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keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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John Porter
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Discovery Miles 1 500
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Shortlisted - Cross British Sports Book Awards 2015. Grand Prize
Winner - 2014 Banff Mountain Book Festival. 'The wall was the
ambition, the style became the obsession.' In the autumn of 1982, a
single stone fell from high on the south face of Annapurna and
struck Alex MacIntyre on the head, killing him instantly and
robbing the climbing world of one of its greatest talents. Although
only twenty-eight years old, Alex was already one of the leading
figures of British mountaineering's most successful era. His
ascents included hard new routes on Himalayan giants like
Dhaulagiri and Changabang and a glittering record of firsts in the
Alps and Andes. Yet how Alex climbed was as important as what he
climbed. He was a mountaineering prophet, sharing with a handful of
contemporaries - including his climbing partner Voytek Kurtyka -
the vision of a purer form of alpinism on the world's highest
peaks. One Day As A Tiger, John Porter's revelatory and poignant
memoir of his friend Alex MacIntyre, shows mountaineering at its
extraordinary best and tragic worst - and draws an unforgettable
picture of a dazzling, argumentative and exuberant legend.
The proceedings of a workshop conference are presented in this
volume entitled Hypothalamic Peptide Hormones and Pituitary
Regulation. The workshop was held in Wilson Hall on the campus of
the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, during the
days of November 1-2, 1976, and is the most recent of three
symposia on neuroendocrinology that have been sponsored by the
National Institutes of Health. The first one was held on December 6
- 8, 1961, in the New Everglades Hotel at Miami, Florida. During
the first meeting, much emphasis was given to the anatomical and
physiological basis for the fledgling science of
neuroendocrinology. The proceedings of that symposium were
published under the title of Advances in Neuroendocrinology, A. V.
Nalbandov (ed. ), University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois,
1963. The second workshop was held on January 8 -11, 1969, in the
Arizona Inn at Tucson, Arizona, and was unique in several respects.
It was evident to the participants that definitive identification
and the determination of the chemical structure of at least one
hypothalamic releasing factor was at hand (see Workshop Conference
on Bioassay and Chemistry of the Hypophysio tropic Hormones of the
Hypothalamus: ~Critical Evaluatioi'i':-J. Meites, ed. , The
Williams and Wilkins Co. , Baltimore, Maryland, 1970). Much of what
was presented at the second workshop was dedicated to methods of
bioassay of the various releasing factors.
'I believe we so far forgot ourselves as to shake hands on it.' -
H. W. Tilman, on reaching the summit of Nanda Devi.In 1934, after
fifty years of trying, mountaineers finally gained access to the
Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Garhwal Himalaya. Two years later an
expedition led by H.W. Tilman reached the summit of Nanda Devi. At
over 25,000 feet, it was the highest mountain to be climbed until
1950.The Ascent of Nanda Devi, Tilman's account of the climb, has
been widely hailed as a classic. Keenly observed, well informed and
at times hilariously funny, it is as close to a 'conventional'
mountaineering account as Tilman could manage.Beginning with the
history of the mountain ('there was none') and the expedition's
arrival in India, Tilman recounts the build-up and approach to the
climb. Writing in his characteristic dry style, he tells how
Sherpas are hired, provisions are gathered (including 'a
mouth-blistering sauce containing 100 per cent chillies') and the
climbers head into the hills, towards Nanda Devi.Superbly parodied
in The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman, The Ascent of Nanda
Devi was among the earliest accounts of a climbing expedition to be
published.Much imitated but rarely matched, it remains one of the
best.
Follow the pioneers to Oregon! Between 1840 and 1860 three hundred
thousand Americans packed their belongings in farm wagons, hitched
up their livestock, said goodbye to their families and friends, and
set out for the West on the Oregon Trail. William Porter traveled
with them in 1848, headed for Oregon in a large family group,
including his in-laws and 16 kids, many of them younger than 6. 151
years later, with William's trail diary in hand, John Porter
follows their tracks from Pike County, Illinois to the Willamette
Valley of Oregon. He brings to life the story of these early
emigrants and their times as he drives the route and walks in the
ruts of the old trail. Along the way he solves a mystery about the
location of the burial place of his great-great-grandfather who
died on the trail in 1849. Join him as he tells their story and his
of the journey across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains to
Oregon!
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