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By 2048, the Andes, Rocky Mountains, and elsewhere have been submerged. Tibet's regime is no more, and Australia, North America, South America, Africa, and most of Asia except for the highest mountains in the Himalayas have been flooded. As Lily, Gary, and Thandie settle into life as sea-dwelling survivors, Piers, Nathan, and Kirstie die in ...
Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World is a 2007 memoir of former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, co-authored by Peter Petre, a former executive editor at Fortune magazine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Published on September 17, 2007, the book debuted at the top of the New York Times Bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction. [ 3 ]
He wrote about that journey in his book The Other Side of the Mountain: An Escape to the Amazon, which is entertaining and informative on several levels. [ 2 ] High Conquest was the first of nine books for the J.B. Lippincott Company, coming out in 1941, followed by The White Tower, River of The Sun, Windom's Way, and Banner in the Sky , a 1955 ...
The Mountains of My Life (Italian: Montagne di una vita) is a 1995 book by the Italian mountaineer Walter Bonatti. It is a collection of texts where Bonatti recounts his experiences of expedition climbing and alpine climbing over several continents. It includes his account of the 1954 Italian expedition to K2 and its associated controversy. [1 ...
The Surrounded takes place in the Sniél-emen Valley, [2] which translates to “Mountains of the surrounded,” on the Flathead Reservation in Montana at the ranch of Max Leon, Archilde's father. The story begins with Archilde Leon, who is half Salish and half Spaniard , returning from Portland where he worked in white society.
Climbing Mount Improbable is a 1996 popular science book by Richard Dawkins.The book is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution.It is designed to debunk claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like natural selection.
The Eiglophian mountains, mentioned in Smith's "The Seven Geases", are a terrifying range of ebon peaks, said to be "glassy-walled", and are believed to be honeycombed with hidden tunnels. The Eiglophian mountains cross the middle of the Hyperborean continent, with one range stretching to the south and another to the east.