[PDF] Men Who Ride Mountains eBook

Author : Peter L. Dixon
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781585743889

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In this exuberant celebration of modern surfing, a surf journalist shares thefacts, lore, and legend of his beloved sport. Photos throughout.

Author : William O. Douglas
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1447482492

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William O. Douglas was one of that rare mix of man that helped define America, a judge of the supreme court and also a lifelong outdoorsman. This is his story in his words and conveys the joy he felt for the wild untouched vastness of the great forests and the high snow capped peaks which he pitted himself against. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786017929

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It didn't matter that the warrant was years old, or that Smoke Jensen has been cleared of all charges. A Texas bounty hunter named Bill Pike believed he could still collect at USD 10,000 reward for killing Jensen - and he intended to do just that. But when Pike and his men came calling, Jensen was nowhere to be found. So they took the next best thing - Smoke's woman - left behind a ransom note, and headed up into the Rocky Mountains.

Author : Richard C. Davids
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780800612375

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This biography of Reverend Bob Childress of the Blue Ridge Mountains has been compared to the tales of Mark Twain and the Mississippi. Shows Childress' transforming effects on rough and wild mountain communities.

Author : Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1408806878

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_____________ 'It is almost impossible not to fall under the spell of Eustace Conway ... his accomplishments, his joy and vigor, seem almost miraculous' - New York Times Review of Books 'Gilbert takes a bright-eyed bead on Eustace, hitting him square with a witty modernist appraisal of folkloric American masculinity' - The Times 'Conversational, enthusiastic, funny and sharp, the energy of The Last American Man never ebbs' - New Statesman _____________ A fascinating, intimate portrait of an endlessly complicated man: a visionary, a narcissist, a brilliant but flawed modern hero At the age of seventeen, Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape to the wild. Away from the crushing disapproval of his father, he lived alone in a teepee in the mountains. Everything he needed he built, grew or killed. He made his clothes from deer he killed and skinned before using their sinew as sewing thread. But he didn't stop there. In the years that followed, he stopped at nothing in pursuit of bigger, bolder challenges. He travelled the Mississippi in a handmade wooden canoe; he walked the two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail; he hiked across the German Alps in trainers; he scaled cliffs in New Zealand. One Christmas, he finished dinner with his family and promptly upped and left - to ride his horse across America. From South Carolina to the Pacific, with his little brother in tow, they dodged cars on the highways, ate road kill and slept on the hard ground. Now, more than twenty years on, Eustace is still in the mountains, residing in a thousand-acre forest where he teaches survival skills and attempts to instil in people a deeper appreciation of nature. But over time he has had to reconcile his ambitious dreams with the sobering realities of modernity. Told with Elizabeth Gilbert's trademark wit and spirit, The Last American Man is an unforgettable adventure story of an irrepressible life lived to the extreme. The Last American Man is a New York Times Notable Book and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786044705

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Johnstone Country. Where the Good Die Young. The Bad Die Sooner. Wanted: Smoke Jensen. Dead or alive. It didn't matter that the warrant was old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges—A Texas bounty hunter wants that $10,000 reward. With time running out and the life of Smoke’s woman hanging in the balance, this hunter becomes the hunted . . . and Smoke’ll see to it that this matter gets settled once and for all . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786017902

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Heart of the mountain man -- When gunfighter Monte Carson decides to go straight, returning a stolen $50,000 army payroll, he makes an enemy of former colleague Jim Slaughter, who vows to kill Monte's wife in retaliation, and Monte's only hope of rescuing his wife is mountain man Smoke Jensen.