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Free Download R. G. LeTourneau, "Mover Of Men and Mountains"
English | 1967 | ISBN: 0802438180 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 1.0 mb
Despite early failures, R. G. LeTourneau rose to eminence in the competitive world of manufacturing and construction. Although his competitors thought him insane, history has proved that his inventive genius was decades ahead of its time. His combination of enterprise and Christian commitment led to his sponsoring many works involving missions and education, including LeTourneau College, a Christian liberal arts and technical school in Longview, Texas. Through a lifetime of business ventures, this engineering genius put faith into action and reaped big rewards.

Free Download Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib (Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies) by Abbey Stockstill
English | May 21, 2024 | ISBN: 0271096764 | True EPUB/PDF | 168 pages | 67.2/54 MB
Over the course of the Almoravid (1040-1147) and Almohad (1121-1269) dynasties, medieval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into a thriving metropolis that attempted to translate a local and distinctly rural past into a broad, imperial architectural vernacular. In Marrakesh and the Mountains, Abbey Stockstill convincingly demonstrates that the city’s surrounding landscape provided the principal mode of negotiation between these identities.

Free Download Lonely Planet Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 3rd Edition by Lonely Planet
English | February 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 1838697926 | 200 pages | True EPUB | 88.55 MB
Lonely Planet’s Great Smoky Mountains National Parks is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip. Hike Mt LeConte, explore Cataloochee, and raft on Pigeon river; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Great Smoky Mountains National Parks and begin your journey now!

Free Download Aubrey L. Haines, "Journal of a Trapper: In the Rocky Mountains Between 1834 and 1843"
English | 2001 | pages: 251 | ISBN: 1589760522 | PDF | 6,4 mb
In 1830, 16-year-old Osborne Russell left his Maine farm and ran away to sea. He didn’t like it. He ended up joining an expedition headed to Oregon by way of the Rocky Mountains. Along the way he acquired the skills necessary for survival in the mountains. He also learned the Snake language, hunted buffalo, and trapped beaver, looked for new trails west, and kept a journal that forms the basis of this vigorously authentic book. The descriptions are so accurate that contemporary readers are using the book to retrace Russell’s footsteps!

Free Download Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains: The Dogu’a Tembien District by Jan Nyssen
English | EPUB | 2019 | 675 Pages | ISBN : 303004954X | 237.1 MB
This book is based on over 150 scientific papers about the Dogu’a Tembien district in Ethiopia. To reach a broader public of people interested in geosites and human-environment interactions, the authors here add a geoguide about this mountain district in Ethiopia(13°30′ N, 39°10′ E; upto 2850 m high) which shows a varied lithology.

Free Download Maïssa Bey, "Do You Hear in the Mountains"
English | ISBN: 0813940281 | 2018 | 196 pages | EPUB, PDF | 868 KB + 4 MB
This new translation brings together two of Algerian author Maïssa Bey’s important works for the first time in English. "Do You Hear in the Mountains…" is a compelling piece of autofiction in which three destinies meet dramatically on a train moving through France. We meet an Algerian refugee, whom we recognize as Bey herself. She has escaped the civil war and cannot forget her father’s commitment to independence nor his death under the torture of the French soldiers. Sitting near her is a retired doctor whose military service in Algeria coincidentally took him to the same area at the time of that tragedy. Their neighbor is a girl who would like to understand this past that is so painful to discuss. The eleven diverse tales that follow, presented under the title "Under the Jasmin, at Night," exemplify some of Bey’s recurring themes―the Franco-Algerian colonial legacy and the feminine condition. Together, these works provide an unforgettable picture of a turbulent history that reaches across generations and continents.

Free Download Kevin Adams, "Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A Guide to the Park’s Greatest Hiking Adventures"
English | 2013 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0762770864 | EPUB | 34,4 mb
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Free Download Henry D. Shapiro, "Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920"
English | ISBN: 0807841587 | | 376 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The author argues that the emergence of this idea has little to do with the realities of mountain life but was the result of a need to reconcile the "otherness" of Appalachia, as decribed by local-color writers, tourists, and home missionaries, with assumptions about the nature of America and American civilization.

Free Download Blue Mountains Life – December 2023 – January 2024
English | 116 pages | True PDF | 81.7 MB

Free Download Bruce D. Heald Ph.D., "Stereoscopic Views of the White Mountains (Images of America: New Hampshire)"
English | 2000 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 0738504882, 1531603041 | EPUB | 49,0 mb
For more than 150 years, the White Mountains have attracted untold numbers of visitors from all over the world. The lofty peaks offer unlimited panoramas-the view from the summit of Mount Washington extends for more than 100 miles in all directions and includes 33 other mountaintops, each with an elevation exceeding 4,000 feet. Framing the Presidential Range are Crawford Notch, Franconia Notch, and Pinkham Notch, three of the most impressive wonders in the eastern part the country. The White Mountain region has numerous other points of interest: the Flume, the Pool, the Basin, the Old Man of the Mountain, Glen Ellis Falls, the Lake of the Clouds, Echo Lake, Profile Lake, and the White Horse Ledge, to name a few. The stereo technique dates from the earliest years of photography. Stereo photographs are two images of the same view taken from slightly different points, which when observed through special glasses appear as one with an added dimension of depth. Photographers took these three-dimensional views to exemplify and to preserve in print the beauty, wonders, and wealth of nature. Stereoscopic Views of the White Mountains contains more than 200 reflective stereos of the region’s mountains, lakes, rivers, and streams. These breathtaking views of the landscape, the resorts, and the villages were taken during an excursion on the early railroads. They recall the romance and idealism of the rail and stagecoach era.