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mtn.climber Member
Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 1203 | TRs | Pics Location: The Lost Horizon |
"One More Step" by Bonner Paddock. He was the first person with cerebral palsy to successfully climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. He then upped the ante by competing in the Kona Ironman triathlon. Inspiring!
Reach for the sky, cuz tomorrow may never come.
Live the life of love. Love the life you live.
Reach for the sky, cuz tomorrow may never come.
Live the life of love. Love the life you live.
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Mike Collins Member
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 3096 | TRs | Pics
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Your Inner Fish-A Journey into the 3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin recounts the evolutionary path of humans. Shubin is a paleontologist who used fascinating detective skills to discover the species Tikataalik whose fossil remains represent the bridge between fish and amphibians. You will view your body with a different perspective once finishing this scientific adventure book.
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wildernessed viewbagger
Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 9275 | TRs | Pics Location: Wenatchee |
Mike that is a really good book and there is a video series based on the book on youtube. I lent it to one of my hiking partners and he really liked it.
Living in the Anthropocene
Living in the Anthropocene
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | I took a long break from Orson Scott Card after plowing thru Ender's Game and the Shadow series featuring Bean. Started in again, reading Ender in Exile. It was written much later but is a direct sequel to Ender's Game. Good so far. It dawned on me that one of my favorite elements in these books are email communications between various characters that frequently appear at the beginning of chapters. |
It seems like it was longer ago when I read this. Just started another book in the Ender series--Speaker for the Dead. Enjoying it so far.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
I plowed thru Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" in about 2 days last summer. After a nice long break I just started another of her novels, "Dark Places." Didn't really grab me yesterday when I started but I didn't try very hard. Making more of an effort to get into it today.
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Mike Collins Member
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 3096 | TRs | Pics
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The early years of the French Indian War were disastrous for the British. The Siege of Fort William Henry by Ben Hughes thoroughly examines the extant archives and diaries allowing the reader to view this military debacle through the eyes of the participants. The massacre of ~1,300 of the fort's inhabitants after their surrender is the bloody denouement for this siege which took place in 1757. Not really a book to curl up with before going to sleep but an important exploration of this prerevolutionary period.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | I plowed thru Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" in about 2 days last summer. After a nice long break I just started another of her novels, "Dark Places." Didn't really grab me yesterday when I started but I didn't try very hard. Making more of an effort to get into it today. |
This wasn't nearly as intriguing as "Gone Girl." It was okay, but not great.
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Mike Collins Member
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 3096 | TRs | Pics
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The Tahltan Nation are the First Nations who live in the drainages of the Stikine, Nass, and Skeena Rivers of northwestern British Columbia. They are currently battling Royal Dutch Shell's intrusion into their ancestral lands. In the early 20th century a Scotsman named James Teit learned their language and struggled for their cause with the Canadian government. James Teit was also an early ethnographer in Canada collecting the stories of the Tahltan as well as their traditions. Recording Their Story-James Teit and the Tahltan by Judy Thompson is part biography and part catalog of the artifacts collected by Teit. The book offers a resounding tribute to this remarkable man who was an early activist for the First Nations.
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wildernessed viewbagger
Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 9275 | TRs | Pics Location: Wenatchee |
Living in the Anthropocene
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Kim Brown Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 6899 | TRs | Pics
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Thanks to a freind giving the heads up on my hero's trilogy of books, and am reading his first of the 3, Forks in the Trail.
Jack Ward Thomas was the USFS Chief in the mid-90's and is best known around here for his work on the northern spotted owl studies and recommendations for a northwest forest plan to preserve old growth forests and their ecosystem.
This first book is about his early career, beginning with the Texas Game Commission in the 1950's.
JWT is an excellent writer - I have read his Journals and some of this other publications. He has a simple, clear style, a distinct voice, and a lot of subtle humor.
The next books are about his wilderness adventures and of game hunting and conservation.
I'm glad to have these books!
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Dark Titan. Sanctioned Catastrophe.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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meandering Wa Member
Joined: 25 Jun 2010 Posts: 1516 | TRs | Pics Location: Redmond |
Water for Elephants.
enjoying it very much. an easy read and some pretty interesting insight to the circus life. The author has a fine ,relaxed style and it pulls me forward
in the line up
The Orchardist
Natural History of the Senses
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mike Member
Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 6397 | TRs | Pics Location: SJIsl |
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Kim Brown wrote: | Thanks to a freind giving the heads up on my hero's trilogy of books,... |
And thanks for the heads up on the heads up the limited edition is tempting...
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Kim Brown Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 6899 | TRs | Pics
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I purchased the limited edition. I got set #17
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
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Schenk Off Leash Man
Joined: 16 Apr 2012 Posts: 2372 | TRs | Pics Location: Traveling, with the bear, to the other side of the Mountain |
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Undaunted Courage, by Stephen Ambrose
I am about halfway through and so far it is a very interesting and full account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
As far as I can tell I was born way too late...!
Nature exists with a stark indifference to humans' situation.
Nature exists with a stark indifference to humans' situation.
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