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Alps of Hannibal
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1536
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1886
- Author
- Law, William John
- Publisher
- London : Macmillan
- Call Number
- DQ81 H3 L3 I
- Author
- Law, William John
- Publisher
- London : Macmillan
- Published Date
- 1886
- Physical Description
- 333 pages
- Series
- Volume 1 of 2
- Subjects
- Travel
- Alps
- Switzerland
- Accession Number
- AC147
- Call Number
- DQ81 H3 L3 I
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Alps of Hannibal
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14950
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1886
- Author
- Law, William John
- Publisher
- London : Macmillan
- Call Number
- DQ81 H3 L3 II
- Author
- Law, William John
- Publisher
- London : Macmillan
- Published Date
- 1886
- Physical Description
- 312 pages
- Series
- Volume 2 of 2
- Subjects
- Travel
- Alps
- Switzerland
- Accession Number
- AC147
- Call Number
- DQ81 H3 L3 II
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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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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Blue Nile : Ethiopia's river of magic and mystery
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21255
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2001
- Author
- Morell, Virginia
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
- Call Number
- DT390 M6
- Author
- Morell, Virginia
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
- Published Date
- 2001
- Physical Description
- 324p. : col. ill
- ISBN
- 0792279514
- Call Number
- DT390 M6
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Ellesmere Island year 2000 hiking expedition at the top of the world : a diary, reflections, and images collected by Linda Liestman
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20138
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2000
- Author
- Liestman, Linda
- Call Number
- G525 L54 E44
- Author
- Liestman, Linda
- Responsibility
- Linda Liestman
- Published Date
- 2000
- Physical Description
- 55 p. illustrations
- Subjects
- Travel
- Hiking
- Expeditions
- Tourism
- Tours
- Abstract
- Pertains to a hiking trip to Ellesmere Island in 2000 which included Margaret Gmoser
- Contents
- Thursday July 6th
- Friday July 7th
- Saturday July 8th
- Sunday July 9th
- Monday July 10th
- Tuesday July 11th
- Wednesday July 12th
- Thursday July 13th
- Friday July 14th
- Saturday July 15th
- Sunday July 16th
- Monday July 17th
- Tuesday July 18th
- Wednesday July 19th
- Thursday July 20th
- Friday July 21st
- Saturday July 22nd
- Afterthoughts
- Research notes and excerpts
- Rino's "Dear Camp Counselor" letter to Jayne and Steve
- Notes
- Not for publication, sale, or reprint
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G525 L54 E44
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Explorers' sketchbooks : the art of discovery & adventure
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19920
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
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- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Responsibility
- Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 320 p. : illus. (colour)
- Abstract
- The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- The sketchbooks
- Biographies
- Selected reading
- Illustration credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by Huw Lewis-Jones "Banff 2017"
- ISBN
- 9780452158273
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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For the love of nature : mammals described and illustrated by the naturalists Gerald E.H., Barrett-Hamilton & Edward Adrian Wilson
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20141
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Hollenberg, Martin J.
- Barrett-Hamilton, Gerald E.H.
- Wilson, Edward Adrian
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : M.J. Hollenberg
- Edition
- Limited ed. of 400 copies (55/400)
- Call Number
- QL H65 F67
- Responsibility
- Martin J. Hollenberg, Gerald E.H., Barrett-Hamilton, Edward Adrian Wilson
- Edition
- Limited ed. of 400 copies (55/400)
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : M.J. Hollenberg
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- xiii, 187 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps
- Subjects
- Art
- Mammals
- Zoology
- Travel
- Naturalists
- Contents
- The Irish naturalist Gerald E.H. Barrett-Hamilton : his life and contributions to science -- Descriptions of mammals from Barrett-Hamilton's A history of British mammals, paired with drawings and paintings by Edward Adrian Wilson -- Edward Adrian Wilson : his outstanding career as a naturalist and artist -- The naturalists and the advances of science -- Appendix I. Gerald Barrett-Hamilton's South Georgia journal -- Appendix II. Letters from South Georgia from G.E.H. Barrett-Hamilton to Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer -- Appendix III. Selected remembrances.
- Notes
- Card from author removed from book and added to AC637 archival materials
- ISBN
- 9871553831877
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- QL H65 F67
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Handbook for travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy ...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1879
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1846
- Author
- Murray, John
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 3d ed
- Call Number
- DQ16 M87 I
- Author
- Murray, John
- Edition
- 3d ed
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1846
- Physical Description
- 226 pages
- Series
- Volume 1 of 2
- Subjects
- Travel
- Switzerland
- Call Number
- DQ16 M87 I
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Handbook for travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy ...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14947
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1846
- Author
- Murray, John
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 3d ed
- Call Number
- DQ16 M87 II
- Author
- Murray, John
- Edition
- 3d ed
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1846
- Physical Description
- 420 pages
- Series
- Volume 2 of 2
- Subjects
- Travel
- Switzerland
- Call Number
- DQ16 M87 II
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The impossible climb : Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the climbing life
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25042
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Synnott, Mark
- Publisher
- [New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
- Call Number
- G512 T44 S96
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- Author
- Synnott, Mark
- Publisher
- [New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- viii, 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Travel
- Abstract
- In Mark Synnott’s unique window on the ethos of climbing, his friend Alex Honnold’s astonishing free solo ascent of El Capitan’s 3,000 feet of sheer granite is the central act. When Honnold topped out at 9:28 A.M. on June 3, 2017, having spent fewer than four hours on his historic ascent, the world gave a collective gasp. The New York Times described it as “one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever.” Synnott’s personal history of his own obsession with climbing since he was a teenager—through professional climbing triumphs and defeats, and the dilemmas they render—makes this a deeply reported, enchanting revelation about living life to the fullest. What are we doing if not an impossible climb? Synnott delves into a raggedy culture that emerged decades earlier during Yosemite’s Golden Age, when pioneering climbers like Royal Robbins and Warren Harding invented the sport that Honnold would turn on its ear. Painting an authentic, wry portrait of climbing history and profiling Yosemite heroes and the harlequin tribes of climbers known as the Stonemasters and the Stone Monkeys, Synnott weaves in his own experiences with poignant insight and wit: tensions burst on the mile-high northwest face of Pakistan’s Great Trango Tower; fellow climber Jimmy Chin miraculously persuades an official in the Borneo jungle to allow Honnold’s first foreign expedition, led by Synnott, to continue; armed bandits accost the same trio at the foot of a tower in the Chad desert . . . The Impossible Climb is an emotional drama driven by people exploring the limits of human potential and seeking a perfect, choreographed dance with nature. Honnold dared far beyond the ordinary, beyond any climber in history. But this story of sublime heights is really about all of us. Who doesn’t need to face down fear and make the most of the time we have? (from Penguin Random House website)
- Contents
- "The Hon is going to freesolo El Cap" -- Crazy kids of America -- A vision of the stonemasters' lightning -- Stone monkey -- Crashing the gravy train on the vertical mile -- The secret weapon, Mr. Safety, and Xiao Pung-- Non-profit -- Secret dawn walls -- Amygdala -- The source -- "Her attitude is awesome" -- Fun.
- ISBN
- 9781101986646
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G512 T44 S96
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Penguin Random House website
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