“Nabokovian in his caustic charm and sexy intelligence, Simic perceives the mythic in the mundane and pinpoints the perpetual suffering that infuses human life with both agony and bliss. . . . And he is the master of juxtaposition, lining up the unlikeliest of pairings and contrasts as he explores the nexuses of madness and prophecy, hell and paradise, lust and death.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist "As one reads the ...
Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988), Nobeli fuusikapreemia laureaat (1965), uks maailma parimaid teoreetilisi fuusikuid nautis lisaks teadusele ka pooraseid seiklusi. Tema kulmekergitamapanev kaitumine sokeeris kord Princetoni ulikooli dekaani abikaasat sedavord, et daam huuatas: “Te ju naljatate, hr. Feynman!”Feynman oli ilmselt ainus inimene ajaloos, kes lahendas vedela heeliumi musteeriumi, kellelt telliti maal alasti naisharjavoitlejast ja kes mu ...
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the «Triple Crown» of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains.<br><br> In her new memoir, <i>Thirst: 2600 Miles t ...
Wife and mother. Teacher and musician. Marathoner and rock climber. At 66, Dierdre Wolownick-Honnold became the oldest woman to climb El Capitan in Yosemite–and in <i>The Sharp End of Life: A Mother’s Story</i>, she shares her intimate journey, revealing how her climbing achievement reflects a broader story of courage and persistence.<br><br> Dierdre grew up under the watchful eyes of a domineering mother and realized ea ...
This is the same amazing story as the current version, but with an updated cover and foreword. If you'd like to read Barbara Savage's two-year around the world bicycle trip now, you can order the current version <a href="https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/miles-from-nowhere-a-round-the-world-bicycle-adventure-1">here.</a><br><br> <i>Miles from Nowhere</i> is the story of Barbara and Larry Sava ...
“<i>The Starship and the Canoe</i> is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know it, live it, and consult it thereafter simply by name.” –<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> <br><br> “Brower’s superbly written book clutches at one’s imagination.” –<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <br> ...
The Road to San Donato is an adventurous travel memoir of an American father and son tracing their Italian heritage by bicycle. With only the bare essentials on their backs, author Robert Cocuzzo and his sixty-four-year-old father, Stephen, embark on a torturous 425-mile ride from Florence, Italy, to San Donato Val di Comino, an ancient village hidden in the Apennine mountains from which their family emigrated a hundred years earlier. After ge ...
In April 2015, Beth and Eric Jusino, laden with backpacks and nerves, walked out of a cathedral in the historic village of Le Puy, France, down a cobblestone street, and turned west. Seventy-nine days, a thousand miles, two countries, two mountain ranges, and three pairs of shoes later, they reached the Atlantic Ocean. <br><br>More than two million pilgrims have walked the Way of Saint James, a long-distance hiking trail familiar to ...
