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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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Not for publication, sale, or reprint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)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Travel
Maps
Botany
Ecology
Anthropology
Tourism
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
Websites
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Inner ranges : an anthology of mountain thoughts and mountain people

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25053
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Powter, Georff
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : RMB Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Call Number
P I55 P69
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Author
Powter, Georff
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : RMB Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
359 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Writing
Mountains
Travel
Abstract
This collection of original and previously published pieces includes provocative editorial and opinion work about the state of adventure, personal tales from a life of exploration and risk-taking, some touches of humour, and award-winning profiles of some of Canada’s mountaineering greats. Stories include conversations with and profiles of alpine personalities such as Barry Blanchard, Sonnie Trotter, Lena Rowat, Raphael Slawinski, David Jones and many more. Bringing these essays together for the first time has given Geoff the unique opportunity to reflect back on the stories behind the stories, the consequences of their publication, and the sometimes complex processes of writing about adventure and adventurous lives. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
Contents
Foreward by Sir Chris Bonnington
Preface
Part I : pieces of me:
That joy
Funerals and a wedding
On Assiniboine
Conjuring Kain
Short change on the shield
A lightening sky
Part II: mountain views:
Death on the Wapta
A herd for the killing
A mirror in the mountains
A higher education
Meet the new boss
The art of forgiving
Part III : three against Everest (with apologies to Woodrow Wilson Sayre):
Into hot air
The truth on Everest
What went wrong on Everest
Part IV : mountain lite:
The partner from hell
The vertical limit
From better, traverse
Part V : mountain people:
The happy, tormented life of a mountain legend
The numbers man
The unstoppable Lena Rowat
The life of Brian
The (really) good doctor
The rock star
What happens: Ryan Titchener's longest climb
The man who would be first: Earl Denman's Everest dream
Notes
Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Climbing Literature
ISBN
9781771602877
Accession Number
AC639
Call Number
P I55 P69
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Summary on Rocky Mountain Books website
Websites
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