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Banff Grand Prix
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Banff Mountain Book Festival celebrates the world’s best mountain
books through readings, speakers, seminars, book signings, a book
fair, and the presentation of internationally recognized awards
for mountain literature. |
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2002
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| Bill
Murray's memoir ranges from climbing in Scotland, the Alps and the
Himalayas, to fighting Rommel in the North African desert. |
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| In
this evocation of the Golden Age of Lakeland climbing Roger Hubank's
new novel probes the compelling mythologies of mountaineering to
uncover those illusions of heart and mind from which spring the
tragedies of human nature. This
book also won the Boardman Tasker Prize. |
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The
book reflects the eight decades that Bradford Washburn has spent
documenting mountain landscapes from the Grand Canyon to Mount
Everest.
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| Describes
author Paul Pritchard's recovery from a climbing accident on the
Totem Pole in Tasmania. This book also won the Boardman Tasker Prize. |
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1998
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| This
book is an elegantly produced repository of exciting information
including locator maps, route photographs and practical advice from
leading climbers. |
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1997
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| A
history of France's highest peak. |
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1996
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| Celebrates
the use of the alpine-style approach in the ascent of 6-8,000 metre
peaks in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges. |
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1995
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| This
first novel begins with an imaginative and ingenious premise: a
physician trekking across the Arcturus Glacier in the Canadian Rockies
in 1898 slips and tumbles into a crevasse, where he beholds a winged
human figure. The rest of the book tells of Dr. Edward Byrne's efforts
to get to the bottom of the mystery in the ice. |
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1994
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Great
Climbs: A celebration of world mountaineering by Chris Bonnington
- now out of print
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