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Antarctic oasis : under the spell of South Georgia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20140
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
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- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Responsibility
- Tim and Pauline Carr
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : illustrations ; maps
- Subjects
- Antarctic Regions
- Sailing
- Boating
- Travel
- Abstract
- An account of one couple's life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers. After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis records the culmination of those exploits. True adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years its only civilian inhabitants experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world. A center of the Norwegian whaling industry in the last century, today a remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains and a treacherous, storm-torn coast punctuated by sheltered bays. During its brief polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to feed, mate, and rear their young. The only humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of whales, penguins, seals, albatrosses, skuas, and many others. In all seasons the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast aboard their yacht Curlew. Their deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all. (from Abe Books)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter I - Ultimate Landfall
- Chapter II - Antarctic Outpost
- Chapter III - Nine to Five
- Chapter IV - Green Antarctic
- Chapter V - Kindred Souls
- Chapter VI - Shackleton's Shadow
- Chapter VII - The Rough with the Smooth
- Chapter VIII - Albatross
- Chapter IX - Elephantastic
- Chapter X - The Mountaineering Dimension
- Chapter XI - Just Talking to the Birds
- Chapter XII - The Wild Side
- Chapter XIII - A Shimmer of Ice
- Chapter XIV - A Clean Pair of Heels
- Index
- Notes
- Ephemra of Margaret Gmoser pertaining to trip removed from book and added to AC637 box of archival materials
- Signed by the eleven participants of the September 17-19, 2004 Shackleton Crossing trip
- Signed by the authors with greetings addressed to Margaret Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0393046052
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to publication on Abe Books
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Les conquerants de l'inutile : des Alpes a l'Annapurna
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19925
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1961
- Author
- Terray, Lionel
- Publisher
- France : Gallimard
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- G512 T47 L47
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- Author
- Terray, Lionel
- Responsibility
- Lionel Terray
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- France : Gallimard
- Published Date
- 1961
- Physical Description
- 560 p. ; 88 illus. ; maps
- Abstract
- "All these faces that appear in close-up in the news or in the press are also men. The name of Lionel Terray, one of the most famous living mountaineers, comes back periodically in conversations, because he participated in a rescue or because he helped to conquer a great world summit like Annapurna or the Makalu. In The Conquerors of the Useless , it is the whole mountain and its secrets that it reveals to us without emphasis and especially without pretension. We see how a little boy can already sense his vocation and soon to live only for the mountain; how this passion led him from the Alps to the Himalayas, from Canada to Peru. Each story of his prodigious ascensions will fascinate those who know the mountain only through the cable car. Indeed, this book that Lionel Terray wrote entirely himself using notes and stories in which he fixed his memories throughout his career, was written for them. The Conquerors of the Useless is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the heroic fate of the last survivors of the Knights race. " (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Decouverte de la montagne
- Premieres conquetes
- La guerre des Alpes
- Je rencontre Lachenal
- La face nord de l'Eiger
- Guide de grandes courses
- L'Annapurna
- Sur les sommets du monde
- Notes
- EVE-DELACROIX PRIZE OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY 1962
- French edition signed by Lionel Terray
- Newsclipping tucked inside entitled "La mort de Lionel Terray a stufefie les membres du Ski Club"
- ISBN
- 2070262146
- Accession Number
- AC636
- Call Number
- G512 T47 L47
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publication information on publisher's website
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Plateau light
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20150
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Muench, David
- Lawrence, James
- Publisher
- Portland, Oregan. : Graphic Arts Center Publisher
- Call Number
- TR M84 P53 oversize
1 website
- Author
- Muench, David
- Lawrence, James
- Responsibility
- David Muench (photographer), James Lawrence (author)
- Publisher
- Portland, Oregan. : Graphic Arts Center Publisher
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 115, [12] pages : color illustrations
- Subjects
- Photography
- Colorado
- Abstract
- Included in the spectacular photography of the Colorado Plateau are the photographer's notes on responses to his subject and photographic techniques used.
- Contents
- Canyonlands and Arches
- Escalante and Grand Staircase
- Paria River
- Zion and Bryce
- San Rafael Swell
- Capitol Reef
- Dirty Devil River
- Henry Mountains
- Cedar Mesa
- San Juan River
- ISBN
- 1558684166
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- TR M84 P53 oversize
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Photographer's website
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