1,800円 Si la beauté des montagnes réside pour beaucoup dans leurs paysages impressionnants et variés, elle s’exprime aussi par une végétation particulièrement attractive. Les plantes nous livrent ici les secrets de leur adaptation à ce milieu hostile. Puis, du pied des monts jusqu’aux sommets, nous parc...

650円 Pendant des siècles des hommes sont passés au pied des montagnes de la Meije avec le seul souci d'échapper aux périls, variables selon les saisons, que le col leur réservait, sans lever la tête vers les hauteurs d'où ne pouvait venir que le mal. À la fin du XIXe siècle, d'autres hommes sont venus...

3,800円 Aussi fascinante qu’elle puisse être, la montagne n’en est pas moins dangereuse. Avalanches, risques glaciaires, crues et laves torrentielles, mouvements de pente et chutes de blocs font partie du vécu de tout habitant ou pratiquant de la montagne. Le développement économique, dont le tourisme qu...

1,000円 Ora fredda di neve e ghiacciai, ora silenziosa di boschi e caverne, madre di acqua e di vita, la montagna esprime la sua essenza nel ritmo lento della natura. E questo ritmo, estraneo alla frenesia delle contingenze quotidiane, ne fa il luogo letterario ideale, la sorgente d'ispirazione per stori...

430円 “The Most Adventurous Mountain Peaks” is a heartfelt tribute to the world’s most iconic and awe-inspiring mountains. Told through a blend of history, culture, and personal reflection, this book explores legendary peaks across all continentsーfrom Antarctica’s remote Vinson Massif to Guatemala’s v...

15,498円 Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and ...

3,517円 Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling cre...

3,799円 With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan’s Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine ...

4,222円 JOHN TURNER is a member of the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club board of directors, a Trail Ambassador, a maintainer of a short section of the A.T., and editor of the club’s flagship publication, the Georgia Mountaineer Quarterly. Turner began his career in journalism as a reporter first for the Ma...

3,381円 In The Carpathians**, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the mountain system found in present-day Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine were discovered for a broader regional public.** This is a story of how the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians, and Bieszczady Mountains went from being...

1,991円 The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West. An "ode to wildness and wilderness" (Outside Magazine), Down from the Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape. Millie was ...

1,989円 Rocky Mountain National Park is the living showcase of the grandeur of the Rockies, with elevations ranging from 8,000 feet in the valleys to 14,259 feet at the top of Longs Peak. The park draws 3 million visitors per year with countless outdoor experiences and adventures. Choosing the best day a...