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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: kilimanjaro, shadow
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0805053905
ISBN-13: 9780805053906

In one of the most acclaimed travel and adventure books of the past year, Rick Ridgeway chronicles his trek from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Indian Ocean, through Kenya’s famed Tsavo Park. His tale is, according to The Boston Globe, "a gripping account of how it feels to be charged by an incensed elephant and kept awake at night by the roaring of stalking lions." But it is more than an adventure story. The Los Angeles Times noted that "the pace of walking gives Ridgeway time to contemplate his great theme and the great men and women who have struggled with the conundrum of whe

Author: Ian McCallum
Publisher: David Philip, Publishers
Keywords: kilimanjaro, thorns
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $14.16
ISBN-10: 0864863594
ISBN-13: 9780864863591

This is the story of two journeys, one which makes its way towards the slopes and summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and another which takes a curving inner path into the soul of the narrator. Encouraged by his wife, who accompanies him, Hamish Malcolm undertakes a journey to the summit of Kilimanjaro, not only to return his father’s Bible but also to scatter his father’s ashes - one of his father’s final wishes. The outer journey is one in which he comes to know Kilimanjaro, its subtleties, its extremes and the crippling effects of altitude sickness. It leads to a dramatic life-thr

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Caedmon
Keywords: kilimanjaro, snows
Published: 2008-02-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0061457841
ISBN-13: 9780061457845

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: stories, kilimanjaro, snows
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1995-10-03
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0684804441
ISBN-13: 9780684804446

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway’s most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway’s mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway’s career, to his father’s suicide; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," a "brilliant fusion of personal observation, heresay, a

Author: David Western
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: book, shearwater, kilimanjaro, dust
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1559635347
ISBN-13: 9781559635349

"Kilimanjaro slowly takes shape as the night sounds die, its glaciated peak tinged pink in the early light. A solitary wildebeest stares motionless as if mesmerized by the towering mass; a small caravan of giraffe drifts across the plain in solitary file, necks undulating to the slow rhythm of their gangling stride. There is an inexplicable dÈjý vu about the African savannas, as if some subliminal memory is tweaked by the birthplace of our hominid lineage. -from In the Dust of Kilimanjaro.In the Dust of Kilimanjaro is the extraordinary story of one man’s struggle to protect Kenya’

Author: Cameron M. Burns
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Keywords: trekking, guide, climbing, africa, amp, east, kilimanjaro
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 2006-08-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0898866049
ISBN-13: 9780898866049

Climb East Africa’s highest peaks—via non-technical and technical routes—in this updated guide to Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and more · More than 50 routes, including summit walk-ups and serious technical climbs · Completely updated and expanded descriptions of travel to and from East Africa and the major trekking and climbing destinations · Entire new sections devoted to the standard trekking route on Mount Meru, Kilimanjaro’s nearly 15,000-foot neighboring peak, and the trekking circuit in the Rwenzoris of Uganda, with detailed route descriptions to the three highest summit

Author: Bryan Patrick Harnetiaux
Publisher: Dramatic Pub.
Keywords: play, length, full, kilimanjaro, snows
Number of Pages: 77
Published: 1995-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0871292556
ISBN-13: 9780871292551