Alpine Americas: An Odyssey Along the Edge of Two Continents - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0977849023 ISBN 13: 9780977849024

Verlag: Horizon Editions, Llc, 2008

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Book by Soot Olaf Mellor Don

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Alpine Americas is a mountaineer's tour of the 10,000 mile range of peaks from the Arctic to Patagonia. The book combines stunning mountain photography with elegant text that explores the places from all perspectives -- geologic, historical, philosophical -- as it takes readers up the cold wind-swept ridges of Denali or down into the caldron of a smoking Mexican volcano.Each mountain grouping is a different chapter. Each chapter focuses on a single element of what the place means to us. Brooks range in the Arctic, it's all about tranquility and the reassurance of seasonal patterns. Way to the South, in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, it's the chaos and conflict of the natural elements -- angry winds and big weather -- as the jagged landscape thrusts upward from the cold salt sea. Don Mellor's inspirational words and Olaf Sööt's magical photographs, Alpine Americas is the celebration of the western world's majestic high places.

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• Verlag: Horizon Editions, Llc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0977849023
• ISBN 13: 9780977849024
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256