lucy Rees's journey on horseback across Arizona became a quest for spiritual enlightenment. A carving of a Cretan maze near Tintagel in Cornwall had always fascinated Lucy's companion Rick. In Arizona they were surprised to find from an illustration in a book, that this same carving could be found on a rock on one of three barren mesas in north-east Arizona where the last remaining Hopi native Americans had built their villages. The search for the maze announced itself as the purpose of their journey. But beyond their shared love of wild places, & this finishing point, they had a third, less clear purpose, an agenda only gradually revealed to them as events unfolded. They entered upon this journey in a spirit of exploration knowing that somewhere there was a centre, but uncertain as to what it was or what mysteries it might uncover. ...