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  • High Mountains and Cold Seas

    The life of H.W. 'Bill' Tilman: soldier, mountaineer, navigator

    by J.R.L. Anderson ...
    Series Book 16 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    Harold William 'Bill' Tilman (1898 –1977) was among the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering mountaineer and sailor who held exploration above all else.The son of a Liverpool sugar importer, Tilman joined the army at seventeen and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery during WWI. After the war Tilman left for Africa, establishing himself as a coffee grower. He met Eric Shipton ... Read more

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  • Mischief in Patagonia

    An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 2 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives' heads steam when they eat marmalade.'So responded H. W. 'Bill' Tilman to his own realisation that the Himalaya were too high for a mountaineer now well into his fifties. He would trade extremes of altitude ... Read more

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  • Mischief goes South

    Every herring should hang by its own tail

    by H.W. Tilman, Janet Verasanso ...
    Series Book 10 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.'So observes H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in this account of two lengthy voyages in which dull intervals were few and far between.In 1966, after a succession of eventful and successful voyages in the high latitudes of the Arctic, Tilman and his pilot cutter Mischief ... Read more

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  • The Ascent of Nanda Devi

    I believe we so far forgot ourselves as to shake hands on it

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 3 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    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 o... ... Read more

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  • Mischief among the Penguins

    Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.

    by H.W. Tilman, Tom Cunliffe ...
    Series Book 4 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.'So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20,000 miles brought mixed seafaring experience: ' Osborne had crossed the Atlantic fifty-one times in the Queen Mary, playing double ... Read more

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  • Snow on the Equator

    Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 1 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.'For H.W. 'Bill' Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was one of the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering climber and sailor who held exploration above all else. He ... Read more

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  • Mischief in Greenland

    Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains

    by H.W. Tilman, Annie Hill ...
    Series Book 6 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains, forgoing the lingering pleasure and mounting excitement of a slow, arduous approach under his own exertions.'H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's mountain travel philosophy, rooted in Africa and the Himalaya and further developed in his early sailing adventures in the southern hemisphere, was honed to perfection with his discovery of ... Read more

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  • Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak

    The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak

    by Maurice Herzog ...
    Translated by Nea Morin, Janet Adam Smith ...
    Mountaineer Maurice Herzog gives a gripping firsthand account of one of the most daring climbing expeditions in historyAnnapurna I is the name given to the 8,100-meter mountain that ranks among the most forbidding in the Himalayan chain. Dangerous not just for its extreme height but for a long and treacherous approach, its summit proved unreachable until 1950, when a group of French mountaineers ... Read more

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  • Two Years Before the Mast

    by Richard Henry Dana Jr. ...
    Richard Henry Dana Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and author who is best known for writing the classic memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Dana was also notable for being a supporter of fugitive slaves and freedmen.Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840, was written after Dana's two-year sea voyage on board a merchant ship. Dana went on the trip in hopes that it would help his vision ... Read more

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  • One Mountain Thousand Summits

    The Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2

    by Freddie Wilkinson ...
    The account of one of the deadliest and most mysterious tragedies in mountaineering history-the 2008 K2 disaster.One Mountain Thousand Summits reveals the true story of the K2 tragedy that claimed the lives of eleven men. Based on his numerous trips to Nepal and in-depth interviews he conducted with the survivors, the families of the lost climbers, and the Sherpa guides whose heroic efforts saved ... Read more

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  • Tigers of the Snow

    How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends

    by Jonathan Neale ...
    "Tells the story of Himalayan climbing from the Sherpas' point of view . . . with great empathy and thorough research." — The Sunday Times (UK)In 1934, a German-led team set off to climb the West Himalayan peak of Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain on earth. No such attempt had been made since the disastrous assault of 1895, but Nazi Germany was determined to prove its natural superiority ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Finding Jim

    by Susan Oakey-Baker ...
    Finding Jim describes Susan Oakey-Baker’s struggle to confront the realities of life after the death of her husband, renowned mountain guide Jim Haberl, the first Canadian to summit the most difficult mountain in the world: K2. For fifteen years they had spent time adventuring together around the world: skiing the Himalaya, rafting in Nepal and mountaineering in North America. In time, they got ... Read more

    $9.99 USD